Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Red Rover Series / Experiment #45

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #45:
Water, Water, Everyword

SATURDAY, APRIL 2
7pm / doors lock 7:30

Featuring:
Cris Mazza
Davis Schneiderman
Lidia Yuknavitch

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

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

CRIS MAZZA has authored sixteen books, most recently Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, a novel. Her other fiction titles include Waterbaby, Trickle-Down Timeline, and the critically notable Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? In 1995 & 1996, Mazza was co-editor for the original Chick-Lit anthologies: Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction, and Chick-Lit 2: No Chick Vics. In 2006, her essay “Who’s Laughing Now: Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre,” explaining the co-opting and corrosion of the title, appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine and Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction (Routledge). In addition to fiction, Mazza also has published a memoir, Indigenous: Growing Up Californian. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in San Diego County. She currently lives 50 miles west of Chicago and is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She can be found online at
www.cris-mazza.com.

DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of eight print and audio works, including the recent novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern) and Blank: a novel (Jaded Ibis), with audio from DJ Spooky. His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review,TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he is a contributor to The Nervous Breakdown and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing. He can be found, virtually, at davisschneiderman.com.

LIDIA YUKNAVITCH is the author of the new memoir The Chronology of Water from Hawthorne books, as well as three books of short stories and a forthcoming novel. Her stories have appeared in Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, as well as in several national anthologies. She has twice been a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and is the Editor of Chiasmus Press. Her essay "About a Boob, or the Hermeneutics of a Woman's Body," was just awarded a "Best of the Web" essay award. She lives with her husband Andy and her son Miles in Portlandia.

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.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

March 27: Iowa City Writers


Sunday, March 27
7pm

at Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave

Featuring:

Erika Jo Brown
Matthew Klane
BJ Love
Adam Roberts

ERIKA JO BROWN is from New York, where she founded the Chinatown reading series Floetry at 169. She is editor of Stretching Panties magazine, an oft-annual print collection of experimental poetry, architecture and drawing. Her poems can be found at H_NGM_N, Spork and Back Room Live. Further Adventures Press just published her chapbook, What a Lark! She’s currently a MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

MATTHEW KLANE is editor and co-founder of Flim Forum Press. His book is B_____ Meditations (Stockport Flats, 2008). Recent work can be found in Taiga, muthafucka, Harp&Altar, and Word For/Word. He currently lives and writes in Iowa City.

BJ LOVE is the author of Michigander (Greying Ghost, 2010), We are Two Bastards (Indivia, forthcoming) and A Revisionist History...(Small Fires, 2011) with Friedrich Kerksieck. Additionally, he is an MFA candidate in the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and the editor of Further Adventures Chapbooks & Pamphlets.

ADAM ROBERTS grew up in Rhode Island, and is currently a post-graduate fellow at the University of Iowa. He's the author of the chapbook "Poem in Four Parts" and the epic blogger poem "Jersey Shore."

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

05.31 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature


May 31, 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). May 31st has
Wayne Allen Jones 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.

05.24 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature


May 24, 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). May 24th has
Jim Davis Jr. 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.

06.28 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature


June 28, 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 28th has
Lucia Blinn 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.

05.10 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature


May 10, 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). May 10th has
Oz Hardwick 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.

05.03 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature


May 3, 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). May 3rd has
Maureen Flannery 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.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Red Rover Series / Experiment #44

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #44:
Chat & Shout

SATURDAY, MARCH 26th
7pm / doors lock 7:30

Featuring:

The Ladies Ring Shout
(Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal)

& Adam Roberts with collaborators
Erika Jo Brown, Matthew Klane & BJ Love

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

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

ERIKA JO BROWN is from New York, where she founded the Chinatown reading series Floetry at 169. She is editor of Stretching Panties magazine, an oft-annual print collection of experimental poetry, architecture and drawing. Her poems can be found at H_NGM_N, Spork and Back Room Live. Further Adventures Press just published her chapbook, What a Lark! She’s currently a MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

FELICIA HOLMAN, is, by trade, a Certified Personal Trainer with both the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. However, her lifelong passion for performance/expression and creativity motivated her charter membership with the Chicago-based women’s performance collective, Ladies Ring Shout (LRS). As a founding member of LRS, Felicia has helped build evocative performance pieces that confront/explore such notions as sexuality, home, race, history, and memory.

ABRA JOHNSON teaches with the City Colleges of Chicago and its Bridge Program with DePaul University. Having scholarly interests in representations of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in popular music, she will be travelling to Savannah, Georgia to study Gullah and Ogeechee African-American subcultures as a National Endowment for the Humanities Community College Faculty Fellow.

MATTHEW KLANE is editor and co-founder of Flim Forum Press. His book is B_____ Meditations (Stockport Flats, 2008). Recent work can be found in Taiga, muthafucka, Harp&Altar, and Word For/Word. He currently lives and writes in Iowa City.

BJ LOVE is the author of Michigander (Greying Ghost, 2010), We are Two Bastards (Indivia, forthcoming) and A Revisionist History...(Small Fires, 2011) with Friedrich Kerksieck. Additionally, he is an MFA candidate in the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and the editor of Further Adventures Chapbooks & Pamphlets.

