W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop:

7:30pm - 10:00pm
Cafe Ballou
939 N Western Ave.

W4tB Open Mic Night
Featuring: John Goode

Stuck inside a mobile with the Memphis blues again: Bob Dylan Lyric Night

03/05/11 Lake Villa Janet Kuypers poetry/video/music feature @ 6 PM

Friday, March 5th 2011 (03/05/11) Swing State Lake Villa, IL, 6 PM Janet Kuypers “Visual Nonsense” feature Janet Kuypers opens at 6 PM with the Visual Nonsense performance art evening’s first feature at Swing State ($6 cover to enter Swing State’s hookah lounge; 19041 W. Grand Ave, Lake Villa, IL - find directions and a map on line at madtownlounge). Kuypers is reading her classic longer pieces of poetry, while video of her drawing on a marker board will be projected on a large screen, all while huge video projections accompany her television-projected readings. Pre-recorded music from The DMJ Art Connection (Nashville TN), the Bastard Trio (Madison WI), the Penthouss Playboys (Chicago, from “Chaotic Radio” show #73), the Joanne Pow!ers Trio (Madison WI), the HA!man of South Africa, and guitar sampling from John Yotko (Illinois) will be playing during her readings as well. You can always get info about this show on line at http://scars.tv/av/20110305/letting-it-all-out.htm, but check out Janet Kuypers at this last Visual Nonsense event at Swing State March 5th at 6 PM in Lake Villa!

March 4-6: The Dust of Suns

The Chicago Poetry Project presents
a staged reading of the play

The Dust of Suns
by Raymond Roussel
Trans. Harry Mathews

March 4-6th
Fri & Sat 8pm; Sun 3pm
All performances are FREE!

at The Charnel House
3421 W. Fullerton Street
773.871.9046

This script-in-hand performance of Raymond Roussel’s play, directed by John Beer, with design by Caroline Picard, features an array of Chicago writers and artists.

Performers include: James Tadd Alcox, Joshua Corey, Joel Craig, Monica Fambrough, Sara Gothard, Judith Goldman, Samantha Irby, Lisa Janssen, Jennifer Karmin, Jamie Kazay, John Keene, Jacob Knabb, Francesco Levato, Brian Nemtusak, Travis Nichols, Jacob Saenz, Larry Sawyer, Suzanne Scanlon, Jennifer Steele and Nicole Wilson.

French poet, novelist and playwright Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) faced almost universal incomprehension and derision during his lifetime, for works that neglected traditional character and plot development in favor of the construction of elaborate descriptions and anecdotes based on hidden wordplay. While the premieres of his self-financed plays caused near-riots, admirers included Surrealists Andre Breton and Robert Desnos, who called The Dust of Suns (1926) “another incursion into the unknown which you alone are exploring.” Roussel never enjoyed the posthumous fame of his hero Jules Verne, but he has exercised a powerful fascination upon later writers and artists including the French Oulipo group, Marcel Duchamp, John Ashbery, Michel Foucault, and Michael Palmer. New editions of his novels and poetry are forthcoming this year from Princeton and Dalkey Archive.

Like much of Roussel’s writing, The Dust of Suns has a colonial setting. Against the backdrop of fin-de-siecle French Guiana, a convoluted treasure hunt unfolds. Along the way, Roussel fully indulges his penchant for bizarre invention and juxtaposition. The Frenchman Blache seeks his uncle’s inheritance: a cache of gems whose location lies at the end of a chain of clues that includes a sonnet engraved on a skull and the recollections of an albino shepherdess. Meanwhile, his daughter Solange is in love with Jacques—but all Jacques knows of his parentage is a mysterious tattoo on his shoulder...

Tuesday Funk

When March rolls in, can spring be far behind? Well ... in Chicago? Yes, yes, it can. So what can you do but march on down to Hopleaf and join Tuesday Funk in our continuing resolution to defy winter with great readers and great beers?

