W4tB presents Exact Change Only Release party+open mic

It's Gemini Love Fest kids!!! The night where the creators of Exact Change Only come out and play with their particular over the counter brand of madness.

Red Rover Series / Experiment #37

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #37:
Public Words - Letters & Interviews

Featuring:
David Emanuel
Jen Hofer
Anne Elizabeth Moore

PART ONE: THURSDAY, JUNE 3rd
2-8pm at the Damen Ave six-way intersection
near the CTA Damen blue line

Jen Hofer types letters in either Spanish or English for passers-by, charging $2 for a letter, $3 for a love letter, and $5 for an illicit love letter.

PART TWO: SATURDAY, JUNE 5th
7-9pm at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor
suggested donation $4

David Emanuel asks participants to assemble and write letters onto the pages of their own handbound chapbooks or zines. Materials will be supplied.

Anne Elizabeth Moore invites Chicagoans down to do a short interview about their city, lives, and what they think about the world. Know someone with a great Chicago story? Bring them or prepare to tell yours!

DAVID EMANUEL creates text and text-based pieces. He has collaborated with artists to make performance installations, zines and occasional artifacts. He has worked as an arts administrator, helping artists make their visions realities. His critical writing has appeared online in How2 and in print in Newcity. From time to time, he can be found making letterpress prints, writing Frank O'Hara poems in collaboration with others, and drinking coffee. He is from Oklahoma, but came to Chicago to go to school. He will be leaving Chicago after 11 years this fall in order to go to school in Providence, RI.

JEN HOFER is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent books are a series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 2009); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008); lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007); and Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her forthcoming books are a translation of Mexican poet Myriam Moscona’s Ivory Black (Les Figues Press), a translation of Guatemalan poet Alan Mills’ Síncopes (Piedra Santa), and the poem sequences from the valley of death (Ponzipo) and Laws (Dusie Books).

ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE is the author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007), and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of now-defunct Punk Planet, founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects when she’s not traveling the globe lecturing on freedom of speech issues. Recently, Moore mounted two single-person exhibitions of her conceptual art, has been the subject of two documentary films, and her work appeared on the radio program Snap Judgment and in the Boston Phoenix, the Progressive, and on Truthout.org.

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

Tuesday Funk

Hi all!

Come join us for another explosive Tuesday Funk!

Where: Hopleaf Bar

When: June 1, 2010, 7:30 PM

Readers: Sean Manning, Truly Render, Sara Ross, and Cesar Torres

Brenda Cardenas' Boomerang

Brenda Cardenas
Sun., May 30, 7 p.m.
Dragonlady Lounge
3188 N. Elston Ave.

Brenda Cardenas reads at Dragonlady Lounge from her first full collection of poetry, Boomerang, published by Bilingual Review Press. In Boomerang, Cardenas spins lyrically taut free verse, sculpts prose poems, sapphics, and sonnets, and punches the rhythms of spoken word in what Juan Felipe Herrera has called “a sonic calligraphy, hand-thrown spirals of spirit.” Copies will be available for sale. Poet Roberto Harrison is also featured. Free event, with cash bar.

Open mic first half hour. Arrive early to sign up.

This free event takes place at a new venue, Dragonlady Lounge (773-597-5617). Come on by this special Sunday night, the day before Memorial Day. Bonus: You won’t have to get up early on Monday morning. This event organized by March Abrazo, Inc.

Brenda Cardenas is the author of a poetry chapbook Tongues of Brick and Stones and co-editor of the women’s anthology Between the Heart and the Land. She is an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Boomerang is her first full published collection.

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS: Illustrations from Mount Olympus brings Greek Gods & Goddesses from the mythologies of the past, through vibrant images of the present in Andrea Georgas’ illustrated icons, and to strange chronicles of the future in Abi Stokes’ printed poems.

Impala Sound will be spinning music all night.

$5 suggested donation at door
BYOB

Saturday, May 29, 9:00 p.m.
Impala Gallery
1768 W. Greenleaf Ave. (Clark & Greenleaf)
Chicago, IL 60626

Near Morse Red Line stop and Rogers Park Metra stop.



ABI STOKES is working toward a BA in Creative Writing with a concentration in Poetry and a minor in Environmental Studies at Columbia College Chicago. She obsesses over many things, but she is currently intrigued by the connections between science and personal experience. Her work may be found in Columbia Poetry Review no. 22, Eleven Eleven issue 7, and forthcoming elsewhere.

ANDREA GEORGAS is a freelance visual artist living in Chicago, IL. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008 with a BFA in Illustration. Andrea has been published across the Southeast, including Charleston Magazine and WNC Magazine. She is currently working as the Art Director at a summer camp in Michigan and finishing her first illustrated children's book.

W4tB presents the Extra Monday Show with Scott DeKatch

This Week at U of C

Emerging Writers Series
When: Tue., May 25, 4:30 p.m.
University of Chicago, Rosenwald Hall
Hyde Park 1101 E. 58th St.


Ander Monson (Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir) is joined by Tracy Mumford.



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Poem Present
When: Thu., May 27, 4:30 p.m.

Lisa Russ Spaar (All That Mighty Heart: London Poems) reads her work for the series.
University of Chicago, Rosenwald Hall
Hyde Park 1101 E. 58th St.

Series A

Series A
Wed., June 2, 7 p.m.


A reading series dedicated to showcasing experimental writing. Featured at this outing are poets Patrick Durgin and Jenny Boully.

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave.

