12.07.10 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

December 7, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). December 7th has Judith Wiker as a feature, as well as an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (for info about the weekly poetry podcast from the Cafe, or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

11.30.10 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

November 30, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). November 30th has actor Bob "the bobster" Rashkow as a feature, as well as an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (for info about the weekly poetry podcast from the Cafe, or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

11.23.10 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

November 23, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). November 23rd has Molly Kat and Justin Vinokur as a feature, as well as an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (for info about the weekly poetry podcast from the Cafe, or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

11.16.10 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

November 16, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). November 16th has John Amen as a feature, as well as an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (for info about the weekly poetry podcast from the Cafe, or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

10.05.10 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

October 5, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). After a renovation hiatus, the Cafe is back, and October 5th has Pamela Miller as a feature, as well as an open mic.

As an added bonus, the HA!man of South Africa (http://www.hamanworld.com) will be in Chicago this week and will perform a piece with his cello from his upcoming October 7th St. Paul's Cultural Center show (the show is in the Church at 2215 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60647, just two blocks west of Milwaukee, North and Damen).

For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (for info about the weekly poetry podcast from the Cafe, or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

11.09.10 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

November 9, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). November 9th has Robin Fine as a feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (for info about the weekly poetry podcast from the Cafe, or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

11.02.10 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

November 2, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). November 2nd has Tom Roby, Charlie Newman & Jenene Ravesloot as a group feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (for info about the weekly poetry podcast from the Cafe, or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

10.26 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

October 26, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). October 26th has Dave Gecic as a feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

10.19 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

October 19, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). October 19th has Ned Haggard as a feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

10.12 the Cafe open mic and feature

October 12, 8:30PM

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

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). October 12th has Dina Stuart as a feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/.

Two Way Tarot Mirrors

Saturday, Oct 2
7 p.m.
Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave.

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public.

The Myopic Books Poetry Series presents Two Way Tarot Mirrors, a collaborative writing project which is part of the Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, and Chicago Artists Month. Two Way Tarot Mirrors involves people in Chicago working with people elsewhere, on projects wherein tarot cards are part of the collaborative process. Participants will include:


Kristy Bowen
Janina Ciezadlo
Dan Godston
Billie Maciunas
Ira Murfin
Larry Sawyer
and other TBA individuals.

Unlike one’s reflection in a regular mirror, the playback/feedback in TWTM isn’t an exact reflection of the original thing that’s sent. As Alice enters the looking glass, she finds that what’s on the other side is something different than she had expected; similarly, the two-sided mirror brings about something different and unexpected. A mirror can seem to be flat, yet it can become three-dimensional, and it can lead to dream worlds. Mirror games don’t end up with perfect parallels; i.e. Harpo and Groucho’s mirror game in Duck Soup.



Chicago Calling is organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective, a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote the arts, to create opportunities for artists to explore new directions in and between art forms, and to engage the community. Annual Borderbend projects include Chicago Calling and the Mingus Awareness Project. Other organizations partner with Borderbend to enrich and extend the reach of its project, such as the Experimental Piano Series, which is co-produced by the Chicago Composers Forum and Borderbend, in partnership with the PianoForte Foundation.

Artifice Issue 2 Release

Artifice Magazine


The Book Cellar
4736 N. Lincoln Ave.
Fri., Oct. 1, 7 p.m.

Come out to the Book Cellar for our Issue 2 Release + Reading. Plus, Artifice Magazine presents PANK Magazine to you, with readings by:

Craig Davis
Roxane Gay
Tim Jones-Yelvington
Caroline Picard
Fred Sasaki
M. Bartley Seigel
David Welch

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


This SATURDAY at Myopic Books:

7pm


Saturday, September 25 - Kristin Dykstra, John Keene, Daniel Borzutzky & Paul Martinez Pompa
Daniel BORZUTZKY’s books include The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat Books, 2011), The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVox, 2007), Arbitrary Tales (Triple Press, 2005), and the chapbooks One Size Fits All (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) and Failure in the Imagination (Bronze Skull Press, 2007). He is the translator of Song for his Disappeared Love by Raul Zurita (Action Books, 2010); Port Trakl by Jaime Luis Huenún (Action Books, 2008); and One Year and other stories by Juan Emar, which was published as a special issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. Journal publications include Fence; Chicago Review; TriQuarterly; Action, Yes; Conjunctions; Words Without Borders; Circumference; American Letters and Commentary; Mandorla; Denver Quarterly and many others.