The February blizzard did its best to shut us down but failed, and this time around in our proud, unbroken literary tradition we'll be bringing you rabble-rousing readings from Joe Weintraub, Keith Ecker, Maggie Kast, Steven H Silver and Jenny Seay, not to mention our patented Poem By Bill. Oh, and the beer, the beer—80 varieties of it.

Tuesday Funk convenes Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 7:30 pm, in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St., Chicago. Arrive early, stake out a table in the upper room, and grab a beer from John at the cash-only bar. We start seating at 7:00 pm and no earlier. Admission is always free, but you must be 21 or older. And come early or stay afterward for some great Belgian-style food downstairs.

Jericho Brown @ Roosevelt University

Roosevelt Reading Series
When: Tue., March 1, 5 p.m.
Roosevelt University, Gage Gallery
Loop 18 S. Michigan Ave.


Jericho Brown, a former speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans, has been a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland. His first book of poetry, PLEASE (New Issues), won the 2009 American Book Award.

German Poet Nora Gomringer at the Goethe-Institut Chicago

"Von Gryphius bis Gomringer - LyrikMix mit Tricks"
Slam Poetry and Perfomance
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
Goethe-Institut Chicago, 150 North Michigan Ave, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60601


German lyricism at its most experimental and conservative is just part of German lyric poet and performance reader Nora Gomringer’s bag of tricks, which gets people talking about a linguistic treasure-trove of texts. Her presentation and performance draw on passages from Gryphius, Goethe, Schiller, and Heine, as well as Sachs, Brecht, Schwitters, Kästner, Rilke, Lasker-Schüler, and Meerbaum-Eisinger, while including Jandl, Eugen Gomringer, and the writings of Nora Gomringer herself, which are full of allusion, humor, and folly. Gomringer’s selection of writings proves that lyricism belongs to speech and that being serious can also be a lot of fun. With a few props here and there she conjures entire scenes among chair, table, voice, and audience.

A warm soft loud quiet evening of poetry in German, with objects, instruments, and other sundries (most commonly Chinese “peri-fairies”).

This event is free and open to the public.

Please RSVP with Lisa Lux at
1-312-263-0472
lux@chicago.goethe.org

Feb 25: Drupe Fruits in Milwaukee

Drupe Fruits Reading
Friday, February 25th
8:00-11:30pm

at the Laundry Chute
728 E. Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI

Such monsters of modern rock as:
MC Hyland
Jennifer Karmin
Jeremy Behreandt
Sarah Fox

We will also be celebrating
"In What Sequence Will My Parts Exit"
by Cynthia Spencer

Drupe Fruits issue #2 features:
Harold Abramowitz, Jeremy Behreandt, Erin M. Bertram, Stacy Blint, Jamison Crabtree, Kevin Dunham, Amira Hanafi, MC Hyland, Jennifer Karmin, Susan Kirby-Smith, Dolly Lemke, Jonathan Lohr, JS Makkos, Jenn Marie Nunes, Daniela Olszewska, Edwin R. Perry, Meg Prichard, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, and Joseph Young

Plumberries is a mobile press invested in the tangible.

Plumberries Press is committed to the tactile, but has acquiesced to posting things online (hence this page). When not caught up in working ourselves into the oracle and upping our traffic, we work on limited runs of journals and chapbooks with an emphasis on quality ingredients and unique production aesthetics. We are mostly interested in shorter, strange writings, and we read all year.

04.26 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

April 26, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). April 26th has Martin Altman as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

04.19 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

April 19, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). April 19th has GPA (the Poetic Unsub) as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

04.12 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

April 12, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). April 12th has Larry O. Dean as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

04.05 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

April 5, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). April 5th has Deborah Rosen as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

03.29 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

March 29, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). March 29th has Jenene Ravesloot as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

03.22 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

March 22, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). March 22nd has Tom Roby as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

03.15 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

March 15, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). March 15th has Dan Cleary as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

03.08 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

March 8, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). March 8th has Buddha309 as a feature, following an open mic.







