Kick off the new year in a poetically correct fashion
Meet me in the Rendevous Room at Jaks Tap for a super cool night of poetry
Sign up 7:30
Show time 8pm
Featured poet:Charlie Rossiter
Suggested theme "beginnings"
Great food
Awesome beer selection
Jaks Tap
901 W Jackson
The show is free
We do suggest donations to pay the featured performer
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Red Rover Series / Experiment #70
Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #70:
Monster Light & Go
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13th
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm
*please note: event is Friday*
Featuring:
Julia Cohen
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Soham Patel
and Regeneration X
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4
logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
STEPHANIE ANDERSON is the author of In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments (Horse Less Press) and five chapbooks, including the forthcoming Sentence, Signal, Stain (Greying Ghost) and LIGHTBOX (The New Megaphone). Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 6x6, Coconut, Lana Turner, Not Enough Night, Typo, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago and edits the micropress Projective Industries, though next month she'll move to Tokyo for the foreseeable future.
JULIA COHEN is the author of two poetry books, Triggermoon Triggermoon from Black Lawrence Press, and most recently, Collateral Light, from Brooklyn Arts Press. A collection of nonfiction, I Was Not Born, releases this fall from Noemi Press. Her work appears in journals like jubilat, New American Writing, Banango Street, and DIAGRAM. She just moved to Chicago.
SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE teaches creative writing and literature courses at Richard Stockton College, and language craft for the College of Art Media and Design at the University of the Arts. She's also a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Her third full-length collection, SOLAR MAXIMUM, is forthcoming from Futurepoem Books. In 2006, she founded COROLLARY PRESS, a chapbook series dedicated to innovative multi-ethnic writing. She reviews poetry for The Constant Critic and curates poetry for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s digital magazine, The Margins.
SOHAM PATEL's first chapbook, "and nevermind the storm," is now out from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Her recent work is up in The Volta and The Destroyer Magazine. She has also recently received her first Pushcart nomination and her manuscripts, "Hello::Ghost" and "towards evening:" were both named finalist for the Omnidawn First/Second Book Contest and The Kundiman Poetry Prize. She studies Creative Writing in the PhD Program at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she is a 2013-2014 Chancellor's Fellow.
REGENERATION X is a performance poetry collective with writing talent from Columbia College. A brilliant and diverse group, the members come from different worlds to talk about the city. They got it going on: Laura Arredondo, Robert Brown, Donnell McLachlan, Michaelangelo, William Montes, Vaughan Nelson-Lee, Alison O'Connor, and Dave Thompson.
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. Founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin, the events have featured a plethora of renowned creative minds.
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Red Rover Series
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Monday, December 16-Meg Tuite & David Tomaloff are Waiting 4 the Bus
Come join us at Jaks Tap in the beautiful rendezvous room for a magnificent night of poetry and word things.
Sign up 7:30
Show time 8pm
Suggested theme "on a winter's night"
Jaks Tap
901 W Jackson blvd
Good food
Many varieties of beer
Suggested donation for the feature
Come early and grab dinner
It's an open mic
Sign up 7:30
Show time 8pm
Suggested theme "on a winter's night"
Jaks Tap
901 W Jackson blvd
Good food
Many varieties of beer
Suggested donation for the feature
Come early and grab dinner
It's an open mic
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Dec 7: Memoryhouse Chapbook Festival
Saturday, December 7th
7-9:30pm at the University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street
Join Memoryhouse for its first-ever Chapbook Festival! FREE food, drinks, handmade chapbooks, and performances by some of Chicago's finest poets including Kenyatta Rogers, Eric Elshtain, Jennifer Karmin, and Stephanie Anderson. Our student performance ensemble will also be debuting new work!
Facebook event page here.
Questions? Email chicagomemoryhouse@gmail.com
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