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!

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

4000 Words 4000 Dead: submissions & events

“I want to start with the milestone today of 4000 dead in Iraq.
Americans. And just what effect do you think it has on the country?”


-- Martha Raddatz, ABC News White House correspondent 

to Dick Cheney in 2008

For the past four years, 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 will transpose the elegy onto the walls of a dilapidated Chicago mansion utilizing the American flag as her writing utensil.  The house will become the site for community events with 4000 Words 4000 Dead concluding on Veterans Day and published by Sona Books.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
*October 15, 2012

SUBMIT:
*Send 1 - 10 words.

CONTACT:
*Email submission with subject 4000 WORDS to jkarmin@yahoo.com.

EVENTS:

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.  All events 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.

*Opening:
Friday, Oct 5 @ 7-10pm

*Installation:
Saturday, Oct 6 @ 2-3pm & 4-5pm
Sunday, Oct 14 @ 2-3pm
Saturday, Oct 20 @ 2-3pm & 4-5pm
Saturday, Oct 27 @ 2-3pm & 4-5pm
Sunday, Oct 28 @ 2-3pm

*Artists' Talk:
Saturday, Oct 20 @ 12pm

*Community Discussion & Potluck:
Saturday, Oct 27 @ 6-8pm

*Street Performance:
Sunday, Oct 28 @ 4-5pm

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

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.