Kristin DYKSTRA’s work is featured in bilingual editions of books by Reina María Rodríguez and Omar Pérez, among them Something of the Sacred (Factory School, 2007), Time’s Arrest (Factory School, 2005), and Violet Island and Other Poems (Green Integer, 2004, tr. with Nancy Gates Madsen). She recently completed a manuscript by their fellow island poet Ángel Escobar. Her current translation projects include The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems), by Juan Carlos Flores; selections appear in InTranslation (The Brooklyn Rail) and are forthcoming in feature on Flores in La Habana Elegante’s Fall 2010 issue. Dykstra co-edits Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas with Gabriel Bernal Granados and Roberto Tejada.

John KEENE is a writer, artist and translator, and the author of Annotations (New Directions) and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of Seismosis (1913 Press). A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective, he also is a Graduate Fellow of Cave Canem, and has received many honors, including a 2005 Whiting Foundation Fellowship in Poetry and Fiction. He has published his work widely, and poems and translations have recently appeared or will be published in Mandorla, Public Space, Phati'tude, and Spirale. He is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University.

Paul Martinez POMPA is the author of the chapbook Pepper Spray, which was published by Momotombo Press in 2006. His poetry and prose were anthologized in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry and Telling Tongues. His first, full-length collection of poetry, My Kill Adore Him, was selected for the 2008 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2009.



UPCOMING

Saturday, October 2 - Chicago Calling with Dan Godston (guests to be announced)

Saturday, October 9 - Daniel Tiffany

Saturday, October 16 - Mark Wallace

Saturday, October 30 - Carol Novack

Thursday, December 2 - Sarah Riggs, Cole Swensen & Johan Jönson



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

Dannys Reading Series

Weds. September 22nd
Danny's
1951 W. Dickens Ave.
7:30 pm

Poets Roddy Lumsden and Adam Novy are the featured readers. 21+.

Elizabeth's Crazy Little Thing Open Mic

Wednesday, Oct 13
10:00pm - 1:00am
Phyllis' Musical Inn
1800 W Division

It's another Elizabeth's Crazy Little Thing Open Mic!
Our feature, Faux Paul, will go on 11 ish pm.

The theme is "Facebook is making me depressed...or angry or happy or anxious or suicidal or ecstatic or...". Please bring poems, songs, comedy routines, skits, etc. about facebook. One thing we could do, if enough people are into it, is put all the facebook poems in a pile and each poet could pick another poet's poem to read on stage. So you could bring your poem and someone else would read it. And you would read someone else's poem, maybe someone you've never met before.

Also, you are not required to do something related to the theme, or you could do something only loosely or tangentially related to the theme, or you could do something anti-theme.

Really, this is an effing free-for-all.

There is no cover, though donations for the feature would be very much appreciated.

Also, we want the bar to be happy we're there, so it's a good idea to buy beverages and tip the bartender, but you probably understood that already.

We've got a microphone. Rich X is helping me with the set-up and sound. Feel free to contact us with any questions, requests, concerns, special needs.... We'll try to be as accommodating as we can.

Bring your beautiful, crazy, freaky selves. Blow my mind. Rock my world. Love and Anarchy, your host and emcee, Elizabeth Harper

Rhino Reads

Friday, September 24
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Brothers K
500 Main Street
Evanston, IL

DONNA VORREYER’s poetry has appeared in many journals including New York Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Apparatus, Umbrella, qarrtsiluni, and After Hours. Her chapbook Womb/Seed/Fruit is available from Finishing Line Press. Donna spends her days teaching middle school, trying to convince teenagers that words matter. Visit her online: www.donnavorreyer.com.

