Thursday, March 20, 2014

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.

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