Friday, December 21, 2012

Save the Date! Plume Poetry Reading at Powell's January 24th

Celebrate the publication of the first print anthology from Plume Poetry
the international online poetry journal that features twelve poets every month (www.plumepoetry.com), edited by Daniel Lawless.

This free event at 6 p.m. on January 24th at Powell's Books newer location at 1218 S. Halsted features

Robin Behn author of The Red Hour, Paper Bird, The Horizon Note, and most recently The Yellow House from Spuyten Duyvil Press.

Daniel Bosch author of Crucible from Other Press.

Stuart Dybek author of the poetry book Brass Knuckles, the novels The Coast of Chicago and I Sailed with Magellan, a recent reissue from University of Chicago Press of the story collection Childhood and Other Neighborhoods. and the 2006 poetry collection Streets in Their Own Ink from Farrar Straus & Giroux.

Angie Estes author of Chez Nous, Voice Over, The Uses of Passion, and, most recently, Tryst from Oberlin College Press.

William Olsen author of The Hand of God and Few Bright Flowers, Trouble LIghts, Vision of a Storm Cloud, Avenue of Vanishing, and most recently Sand Theory from Northwestern University Press/Triquarterly Books.

Christina Pugh author of Rotary, Restoration, and Grains of the Voice, the forthcoming from Northwestern University Press/Triquarterly Books.

Join us!  

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Dec 19: Poetry + Music @ Township

Patti Smith is Dead: A Night of Poetry & Music
(each month a different person "dies" in a kill yr idols way)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19th
10pm-1am
*free admission*

at TOWNSHIP
2200-2202 N. California in Logan Square

READERS:
Jennifer Karmin w/ Daniela Olszewska & Kenyatta Rogers
Sage Morgan-Hubbard & Stacy Rene Erenberg
Meghan Lamb
Alex Bonner
Hel F. Kiernan
Stephen Dvorak
David Diarrhea
Nicholas Souder

MUSIC:
Zigtebra
Shaina Hoffman
K A T A R I N A

Facebook event page here

Monday, December 10, 2012

Dec 13: MOODBOARD

MOODBOARD
MOODBOARD
7-9pm Thursday, December 13th

Featuring:
Chris Cuellar
Kristi McGuire
Anthony Romero
Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal


at the Chicago Cultural Center
5th Floor, Millennium Park Room
presented by The Poetry Center of Chicago

Chris Cuellar (artist, LA) likes to work with writing, sound, performance & digital media. He has earned an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. An ongoing durational performance called 'Minutes Project' will be currently on display through January at ACRE Projects in Chicago. He has made work for the Austin New Music Co-op in Austin, TX; various galleries in Chicago, including the Hyde Park Arts Center; and Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn. You can visit his website (yoursmountain.com), find him on the Instagram (@firstperson), follow him on the Twitter (@yoursmt) and/or Key Party with him on the Facebook.

Anthony Romero is a performer and writer based in Chicago. His works have been performed nationally, most notably at Links Hall and The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. His poetry and criticism have been published by Ugly Duckling Press, Poetry Quarterly, ArtWrit Magazine, and The Huffington Post, among others. He is currently a performer in residence at The Chicago Cultural Center through the generous support of DanceBridge. 

Kristi McGuire is an artist, writer, and editor. She analyzes and theorizes the interstitial spaces between and around neoliberalism, bureaucracy, the historicization of 20th-c avant-garde movements, defunct psychoanalytic metaphors,working-class American antagonism, "cultural criticism," experimental feminist poetics,"the artist's publication," hybrid practitioners, deceased choreographers, Gordon Matta-Clark, "the archive" and "the internet." She holds an MA from the University of Chicago and an MA/MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She teaches at SAIC, is coeditor of Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing across the Discipline (Routledge 2012), and will be a 2013 artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. 

Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal is a pop culture rubbernecker and NYC traitor to LA. She was a Lambda Literary Fellow, an &Now Festival panelist, and has an BA from Vassar and an MFA from CalArts. Find her writing in GOOD, [PANK], Wanted, and Work magazines, The Collagist, Sang Blue, Floating Bridge Review, or the Writers Among Artists anthology Faggot Dinosaur. Her first chapbook, Close, is forthcoming with Sibling Rivalry Press. There r pix @ tracyjeannerosenthal.com.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Dec 9: Pop-Up Book Fair


Pop Up Book Fair
 
The Chicago Writers House presents,
in conjunction with Curbside Splendor Publishing and The Chicagoan:

A POP-UP BOOK FAIR
Sunday December 9th
2pm to 7pm
 
1035 N. Western Ave
 
FREE with RSVP
otherwise $5 at the door

Event is 21+ 
but those under 21 can enter if accompanied 
by a parent or guardian who is 21 or older.
 
Some of Chicago's finest independent publishers will be on hand hocking their goods. Quimby's Bookstore will also stock a table with a selection of books/zines penned by Chicagoans. The bar will be open so grab a cocktail and listen to live music all afternoon as you ogle some books and satiate your bibliophiliac needs!