For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

03.01 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

March 1, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). March 1st has Raúl Niño as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

02.22 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

February 22, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). February 22nd has Michael Hoag as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

Edwin Torres at Columbia College

Spring 2011
PO
ET
RY
Reading
Series
Sponsored by
the Department of English,
Columbia College Chicago


Edwin Torres
Presented by The Poetry Foundation
Co-sponsored by The Center for Book & Paper Arts
Thursday, February 24, 6:00p.m.
Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan, Second Floor



A multimedia pioneer, EDWIN TORRES has appeared at venues as diverse as the Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Central Park, and MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged. He has been interviewed on The Charlie Rose Show and featured in Rolling Stone and Newsweek magazines. His many books and recordings include I Hear Things People Haven’t Really Said, The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker, Fractured Humorous, Holy Kid, Bingo Nihilist, In the Function of External Circumstances, and the newly released YesThingNoThing. He has received fellowships from the New York State Foundation for the Arts and the Poetry Fund.



The event is free & open to the public.

Red Rover Series / Experiment #43

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #43:
Restrictive Andragogies & Ex-Citation

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19th
7pm / doors lock 7:30

Featuring:
Jen Besemer
Nicholas Alexander Hayes

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

logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible

JEN BESEMER works with words, actions and images to expose hidden relationships (and discover new ones) between and within those media. “Misusing” text, processes and products to create camouflaged or hybrid forms, Jen comments on the entrenched systems of contemporary life and the unresolved contradictions they generate. Recent work appears this winter and spring in Artifice, at jellyrollmagazine.com and pankmagazine.com, and at The Fridge in Washington DC.

NICHOLAS ALEXANDER HAYES is the author of NIV: 39 & 27 (BlazeVOX [books]). His work has appeared in many journals and a few anthologies, including Word Riot, Bloom, and Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism. He is currently working on contemporary retellings of Greek Myths with Terri Griffith.

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 Brothel

Sat. March 05 2011
Drop everything & come!
The Chicago Poetry Brothel Explores the Seamy Side of Poetry.

Come for the most enjoyment you ever had in a bordello! A stage show
of enough splendor to match the startling grandeur of the Foundation Room itself—
floods of love-lorn poetry whores, whiskey, vaudeville, dancers, fortune tellers—
Pinch and Squeal out of Cleveland, OH & Chicago's darling Lula Houp-Garou!
Doors open at 8pm. $5 if dressed Victorian $10 if not. (21 and over event)

Never been to a Chicago Poetry Brothel? Here is a taste of what you have been missing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvykwKIS_dA

BE THERE!

Want to learn more? Check out Chicago poetry whore and author Kathleen Rooney's essay (and podcast) over at the Poetry Foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=241004 : Essay
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=2788 : Podcast

See you soon!
Love and debauchery!
Black-eyed Susan

Revolving Door Reading Series:: February

Join us for a wine & cheese to celebrate our continued CD/Book Exchange!

February features include:

Susan Yount was raised on a 164-acre farm in Southern Indiana where she learned to drive a tractor, harvest crops, feed chickens and hug her beloved goat, Cinnamon. Soon after receiving her BA from Indiana University in Photo-Journalism, she married a physicist and moved to Ohio. While attending Kent State University, she worked at the largest flour mill in northeast Ohio. She and her husband recently moved and built a home on the south side of Chicago. In the middle of the upheaval she found time to give birth to a bouncy baby boy! She is the Editor and Publisher of Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal and works fulltime at the Associated Press. She is a graduate student in poetry at Columbia College in Chicago. Her poetry chapbook, House on Fire, is forthcoming from Tilt Press and her poems have appeared in several print and online magazines including Elixir, Red Fez, Wicked Alice, Verse Daily and The Chaffin Journal. Susan is a 2003 recipient of The Lynda Hull Memorial Scholarship in Poetry.

Osiris Khepera is an itinerant hermit tripping frequently on the line betwixt genius and insanity on purpose just to see what it does to people. Just Kiddin. I'm a guy. I do stuff. I like words, pictures, and shiny fabrics. Sundays need to come three times a week and I miss Fats Waller. Is that enuff? I get confused... Oh Look!

