THE POETRY BOMB 2014--Sunday, April 27 at 3:30pm

 

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15th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival

Columbia College Chicago hosts the 15th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival, bringing together 12 poets from Chicago-area colleges and universities to read their work.

When: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 5:30pm
Where: Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave, Rm 101

Come celebrate emerging student writers in Chicago. Reception to follow.

(April 7) Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart are waiting 4 the bus+open mic

Come on out to the rendezvous room at Jaks tap to see a pair of fabulous poets. Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart will entertain and enlighten.

Donna Vorreyer guest hosts
7:30pm sign up for open mink

8pm show time
The entertainment is free, ewe suggest you make a donation to the feature
Buy some beer
Eat some awesome food
Have fun

Jaks tap
901 w Jackson

Red Rover Series / Experiment #73

Red Rover Series

{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #73:

Dog Liar

SATURDAY, MARCH 22
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

Featuring:

J. Hope Stein
Daniel Tiffany
John Wilkinson
Russ Woods

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

logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
 
J. HOPE STEIN is the author of the chapbooks [Talking Doll]: (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), [Mary]: (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2012) and Corner Office (H_NGM_N, 2011).  You can find her work in Verse, Tarpaulin Sky, Everyday Genius, Ping Pong, Web del Sol, movingpoems.com and Poetry International.  J. Hope Stein is also the editor of PoetryCrush.com and the author of the poetry/humor site eecattings.com.

DANIEL TIFFANY is the author of a chapbook, along with nine slim volumes of poetry and literary theory, including My Silver Planet:  A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch (Johns Hopkins) and Neptune Park (Omnidawn).   His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, Boston Review, Fence, New American Writing, jubilat, Verse, and Lana Turner.  Tiffany has also published translations of texts by Sophocles and the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, as well as Georges Bataille’s pornographic tale, Madame Edwarda.  He has been awarded the Chicago Review Poetry Prize, a Whiting Fellowship, and the Berlin Prize by the American Academy.

JOHN WILKINSON is an English and South Loop poet whose most recent book is Reckitt's Blue (Seagull Books, 2012). In 2014 Salt will publish his selected poems under the title Schedule of Unrest, and a new chapbook, Courses Matter-Woven, will appear from Equipage. John Wilkinson is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago and teaches there in the Department of English.

RUSS WOODS is a poet/librarian living in Wicker Park. He is the author of the  books Wolf Doctors (Artifice, 2014) and Sara or the Existence of Fire (Horse Less, 2014). He co-edits Skydeer Helpking with Jeannette Gomes. His poetry and collaborations are published or forthcoming in Salt Hill, Guernica, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. He is online at Moonbears.biz.

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, the over seventy events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.

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

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

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POETRY BOMB 2014

COMMIT AN ACT OF GUERRILLA POETRY

ONCE A YEAR THE POETS OF THE WORLD TRY TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT POETRY IS A LIVING BREATHING ART FORM.

SUNDAY, APRIL 27TH AT 3;30 PM HEAD OUT TO A PUBLIC PLACE AND DROP A POETRY BOMB. GATHER YOUR FRIENDS AND MAKE A SPONTANEOUS SHOW OUT OF IT.
HOST YOUR OWN BOMB SITE

FIND A SITE AND JOIN THE BOMBING

MOST IMPORTANTLY...SPREAD THE WORD

QUESTIONS:CONTACT POETRYBOMB@GMAIL.COM

G.P.A. and Roberta Miles are Waiting 4 the Bus +open mic (March 17)

Come on out for a night of Naughty Narratives as W4tB gets invaded by a pair of Storytelling features

Open mic sign up is at 7:30 pm
Show time is from 8-10pm
Special guest host Robin Fine
We do request a donation for the feature
We do not charge a cover
The food is great
The beer selection awesome
And the poetry ever so lovingly crafted for your enjoyment

Monday ,March 17
Jaks Tap
901 w. Jackson

Mary Ruefle & Jenny Boully Reading

The Spring 2014 Reading Series, sponsored by The Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, presents Mary Ruefle and Jenny Boully. 

When: Wednesday, March 19, 5:30pm

Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave, Second Floor

MARY RUEFLE's latest book is Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013). Her collection of essays on poetry, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; her Selected Poems won the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In addition to poetry, she has published a book of prose, The Most of It (Wave Books, 2008), and a book of erasure, A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006).

JENNY BOULLY is the author of five books, most recently of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon: a book of failures (Coconut Books, 2013). Her other books include not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011), The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande Books, 2007), [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006), and The Body: An Essay (Essay Press, 2007). 

poetry*music*comedy*conspiracy theories
with words by
Corrine Mina
Jesse Laier
Erin Noskillz
AA LAM
Hel F Kiernan
Jessica Robinson
Simon Kim
Tim Donahue
Robert Katovich
Nicholas Souder
 
and music for the evening by
Lisa L

Court Green Reading & Release

The 2014 Spring Reading Series at Columbia College Chicago presents a release and reading for the eleventh issue of Court Green, the Department of Creative Writing’s faculty-edited poetry journal, which features a dossier on James Schuyler.

When: Thursday, March 13, 2014, 6pm
Where: Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave, 8th Floor

Come celebrate the new issue with us!