Current list of participating Chicago publishers:
&Now Books
7 Vientos
826chi
Allium Press
Anobium Literary Magazine
Another Chicago Magazine
Anything Goes Publishing
Artifice
Burial Day Books
Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP)
Chicago Zine Fest
contratiempo
Convulsive Editions
Curbside Splendor Publishing
Dream of Things
Graze Magazine
The Handshake
Kenning Editions
MAKE Magazine
Other Voices (OV) Books
Solace in So Many Words
Switchback Books

Sweet Tunes provided by:
Good Evening
Mr. Mayor and the Highballers
Wooden Wing
&more!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Red Rover Series / Experiment #60

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #60:
Then & Now Again

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1st
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

Featuring:
Maureen Ewing
Josalyn Knapic
Todd McCarty
Tony Trigilio

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

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

MAUREEN EWING received her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and her MA in English from Rhodes University in South Africa. She has taught at Columbia College Chicago and University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, and she tutors and mentors young writers. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Exit 7, Mindful Metropolis, Rhino, ROAR, Slurve, So to Speak, and Third Wednesday. She has participated in readings through Rhino, Printer’s Row Book Fair, and various Columbia College Chicago readings and exhibitions. Maureen recently received a partial fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center for a two-week residency in April 2013.

JOSALYN KNAPIC is currently editor of South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art and serves as an assistant editor at Another Chicago Magazine.  An essay of hers is appearing in DIAGRAM Fall 2012. 

TODD MCCARTY is a freelance writer who lives in Chicago. He's worked as assistant editor for the journal Court Green, for Naropa's Audio Archive Project, and at KGNU Radio in Boulder, CO. There he was interviewer and producer for the poetry programs End Quote and Subliminal Guild. He recorded poets such as Anne Waldman, Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger and many others. His poems have appeared in 580 Split, Court Green, RHINO, Verse Daily, and are forthcoming in DIAGRAM. His book reviews can be found at Gently Read Literature. Todd recently received a partial fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center for a two-week residency in April 2013.

TONY TRIGILIO is the author of, most recently, the book-length poem White Noise (forthcoming 2013, Apostrophe Books) and the poetry collection Historic Diary (BlazeVOX Books, 2011). His critical monograph Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics was re-released in a new paperback edition earlier this year by Southern Illinois University Press. 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 is a co-founder and co-editor of Court Green.

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, November 27, 2012

Nov 28: Nick Twemlow & Joel Craig











The Green Lantern Press release reading 
with Nick Twemlow & Joel Craig

Wednesday, November 28
7:30PM
Hosted by Caroline Picard & Devin King


NICK TWEMLOW is the author of Palm Trees (Green Lantern Press,2012). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, A Public Space, jubilat, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Iowa City, where he writes, makes films, is a senior editor for The Iowa Review and co-edits Canarium Books. If you’re interested in learning more, please visit nicktwemlow.com

JOEL CRAIG is the author of The White House (Green Lantern Press, 2012). His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Fence, Iowa Review and Typo, among others. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois where he also curates the Danny's Reading Series and is the poetry editor for MAKE: A Literary Magazine.

http://dannys.noslander.com/2012/11/november-28-green-lantern-press-release.html

Monday, November 26, 2012

W4tB:Susan Swanton Book Release and open mic at Jaks





Hey kids
It's the long awaited release of Susan Swanton's new book of poetry.
"Meat Machine" is a super cool volume of her work
you should come on out and buy a copy
7:30 sign up
Showtime 8-10 pm
suggested theme: Buy Meat Machine.

There will still be an Open Mic so bring your poems.
Monday, December 3, 2012

sign up 7:30pm
showtime 8 until 10:00pm

Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar
901 W. Jackson, Chicago, Illinois 60607

Sunday, November 18, 2012

W4tB at Jaks featuring Quraysh Ali Lansana+Open Mic



Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar
901 W. Jackson, Chicago, Illinois 60607
sign up-7:30
showtime 8-10pm
come check out our super cool feature Quraysh Ali Lansana
perhaps buy his super cool new book
or participate in our suggested theme
Road Poems:
On the road
from the road
further down the road
to the road
road to nowhere
tobacco road
road runner
king of the road
Ya know, Road Poems

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Nov 16 & 17: Elizabeth Robinson, Kim Lyons & more

 
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th

Absinthe and Zygote Series
Remix Reading

Three pre-eminent poets will interweave their works into a single, remixed work. This experiment in language and performance will feature poets Elizabeth Robinson, Kimberly Lyons, and Nathan Hoks.

7pm @ Mess Hall
6932 N Glenwood Ave
near the Morse CTA Red Line
free admission

Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/events/389190917823835/?ref=ts&fref=ts

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17th

The Myopic Books Reading Series presents
Vyt Bakaitis, Kimberly Lyons & Elizabeth Robinson

7pm @ Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave
near the Damen CTA Blue Line
free admission

http://myopicbookstore.com

Vyt Bakaitis is an American translator, editor, and poet born in Lithuania and living in New York City. His main collection of poetry is City Country (1991). His magazine, Thirst, lasted only a few issues, but his translations of Lithuanian poetry, particularly the anthology Breathing Free and the work of Jonas Mekas, are significant.