The Poetry Center of Chicago presents

Simone Muench and Jenny Boully
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 7:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue

Simone Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now lives in Chicago, IL. She is the author of The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry; Sarabande, 2005), and Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010). Her latest chapbooks are Orange Girl (dancing girl press, 2007) and Sonoluminescence written with Bill Allegrezza (Dusie Press, 2007). She also works collaboratively with Philip Jenks, writing a book of epistolary poems titled Little Visceral Carnival. She is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, the PSA's Fine Lines Contest, the Charles Goodnow Award, the AWP Intro Journals Project Award, the Poetry Center's 9th Annual Juried Reading Award, the Frederick Stern Award for Teaching, and the PSA's Bright Lights/Big Verse Contest. She received her Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is director of the Writing Program at Lewis University where she teaches creative writing and film studies. Currently, she serves on the advisory board for Switchback Books and UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry, and is an editor for Sharkforum.

Jenny Boully is the author of the forthcoming not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them (Tarpaulin Sky Press), The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande), [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Books), The Body: An Essay (Essay Press), and the chapbook Moveable Types (Noemi Press, 2007). Her work has been anthologized in The Next American Essay, The Best American Poetry, Language for a New Century, and Great American Prose Poems. Her work has been published in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, Columbia, Verse, Seneca Review, Conduit, and other places. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and holds previous graduate degrees in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and Hollins University. She teaches in the Nonfiction and Poetry programs at Columbia College Chicago.

Arsenic Lobster Spring 2010

THE SPRING ISSUE OF ARSENIC LOBSTER!
(Hey, spring comes late here in Chicago.)


With new poetry from
Jean Hollander! Arlene Ang! Daniel Robbins! Meg Reilly and many MORE!
THIS IS OUR BIGGEST ONLINE ISSUE YET!
http://arseniclobster.magere.com/index.html


AND!
Our very own Lissa Kiernan reviews JULIET COOK’S icing-sweet grotesquerie, Fondant Pig Angst (Slash Pine Press).
http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1review.html

As an added bonus— you can now order back issues via PAY PAL!
http://arseniclobster.magere.com/archive/order/index.html


Cheers!
Susan Yount, Editor & Publisher
Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal

W4tB presents First Friday Classic Poetry Showcase

Summer Creative Writing Institute at NEIU

Summer Creative Writing Institute at NEIU (JUly 19-30) REGISTER NOW!
May 31, 2010
Northeastern Illinois University

Are you a creative writer who would like to devote some time and serious thought to your work this summer? Are you a teacher who needs a little creative time for yourself?

ENROLL IN THE SUMMER CREATIVE WRITING INSTITUTE!

What is the Summer Creative Writing Institute?
Led by two Northeastern Illinois University writing faculty members, the Summer Creative Writing Institute is a two-week intensive course offering workshops, discussions, and presentations on poetry and short fiction.

Our main subject is the craft of poetry and short fiction, but we will also work together to become better acquainted with the profession of writing.

Mornings we will meet in small groups for intensive writing and thinking, and afternoons we will meet as a large group. We will have guest speakers on the following topics: the Chicago poetry scene, the practical details of getting an M.F.A. in writing, teaching creative writing in a K-12 setting, publishing your work, and more.

Course Information:
The Creative Writing Institute meets for two consecutive weeks, Monday-Friday, 9:30-12:00 p.m. and 1:00-3:00 p.m., July 19-July 30, and offers 3 credits, undergraduate.

Look for: Summer Creative Writing Institute – ENGL 397-1 – Course Reference Number TBA

Who Are We?
Bradley Greenburg’s short fiction has appeared in The Cimarron Review (Spring 2004), South Dakota Review (Winter 2003), and First Intensity (Fall 2004), and his long poem in the Beloit Poetry Journal (Summer 2004) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His historical novel is currently making the rounds of literary agents.

Olivia Cronk’s poems have appeared most recently in Elimae and Parcel and as a chapbook at beardofbees.com. Her manuscript, Bad Town, is a finalist for the Switchback Books Gatewood Prize, and she reviews contemporary poetry books at bookslut.com.

Questions?
Phone the English Department at (773) 442-5810, or e-mail any of the Institute faculty: Brad Greenburg (b-greenburg@neiu.edu),
and Olivia Cronk (o-cronk@neiu.edu).

Packingtown Review Release Party and Fundraiser

Packingtown Review Release Party and Fundraiser
When: Mon., May 24
Jaks Tap
Near West Side 901 W. Jackson Blvd.

Phone: 312-666-1700
Price: 10 dollars (suggested donation)
www.packingtownreview.com


Packingtown Review, the literary journal produced by graduate students in the English department at UIC, is celebrating the publication of Volume Two at Jak's Tap in the West Loop! Featured events include readings by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Nina Corwin, Matt McBride, Tasha Marren, Andrew Farkas, Roxanne Pilat, and Chad Heltzel; music from local band Good Apples; a silent auction, and a book fair. Suggested donation: $10. All proceeds go toward the publication of Volume Three. For more information, contact Jennifer Moore at (720) 470-7879, email editors@packingtownreview.com or visit us at www.packingtownreview.com.

Rhino Reads!

RHINO Reads! - A Monthly Poetry Series - Open Mike & Featured Poets - Kimberly Dixon & Jacob Saenz
May 28, 2010 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Brothers K, 500 Main St., Evanston, IL

Open Mike 6:00 - 6:30
Featured Poets 6:45 - 7:30

JACOB SAENZ is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago where he served as an editor for the Columbia Poetry Review. His work has appeared in Inkstains, Buffalo Carp, Paramanu Pentaquark and Poetry. He has been nominated for an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. He works at a library.