VALERIE WALLACE's poems appear most recently in Waccamaw, Margie, Potomac, Valparaiso Review, and Santa Clara Review. She received awards from the Illinois Arts Council and Illinois Center for the Book, and fellowships from Writers in the Heartland and Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Valerie works with the Afghan Women's Writing Project, is an associate editor of RHINO Poetry, and leads poetry workshops throughout Chicago.

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop

Myths, SHEroes and Revolutionaries

Myths, SHEroes and Revolutionaries
Sunday, October 3, 2010 / 1-3 p.m.
WomanMade Gallery
685 N Milwaukee


Curated by Nina Corwin and in partnership with WBEZ's Chicago Amplified Series, Woman Made Gallery will host a poetry reading on October 3 from 1 to 3 p.m. Participating readers include Jenny Priego, Ching-In Chen, Maureen Flannery, Susan Slaviero, and Kristine Uyeda. Free admission and refreshments will be served.

Revolving Door Reading Series

Join us for another great night at Revolving Door!

(@ Red Kiva-1108 W. Randolph)

Wednesday, Sept 22
NEW
7 -10, Open Mic starts at 7:30

Red Kiva
1108 W. Randolph
Revolving Door Series


Revolving Door Reading Series continues this month!

More Art, Words, and Music!

We would like to welcome FathomDJ to the Revolving Door Family! Besides just being a fabulous, funky presence herself, she will be spinning only the coolest of sounds.
...

OPEN MIC: 7:30 PM

Our space is your space!

Bring a poem, song, joke, or story for our open mic. Each month brings out some great talent, so don't miss the chance to grace our stage!

WORDS: 8:15 PM

Erika Mikkalo lives and writes in Chicago. She received the Tobias Wolff Award for short fiction and her M.F.A. from Columbia College. Her work has appeared in The 2nd Hand, Massachusetts Review, Exquisite Corpse, Columbia Review, fence, Another Chicago Magazine, Chicago Review, and other publications.

Nikki Patin has taught hundreds of workshops at high schools, colleges and universities on performance poetry, body image, sexual assault prevention and LGBT issues. She was a member of Chicago’s 2001 Mental Graffiti National Poetry Slam team and was featured on the fourth season of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. In 2004, she was voted one of Chicago’s six most fabulous 20-somethings by Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye newspaper. In 2006, she took the gold medal in the Gay Games International LGBT poetry slam. Nikki Patin resides in Chicago and is lead singer of rock band, Like A Hundred.

Kenyatta Rogers’s interest in writing began with scary stories and TV shows such as the Twilight Zone and R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. While writing short stories as a child he began to focus more on poetry in high school. His work has been featured in the Word 4: Type + Image Exhibit and published in Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, 350poems.blogspot, les figues press, and The Arsenic Lobster. He was nominated for a 2009 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for his poem “Safety,” which appeared in the Columbia Poetry Review and is a current Cave Canem Fellow and member of The Chicago Poetry Brothel.


We hope to see you there!

Tall Grass Writer's Guild

Tuesday, Sep 28
7:30 pm
The Bourgeois Pig
738 West Fullerton
Contact: Whitney Scott, 219-322-7270

Larry Janowski Headlines TallGrass Open Mic-9/28

Award-winning Chicago poet Larry Janowski, will headline the Tuesday, September 28, TallGrass Writers Guild Open Mic, held upstairs at 7:30 pm at The Bourgeois Pig, 738 West Fullerton,Chicago. The phone number there is 773-883-5282. Larry Janowski's most recent book is BrotherKeeper (The Puddin'head Press 2007). He is a 2008 recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and this year, his poem "Just Take It," was awarded "Best Original Poem 2010" by the Catholic Press Association.

