Red Rover Series / AWP Events

RED ROVER SERIES
{readings that play with reading}

AWP OFF-SITE EVENTS
Chicago, Illinois

at OUTER SPACE STUDIO
1474 N. Milwaukee Avenue

Venue logistics --
in the Wicker Park neighborhood
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible

DUSIE/PUSSIPO READING
Friday, March 2nd @ 7-8pm
Facebook invite - https://www.facebook.com/events/268926943178706
Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Tamiko Beyer, Naomi Buck Palagi, Maria Damon, Carrie Etter, Jennifer Firestone, K. Lorraine Graham, Larkin Higgins, Megan Kaminski, John Pluecker, Chris Pusateri, Marthe Reed, Judy Roitman, Sarah Rosenthal & Elisabeth Workman

TABLE X/Y CACOPHONY
Friday, March 2nd @ 8:30-11:30pm
Facebook invite -- https://www.facebook.com/events/221605691264245
Writers from 32 small presses read simultaneously in one space!

Reading Experiment #1 / 9-9:30pm:
Lori Anderson Moseman, Harold Abramowitz, Gretchen E. Henderson, Peter Conners, Molly Gaudry, Kathy Fish, Paige Lipari, Amy King, Judith Goldman, Bianca Stone, Philip Metres, Marcus Pactor, Jonathan Stalling, Katie Fowley, Ben Mirov, Lisa Ciccarello, Marina Blitshsteyn, Rodrigo Toscano, Anna Joy Springer, Corina Copp, James Maughn, Amanda Deutch, Lily Ladewig, Jennifer H. Fortin, Kristin Prevallet, Alina Gregorian, Sidebrow reading from White Horse, Alan Gilbert, Nicole Schildkraut, Jennifer Karmin & Miranda Mellis

Reading Experiment #2 / 10-10:30pm:
Kate Durbin, Laura Goldstein, Matvei Yankelevich, Janice Lee, Noel Black, Dana Teen Lomax, Deborah Poe, Adam Peterson, Jeff Alessandrelli, Caroline Crumpacker, Christie Ann Reynolds, Sidebrow reading from White Horse, Joe Elliott, Matias Viegener, Elizabeth Gentry, Gina Caciolo, Robert Kloss, Ben Segal, BC Edwards, Jennifer Scappettone, E. Tracy Grinnell, Ben Pease, Serena Chopra, Tracy DeBrincat, Giovanni Singleton, Jessica Laser, Brent Cunningham, Tisa Bryant, Erika Jo Brown & Frances Richard

STOP THE SENTENCE: A NIGHT OF (INTER) ACTIVE READINGS
Saturday, March 3rd @ 7pm-12am
Facebook invite -- http://www.facebook.com/events/290471547683482

Feature readings:
7:30 Matthew Klane
8:30 Cara Benson
9:30 Michelle Naka Pierce
10:30 Ronaldo Wilson
11:30 Tracie Morris

7:45 AWP Show & Tell
Teresa Carmody, Feng Sun Chen, Gloria Frym, BJ Love & Mark Wallace

8:45 O.P.P./Other People's Poetry
Claire Donato, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Luis Humberto Valadez,
Catherine Wagner, Tyrone Williams, Tim Yu, a tribute to Akliah Oliver with a video by Ed Bowes & Anne Waldman

9:45 Tag Team Reading
cris cheek, Laura Goldstein, MC Hyland, Tim Trace Peterson,
Michelle Taransky, Edwin Torres & Christine Wertheim

10:45 Instant Reading
David Emanuel, Jennifer Karmin, Edwin Perry, Jai Arun Ravine,
Adam Roberts & Kenyatta Rogers

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.

March 1: I'll Drown My Book

Thursday, March 1st
8:30-10:30pm
reading will start at 9pm

at the School of the Art Institute Ballroom
112 S. Michigan, 1st floor
across the street from museum
free admission

Chicago launch of the Les Figues Press anthology I'LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, the book features work by 64 women from 10 countries.

Hear the following contributors as themselves and others:
Dodie Bellamy, Debra Di Blasi, Danielle Dutton, Judith Goldman, Jennifer Karmin, Tracie Morris, Sawako Nakayasu, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet, Frances Richard, Giovanni Singleton, and Christine Wertheim.

Hosted by Vanessa Place
Co-sponsored by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Writing Program

Facebook event page
http://www.facebook.com/events/329513470425338

I'LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN

Kathy Acker, Oana Avasilichioaei & Erin Moure, Dodie Bellamy, Lee Ann Brown, Angela Carr, Monica de la Torre, Danielle Dutton, Renee Gladman, Jen Hofer, Bernadette Mayer, Sharon Mesmer, Laura Mullen, Harryette Mullen, Deborah Richards, Juliana Spahr, Cecilia Vicuna, Wendy Walker, Jen Bervin, Inger Christiansen, Marcella Durand, Katie Degentesh, Nada Gordon, Jennifer Karmin, Mette Moestrup, Yedda Morrison, Anne Portugal, Joan Retallack, Cia Rinne, Giovanni Singleton, Anne Tardos, Hannah Weiner, Christine Wertheim, Norma Cole, Debra Di Blasi, Stacy Doris & Lisa Robertson, Sarah Dowling, Bhanu Kapil, Rachel Levitsky, Laura Moriarty, Redell Olsen, Chus Pato, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet, a.rawlings, Ryoko Seikiguchi, Susan M. Schultz, Rosmarie Waldrop, Renee Angle, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tina Darragh, Judith Goldman, Susan Howe, Maryrose Larkin, Tracie Morris, Sawako Nakayasu, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jena Osman, kathryn l. pringle, Frances Richard, Kim Rosenfeld, and Rachel Zolf

New reading series: Archer Poetry

On Saturday, March 10th, join us on the Near South Side 

for the inaugural Archer Poetry reading. 

In a living space that was once a

ballroom and then a table mat factory, 

the following poets will be presiding:

  Adam Weg
  Lillianna Marie
  Leif Haven Martinson
  Brian Mornar
 
 

Directions: 3265 South Archer Ave, Apt 2A.

(Enter on Wood St.)

The Ashland Orange Line is two blocks 

to the east, and the Archer/62

bus lets off at Wood Street.

There is plenty of street parking.
  
BYOB
 
Please arrive by 7:30

Join the event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/218612734892344/

Feb 24: Text + Sound

Friday, February 24th
9-11pm

at Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave
in Wicker Park

KBD (Toledo)
http://www.thenoisyattic.com/

Price/Trump Duo (Chicago/Buffalo)
http://soundcloud.com/kg-price/w-t-andrew-trump-at-soundlab

Jennifer Karmin (Chicago)
http://aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com/

Ryan T Dunn (Chicago)
http://www.liscentric.com/

Feb. 20-W4tB presents open mic featuring Al DeGenova

Come join us for another super cool open mic
Our feature is Al DeGenova
Our suggested theme is TABOO

1
: forbidden to profane use or contact because of what are held to be dangerous supernatural powers
2
a : banned on grounds of morality or taste
b : banned as constituting a risk

we also suggest you show up at 7:30to sign up

Live from Cafe Ballou
939 N western Ave.
the home of good times and good java

W4tB presents:open mic at the bus stop with Karin Zink

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 7:30(SIGN UP)-10PM
CAFE BALLOU
939 N WESTERN AVE
UKRANIAN VILLAGE


Come on out to the Bus Stop and bring your poems
Waiting 4 The Bus presents an amazing night of Poetry
sign up is at 7:30 so please don't be late.

Our suggested theme for the evening is Lessons from Friends and Strangers.
and our feature is the Super Cool Karin Zink