KIMBERLY DIXON is a Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow. Publications include The Drunken Boat, Torch, Versal, Reverie, and the anthology Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! from GirlChild Press. She is also a playwright and performer and has given readings and staged productions at Crossroads Theatre Company, Plowshares Theatre Company, Guild Complex and Strawdog Theatre Company. Her comic play “The Gizzard of Brownsville” was a finalist in the Theodore Ward Prize for African-American Playwrights. She recently became Managing Director of the Chicago literary non-profit, Guild Complex.

Red Rover Series / Experiment #36

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #36:
Textual Ecologies & Contaminations

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

Featuring:
Jennifer Scappettone
Asimina Chremos with collaborators
Joseph Ravens & Alycia Scott

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

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

ASIMINA CHREMOS was born in 1966 in Toronto, Canada and is a naturalized US citizen. Her mother was raised in the state of Virginia in the USA and her father is a native of Central Greece. Since childhood, Chremos has brought playful curiosity and incisive intelligence to her exploration of dance as a creative practice, lifestyle, career and evolving philosophy. Approaching dance as art, she creates abstractions, narratives and kinetic sculptural forms across stages, studios and spaces of all types and sizes. Recent projects include daily dance vlog CircadianDancer; site specific performances as microgig with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm; and Echo Den, a sound-and-movement duo with vocalist Carol Genetti. In July 2010 Chremos will leave Chicago and travel around the country and beyond to create, perform and teach.

JOSEPH RAVENS creates time-based art works that encompass text, movement, installation, technology, costume, and object. Touching on subjects such as materialism, insatiability, conformity, and alienation, his performances reflect a struggle to find pattern and purpose within an imposing and random universe. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in Performance, Ravens has a BFA in Theater and studied audio/visuals at Gerrit Reitvelt Acadamie in Amsterdam, Holland. Joseph is committed to presenting his work globally. To learn more, please visit http://www.josephravens.com

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE, a poet, translator, and scholar, is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus, 2009), and of several chapbooks. Exit 43—an archaeology in several media of Superfund sites interrupted by pop-up choruses—is in progress for Atelos Press. She edited Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse, featuring her pop-up stills and prose and new writing by Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, 2009). Pop-up scores have been adapted for performance in an evolving collaboration with choreographer Kathy Westwater as PARK, with an initial in-progress showing at New York’s Dance Theater Workshop last February. Her verse “stills” have been installed at the Zaoem and Infusoria exhibits of visual poetry in Brussels and Ghent, and more are coming to the magazine Speechless. As a translator, she guest-edited the feature section of Aufgabe 7 (2008), devoted to contemporary Italian “poetry of research,” and is completing an edition of selected works by the poet/musicologist Amelia Rosselli. She is also finishing Modernism in Venice, a book-length study of the post Romantic city as a crucible for experimental aesthetics in the twentieth century. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. Readings and talks are archived at her PennSound page, http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Scappettone.html

ALYCIA SCOTT has performed around the globe in spaces ranging from theaters in Russia to balconies in Guatemala, a graveyard in Mexico and art galleries in the United States. Rooted in performance as a mode of poetically intervening with the malaise of socially constructed realities, Alycia uses movement to understand and engage kinesics to connect people, and instigate change. She continually studies ritual movement, from West African Dance and Butoh, to yoga and daily routines of both the ancient and modern world. As a curator and arts administrator, she has developed projects and exhibitions that engage communities, both local and global, in addressing socio-political issues from women’s rights to food production, the state of water and cultural reflections in the body.

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

Chicago Poetry Project: Jenny Boully

Jenny Boully at the Green Lantern “Poets Talking” series

CHICAGO POETRY PROJECT: POETS TALKING
Since 2001, the Chicago Poetry Project has brought locally and nationally significant poets to Chicago audiences. This year, the Project initiates a new series of poet’s talks. In the tradition of Bob Perelman’s Folsom Street talk series, but without the book & DVD package, or the lectures of Prof. Irwin Corey, but without the academicism, the series aims to generate discussion of issues in poetics among writers and readers outside the university umbra. This inaugural year will take up the issue of education: how does a poet get educated? and how might he or she work as an educator, in and outside of writing?

Talks will take place at the Green Lantern Gallery, 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave.

This month's talk will feature Jenny Boully
on Tuesday, May 18, at 7:30pm.



Jenny Boully is the author of the forthcoming not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them (Tarpaulin Sky Press), The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande), [one love affair]*
(Tarpaulin Sky Books), and The Body: An Essay (Essay Press). Her work has been anthologized in The Next American Essay, The Best American Poetry, Language for a New Century, and Great American Prose Poems.Her work has been published in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, Columbia, Verse, Seneca Review, Conduit, and other places. Sheis currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and holds previous graduate degrees in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and Hollins University. She
teaches in the Nonfiction and Poetry programs at Columbia College Chicago.

The Revolving Door: Larry O. Dean & Lauren Pretnar

The Revolving Door —A monthly series of poetry & cultural musings

@ Red Kiva (1108 W. Randolph)- Open mic 7:30PM / Features 8PM


Wednesday, May 19

Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. As a young man, he worked with Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Michael Moore, was widely published in the alternative press, and worked as a cartoonist. He attended the University of Michigan at Flint and Ann Arbor, during which time he won three Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing. He holds an MFA from Murray State University, teaches composition, and works as a Poet-In-Residence in the Chicago Public Schools through the Poetry Center's Hands on Stanzas program.

