Ullyses may have escaped the traps laid before him by the gods, but be never escapes Homer's grasp. And Candide has no one but Voltarie to thank for his outrageous luck. Only Augusto Perez discovers the true nature of the ficitonal universe, and quite by accident. He stumbles across his lord creator Miguel de Unamuno at work at his desk, writing the manuscript. No buring bushes, no pillars of salt. Just pen and ink.

Augusto, BOB RASHKOW

Domingo, R. JEROME GIBBONS

Eugenia, KRISTIN La TOUR

Ermelinda, PAM MILLER

Fermín, DAVID HARGARTEN

Maurice, ESTEBAN COLON

An old woman, PAM MILLER

Rosario, SARAH CARSON

Unamuno, BOB LAWRENCE

Víctor, WAYNE ALLEN JONES

Top Shelf Poets: The First Friday Series-Now in REAL TIME!!!!

Red Rover Series / Experiment #46

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #46:
The Chicago-Denver Writers Exchange

SATURDAY, MAY 28th
7pm / doors lock 7:30

Featuring:
Serena Chopra
Michael Flatt
Derrick Mund
Oren Silverman
Nancy Stohlman

at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4

logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible

SERENA CHOPRA has been published in the Denver Quarterly, Fact-Simile, The Laurel Review, VOLT, No Tell Motel, Pax Americana, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, "Speaking to Your Man," was released in August 2010 by Peninsulas Now Press. Her latest chapbook, "Penumbra" will be released in August 2011 from Flying Guillotine Press. She is a Kundiman fellow, a former intern for The New Press, and a 95 cent skool student. She currently works with Writers in The Schools teaching poetry to Denver primary school children, and is a faculty member at the Boulder Writing Studio. Serena is the co-founder and curator of TitMouse Magazine and the founder of the TitMouse Writers Exchange. She teaches writing at Metropolitan State College in Denver.

MICHAEL FLATT's work has been published most recently by Fast Forward Press and 32 Poems. He publishes reviews of poetry and fiction at NewPages.com, and he has an article forthcoming in the fall from Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui. He currently lives in Denver where he works for Counterpath Press and Field Editorial.Before moving to Denver, Michael Flatt lived and studied and worked and loved and lost in Buffalo, NY. He was managing editor of SUNY Buffalo's undergraduate newspaper, The Spectrum, and sang in a hardcore band called ...By Exposure (ellipsis included). He's also lived in a farm town outside of Syracuse.

DERRICK MUND is from Michigan. He has a MFA from the University of Colorado. He is a co-publisher and editor of Peninsulas Now Press, a progressive publishing collective. His work has been published in a few places and hopefully more in the future. More interesting bios on derrick have been written by Caroline Davidon, Collin Shcuster, and a younger version of him.

OREN SILVERMAN lives in Denver and is a student in CU Boulder's MFA Program. He is the Managing Editor of Timber, and occasionally hosts readings in the Denver area.

NANCY STOHLMAN's include Searching for Suzi: a flash novel, Live From Palestine, and Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, which is currently a finalist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award in Literary Fiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in over 30 journals, magazines and anthologies, and she’s been featured in literary events in a dozen cities. She’s currently a writing professor in Denver.

RED ROVER SERIES is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.

May 24: Laura Goldstein's Facts of Light

Plumberries Press presents
a release party to celebrate the new chapbook
Facts of Light by Laura Goldstein

Tuesday, May 24th
from 8pm-12am

at Ball Hall
1621 N. Kedzie Ave #3

"Facts of Light" performed by Laura Goldstein
with Denise Dooley, Jennifer Karmin, Alex Marchut, Edwin R. Perry, Kg Price, Shannon Schmidt, Chelsea Tadeyeske & Luis Valadez

READING: "Fundamental" by Edwin R. Perry
VIDEOS: by Brett Balogh & Yoni Goldstein
DANCE: by Lab Dance
MUSIC: "I think I'm Turning Balinese" by Kg Price

Laura Goldstein's poetry, reviews and essays can be found in EAOGH, Requited, Little Red Leaves, How2, Seven Corners, Text/Sound, Rabbit Light Movies, Otoliths, CutBank Reviews and Moria, as well as this summer in American Letters and Commentary, She has two chapbooks: Ice in Intervals from Hex Press and Day of Answers from Tir Aux Pigeons and her newest chapbook, Let Her, will be coming out from Dancing Girl Press in Spring 2012. She currently co-curates the Red Rover reading series and teaches Writing and Literature at the School of the Art Institute and Loyola University.