Says one reviewer, “The poem’s message of action and decision offers profound insight into the human condition. The conversational and direct tone lends the poem great power, appropriate to the subject matter and to Frost’s own voice. The sonnet-like structure further supports the poem’s quiet, understated wisdom.” Larry suggests that “Just take it" is a take off on Robert Frost's Poem "The Road Not Taken," and encourages making a decision as more important (and necessary) than making sure it's the "right" one or that others will approve.

His previous chapbooks are Chicago Cantata (2002) and Celibate Dazzled (2006). Larry's poetry has been anthologized in A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration (DePaul University Institute, 2009), On the No Road Way to Tomorrow: Poems from the Chicago-Kunming [China] Poetry Group (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective, 2009), and [Saints] Francis and Clare in Poetry: An Anthology (Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005).

Individual poems have won prizes at Literal Latte (New York), Passager (Baltimore) and River Oak Review in Oak Park, Illinois. His work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Court Green, Rhino, and every issue of After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art since it began in 2000. He also has a poem in the online journal: Big Shoulders Magazine.

Larry is currently working on a second collection. He is a native Chicagoan, a Franciscan friar and teaches poetry at Loyola University.

Immediately following his presentation is the regularly scheduled Open Mic, where everyone is welcome to perform poetry, fiction,music, comedy, and more for up to 10 minutes. Cover charge for the evening's events is $6 reduced to $5 for students, with sign-up tp read starting at 7 pm. TallGrass Writers Guild is a registered, 501-c-3 non-profit arts organization. For information: 219-322-7270.

Becca Klaver & Jaswinder Bolina @ Columbia College

Fall 2010
PO
ET
RY
Reading
Series

Sponsored by
the English Department
of Columbia College Chicago



Becca Klaver & Jaswinder Bolina
Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall
1312 S. Michigan Avenue
Wednesday, September 29th, 5:30p.m.


BECCA KLAVER received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago in 2007, and was the English Department's Assistant Programs Director of Literature and Poetry from 2007 to 2009. She holds a BA in English--Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literatures in English at Rutgers University. With Hanna Andrews and Brandi Homan, she founded the feminist poetry press Switchback Books in 2006. She is the author of the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost press, 2009) and the poetry collection LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010). A native of Milwaukee, WI, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY.




JASWINDER BOLINA received his MFA from the University of Michigan in 2003 and his PhD from Ohio University in 2010. His first book, Carrier Wave, won the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry and was published in 2007. Poems from his new manuscript have appeared in recent issues of American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. He is the 2010-11 Liberal Arts and Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago.



This event is free and open to the public.

ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW <3 SILVER TONGUE: College reading series pairs up with Chicago variety show

On September 29th Silver Tongue, Columbia College Chicago's student-run reading series, is excited to bring The Encyclopedia Show to a college campus for the first time ever. The Encyclopedia Show, created by Robbie Q. Telfer (author of Spiking the Sucker Punch) and Shanny Jean Maney (author of Our Brave Faces Were Just Smiles), is a live variety extravaganza that asks participants to perform pieces about an encyclopedia topic. On September 29th at 7:00pm, Columbia faculty and students will define BEARS in hilarious and raucous fashion, using poetry, film, music, and more. The event is located at The Conaway Center (1104 S Wabash Ave) and is free and open to the public.

Columbia faculty readers include Dan Sinker, Erin Teegarden, Dave Snyder, Brendan Riley, K. Bradford and Chris Bower along side featured students Ian “Dick” Jones, Abby Scheaffer, Stephanie Lane Sutton, Daniel Shapiro, Sabrina Dropkick, Patience Rowe, Nick Narbutas, and Zach Green.

The Encyclopedia Show showcases visual art, comedy, music and spoken word on a wide variety of subjects related to a chosen topic. Each month a new topic is picked from the encyclopedia and assignments are sent to a diverse group of writers, artists, poets and performers.

Past contributors have included Bill Ayers, Marc Smith, Paul Sereno, Anis Mojgani, Idris Goodwin, Lisa Buscani, Cameron McGill, Cin Salach, Roger Bonair-Agard and Derrick Brown. Past Silver Tongue readers include Kevin Coval, Lindsay Hunter, Chris Bower, Neal Pollack, Todd Zuniga’s Literary Death Match, among others.