In addition to writing, he is a singer and songwriter with numerous critically acclaimed CDs, including Fun with a Purpose (2009). Since 2001 he has hosted a monthly songwriter showcase, Folk You! His collections include, I Am Spam (2004) among others. His work has also been widely anthologized. His magazine publications include, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Gryphon, Passages North, Third Lung Review, Black Creek Review among others. He calls Chicago home after living in San Francisco for over a decade. Contact him at www.larryodean.com/.


Lauren Pretnar is a writer of short fiction and plays. She was a finalist in the 2007 Sundance Theater Lab for Chicago and her stories have been published most recently by THE2NDHAND. She lives in Chicago with her family.

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop-featuring Tom Curry

The Guild Complex’s BYOP (Bring Your Own People)

Wednesday, May 26, 8:30 PM

The Guild Complex’s BYOP (Bring Your Own People)
California Clipper
1002 North California Avenue
Free admission (21 and over only)

BYOP (Bring Your Own People) is a 90-minute “literary cocktail party” coordinated by the Guild Complex in which popular Chicago reading series with very different styles come together to present their work. The three series featured are the Encyclopedia Show, a creative literary cabaret developed around verbal encyclopedia entries; Reconstruction Room, which offers energetic theme parties that mix literature, art, and performance; and Rhino Reads!, which features top emerging poets from the Chicago area and is responsible for the literary journal Rhino.

May 16: Aaaaaaaaaaalice book release party

Flim Forum Press presents
Aaaaaaaaaaalice by Jennifer Karmin

CHICAGO RELEASE PARTY
Sunday, May 16th from 6-8pm
at Cole's Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee Ave
free / 21 & over

Jennifer Karmin in a live improvisation
with guest perfomers:
Joel Craig, Kathleen Duffy, Krista Franklin, Chris Glomski,
Laura Goldstein, Lisa Janssen & John Keene

Aaaaaaaaaaalice
112 pages, 7x9
travelogue in 11 cantos
scored for polyvocal improvisation

To buy online, read some early reviews
& find performance dates:
http://www.aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com

JOEL CRAIG is the author of the chapbook Shine Tomorrow (Lost Horse Press) and has poems published or forthcoming in Lungfull!, A Public Space, the Zoland Annual, and MoonLit. He is poetry editor for MAKE: A Literary Magazine, as well as co-founder of the Danny's Reading Series in Chicago.

KATHLEEN DUFFY is a writer who co-founded the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise in 2001 to forge alliances with other artists, activists, community groups, and the general public. Expanding on collaboration as political force, Kath initiated the organizing efforts of the Dill Pickle Food Coop in late 2005, and is currently serving her second three year term on the board of directors. Kathleen earns her keep as the Communications Organizer for the Campaign for Better Health Care and is a member of the concert production staff of the Old Town School of Folk Music.

KRISTA FRANKLIN is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry and mixed medium collages have been published in lifestyle and literary journals such as Copper Nickel, RATTLE, Indiana Review, Clam, Callaloo, and the anthology Gathering Ground. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow, and a co-founder of Tres Colony and 2nd Sun Salon.

CHRIS GLOMSKI is the author of The Nineteenth Century, a new poetry manuscript. A chapbook, Eidolon, was issued by Answer Tag Home Press in October 2008. His first poetry collection, Transparencies Lifted from Noon, was published in the fall of 2005 by MEB / Spuyten Duyvil Press. His poems, translations, and critical writings have appeared in Notre Dame Review, The Octopus, Chicago Review, Jacket, A Public Space, and elsewhere. Another chapbook, IL LA, was published by Noemi Press in 2002.

LAURA GOLDSTEIN's poetry, reviews and essays can be found in Requited, Little Red Leaves, How2, EAOGH, Text/Sound, Rabbit Light Movies, Otoliths, CutBank Reviews, Moria, and The Little Magazine. She has two chapbooks: Ice in Intervals from Hex Press and Day of Answers from Tir Aux Pigeons and has performed as part of Poets' Theaters in Chicago and New York. She currently teaches Writing and Literature at the School of the Art Institute and Loyola University.

LISA JANSSEN is a writer and archivist. Her work has appeared most recently in WSQ – Women’s Studies Quarterly, MAKE, and the chapbook Riffing on Bird and Other Sad Songs (dusi/e-chap kollektiv). She currently co-edits the literary journal MoonLit.

JENNIFER KARMIN curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. At home in Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools.

JOHN KEENE is the author of Annotations and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of Seismosis. His poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in a wide array of periodicals and anthologies. Recent work will appear in Mandorla, A Public Space, and Spirale. He teaches at Northwestern University.

This Weekend at Myopic Books

THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks

Myopic Books in Chicago — All readings begin at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor

http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html

773.862.4882

Contact curator Larry Sawyer for booking information and requests.

E-mail: larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com

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This SATURDAY at Myopic Books:


Saturday, May 15 – Brandon Downing & MacGregor Card

MacGregor CARD is a poet, translator and bibliographer living in Jackson Heights, NYC. His first collection, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, is just out from Fence (December 2009). A new chapbook, The Archers, is forthcoming from Song Cave. With Andrew Maxwell he was co-editor of The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research, from 1997-2005. He teaches poetry at Pratt Institute and is an associate editor of the MLA International Bibliography.

