Rhino Reads!

RHINO Reads! - A Monthly Poetry Series - Open Mike & Featured Poets - Kimberly Dixon & Jacob Saenz
May 28, 2010 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Brothers K, 500 Main St., Evanston, IL

Open Mike 6:00 - 6:30
Featured Poets 6:45 - 7:30

JACOB SAENZ is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago where he served as an editor for the Columbia Poetry Review. His work has appeared in Inkstains, Buffalo Carp, Paramanu Pentaquark and Poetry. He has been nominated for an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. He works at a library.

KIMBERLY DIXON is a Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow. Publications include The Drunken Boat, Torch, Versal, Reverie, and the anthology Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! from GirlChild Press. She is also a playwright and performer and has given readings and staged productions at Crossroads Theatre Company, Plowshares Theatre Company, Guild Complex and Strawdog Theatre Company. Her comic play “The Gizzard of Brownsville” was a finalist in the Theodore Ward Prize for African-American Playwrights. She recently became Managing Director of the Chicago literary non-profit, Guild Complex.