Kimberly Lyons is the author of several books of poetry, most recently: Phototherapique (Ketalanche Press/Portable Press, 2008). A new collection of poems, Rouge, is forthcoming from Instance Press. Recent poems have appeared in New American Writing, Peepshowpoetryblogspot, Peaches and Bats, the Recluse, and Talisman magazine. She wrote profiles on a number of poets in the Encyclopedia of New York School Poets (Facts on File). She is a socialworker at the Brooklyn Women’s Shelter and was once the program coordinator at the Poetry Project.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of the recent collections Counterpart (Boise ID: Ahsahta Press, 2012) and Inaudible Trumpeters (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008). With Colleen Lookingbill, she co-edits the EtherDome Chapbook series which publishes chapbooks by emerging women poets, and she co-edits Instance Press with Beth Anderson and Stacy Szymaszek. She graduated from Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Nov 10: Toby Altman & Joel Lewis


Stairs 

Readings by
Toby Altman & Joel Lewis

Saturday, November 10th
7pm

at Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue
http://myopicbookstore.com

Toby Altman lives in Chicago with his dog and friends. His poems appear in Gigantic Sequins, The Berkeley Poetry Review and Birdfeast. A chapbook of his prose poems, Asides, was published by Furniture Press. He is cofounder of Damask Press and a member of the Next-Objectivists.

Joel Lewis is the author of Surrender When Leaving Coach (Hanging Loose, 2012) and the forthcoming North River Rundown (Accent Editions 2013). He has edited the selected talks of Ted Berrigan, the selected poems of Walter Lowenfels and an anthology of contemporary New Jersey poets. And, for better or worse, he originated the now-abolished NJ Poet  Laureate position that was such a headache for Amiri  Baraka.

The Myopic Books Reading Series is curated by Larry Sawyer.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Nov 10: Writers on Process

Writers on Process:
Laura Goldstein
Judd Morrissey
Martin Glaz Serup
Christine Wertheim

Saturday, November 10th
4-6pm

at the Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street
on the 5th floor, Millennium Park Room
free admission

Les Figues Press authors Martin Glaz Serup (Copenhagen) and Christine Wertheim (Los Angeles) will be on a Field Tour of the Field States from November 3-10, 2012. On Saturday, November 10, join us for a panel discussion between Martin Glaz Serup, Christine Wertheim, and local writers Judd Morrissey and Laura Goldstein on process and project.

Moderated and organized by
Jennifer Karmin & Elizabeth Metzger Sampson
presented by the Poetry Center of Chicago & Red Rover Series

Laura Goldstein's poetry and essays have been published in American Letters and Commentary, MAKE, kill author, jacket2, EAOGH, Requited, Everyday Genius, Little Red Leaves, and How2. She has published several chapbooks including Inventory (Sona Books, 2012); Let Her (Dancing Girl Press, 2012); Facts of Light (Plumberries Press, 2011) and Ice in Intervals (Hex Presse, 2008). She co-curates the Red Rover Series with Jennifer Karmin and teaches Writing and Literature at Loyola University.

Judd Morrissey is an electronic writer and creator of multimodal works encompassing elements of internet art, live performance, site-responsive installation, and structured public participation. He is the creator of widely studied and anthologized digital literary works including The Precession (2011), The Last Performance [dot org] (2009), The Jew’s Daughter (2006), and My Name is Captain, Captain (2002). His projects are presented nationally and internationally in festivals, exhibitions, conferences and commission contexts. Morrissey is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches courses in networked and computational writing, digital art, and contemporary performance. He was a collaborator of the former international performance collective, Goat Island, and is a fellow of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant program.  More at http://www.judisdaid.com.

Martin Glaz Serup was born in 1978 and has published six children’s books, most recently an illustrated story entitled When granddad was a postman (2010). He has also published six collections of poetry; his long poem The Field (2010) has been published in Denmark (2010), USA (2011), Sweden (2012) and Finland (2013). Serup is the former founding editor of the Nordic web-magazine for literary criticism Litlive and the literary journal Apparatur, and is the current managing editor of the poetry magazine Hvedekorn. He has taught creative writing at the University of Southern Denmark and at the University of Aarhus; he is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen. In 2006, Serup received the Michael Strunge Prize for poetry and in 2008 he received a gold medal from the University of Copenhagen for his dissertation of Poetry and Relational Aesthetics. In 2012, he was awarded the prestigious three-year grant from the Danish Art's Council.

Christine Wertheim is a poet, critic, performer and curator with a doctorate in literature and semiotics from Middlesex University, London. Her books include the poetic suite +|‘me’S-pace (Les Figues Press), Corpus, a chapbook from Triage, and the edited anthology Feminaissance (Les Figues Press). She regularly writes critical pieces on art, literature and aesthetics, including for Cabinet, X-tra, The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center cat., and Patarcitical Interogation Techniques, vol 3, ed. Doug Harvey. She lectures and performs internationally, most recently at the Sorbonne, Birkbeck College, London, the University of Western Sydney, Melbourne University, and LaTrobe University, Melbourne. With her sister Margaret she co-directs the Institute For Figuring (IFF), which curates exhibitions and seminars on the intersections of art, science and mathematics. Her new book Mutters and Babels is forthcoming from Couterpath Books in 2013.  More at http://christine-wertheim.com and http://theiff.org.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Sunday, November 11, 1:30 pm Woman Made Gallery 685 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

In the spirit of Lucile Clifton, this reading is meant to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Join six remarkable poets who occupy words, not as a polemic but toward truth-telling, for a memorable evening of words made to occupy. Curated by Valerie Wallace, the poets will read from their work and talk about how and why they approach poetry to be used on and off the page.