Brandon DOWNING is a photographer, collagist, filmmaker and poet. A longtime member of the Flarf Collective, his books include Lake Antiquity: Poems 1996-2008 (Fence, 2009), The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002), and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005). A feature-length collection of his short films, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, was released on DVD in 2007, with a further installment expected in 2010. Photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org, while recent video projects can often be found at www.youtube.com/user/bdown68. He lives in New York City.




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Sunday, May 16 – Daniela Olszewska & Aaron Fagan

Daniela OLSZEWSKA was born in Wrocław, Poland, grew up in the area known as Chicagoland, and now lives in the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Roll Tide!). She is the author of four chapbooks, including The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe (dancing girl press) and The Twelve Wives of Citizen Jane (Spooky Girlfriend Press). Daniela is the current Poetry Editor of Black Warrior Review. This summer, she will teach poetry to guests of the state via the Alabama Prison Arts & Education Project.

Aaron FAGAN was born in Rochester, New York, in 1973. He is the author of two collections of poetry published by Salt in London: Garage in 2007 and Echo Train, which was just released in April. A graduate of Hampshire College and Syracuse University, he has been an assistant editor for Poetry magazine in Chicago and a copy editor for Scientific American magazine in New York City. He lives near Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award 2010 - Call for Submissions

The Guild Complex is proud to announce the call for poetry submissions for the 17th annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award (GBOMA). Curators will select 20 semi-finalists from open submissions. Those 20 poets will perform their work in front of a live audience on (UPDATED) Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 7:00PM, at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, Chicago to compete for a $500 prize!


The Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award was founded by the noted Chicago poet almost two decades ago. Every June it showcases emerging performance poets in an exciting, audience-involved competition. Poets must be 18 years of age or older by the date of the reading, and a resident of Illinois. A submission fee of $5 is required.

See below for full submission guidelines and FAQs. (Sorry for all the gory details, but following the instructions carefully is the only way to make sure your submission gets the best consideration.) Good luck!

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Submission Guidelines

1. What to submit

•One poem (No exceptions please – if you send us more than one favorite, we won’t consider any. We hate choosing sides.)
•Must be previously unpublished
•Must be typed in legible 12-pt font
•Must include the $5 submission fee. Submissions without the submission fee will not be considered. Click the "DONATE NOW!" button on the left to pay your entrance fee through PayPal.
•Must be able to be performed by you, the evening of (UPDATED) June 23, carefully and clearly, in under 4 minutes (No exceptions please; you will be timed. If you go over, we’ll have to cut you off and you won’t be able to advance in the competition. And we hate being the bad guy.)
•Performance cannot include props, musical accompaniment, recordings, etc. – just you and the mic
•You must be 18 years old by (UPDATED) June 23th, 2010
2. Where to submit it

Mail OR email...
Mail:
Guild Complex
P.O. Box 478880
Chicago, IL 60647-9998

Attn: GBOMA

For mailed submissions: please put your full name, street address, email address, telephone number and name of poem on a separate cover sheet. None of that info should appear on the poem itself.



Email:

gboma@guildcomplex.org

For email submissions: please include your full name, street address, email address, telephone number and name of poem in the body of the email, and attach your poem as a Word document. None of that info should appear on the poem itself.

Whether sending your poem by mail or email, don’t forget to send your $5 submission fee via the “DONATE NOW!” button at guildcomplex.org.

Please DO NOT send any materials directly to The Chopin Theatre. The Chopin is only our home for that night. Any poems delivered there will not be considered.

3. When to submit

No later than Thursday, May 27, 2010, either postmarked no later than that date (for mailed submissions) OR in our email inbox no later than 5:00pm on that date (for email submissions). Submissions may not be made in person.

And that’s it! We’ll send you an acknowledgement email to let you know your submission arrived and has met the guidelines. Then we’ll notify semi-finalists by Wednesday, June 9, 2010 and the evening of performances will be (UPDATED) Wednesday June 23rd.


Again those key dates are:

• Thursday, May 27: last chance to postmark or email your poem

• Wednesday, June 9: Notification of semi-finalists.

• (UPDATED Wednesday, June 23: Competition at Chopin Theatre 1534 W. Division (intersection of Division, Ashland and Milwaukee), Chicago, IL, 7:00 p.m.

The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney

Sunday, May 23, 7:30 PM
Monday, May 24, 7:30 PM


Poetry on Stage: The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
Victory Gardens Studio
2433 North Lincoln Avenue
(773) 871-3000
Tickets $20; $10 for students

The personal and the political collide in Sophocles’ play when the Greeks abandon their wounded comrade, Philoctetes, only to find that they need his bow to bring their long war with the Trojans to an end. Seamus Heaney’s powerful 1991 translation weighs the value of personal integrity against loyalty to one’s community and highlights this ancient tragedy’s provocative resonances with the troubles in Northern Ireland and our own conflict in Iraq. Bernard Sahlins directs a cast of Chicago’s finest actors in a staged reading.

Palabra Pura

Palabra Pura Presents: Javier Villasenor and Levi Romero

Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Time: Reading begins at 7:30PM
Cost: Free admission, all ages
Location: Decima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis Ave., Chicago
A short Open Mic will begin the evening.

