This Weekend at Myopic Books

THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks

Myopic Books in Chicago — All readings begin at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor

http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html

773.862.4882

Contact curator Larry Sawyer for booking information and requests.

E-mail: larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com

Saturday, March 13 – Lina ramona Vitkauskas & Jamie Kazay


Lina ramona VITKAUSKAS is a Lithuanian-American poet living in Chicago. A full-length book of poetry, THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING is available from Ravenna Press. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press, 2006), and Shooting Dead Films With Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004). She was co-editor of the 10-year-running, online literary magazine www.milkmag.org. She has been internationally published in many literary magazines and anthologies including The Prague Literary Review, The Chicago Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, Aufgabe, Moria, MiPoesias, Van Gogh's Ear, Rampike, Paper Tiger, Bridges, The Mississippi Review, and The Wisconsin Review, among others.


Jamie KAZAY was born in Hollywood and grew up in Pasadena, California. She writes poetry, essays, grants, and often dabbles with one-act plays. She holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from California State University, Northridge and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College, where she teaches writing. Her poems have been published and her chapbook, Small Hollering, is forthcoming (Dancing Girl Press, 2011).




Sunday, March 14 – William Allegrezza & Chris Glomski

William ALLEGREZZA's poems have been published internationally. His collections of poetry include Ladders in July, The Vicious Bunny Translations, Covering Over, In the Weaver's Valley, Fragile Replacements, and Collective Instant. Allegrezza is the editor of Moria and Cracked Slab Books.

Chris GLOMSKI is the author of The Nineteenth Century, a new poetry manuscript. A chapbook, Eidolon, was issued by Answer Tag Home Press in October 2008. His first poetry collection, Transparencies Lifted from Noon, was published in the fall of 2005 by MEB / Spuyten Duyvil Press. His poems, translations, and critical writings have appeared in Notre Dame Review, The Octopus, Chicago Review, Jacket, A Public Space, and elsewhere. Another chapbook, IL LA, was published by Noemi Press in 2002. He lives in Chicago.