Featuring Poet & Spoken Word Artist Tiff Beatty Poet & Visual Artist Krista Franklin Poet & Text Artist Jill Magi Poet & Slam Winner Marty McConnell Poet & Performance Artist Jamila Woods Event Curator & Poet Valerie Wallace

http://womanmade.org/poetry.html

https://www.facebook.com/events/157915361018275/

"Diamonds are Forever" courtesy Krista Franklin

Nov 8 & 9: Johanna Drucker


drucker 
Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. In addition, she has a reputation as a book artist, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009), and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson, 2008). She is currently working on a database memoire, ALL, the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King's College, and a letterpress project titled Stochastic Poetics.
in the Ludington Building, 1104 South Wabash Ave 

And are part of the show 
DRUCKWORKS: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker
September 6–December 7, 2012

ARTIST TALK
Johanna Drucker
Thursday, November 8th @ 6pm
room 502


ROUNDTABLE
Tactics & Technologies: Artists' Books and Means of Production
Friday, November 9th @ noon 

room 504

*Johanna Drucker will present on her visual artwork within the context of changing technology

*Steve Tomasula will discuss his recent publication TOC, a New Media Novel

*Steve Woodall will present on Expanded Artists' Books, an NEA-funded electronic publishing initiative

*Doro Boehme will discuss selections from the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago  

Monday, November 5, 2012

Nov 6: AMERICA/N election day performances




13 HOUR ELECTION DAY DISCUSSION/PERFORMANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION
 

Collaborative Art Group Lucky Pierre invites scholars, artists, and activists to investigate: What do you know about the US Constitution?

On election day November 6, 2012, during polling hours (6am to 7pm), art collective Lucky Pierre (
www.luckypierre.org), Defibrillator Gallery and 24 guest presenters will work through this American project as defined by the United States Constitution.

We'll start at the beginning of the constitution "We the people..." and work our way through to the end - "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." Drinks will, of course, be served after the 21st Amendment.


Each of the 24 guest presenters will present their findings as a 30-minute presentation / discussion / song / performance/ polemic. Each presentation will be followed by a group discussion. Visitors can come and go at any time throughout the day.  Findings and texts from the day are to be released in book form on Inauguration Day 2013.


LOCATION:
Defibrillator Gallery
1136 N. Milwaukee Avenue
in the Wicker Park neighborhood
http://www.dfbrl8r.org

SCHEDULE:
(subject to change):

6:00-7:00 a.m Breakfast

7:00-7:30 Preamble Amber Ginsburg and Tom Ginsburg

7:30-8:00 Article 1 John Rich

8:00-8:30 Article 2 David Kodeski

8:30-9:00 Article 3 Robin Cline

9:00-9:30 Article 4 Edward Thomas-Herrera

9:30-10:00 Articles 5,6,7 Laura Stempel

10:00-30 Amendment 1 Davey K.

10:30-11:00 Amendments 2 & 3 Aaron Maier

11:00-11:30 Amendment 4 Brandon Alvendia

11:30-12:00 pm. Amendments 5 & 6 Jennifer Karmin & Kath Duffy

12:00-12:30 Amendment 7 Marc Fischer

12:30-1:00 Amendment 8 Melinda Fries

1:00-1:30 Amendment 9 David Isaacson

1:30-2:00 Amendments 10 , 11, 13 Chris Schoen

2:00-2:30 Amendments 12 and 17 Jen Blair

2:30-3:00 Amendment 14 Honorable Judge James Snyder of Circuit Court of Cook County

3:00-3:30 Amendment 15 Andy Fenchel & Alisa Wolfson

3:30-4:00 Amendment 16 Matthew Nicholas

4:00-4:30 Amendments 18 and 21 Paul Durica

4:30-5:00 Amendment 19 Anne Elizabeth Moore

5:00-5:30 Amendments 20 and 22 and 27 Jeff Kowalkowski

5:30-6:00 Amendment 23 and 24 Don Washington of Mayoral Tutorial

6:00-6:30 Amendment 25 Robert Metrick

6:30-7:00 Amendment 26 Barrie Cole

Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Maxine Scates Reading

Come hear Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Maxine Scates read as part of Columbia College Chicago’s Fall 2012 Poetry Reading series.
 