May 22: Adam Farcus & Brandon Anschultz

Sunday, May 22 @ 1pm
free

The Hills Esthetic Center
128 N. Campbell Avenue
(near Lake & Western)

This reading/performance is in conjunction with the art exhibition, Ingredients for Humble Magic, by artists Brandon Anschultz and Adam Farcus. This exhibition and reading are two events in a series of exhibitions and happenings by residents from the 2010 session of ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions).

Image above:

left side --
Brandon Anschultz
ACRE Painting
oil, canvas, staples and found wood
2010

right side --
Adam Farcus
Sentinels
cardboard, hot glue, clothes pins, colored pencil, and acrylic
2011

Elizabeth's Crazy Little Thing featuring Sid Yiddish on June 8, 2011

Sid Yiddish is a semi-sweet kosher industrial poet-throat-singing radio broadcasting-Furby spy. He’s performed in tight spaces within the USA & Denmark & by web-cast in Norway, plus published poetry & prose in: Tomorrow, Children, Churches & Daddies, Flipside, Si Senor, Satyr, Urban Coaster, Magnetic Poetry-Book of Poetry, Poem800.com, Bardball.com & PoetrySuperHighway.com. From 1986 to 1991, he published the poetry fanzine, Cops Hate Poetry. In the past, he's worked diligently as an oddball actor, teacher, beat reporter & as Chicago coordinator for the Bathroom Poetry Project. He also served as President of Chicago Composers Forum. Besides solo performance, he regularly sits in with Adepetive Radiation,
Bukakke Birds, Candy Store Henchmen, Chicago Scratch Orchestra, Flabby Hoffman Trio & frequently collaborates with Danish punk band, Clean Boys & has been covered by Time Out, Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, WGN Radio, Memphis Flyer & Yahoo Sports. In 2010, Sid toured Denmark with Clean Boys for the Skype-produced album, Safari Freakshow Adventure. In his spare time, Sid roots out crazy sounds by throat-singing & blowing his 10 Shofars to be in harmony with crows & Furbys worldwide. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Come join us for the open mic! Our theme will be "Jesus popsicles."

Wednesday, June 8, 10 pm

Phyllis' Musical Inn
1880 W Division
Chicago, Il 60622

May 20-22: To Art & Profit Festival

TO ART & PROFIT:
Creative Labor, Collective Action & Conscientious Capitalism

Interdisciplinary performance series
arts-focused dialogues & street spectacles

Curated by Links Hall Artistic Associates
Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal

MAY 20-22
Come As You Are:
Re-Imagining Art with a Conscience

Collaborating Artists:
Silvita Diaz Brown, Nicole Garneau & Lani Montreal;
Nicole LeGette; The Ladies Ring Shout, Ayako Kato & David Boykin;
and with Special Guests Joel Valentin-Martinez & Liz Zastrow

PERFORMANCES
8pm Friday & Saturday
at Links Hall, 3435 N.Sheffield

COMMUNITY SPECTACLE & DISCUSSION
Sunday, May 22 from 2-5pm
at the Southside Community Art Center
3831 S. Michigan Avenue

With Panelists:

Henry Cervantes, Youth Peer Organizer at Telpochcalli Community Education Project

Roell Schmidt, Director, Links Hall

Lisa Biggs, Performer, playwright and director researching theatre programs for incarcerated women

Evin Marie, playwright and owner of The Maekeen Room

FATHOM DJ, Music Stylist and Producer

Discopoet Khari B., Poet, Arts Educator, Lead Member of The Rockstar Poetry Project

Janice Bond, Artist Representative and Brand Strategist at SAVANT|SAVANT

the G O O D

E V E N I N G readingseries

presents:

ARIELLE GREENBERG

¯ a farewell reading¯

Friday, May 20

Open Mic: 7:15-7:45p.m.