JAVIER VILLASEÑOR ALONSO holds a degree in Communication Sciences from Intercontinental University, and a doctorate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Sevilla. His speciality is in Mexican poetry. At one point in his career he was a bullfighter. He has been a co-organizer of and helped compile anthologies for the Chilango of the Chilango Andaluz Recital, which is celebrated annually in Andalucía, Spain, and in Mexico. His books of poetry include El viaje a los espejos, Antiguos Nacimientos Ardían, and El corazón de los instantes. His poems and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, and his work was included in the anthology Del Silencio hacia la Luz:Mapa Poético de México (Ediciones Zur). Javier Villaseñor currently lives in Chicago, where he works in cultural affairs at the Mexican Consulate.


LEVI ROMERO, author of A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (UNM Press), and In the Gathering of Silence, (West End Press), and other publications, is from the Embudo Valley of northern New Mexico. Romero is a bilingual poet whose language is immersed in the regional 'manito dialect of northern New Mexico with its 17th century archaisms and melodic registers. His work has been published throughout the United States, Mexico, Spain, and Cuba. Romero's writing is a narrative tapestry of formal poetics woven through a palette of Nuevo Mexicano colloquialisms and the poetic richness of vernacular language. A winner of numerous awards, he recently taught in the creative writing program at the University of New Mexico and is currently a Research Scholar at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning program focusing on cultural landscape studies. He is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.

Rose Metal Press @ The Book Cellar

Thursday, May 27, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Book Cellar
Street: 4736 North Lincoln Avenue
City/Town: Chicago, IL



Rose Metal Press, an independent press dedicated to the publication of hybrid genres, presents some of the interesting and amusing authors they've printed:
Joe Bonomo
John Bradley
Maurice Kilwein Guevara
David Lazar
Gary L. McDowell
Amy Newman
F. Daniel Rzicznek
Michael Robins
and Rose Metal Press Co-Founder Kathleen Rooney

123 Collective

presents

G O O D E V E N I N G
Poetry Reading & Open Mic
Starring:

Zach Kolodjeski
Kat Sanchez
&
John Franklin Dandridge

Friday, May 21

Space opens at 7:00p.m.
Reading begins promptly at 8:00p.m.
@
P O S T
1816 S Racine, in Pilsen
*
B Y O B
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Open Mic to follow!

Z A C H K O L O D J E S K I is an actor, writer, and director currently studying at Columbia College Chicago. He also recently just suffered a head injury and now believes that he can read minds. If you would like to hear more about Zach, send him an email at zachary.kolodjeski@loop.colum.edu. He loves to collaborate!

K A T S A N C H E Z poetess, moved from the slinky state of California to The Windiest City. She is in the MFA program at Columbia College Chicago and has work published or forthcoming in Syntax, Columbia Poetry Review, Spine Road, OVS Magazine, Poets and Artists, and Mosaic: Art and Literary Journal. Kat is also co-editor of the magazine Phantom Limb. She has current obsessions with William Blake, BOMB magazine, baking vegan, being vegetarian, and the idea of a new summer dress.

J O H N F R A N K L I N D A N D R I D G E lives and writes in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. Several of his poems have been published in Callaloo Press, Spirits Journal, and The Smoking Poet to name a few. His first chapbook, Further Down Rd, was just released from Fast Geek Press.



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Directions to Post:

*From Roosevelt Red Line take 18th Street Bus (18) to Racine

*From Pink Line (54th/Cermak) arrive 18th Street Pink Line:
Walk East (Left) from station to Racine

*From Halsted St take Halsted Bus (8) to 18th street, Walk West to Racine

POST on the mailbox

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The 123 Collective--founded by Nicole Wilson, Joe Bly, and Kelly Forsythe--was created to become a center for regular events, exhibits, film screenings, and reading series; our newest series, Good Evening, will occur once a month and pull from a list of volunteer and solicited readers. The hope is to open a space that fosters the wonderful community of writers and artists this city contains.

Feel free to contact us with questions, suggestions, or reading interest at 123Collective[at]gmail[dot]com. To be removed from the contact list, send an email with "Remove" in the subject line.

The Danny's Reading Series

Wednesday, May 12th
Danny's Tavern
1951 W Dickens
(in Bucktown, near Damen and Dickens)

7:30PM sharp



Jeff Clark (Music and Suicide) and Geoffrey G. O'Brien (Green and Gray).

This Weekend @ Myopic Books

THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks

Myopic Books in Chicago — All readings begin at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor

http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html

773.862.4882

Contact curator Larry Sawyer for booking information and requests.

E-mail: larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com


Sunday, May 9 – Robert Archambeau & Don Share



Don SHARE is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine. His books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), The Traumatophile (Scantily Clad Press), and Seneca in English (Penguin Classics); forthcoming are Bunting’s Persia (Flood Editions), and a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems (Faber and Faber). His translations of Miguel Hernández, collected in I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books) were awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán Prize, and the PEN/New England Discovery Award. He has been Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review, Editor of Literary Imagination, and Curator of Poetry at Harvard University.



Robert ARCHAMBEAU's books include Home and Variations (Salt), Word Play Place (Ohio) and the just-published book of criticism Laureates and Heretics (Notre Dame). He is a professor of English at Lake Forest College, where he co-directs Lake Forest College Press and judges the Madeleine Plonsker Emerging Writers Prize. He blogs at samizdatblog.blogspot.com, and is editing the English works of the Swedish poet and critic Goran Printz-Pahlson.