When: Wednesday, November 14, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, Second Floor


[Photo credit - Bibiana Huang Matheis, Bill Cadbury]

JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT is the author of Burning of the Three Fires (BOA Editions, 2010), a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award, Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004), and Placebo Effects, selected by William Matthews as a National Poetry Series winner (Norton, 1997). She is coeditor of the anthology The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines including Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Conduit, Good Poems for Hard Times, Hotel Amerika, LIT, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New Letters, Poetry Daily, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2007, When She Named Fire: Contemporary Poetry by American Women, World Literature Today, and many others. She won the 2009 Dana Award for Poetry. Her poem “Afraid So” was made into a short film by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt with narration by Garrison Keillor; it has been shown at over two dozen international festivals, at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and on IFC, and it won 2nd prize at the Black Maria Film Festival, among other awards.  She has taught at Rutgers University and the Frost Place in Franconia, NH. She currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y and in the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. Since 1983, she has made her home in Manhattan.

MAXINE SCATES is the author of three books of poetry, Undone ( New Issues, 2011), Black Loam (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005), which received the Lyre Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and Toluca Street (University of Pittsburgh Press,1989), which received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press and the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Agni, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Court Green, Crazyhorse, Ironwood, Lyric, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and ZYZZYVA. Her poems have also been anthologized in For A Living (University of Illinois Press), The Pittsburgh Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press), A Gathering of Poets (Kent State University Press), Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets (Oregon State UniversityPress), New Poets of the American West, She Walks In Beauty (Hyperion), and Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses. Her poetry has also received a 2010 Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Literary Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, The American Voice, Calyx, Mississippi Review, Poetry East and Prairie Schooner and the anthologies: Liberating Memory: Our Work, Our Working Class Consciousness (Rutgers University Press), Stories That Shape Us: Women Write About The West (W.W. Norton) and Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis (Anchor/Doubleday). She is co-editor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford published by Copper Canyon Press. She has taught at Lane Community College, Lewis and Clark College and, for many years, as Poet-in-Residence, Visiting Associate Professor, at Reed College. She now teaches privately. Originally from Los Angeles, she has lived in Eugene, Oregon since 1973.

Friday, November 2, 2012

2nd Sunday Top Shelf Poets

Another Super cool show at the most serene of venues. come joins us on November 11th when our Top shelf Showcase will include:
Famous Poet David Hernandez
Mojdeh Stoakley
Ralph Hamilton
&
Dana Jerman

We try to be on time so please do the same
that's from 3-5 in the afternoon Sunday November 11th at
Powell's Bookstore
1218 S Halsted

Powells Bookstores, Chicago
1218 S. Halsted Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60607

W4tB at Jaks with Dave Gecic+OPEN MIC


Another fabulous feature at W4tB
Dave Gecic joins us with his special brand of poetic madness
join us on November 5th
when our theme is
Grave Stepping, Ghost Walking & the Danse Macabre
or
Poets shouldn't play with dead things
sign up is at 7:30 and the show is from 8-10 pm
Jaks Tap
901 W. Jackson

Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar
901 W. Jackson, Chicago, Illinois 60607

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Red Rover Series / Experiment #59

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #59:

Fields + Murmurs

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd

7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

Featuring:

Diana Hamilton
Josef Kaplan
Martin Glaz Serup
Christine Wertheim

at Outer Space Studio

1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4

logistics --

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


DIANA HAMILTON's first book, Okay, Okay, is available from Truck Books. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bomb, Esopus, Two Serious Ladies, and Model Homes. She is a poet and a PhD student at Cornell.

JOSEF KAPLAN is the author of Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012). His work has recently appeared in Clock, Rethinking Marxism, Troll Thread, Gauss PDF and calmaplombprombombbalm. He lives in Brooklyn.

MARTIN GLAZ SERUP has published six children’s books, most recently an illustrated story When granddad was a postman (2010), three chapbook essays, and six collections of poetry, the current one being the long poem The Field (2010), which is also being published in the USA (2011), Sweden (2012) and Finland (2013).  He is the former founding editor of the Nordic web-magazine for literary criticism Litlive and the literary journal Apparatur and managing editor of the poetry magazine Hvedekorn.  Serup received the Michael Strunge Prize for poetry (2006), a gold medal from the University of Copenhagen for his dissertation on Poetry and Relational Aesthetics (2008), and a three-year grant from the Danish Arts Council (2012). He blogs at Kornkammer and the collective literary site Promenaden.

CHRISTINE WERTHEIM is author of
+|'me'S-pace, editor of the anthology Feminaissance, and with Matias Viegener co-editor of Séance and The n/Oulipean Analects. With her sister Margaret, she co-directs the Institute For Figuring, organizing events at the intersection of science, art and pedagogy. In 2011 the sisters received the Theo Westenberger Grant for Outstanding Female Artists from the Autry National Center. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts and is an Assistant Professor at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles.

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

Monday, October 29, 2012

Read Large! A Celebratory Reading

On Thursday, Nov 1, writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction will gather to celebrate words, food, and all things good. Graduate and undergraduate students from Columbia will showcase their work. Refreshments and door prizes will abound. Come check it out from 6-8 pm at the Film Row Cinema (1104 S. Wabash Ave, 8th floor).

