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



This SATURDAY at Myopic Books:


Saturday, April 3 – Erika Mikkalo & Laura Carter

Laura CARTER lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she curates the Sun & Moon Reading Series. She teaches at local schools and has published three chapbooks. She completed her M.F.A. in 2007.

Erika MIKKALO [MY-kah-loh] is a writer who lives and works in Chicago. She took a M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia College, Chicago. Recent work has appeared in fence and Another Chicago Magazine and is forthcoming in the Chicago Review and the Canadian journal Descant.


This SUNDAY at Myopic Books:


Sunday, April 4 – Steve Halle & John Keene

John KEENE is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New Directions, 1995), and of the poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), with artwork by Christopher Stackhouse. He has published his fiction, poetry, essays and translations in a wide array of journals, including African-American Review, AGNI, Encyclopedia, Gay and Lesbian Review, Hambone, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Public Space. His honors include an array of fellowships, including a 2005 Whiting Foundation Award in Fiction and Poetry and a 2008 Fellowship for Distinguished First Collection from the inaugural Pan-African Literary Forum. A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective of Cambridge and Boston, and a Graduate Fellow of Cave Canem, he was Northwestern's inaugural Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor in 2001. He teaches courses in fiction and cross-genre writing; American, African-American and Diasporic literatures and cultures; aesthetics and aesthetic theories; and literary translation.


Steve HALLE is the author of the chapbook cessation covers (Funtime Press, 2007), and he runs the blog-journal Seven Corners. His creative and critical work has been published internationally. About Map of the Hydrogen World: “Steve Halle's first collection of poems, shuns the divide between post-avant and Official Verse Culture poetics by embracing traditional forms while simultaneously developing new ways of working through poetry. From traditional lyric and narrative poems to formal experiments, Halle finds his own way through history, art, politics, faith and self. ‘Ginsbergian incantation, high modernist allusion, post-avant rhizome and the documentary collage--these are the weapons in Steve Halle's arsenal. Joyce, Eliot, Emerson, Whitman and Keats shoot through the static of text-messaging, global positioning systems, surveillance culture, and an urgent sense of the world's victims. Halle carries a humanistic heritage into an inhuman world.’” —Robert Archambeau





UPCOMING

Wednesday, April 21 – Jerome Rothenberg

Saturday, April 24 – Ben Doller & Sandra Doller

Sunday, April 25 – Barry Schwabsky & Matvei Yankelevich

Sunday, May 2 – Connor Stratman

Sunday, May 9 – Robert Archambeau

Saturday, May 15 – Brandon Downing & Macgregor Card

Sunday, May 16 – Aaron Fagan


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