Disturb the Universe: American Moderns Abroad and at Home

Thursday, May 13, 6:00 PM


Disturb the Universe: American Moderns Abroad and at Home
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
May 13, 6pm
Free admission

American artists such as Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe echoed writers who were responding to European innovations by crafting their own landmark contributions to Modernism. This reading, presented by Goodman Theatre actors, features works by T.S. Eliot, Mina Loy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes.

Co-sponsored by the Poetry Foundation & the Art Institute of Chicago

Aaaaaaaaaaalice book release party

Aaaaaaaaaaalice book release party
May 16, 2010 6:00pm
Cole's Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee Avenue

Flim Forum Press presents
Aaaaaaaaaaalice by Jennifer Karmin

travelogue in 11 cantos
scored for polyvocal improvisation

CHICAGO RELEASE PARTY
free / 21 & over

Jennifer Karmin with guest perfomers:
Joel Craig, Kathleen Duffy, Krista Franklin,
Chris Glomski, Laura Goldstein, Lisa Janssen & John Keene

To buy online, read some early reviews
& find performance dates:
http://www.aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com

Jennifer Karmin has published, performed, exhibited, taught, and experimented with language across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets, including Betalevel (CA), Links Hall (IL), the French Broad Institute of Time and the River (NC), the Poetry Project (NY), the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (MI), and Woodland Pattern Book Center (WI).

A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. Her poems are widely published in anthologies and journals, like A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press), Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books), Bird Dog, Cannot Exist, Delirious Hem, MoonLit, Otoliths, and Womb. She is the Community Aesthetician for Les Figues Press at Give A Fig.

In Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools. She earned her BA in the Poetics Program at the University of Buffalo and MFA in the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Past grants and residencies were funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Djerassi Program, the Joseph Kellman Family Foundation, the Poetry Center of Chicago, Poets & Writers, Rochester Community Savings Bank, Summer Literary Seminars, and the Synapses Foundation.

Quimbys, May 14th

Quimby's Bookstore
1854 North Ave.
May 14th
7:00 pm

Michael Bernstein is the author of the chapbooks cinderbook (Gold Wake Press, 2009), the rot to light (Gold Wake Press, 2010), 8s (Scantily Clad Press, forthcoming 2010), imaginary grace (Recycled Karma Press, 2010) from “a heap of swords and mirrors” (Bedouin Books, forthcoming 2010), the transit illuminate (mud luscious press, forthcoming 2010), nanostars (greying ghost press, forthcoming 2010), and the Fire District (Differentia Press, forthcoming 2010) . His poems have appeared in magazines such as Puppy Flowers, milk, Moria, BlazeVOX, and New American Writing. He currently co-edits the online literary arts magazine Pinstripe Fedora. Michael lives and writes in Wisconsin.

Lewis Freedman writes poems. He (as of recently) lives in Madison. A chapbook, The Third Word (2009), was published by what to us(press) and another, Catfish Po’ Boys (2009), was published by MinutesBooks. He is co-editor of Agnes Fox Press.

Andy Gricevich lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he edits Cannot Exist magazine and, with Lewis Freedman. His poems have been published here and there, most recently in Pinstripe Fedora and We Are So Happy to Know Something. He has toured internationally as a performer of strange chamber music, theater and satirical cabaret songs with the Prince Myshkins and the Nonsense Company. He is uncomfortable writing this in the third person. Lately he’s been baking bread and finding the prevailing forms of irony in our poetic culture to be utterly inadequate in every possible way. The bread is getting better.

For more info:
www.cannotexist.blogspot.com
www.agnesfox.wordpress.com
www.pinstripefedora.com

W4tb presents: The Extra Monday Show

W4tb presents: The Extra Monday Show
7:30-10pm
Cafe Ballou
939 N Western Ave
Tremendous Java-BYOB

Scott DeKatch and friends presents
Sad Bastard Music
a novel by Scott DeKatch

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop-featuring Tom Curry

Monday, May 17

7:30pm(sign up) - 10:00pm

Cafe Ballou
939 N Western Ave.
W4tB @ Cafe Ballou

Featuring Tom Curry, the beat philosopher

Hosted by the Jamokes at Waiting 4 the Bus

It's Asylum Night, bring out your poems about Politics and Insanity

Beyond Audubon: Five ways (at least) of looking at Birds, Bees & Bona Fide Beasts

Amy Sacksteder, WomanMade Gallery

Beyond Audubon: Five ways (at least) of looking at Birds, Bees & Bona Fide Beasts with


Kristy Bowen, Sarah Gardner, Todd Heldt, Lauren Levato and Erika Mikkalo

and curator, Nina Corwin
Sunday, May 16, 2pm – 4pm


WomanMade Gallery in partnership with WBEZ' Chicago Amplified Series
685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Free Admission

The Parlor's 2nd Annual Emerging Writer's Festival

Saturday, May 23
4pm
The Green Lantern
1511 N. Milwaukee

Emerging Writers Festival Schedule

4:00 pm Sarah Terez Rosenblum – Where She Is
4:30 pm Jeanie Chung – Cuts and Folds
5:00 pm Peter Anderson – One Son Resists
5:30 – 5:45 BREAK
5: 45 pm J.D.K. Goodman – Another Places Another Time
6:15 pm Jessie Morrison – The Queens of the Northwest Side

Fifth Wednesday Release

Thu., May 6, 7 p.m.
The Book Cellar
4736 N Lincoln Ave.