Poets include graduate students Brian Miles, James Eidson, Jacob Victorine, and Samantha Schaefer.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Now accepting submissions for the Winter 2013 issue

Exact Change Only is now accepting submissions for its Winter issue. Submit between 1 – 5 poems at a time. We will read all styles and themes of poetry, as long as it is honest, quality material. Prefers poetry 50 lines or shorter.

We only accept submissions over e-mail. Poems should be attached as Word documents, with the poet’s name along with the names and number of poems attached. Include both e-mail and mail addresses.

Exact Change only acquires first rights. We accept only original work.
simultaneous submissions are okay, just inform us of other publications. Poets may submit a maximum of 5 poems per issue. We tend to comment on rejected work. All contributing poets receive a copy of the journal.
All Submissions for the Summer Issue must be submitted by June 15th

All submissions for the Winter Issue must be sent by November 15th

Send submissions to exactchangepress@gmail.com

Sunday, October 21, 2012

4000 Words 4000 Dead: final events


For the past four years, poet and artist Jennifer Karmin has been collecting submissions of words as a memorial to the 4,487 American soldiers killed in Iraq. These words also create a public poem given away to passing pedestrians during street performances around the country.  Throughout October 2012, she has been transposing the elegy onto the walls of a dilapidated Chicago mansion utilizing the American flag as her writing utensil.  4000 Words 4000 Dead will conclude on Veterans Day and be published by Sona Books.

*Train Performance:
Friday, Oct 26 @ 7pm
 
Absinthe and Zygote series event
Featuring Jennifer Karmin, Matthias Reagan & Adam Weg.  Gather on the southbound platform of the CTA Loyola redline stop.

*Installation:
Saturday, Oct 27 @ 2-3pm & 4-5pm
Sunday, Oct 28 @ 2-3pm & 4-5pm

*Community Discussion & Potluck:
Saturday, Oct 27 @ 6-8pm
Featuring Iraqi writer Mahmoud Saeed, Iraq Veterans Against the War member Peter Sullivan,
American Corporate Partner veteran ambassador Voices for Creative Nonviolence member Kathy Kelly & American Friends Service Committee member Mary Zerkel.

*Street Performance:
Sunday, Oct 28 @ 4-5pm
Jennifer Karmin with writers Toby Altman, Denise Dooley, Elizabeth Marino, Philip Miller & Sage Morgan-Hubbard.


All events, except for the train performance, will happen at 6018 N. Kenmore in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood.  Due to the home's condition, space is limited.  RSVP at http://6018north.weebly.com/rsvp-for-the-home-show.html.

This project is part of the show Home: Public or Private? and presented by 6018NORTH, a non-profit space for experimental culture, installation, performance, and sound.  What happens when our private life becomes public and public space becomes private?  Located in a mansion on the north side of Chicago, the exhibition presents multiple artists exploring this question through installations within the rooms of the house. The investigations and activities presented explore the social, cultural, and political ramifications of our shifting conceptions of public and private space. 

Artists include: Teresa Albor, Lise Haller Baggesen, Rebecca Beachy, Sandra Binion, Troy Briggs, Deborah Boardman, Sandra Binion, Cuppola Bobber, Keith Buchholz, Chelsea Culp and Ben Foch, Collective Cleaners, Meg Duguid, Daniela Ehemann, Maria Gaspar, Jane Jerardi, Jennifer Karmin, Nance Klehm, Joseph Kramer with Radius, Carron Little, Trevor Martin and Victoria Fowler, Lou Mallozzi, Jesus Mejia and Ruth, Harold Mendez, Katrina Petrauskas, Jesse Schlesinger & Vintage Theatre Collective.  Home: Public or Private? is sponsored by Chicago Artists Month.  


Friday, October 19, 2012

Oct 20 Artists' Talk: Public or Private?

 Home: Public or Private?
Artists' Talk


Saturday, October 20th
from 12-1:30pm

at 6018NORTH
6018 N. Kenmore
in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood
http://www.facebook.com/events/116408688515680

Caroline Picard moderates artists discussing their work from the exhibitions Home: Public or Private? and The Happiness Project.

Artists include: Jennifer Karmin, Kirstin Leenaars, Lise Haller Baggeston, Harold Mendez, Meredith and Anna, Carron Little, Troy Briggs, Rebecca Beachy, and Collective Cleaners

We all know public art but what does it mean for an artist to make art for the public, in public? What is "in public" and who is a "public"?  Judith Butler recently questioned Hannah Arendt's "the space of public appearance" stating that we need to ask the purpose of public space, how a public forms, who appears where and when, doing what, and what are the conditions that supports this appearance?  This discussion asks what is "the space of public appearance" for an artist and is there a distinction between work made for "the space of public appearance vs. work that is made for the studio and gallery? Who is the public (or plurality) that work is being made for, and how is this public (or plurality) meant to respond?

Home: Public or Private?
an exhibition of installations & performances at 6018NORTH


October 5th-28th
Guided private tours: Saturdays at 2pm & 4pm and Sundays at 2pm
RSVP at http://6018north.weebly.com/rsvp-for-the-home-show.html

What happens when our private life becomes public and public space becomes private?  Located in a mansion on the north side of Chicago, the exhibition presents multiple artists exploring this question through installations within the rooms of the house. The investigations and activities presented explore the social, cultural, and political ramifications of our shifting conceptions of public and private space. 