Daniel Godston teaches and lives in Chicago. His writings have appeared in Chase Park, After Hours, BlazeVOX, Versal, Beard of Bees, Drunken Boat, 580 Split, Kyoto Journal, Eratica, The Smoking Poet, Horse Less Review, Moria, Apparatus Magazine, EOAGH, Requited Journal, Sentinel Poetry, and other print publications and online journals. His poem “Mask to Skin to Blood to Heart to Bone and Back” was nominated by the editors of 580 Split for the Pushcart Prize. He also composes and performs music, and he directs the Borderbend Arts Collective. http://www.borderbend.org/

Feb 18: The Simulationists

THE SIMULATIONISTS:
interdisciplinary engagements with
art history, digital performance,
new media poetry, and augmented choreography

Mixed Reality Symposium
Friday, February 18th
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

An Evening of Performance
Friday, February 18th
7:00 p.m.

Both events at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Performance Space
280 S. Columbus Drive, room 012

Free and open to the public
to reserve a spot email
exhibitions-saic@saic.edu

Exhibition
February 1 through March 23
Betty Rymer Gallery
280 S. Columbus Drive
Tue.–Sat., 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Reception: Friday, February 18 @ 4:30–7:00 p.m.

The symposium, performance evening, and exhibition address the impact of networks, computer code, avatars, and virtual environments on our understanding and expression of embodied performance.

Curated by SAIC faculty members Claudia Hart (Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department), Mark Jeffery (Performance and Contemporary Practices Departments), and Judd Morrissey (Art and Technology Studies and Writing Departments), THE SIMULATIONISTS features cris cheek, Ursula Endlicher, Kurt Hentschlager, Second Front, Alan Sondheim; SAIC alumni Chris Cuellar (MFAW 2010), Cassie Jackson (BFA 2009), Colin Self (BFA 2010), and Tessa Siddle (MFA 2010); Katrina Zimmerman (BFA 2010); and SAIC students Lauren Elder, André Lenox, Evan Lenox, Lou Regele, Molly Shea, Nancy Tien, and Wesley Wilson.

March 11-Top Shelf Poets-The Larry Janowski B-Day Bash

7:30-9:30 p.m.ish

St Paul Cultural Center

2215 West North Avenue

Chicago IL 60647

Chris Green

Jan Bottiglieri

Tony Trigilio

Larry Janowski

will celebrate our annual reading-cum-birthday party at St. Paul Cultural Center under the awesome auspices of David (the Buddha) Hargarten and the Inestimable Esteban Colon.

Tony will have his new book, and the rest of us will have new poems and/or books. In honor of the event, I will get a year older, and the rumor is that There will be cupcakes.

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop:

Featuring Robin Fine
Suggested Theme for the evening-Planes, Trains, and Automobiles:Poems from the Road
7:30pm - 10:00pm

Cafe Ballou
939 N Western Ave.
W4tB Open Mic Night
Cafe Ballou
939 N Western
7:30-10pm

Feb 16: Frank O’Hara celebration

“Having a Coke with you”

a Frank O’Hara celebration
for Court Green 8

Wednesday, February 16th
5:30 pm

at Hokin Hall
Columbia College
623 South Wabash, Rm. 109

Contributors to the Frank O'Hara dossier include:
Denise Duhamel, David Emanuel, Elanie Equi, Kimiko Hahn,
Jennifer Karmin, Becca Klaver, D.A. Powell, Elizabeth Robinson,
Larry Sawyer, Anne Waldman, and more.

There will be a slide show of New York photographs from the 50s complemented with Frank O’Hara reading his work. A selection of contributors will then take the stage to read their poems. As an added touch, the evening will close with a raffle of Coke key chains, candied cigarettes, and bottles of Coke.

This evening is free and open to the public. For more information, call 312.369.8139. If interested in purchasing copies of the journal while at the event, please have cash on hand.