FIFTH WEDNESDAY JOURNAL CELEBRATES RELEASE OF THE SPRING 2010 ISSUE Reginald Gibbons, a Chicago Tribune Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts for 2009, will read from his work in this issue. Mike Zapata will read an excerpt from his new short story and Susanna Lang will read her poetry; editors Monica Berlin and Vern Miller will read a selection of poetry and prose. We expect an overflow audience so come early to get a seat. Free and open to the public. Beverages and sandwiches are available at the Book Cellar Café. Learn more at our website, www.fifthwednesdayjournal.org. Free

Poetry Center's 16th Annual Juried Reading & Award Ceremony

16th Annual Juried Reading & Award Ceremony
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 7:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue



From a field of nearly 300 submissions, seven poets have been selected as finalists for the Poetry Center of Chicago's 16th Annual Juried Reading Competition, judged by award-winning poet Mark Nowak. Third, second and first place winners will be annoucned at the May 19 award ceremony, and all finalists will receive awards and read from their work at this annual celebratory event.

Finalists of the 16th Annual Juried Reading Contest:


E.G. Cunningham
Steve Davenport
Adam Day
Julius Kalamarz
Stephen Pettinga
Ruth Williams
Susan Yount


Judge Mark Nowak is a poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for
"regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature". Nowak
regularly leads transnational poetry workshops between American and
international trade unions. He is the author of Revenants and Shut
Up Shut Down, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and
finalist for the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award. A
native of Buffalo, New York, he is now the Director of the Rose O'Neill
Literary House at Washington College in Maryland.

Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days

The Book Cellar
4736 North Lincoln Avenue
Friday, May 07, 2010
7:00 PM




Starting Today: 100 Poems For Obama's First 100 Days Reading

From the original website: "The day before the inauguration we sent out a call to poets we admire to write poems that respond, however loosely, to the presidency, the nation, the government or the current political climate. More than one hundred American poets responded immediately. The first 100 poets were each assigned one of President Obama’s first hundred days in office, and each will write a poem reflecting on the state of the nation and the world on that day."

Reading their work from the anthology tonight are esteemed Illinois poets Josh Corey, Chris Green, John Beers, Joahn Gallaher, Patrick Culliton, Tony Triglio, and Cin Salach

Url: http://100dayspoems.blogspot.com/

6.29 Café open mic & Feature

June 29 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry and performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). June 29th has Kristy Bowen as the feature, after the weekly open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 podcast.

6.22 Café open mic & Feature

June 22 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry and performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). June 22nd has host Janet Kuypers as the feature (on her birthday), in a show with poetry, some flash fiction, and some music, after the weekly open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 podcast.

6.15 Café open mic & Feature

June 15 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry and performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). June 15th has Wayne Allen Jones as a feature, as well as an open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 podcast.

6.08 Café open mic & Feature

June 08 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry and performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). June 8th has David Breeden as a feature, as well as an open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 podcast.

6.01 Café open mic & Feature

June 01 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). June 1st has Cathleen Schandelmeier-Bartels as a feature, as well as an open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 podcasts.

5.25 the Café open mic & Feature

May 25 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 25th has C Ra McGuirt as a feature, as well as an open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 feature schedule, YouTube video links of the 2010 features and the Café 2010 podcast.

5.18 the Café open mic & Feature

May 18 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 18th has Charlie Newman as a feature, as well as an open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 feature schedule, YouTube video links of the 2010 features and the Café 2010 podcast.

5.11 the Café open mic & Feature

May 11, 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 11th has Rob Lawrence as a feature, as well as an open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 feature schedule, YouTube video links of the 2010 features and the Café 2010 podcast.

5.04 the Café open mic & Feature

May 4, 8:30PM

The Café
open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 cover
(plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 4th has Gregorio Gomez as a feature, as well as an open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 feature schedule, YouTube video links of the 2010 features and the Café 2010 podcast.

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop:Mon. May 3rd

Monday May 3rd
W4tB @ Cafe Ballou
939 N Western
7:30 (sign up)-10pm
Featuring Dena Pope
Hosted by the Jamokes at Waiting 4 the Bus

It's Death and Tragedy Nite.
Bring out your Dead
Death, Disease, Suffering, Funerals, Hospitals, Really Messy Break Ups, it's all fair game

This week at Myopic Books

THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks

Myopic Books in Chicago — All readings begin at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor

http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html

773.862.4882

Contact curator Larry Sawyer for booking information and requests.

E-mail: larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com

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This SUNDAY at Myopic Books:


Sunday, May 2 – Philip Jenks & Connor Stratman

Philip JENKS’ poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Typo, Fence, Cultural Society, Canarium, LVNG, and elsewhere. Flood Editions published his first volume of poems in 2002, On the Cave You Live In, and a second volume of poems, My First Painting will be ‘The Accuser’, was published by Zephyr Press (2005). He also published two chapbooks – The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt, 1994) and How Many of You Are You? (Dusie, 2006). He collaborates with Simone Muench, publishing Little Visceral Carnival (Cinemateque Press, 2009) and with Sasha Miljevic, publishing Distance, an ekphrastic hybrid of prose and poetry (Dutch Art Institute, 2009). He recently completed his third manuscript, Colony Collapse.

Connor STRATMAN was born in Texas and currently lives in Chicago. His work has appeared in journals such as ditch, Leaf Garden, Pinstripe Fedora, The Toronto Quarterly, Counterexample Poetics, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, and various others. He is the author of two chapbooks: Invisible Entrances (erbacce-press, 2010) and First Testament (forthcoming ungovernable press, 2010).