Artists include: Teresa Albor, Lise Haller Baggesen, Rebecca Beachy, Sandra Binion, Troy Briggs, Deborah Boardman, Sandra Binion, Cuppola Bobber, Keith Buchholz, Chelsea Culp and Ben Foch, Collective Cleaners, Meg Duguid, Daniela Ehemann, Maria Gaspar, Jane Jerardi, Jennifer Karmin, Nance Klehm, Joseph Kramer with Radius, Carron Little, Trevor Martin and Victoria Fowler, Lou Mallozzi, Jesus Mejia and Ruth, Harold Mendez, Katrina Petrauskas, Jesse Schlesinger & Vintage Theatre Collective.

Home: Public or Private? is sponsored by Chicago Artists Month.
6018NORTH is a non-profit space for experimental culture, installation, performance, and sound.  

Monday, October 15, 2012



Are you upset that you don't have a jet pack or a flying car? So you crave cigarettes that are mostly filter? Has the vision of the future that guided you to sleep at night totally abandoned you?
Come on out and join us at Jaks for the Open Mic that will allow you to b!tch about how the future isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Sign up is at 7:30 and the show runs from 8-10
it promises to be really cool
especially with our feature Bruce Matteson
and our suggested theme "Promises of the Future"


walk in the door
go left for Poetry
go right for football

Exact Change Only is now accepting submissions for its Winter issue. Submit between 1 – 5 poems at a time. We will read all styles and themes of poetry, as long as it is honest, quality material. Prefers poetry 50 lines or shorter.

We only accept submissions over e-mail. Poems should be attached as Word documents, with the poet’s name along with the names and number of poems attached. Include both e-mail and mail addresses.

Exact Change only acquires first rights. We accept only original work. simultaneous submissions are okay, just inform us of other publications. Poets may submit a maximum of 5 poems per issue. We tend to comment on rejected work. All contributing poets receive a copy of the journal.
All Submissions for the Summer Issue must be submitted by June 15th

All submissions for the Winter Issue must be sent by November 15th

Send submissions to exactchangepress@gmail.com

Friday, October 12, 2012

10/31/12 "Cousin Bones does Cabaret" feature Halloween at "the Cafe Gallery" open mic at Gallery Cabaret (6:30-8:30 PM)!

October 31, 6:30 - 8:30PM
The Cafe Gallery open mic

BONUS WEEK for HALLOWEEN!!! (6:30-8:30PM)

Gallery Cabaret
, 2020 N. Oakley Ave.
(a block away from Western & Armitage, by Milwaukee Ave., near a Blue line el stop)

Say Aloha to the Café Gallery poetry open mike at Gallery Cabaret!

See us at 2020 N.Oakley Ave. on HALLOWEEN -  Wednesday October 31st, from 6:30-8:30 P.M. for poetry and and a GREAT music feature. Come October 31t for the "Cousin Bones does Cabaret
feature at Gallery Cabaret following the open mic! Sign up & read at the open mic with a voice effect (you know, for the Halloween spirit) before the great feature!

You can also sign up for a later feature with Janet Kuypers and side-kick Bob Rashkow... For info about the open mike and the 2012 schedule (and getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature) you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for the regular podcast, feature videos or future schedules.
Email the open mike at thecafe@scars.tv (or janetkuypers@gmail.com - only if the scars.tv email has problems) with any questions, but details about the CALL for 2012 features is also available on line! Cousin Bones goes Cabaret

Cousin has performed at The Cafe Before:


But this Halloween show (6:30-8:30) will be NOTHING LIKE what he has done before, so check out the show!!!

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Red Rover Series / Experiment #58

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #58:
Person/Persona: Are You Yours

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13th
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

Featuring:
Kent Johnson
Quraysh Ali Lansana
Daniela Olszewska

With guest co-host
Davis Schneiderman

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

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

KENT JOHNSON has published more than two dozen books as poet, translator, and editor.  His most recent, released just two weeks back, is an expanded second edition of A Question Mark above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "by" Frank O'Hara (Starcherone/Dzanc), whose first, fine-press version appeared in late 2010 despite pointed legal warnings. Last December, it was chosen as a "2011 Book of the Year" by the Times Literary Supplement. He's read numerous times in Chicago over the years, and is pleased to do so again for the venerable Red Rover Series. He lives in Freeport, Illinois.

QURAYSH ALI LANSANA is author of five poetry books, three textbooks, a children's book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at Chicago State University, where he served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing from 2002-2011. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. mystic turf, a collection of poems, will be released in October 2012 by Willow Books.

DANIELA OLSZEWSKA is the author of four collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), Citizen J (Artifice Books, forthcoming), True Confessions of An Escapee From The Capra Facility For Wayward Girls (Spittoon, forthcoming), and (with Carol Guess) How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming).  She sits on Switchback Books’ Board of Directors and serves as Associate Poetry Editor of H_NGM_N and Another Chicago Magazine.  Daniela was born in Wroclaw, Poland and she received her MFA from the University of Alabama, but she self-identifies as a Chicagoan.

