This week 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

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This SUNDAY at Myopic Books:


Sunday, May 2 – Philip Jenks & Connor Stratman

Philip JENKS’ poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Typo, Fence, Cultural Society, Canarium, LVNG, and elsewhere. Flood Editions published his first volume of poems in 2002, On the Cave You Live In, and a second volume of poems, My First Painting will be ‘The Accuser’, was published by Zephyr Press (2005). He also published two chapbooks – The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt, 1994) and How Many of You Are You? (Dusie, 2006). He collaborates with Simone Muench, publishing Little Visceral Carnival (Cinemateque Press, 2009) and with Sasha Miljevic, publishing Distance, an ekphrastic hybrid of prose and poetry (Dutch Art Institute, 2009). He recently completed his third manuscript, Colony Collapse.

Connor STRATMAN was born in Texas and currently lives in Chicago. His work has appeared in journals such as ditch, Leaf Garden, Pinstripe Fedora, The Toronto Quarterly, Counterexample Poetics, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, and various others. He is the author of two chapbooks: Invisible Entrances (erbacce-press, 2010) and First Testament (forthcoming ungovernable press, 2010).