Silver Tongue is Columbia College’s monthly reading series that showcases student work alongside established writers from Chicago and beyond. The themed readings guarantee quirky additions, stories, poetry and other work with host, fiction writer, Mason Johnson.

Columbia College Chicago is the largest private arts and media institution in the nation with over 12,000 students and 120 academic programs. The college produces over 850 events a year through its diverse student body and arts and media departments.

To learn more about the Encyclopedia Show, check out www.encyclopediashow.com

To learn more about Silver Tongue, check out www.silvertonguecolumbia.com

Sept 18: Adam Golaski & Jen Karmin

Saturday, September 18
7pm

Adam Golaski
Jennifer Karmin in a live improvisation
with Mairead Case, Chris Cuellar,
Denise Dooley, Kath Duffy & Ira S. Murfin

Myopic Bookstore
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor
http://www.myopicbookstore.com

ADAM GOLASKI darns his daughter’s socks. He wrote Color Plates (Rose Metal Press). He wrote Worse Than Myself (Raw Dog Screaming Press). He sleeps on the back of a bumble bee. He gnawed his own leg off. Adam is the co-founder of Flim Forum Press, a press he co-founded. Adam listens to Paul McCartney’s “Comin’ Up” on repeat hoping the cosmos will reveal itself and it does. Little Stories is his blog. This is the combination of search terms that hypnotized Google: “Adam + Golaski + Little + Stories.”

JENNIFER KARMIN's text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. 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 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. In Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools.

Poetry Brothel

September 24 at 8:00pm
House Of Blues Chicago
329 North Dearborn Street


Gentlemen, leave your brass knuckles at the door. Ladies! Come out for a night! Come meet the Madame Black-eyed Susan & her lovely butterflies. They cannot wait to meet you!


The Chicago Poetry Brothel FIRST all CHICAGO cast presents: SEEDS OF SIN Burlesque Dancers! Whiskey! Vaudeville & POETRY Whores!

In the Foundation Room at the House of Blues Friday, Sept. 24.

Come out and enjoy a night in Chicago’s romantic Victorian past! Let a Poetry Whore whisk you away for a private reading.

Doors open at 8pm. $5 if you come dressed Victorian. $10 if not.

Good Evening

the G O O D
E V E N I N G readingseries


presents:

Holly Amos
&
Nate Slawson



Friday, September 17th
7:00-7:30p.m.
Open Mic
7:45p.m.

Features

B Y O B

M E S S H A L L
6932 N. Glenwood Ave.
in Rogers Park



H O L L Y A M O S received her BFA in Creative Writing amid Bowling Green State University's numerous cornfields and is currently in the MFA program at Columbia College (which has considerably fewer cornfields). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bateau, Columbia Poetry Review, North American Review, and Phantom Limb.


N A T E S L A W S O N designs books for Cinematheque Press. He is the author of two chapbooks, most recently The Tiny Jukebox (H_NGM_N Books, 2009). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slope, Handsome, Cannibal, Corduroy Mtn., Forklift, Ohio, Typo, and other places.



Feel free to contact curators Nicole Wilson & Kelly Forsythe with questions, suggestions, or reading interest at chitown.poetry[at]gmail[dot]com.

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Poetry Off the Shelf

Wednesday, September 15, 6:00 PM

Poetry Off the Shelf:
Valerie Martínez & Silvia Curbelo
Jazz Showcase
806 South Plymouth Court
Free admission

Valerie Martínez is a poet, teacher, translator, playwright, librettist, editor, and collaborative artist. Her first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent (Four Way Books, 1999), won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets after being a finalist in the Walt Whitman, National Poetry Series, and Intro Award competitions. Her second book, World to World, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2004. Martínez’s translation of the poetry of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), A Flock of Scarlet Doves, was published in special edition by Sutton Hoo Press in 2005. A book-length poem, Each and Her, is out this year, as is her collection of Santa Fe poems (written during her tenure as poet laureate of Santa Fe), And They Called It Horizon. Her poems have also appeared in various anthologies of contemporary poetry, including The Best American Poetry, New American Poets—A Breadloaf Anthology, and American Poetry—Next Generation. She is the executive director and core artist with Littleglobe, an artist-run nonprofit that collaborates with communities in creating public works of art, installation, and performance as well as producing smaller-scale artist collaborations.