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

Monday, October 8, 2012

CM Burroughs & Roger Reeves Reading

Come hear CM Burroughs & Roger Reeves read as part of Columbia College Chicago’s Fall 2012 Poetry Reading series.
 
When: Wednesday, October 17, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, Second Floor

CM BURROUGHS, a graduate of Sweet Briar College and the MFA Program at the University of Pittsburgh, has been awarded fellowships and grants from organizations including Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cave Canem, Callaloo Writers Workshop, and the University of Pittsburgh. A Pushcart Prize Nominee, her poetry has appeared in journals including Ploughshares, Callaloo, jubilat, VOLT, Bat City Review, La Fovea, and Eleven Eleven. The 2011-2013 Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago, her first book, The Vital System, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2012. 


[PHOTO – CREDIT  Rachel Eliza Griffiths]

ROGER REEVES’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Tin House, Gulf Coast, and the Indiana Review, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. Recently, he earned his MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas. Currently, he is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois Chicago. His first book, King Me, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2013.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Palabra Pura presents "Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets"

CHICAGO’S GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX PRESENTS: “MIGRATING WORDS: CONTRATIEMPO POETS” PART OF THE PALABRA PURA BILINGUAL POETRY SERIES CHICAGO, IL -

The Guild Literary Complex (GLC) continues the seventh year of its Palabra Pura bilingual poetry series with “Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets” on October 17, 2012. The event is curated by Moira Pujols and features poets from the Spanish language magazine Contratiempo. The event will include poetry in Spanish, English and a combination of both.

Featured readers will include Jorge Montiel, Silvia Goldman, and Santiago Weksler

• Jorge Montiel was born in Paterson, New Jersey and spent much of his life in Puebla, Mexico, where he attended the Palafoxian Seminary of Puebla. His poems have been published in the anthology En la 18 a la 1: Escritores de Contratiempo en Chicago (On 18th Street at 1 am: Contratiempo Writers in Chicago).

• Silvia Goldman was born in Uruguay. She received her PhD in Hispanic Studies from Brown University in 2010 and has published poems as well as scholarly articles in literary journals and online anthologies such as Maldoror: Revista de la ciudad de Montevideo; Revista de escritura & poéticas 7de7; Small Stations: Anthology of Poets; Rilce: Revista de filología hispánica; Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica, and Rassegna Iberistica. In 2008 she published her first book of poetry entitled Cinco movimientos del llanto (Ediciones Hermes Criollo).

• Santiago Weksler migrated to Chicago in 2001. He is a photographer and poet.

“Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets” will be in Humboldt Park at La Bruquena restaurant, 2726 W Division, Chicago, IL on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 7:30 pm. Admission is free. As always, audiences of all backgrounds and languages are welcome. For additional details, visit www.guildcomplex.org.

DATE: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 TIME: 7:30 pm WHERE: La Bruquena restaurant (upstairs), 2726 W. Division, Chicago ADMISSION: Free INFO: www.guildcomplex.org -

The New Russian Poetry

***For the general English-speaking public. *** (The readings will be in Russian and English.) *** This event is FREE.***

Carrying forward Russia’s rich poetic tradition, acclaimed rising poets read from their work, discuss the variety and richness of contemporary Russian verse, and consider their art and its role in the context of Russia's volatile political and social reality as part of Myopic Books 2012 Poetry Series, hosted by Larry Sawyer, whose poetry and literary reviews have appeared in numerous pu blications including The Chicago Tribune and the National Poetry Review.

There will be a reception following the reading and discussion with an opportunity to meet the poets.

Featuring:

DINA GATINA was born in 1981 in the town of Engels in the Russian provinces. She completed her degree at the Saratov Arts School and then graduated from the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art. She lives in St. Petersburg where she works as an artist, illustrator and poet. In 2001, she was shortlisted for the Debut Prize with her poetry and in 2002 she won the prize in the short story category.

KSENIA MARENNIKOVA was born in 1981 in Kaliningrad Region. She currently works in a PR Agency. Marennikova has co-edited the poetry anthology Nine Dimensions and was a co-organizer, with prominent critic Dmitry Kuzmin, of the annual Vozdukh festival. In 2004, Marennikova was short-listed for the Debut Prize in its poetry category.

ALLA GORBUNOVA was born in 1985 on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg. She graduated from the Philosophy Department of St. Petersburg University in 2008, majoring in social philosophy and the philosophy of history. Gorbunova now works as a translator, reviewer and journalist, and also teaches philosophy at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. She won the Debut Prize for her poetry in 2005 and has since published two collections of poetry, the latest of which was short-listed in 2011 for the Andrei Belyi Prize.

For more information see: http://www.debutprize.com/ai1ec_event/the-new-russian-poetry-reading-and-discussion/?instance_id=202

or at CausaArtium.org at: http://causaartium.org/myopic.php

or contact Causa Artium at: Contact@CausaArtium.org 1 (212) 203-0461

We look forward to seeing you there!