Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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.