Sponsored by
the Department of English,
Columbia College Chicago
http://english.colum.edu/courtgreen

Our Difficult Sunlight

Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
When: Thu., Feb. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted St.


Poets Lansana and Popoff celebrate the release of Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community. A reception precedes at 5:30. RSVP required via ksuzanne@uic.edu.

An Afternoon with Sonia Sanchez

An Afternoon with Sonia Sanchez
When: Wed., Feb. 9, 1 p.m.
Phone: 312 369-7569
www.colum.edu

A prolific writer, Sonia Sanchez is serious and original. Her poems depict the struggles between Black people and White people, between men and women , and between cultures. She is innovative in her use of language and structure, sometimes using Black speech in her poetry. Her brilliant sense of history and vision of her people helps her to create expressive poetry, with themes, and underlying tones.

Columbia College
South Loop Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan

John Beer & Julie Carr

Spring 2011
PO
ET
RY
Reading
Series
Sponsored by
the English Department
of Columbia College Chicago

John Beer & Julie Carr
Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall
1312 S. Michigan Avenue
Wednesday, February 9th, 5:30p.m.


JOHN BEER is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010). Associative and imaginative, his work has been compared to that of John Ashbery. Poet Lewis Warsh wrote that The Waste Land and Other Poems "embraces and distills 'the bad dream' and all 'the muck' of the recent past, but the momentum of this book is full speed ahead." Beer's criticism has appeared in Verse, the Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, and other magazines. He is a theater writer for Time Out Chicago.


JULIE CARR is the author of four books of poetry: Mead: An Epithalamion, Equivocal, 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the Sawtooth Award), and Sarah—of Fragments and Lines, a National Poetry Series pick. Her book on Victorian Poetry, titled Surface Tension, is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. She is the co-publisher of Counterpath Press and teaches at the University of Colorado.



This event is free and open to the public.

Good Evening Series

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



presents:

K. BRADFORD

Friday, February 11, 2011
7:00-7:30p.m.
Open Mic
7:45p.m. Feature

B Y O B

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


K. B R A D F O R D is a poet, performer, educator, & chocolate fiend. Landing on both the page and the stage, K.'s poems are known to co-mingle with the spectacle of drag, pageantry & disco balls. K. has been published in journals such as Gulf Coast, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Web Del Sol's In Posse Review. She has received poetry scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Tin House Writers Workshop, and most recently, K. was awarded a poetry residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. K. teaches poetry and literature at Columbia College Chicago and is on staff as the college's Coordinator of the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community.



Contact curators Nicole Wilson & Kelly Forsythe with questions, suggestions, or reading interest at chitown[dot]poetry[at]gmail[dot]com. To be removed from the contact list, send an email with "Remove" in the subject line.

Red Rover Series winter/spring 2011

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

WINTER/SPRING 2011
Chicago, IL

*Experiment #43: February 19
Jen Besemer & Nicholas Alexander Hayes

*Experiment #44: March 26
The Ladies Ring Shout
(Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal)
& Adam Roberts with collaborators
Erika Jo Brown, Matthew Klane & BJ Love

*Experiment #45: April 2
Cris Mazza, Davis Schneiderman & Lidia Yuknavtich

*Experiment #46: May 2-6
Chicago Durutti Skool with CA Conrad & Frank Rogaczewski
seminar @ poetry & social existence
from anarchist/marxist perspective
----> open to all, to participate email lauragoldst@gmail.com

*Experiment #47: May 28
Serena Chopra, Michael Flatt,
Oren Silverman & Nancy Stohlman

*Experiment #48: June 11
Daniel Borzutzky, Krista Franklin, Judith Goldman,
Carla Harryman & Konrad Steiner neo-benshi
co-presented with the Chicago Poetry Project

at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Avenue
7pm event / doors lock 7:30pm

logistics --
suggested donation $4
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible

Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein & 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 & Jennifer Karmin.

Email ideas for reading experiments to
redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

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

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