Saturday, April 3
7:00pm-11p.m.
Elastic Arts Foundation
2830 N. Milwaukee Avenue, FL.
Tres Colony presents
John Murillo's UP JUMP THE BOOGIE Chicago Book Release Party
Featuring Readings & Performances By:
John Murillo / Roger Bonair-Agard / Paul Martinez Pompa / Rachel Eliza Griffiths / Sandra Ivelisse Antongiorgi / Cristina Correa / Amanda Torres / Kevin Coval / Randall Horton / Toni Asante Lightfoot / Erin Teegarden / Krista Franklin
&
“Sin Vergüenza”: an exhibition of art
Sandra Ivelisse Antongiorgi
Krista Franklin
& Rachel Eliza Griffiths
All night musical styling by DJ Itch 13
**Books will be available on-site for sale**
http://www.cypherbooks.org
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ABOUT JOHN MURILLO & UP JUMP THE BOOGIE:
John Murillo is the current Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. A graduate of New York University's MFA program in creative writing, he has also received fellowships from the New York Times, Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachussetts. He is a two-time Larry Neal Writers' Award winner and the inaugural Elma P. Stuckey Visiting Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Callaloo, Court Green, Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, and the anthology Writing Self and Community: African-American Poetry After the Civil Rights Movement. Up Jump the Boogie is his first collection.
"Up jumps the boogie. That's almost all one needs to say. Murillo is headbreakingly brilliant. I didn't have a favorite poet for this year: Now I do. But with this kind of verve and intelligence and ferocity Murillo just might be a favorite for many years to come." – Junot Díaz