Feature: 8:00

¯

M E S S H A L L

6932 N. Glenwood Ave.

in Rogers Park

¯

____________

B Y O B

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A R I E L L E G R E E N B E R G is co-author, with Rachel Zucker, of Home/Birth: A Poemic, and author of My Kafka Century, Given and several chapbooks. Ugly Duckling Presse will republish her chapbook Shake Her in 2012. She is co-editor of three anthologies, most recently Gurlesque with Lara Glenum, and is the founder-moderator of the poet-moms listserv. She is leaving a tenured position in poetry at Columbia College Chicago in 2011 to move with her family to live a different kind of life in a small town in rural Maine.

05/17 mini feature night at the Cafe in Chicago!

May 17, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 17th has a mini-feature night, where throughout the open mic people can read up to 10 minutes of material. Included in the mini-feature evening will be the host's short story "Stalker," read by both Janet Kuypers and John Yotko (as it was performed in the 12/04/10 Lake Villa video show "The Stories of Women").




For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

Red Rover Series / summer 2011

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

SUMMER 2011
Chicago, IL

*Experiment #46: May 28
The Chicago-Denver Writers Exchange
Serena Chopra, Michael Flatt, Derrick Mund,
Oren Silverman & Nancy Stohlman

*Experiment #47: June 11
Neo-benshi co-presented with the Chicago Poetry Project
John Beer, Daniel Borzutzky, Krista Franklin,
Judith Goldman, Carla Harryman & Konrad Steiner

*Experiment #48: July 16
Performance art guest curated by Marissa Perel
Jai Arun Ravine & Jillian Soto

at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Avenue
near the CTA Damen blue line
suggested donation $4

Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein & Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin.

Email ideas for reading experiments to
redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

The schedule for upcoming events is listed at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries

WOW WOW WOW
Red Rover Series
on facebook? why not?

06.07 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

June 7, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). June 7th has Cathleen Schandelmeier as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

May 11: Danny's Reading Series

Wednesday, May 11^th

7:30PM sharp

Readings by

Noah Eli Gordon

Sommer Browning

Joseph Lease

The Danny’s Reading Series

at Danny’s Tavern

1951 W. Dickens

(near the intersection of Armitage & Damen)

21+ so please bring ID

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six books, including The Source (Futurepoem, 2011), and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: Review of Books and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.

Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics and tells jokes. She is the author of three chapbooks, most recently THE BOWLING (Greying Ghost, 2010) with Brandon Shimoda. Her poems and drawings have appeared in The New York Quarterly, Typo, Octopus, past simple, Free Verse, The Stranger and other places. With Julia Cohen she curates The Bad Shadow Affair, a reading series in Denver. Learn more about her new book Either Way I'm Celebrating (Birds, LCC).

Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify, Broken World and Human Rights. His work has been featured on npr and published in The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, VQR, Bay Poetics, and Paris Review, among others. The title poem from Broken World appeared in The Best American Poetry, edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman. Originally from Chicago, Lease lives in the Bay area and chairs the mfa Program in Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop:

7:30pm - 10:00pm

Cafe Ballou

939 N Western Ave.

W4tB Open Mic Night
Featuring: Tom Curry
Suggested theme. Rantapalooza: bring out your rants kids,


Simply put, Tom Curry is one of my favorite poets. Tom is one of the veteran members of the Waiting 4 The Bus Poetry Collective.

Tom is an unrepentant iconoclast, continually honing his unique blend of philosophical hair splitting tempered with uncompromising and unapologetic bohemian rancor. His poetry is primarily concerned with the realm of thought, doggedly wrestling with those grand ideas that lie at the center of most things; however, these are not dry philosophical treatises. He approaches thought the way a painter approaches a blank canvas, carefully distilling the rushing tableau of ideas into planes and intersecting lines, form, space and proportion. Like a painter, Tom chooses his vantage point and his palette carefully in order to illuminate the barest sliver of what is possible in order to hint at what might otherwise be overwhelmingly incomprehensible.