MEIDA MCNEAL (PhD Performance Studies, Northwestern University) is an Independent Artist and Scholar, a 2010 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, Dance Researcher for the Chicago Artists Resource Web Project and a Teaching Artist with Changing Worlds, a nonprofit educational arts organization. In addition to developing a number of performance projects, Meida is currently completing her first book-length manuscript “Compromised Subjectivities: Constructing Trinidadian Nationhood and Navigating Postcolonial Caribbean Performance” based on over ten years of ethnographic research in Trinidad.

ADAM ROBERTS grew up in Rhode Island, and is currently a post-graduate fellow at the University of Iowa. He's the author of the chapbook "Poem in Four Parts" and the epic blogger poem "Jersey Shore."

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.

Email ideas for reading experiments
to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

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

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

To Art & Profit: performance festival

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

Interdisciplinary performance series
arts-focused dialogues & street spectacles
in Chicago, Illinois

Curated by Links Hall Artistic Associates
Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal
http://toartandprofit.wordpress.com

**MARCH 18-20**
What Is It Good For? Defining Art’s Purpose Now

Collaborating Artists:
Cristal Sabbagh & Roger Noel
J’Sun Howard & Jennifer Karmin with insight by Coya Paz
C.C. Carter, Sage Morgan Hubbard & Keli Stewart

**APRIL 15-17**
Quit Bullshittin’: Recognizing Division
& Building Solidarity in the Arts

Collaborating Artists:
Avery R. Young & BRAT James
In The Spirit & Siete Lunas Nuevas
Boogie McClarin, Nikki Patin & Fathom DJ

**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

PERFORMANCES
8pm Fridays & Saturdays
at Links Hall, 3435 N.Sheffield

COMMUNITY SPECTACLES & DISCUSSIONS
2pm Sundays in Chicago neighborhoods
see festival website for details

FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER
8pm-12am Friday, March 25th
at Defibrillator, 1136 N.Milwaukee

Poetry Bomb 2011



The Poetry Bomb is coming on April 10th. The Poetry Bomb is an act of Guerilla Poetry. Wherever you're at at 3:30 on April 10th, stop and perform some poetry. Read it out loud.

April is National Poetry Month, and we aim to take Poetry to the people. If you want to participate, please let us know. If you don't want to go it alone, we will have Bomb Sites in the city and burbs, we can direct you to one of those.
You can reach us here on the Facebook or at poetrybomb@gmail.com

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop:

Monday, March 14, 2011

March 16: Eileen Myles & Ed Roberson



Wednesday, March 16th
Eileen Myles and Ed Roberson
7:30PM sharp

Danny's Tavern
located at 1951 W. Dickens
21+ (please bring ID)
http://dannys.noslander.com

EILEEN MYLES was born in Boston and moved to New York in 1974. Her Inferno (a poet's novel) is just out from OR books. For her collection of essays, The Importance of Being Iceland, she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. Sorry Tree is her most recent book of poems. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Eileen the Shelley Prize. She is a Prof. Emeritus of Writing at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.

ED ROBERSON is the author of eight books of poetry, including To See the Earth Before the End of the World (Wesleyan). He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award and the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and his prior books have won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Series. Having retired from Rutgers University, Roberson currently lives in Chicago where he has taught at Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

March 12: Severance Songs celebration

Severance Songs:
a book release party for
Joshua Corey

Saturday, March 12th
7pm

With readings by Chicago writers:
Robert Archambeau
John Beer
Ray Bianchi
Joel Craig
Chris Green
Jennifer Karmin
Simone Muench
Kristy Odelius
Larry Sawyer
Davis Schneiderman
Tony Trigilio

at The Book Cellar
4736-38 N. Lincoln Avenue
*Free*

Joshua Corey brings his third collection of poetry, Severance Songs to the Book Cellar for its Chicago launch party. Severance Songs, winner of the 2008 Dorset Prize from Tupelo press, is a sequence of unrhymed sonnets, written in the wake of 9/11. The poems live in the contraditions that exist within sardonic lyricism and dark humor.

A celebration of the sonnet, the reading of the new book of poetry by Corey will be interwoven by readings of new and classic sonnets by a cavalcade of Chicago poets.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Trigilio & Loden at Columbia College

Tony Trigilio & Rachel Loden Poetry Reading
March 9, 2011 5:30pm
Columbia College, Hokin Hall, 623 S. Wabash, 109

TONY TRIGILIO’s books include the poetry collections Historic Diary (BlazeVOX Books, 2011) and The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006), and the critical monographs Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007) and “Strange Prophecies Anew” (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000). With Tim Prchal, he co-edited the anthology, Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008). He is a member of the core poetry faculty at Columbia College Chicago and co-edits Court Green.



RACHEL LODEN is the author of Dick of the Dead (Ahsahta Press), a finalist for both the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry and the California Book Award. Loden’s first book, Hotel Imperium (Georgia), won the Contemporary Poetry Series competition. Loden has published four chapbooks, including The Last Campaign (which won the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center chapbook competition) and The Richard Nixon Snow Globe (Wild Honey Press). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Poetry from the California Arts Council, an &NOW Award, and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.