Monday, April 25, 2011

April 29: The Dollhouse Reading Series

The Dollhouse Reading Series presents

Jennifer Karmin
Stephen Danos
Steve Roggenbuck

FRIDAY, APRIL 29th
Doors 8pm / Reading 9pm
1850 W. Belle Plaine Ave, #3

Curated by Dolly Lemke
Bring 2-3 books to swap!

JENNIFER KARMIN's text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. In Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools (http://aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com).

STEPHEN DANOS is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where he is the recipient of a Follett Fellowship and the Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Lo-Ball, Bateau, Juked, Columbia Poetry Review, Phantom Limb, OVS Magazine, and LEVELER.

STEVE ROGGENBUCK. i am 23 years old, and i live in chicago. i grew up in rural michigan and played in a death metal band in high school. i am a vegan and a buddhist. i make jpegs, videos, and text poems, all available free online, self-published into the public domain. i have a book of found poems set in helvetica called DOWNLOAD HELVETICA FOR FREE. COM, i also have a short chapbook called i am like october when i am dead (2010). i run the tumblelog INTERNET POETRY and help with a justin bieber fan twitter. this is my main site (http://www.steveroggenbuck.com/), where i post a mix of creative content and my ideas about poetry and the internet (archive).