7:30-10pm
Studio A
2941 W. Belmont
Now in a new venue
W4tB Presents:
First Friday:Top Shelf Poets
Live from Studio A
The Greatest Show On Earth That Exercises Hyperbole
featuring
Charlie Newman
Kurt Heintz
Scott DeKatch
Kristy Bowen
Todd Heldt
special feature
an interview with Chicago's own Tara Betts (by Dan Godston)
places
journals / litmags
- after hours: a journal of chicago writing and art
- Another Chicago Magazine
- apparatus magazine
- Arsenic Lobster
- Big Bridge
- blossombones
- boo
- Chicago Review
- Columbia Poetry Review
- contratiempo
- Court Green
- Elephant Zine
- Exact Change Only
- Fifth Wednesday
- Free Lunch
- Hotel Amerika
- MAKE: a chicago literary magazine
- milk magazine
- moonlit
- moria
- Packingtown Review
- Poetry Magazine
- Requited Journal
- rhino magazine
- Seven Corners
- Triquarterly
- wicked alice
reading series
- Bonk Performance Series (Racine, WI)
- Bookslut Reading Series
- Chicago Poetry Project
- Danny's
- Mental Graffiti
- Myopic Books Poetry Series
- Orange Alert Series
- Palabra Pura
- Proyecto Latino
- real talk avenue
- Rec Room
- RedRover Series
- Series A
- Silvertongue
- Tuesday Funk
- Waiting 4 the Bus
- Weeds
- WomanMade Gallery
presses
- A Small Garlic Press
- Beard of Bees
- black ocean
- cinematheque press
- Cracked Slab Books
- Curbside Splendor
- dancing girl press
- Exact Change Press
- Fractal Edge Press
- kenning editions
- March Abrazo Press
- Mayapple Press
- Orange Alert Press
- Plastique Press
- Projective Industries
- Puddinhead Press
- Rose Metal Press
- StepSister Press
- Swan Isle Press
- Switchback Books
- Tallgrass/Outrider Press
- Third World Press
- Virtual Artists Collective
- Zombie Logic Press
organizations / institutions
- Center for Book and Paper Arts
- Chicago Cultural Center Publishers Gallery
- Chicago Humanities Festival
- Chicago Public Library
- Chicago Underground Library
- Columbia College
- DePaul University
- ETA Creative Arts
- Guild Complex
- Gwendolyn Brooks Center
- Illinois Arts Council
- Newberry Library
- Northwestern University
- Pilcrow Lit Fest
- Poetry Center of Chicago
- Poetry Foundation
- School of the Art Institute
- UIC
- UniVerse of Poetry
- University of Chicago
about
contributors
- Powell's North
- Kathleen Rooney
- Hallie
- becca
- w4tb
- Fred Sasaki
- Zombie Logic
- Kerri
- Nick Demske
- Bill Allegrezza
- the Cafe
- chicago poetry calendar
- Kurt Heintz
- Jennifer Karmin
- kristy bowen
- Brandi
- Ice Box Press
- genius
- Steve Halle
- Elizabeth Harper
- jamie kazay
- ZOOTSUITBEATNICK!
- Cecil Handpuppet
- nicolewilson
- Naphthalim
- Boo
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- 09/26/12 Al DeGenova poetry feature at "the Cafe G...
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- 08/29/12 Bob Lawrence poetry feature at "the Cafe ...
- 08/15/12 Robin Fine poetry feature at "the Cafe Ga...
- 08/01/12 CHARLIE NEWMAN poetry feature at "the Caf...
- 07/18/12 Lucia Blinn poetry feature at "the Cafe G...
- 07/04/12 Dan Cleary poetry feature at "the Cafe Ga...
- 06/20/12 Jim Davis poetry feature at "the Cafe Gal...
- 06/06/12 Buddha 309 and Esteban Colon poetry featu...
- 05/23/12 Bob Rashkow poetry feature at "the Cafe G...
- 05/09/12 Oz Hardwick poetry feature at "the Cafe G...
- 04/25/12 GPA (the poetic unsub) poetry feature at ...
- 04/11/12 Ned Haggard poetry feature at "the Cafe G...
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- 03/14/12 Jenene Ravesloot poetry feature at "the C...
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- 02/29/12 Sid Yiddish poetry feature at "the Cafe G...
- 02/15/12 Jason Covelli poetry feature at "the Cafe...
- 02/01/12 Vittorio Carli poetry feature at "the Caf...
- Jan 29: The Human Micropoem @ the Art Inst
- What Comes After 20 At WOMAN MADE GALLERY 685 N M...
- AWP Off-Site Event: Penguin Poets, Spoon River Poe...
- Writing the Unexpected
- Jan 16:W4tB presents:open mic at the bus stop with...
- Feb. 3 Top Shelf poets presents:
- Best New Poets at the Book Cellar
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