Silvia Curbelo is the author of three collections of poetry: The Geography of Leaving (Silverfish Review Press), The Secret History of Water (Anhinga Press), and Ambush (Main Street Rag). Among her many laurels are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Arts Council, and the Cintas Foundation, as well as the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review and the James Wright Award from Mid-American Review. Her poems have been published in literary journals and more than two dozen anthologies, including The Body Electric: America’s Best Poetry, Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets, and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. A native of Matanzas, Cuba, she lives in Tampa, Florida, where she is managing editor for Organica magazine.

Co-sponsored by The Poetry Foundation, the Guild Complex and Letras Latinas

Molly Malone's

Monday, Sep 13

7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic (5 minutes per reader)
9:00 -- featured reader

Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073

Hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova invite you to the Molly Malone's Open Mic and Reading Series. Be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.

Featuring poet, performer and poetry promoter, Robbie Q. Telfer

Robbie Q. Telfer is a touring performance poet, having been a featured performer/reader in hundreds of venues across North America, Germany and Slovenia. He is the author of the recently released Spiking the Sucker Punch and has had work in the American Book Review, Octopus Magazine, Cream City Review and decomP magazinE, as well as several spoken word anthologies and DVDs. He was an individual finalist at the National Poetry Slam in 2007 and he co-wrote the video games Ninjatown DS and Space Miner: Space Ore Bust. He lives in Chicago where he curates the Encyclopedia Show, a live literary variety show now being staged in 10 cities. He is the Director of Performing Arts for Young Chicago Authors, a not-for-profit that gives creative writing opportunities and mentorship to Chicago teens. His work with YCA has been featured in two documentaries from HBO and Siskel Jacobs Productions. He is the poetry correspondent for TimeOut Chicago.

$5 if you can, $3 if you can't



Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month.
Molly’s Features, mark your calendars:
October: Renny Golden
November: Nate Pritts and Matt Hart
December: Kristiana Colon
January: Don Share
February: John Paul Davis
March: Robin Behn

Red Rover Series / Experiment #39

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #39:
I Will Be Not Here

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th
7pm / doors lock 7:30

Featuring:
Kevin Kilroy
Amanda Marbais
Andrew K. Peterson

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

KEVIN KILROY writes fiction. Excerpts form his recently completed novel, STAN a triptych have been published by Pinstripe Fedora, Fact-Simile, and Hot Whiskey. He teaches Beat Literature and Writing classes for Columbia College and Flashpoint. Zenyatta is his favorite horse. Paul Curreri is his favorite singer. Georgia is currently his favorite state. Nicolet Bay is his favorite Beach.

AMANDA MARBAIS' stories have most recently appeared in Monkeybicycle, Hobart web, Kill Author, Fiction at Work, The2ndHand, Staccato and elsewhere. She is the Managing/Fiction Editor for Requited Journal. She lives in Chicago.

ANDREW K. PETERSON is the author of Museum of Thrown Objects (BlazeVox 2010), Between Here and the Telescopes (collaborations with Elizabeth Guthrie, Slumgullion 08), and a forthcoming chapbook, bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile). His writing has appeared in Fact Simile's The A sh Anthology, Hot Whiskey Press' The Meat Issue, Jennifer Karmin's ongoing 4000 Words 4000 Dead project, and other journals, most recently, online at 350 Poems Project, Dusie, The Offending Adam, and Requited. He is a co-editor of Livestock Editions, a small press devoted to poetry. He received an MFA from Naropa Univ.'s Kerouac School, and lives in Massachusetts.

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

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