Come on out to hear to Kenyatta Rogers and
Jill Magi read as part of
Columbia College Chicago’s Fall 2012 Poetry Reading series.
When: Wednesday, September 19, 5:30pm
Where: 618 S. Michigan Ave, Stage Two, Second Floor
Kenyatta Rogers, the 2012-13 Visiting Poet at
Columbia College Chicago, is a Cave Canem Fellow and a founding member
of the Chicago Poetry Bordello. He’s taught for the Chicago City
Colleges, Kent State University, The Children’s Humanities Festival
Words@Play Program and was a Professional English Tutor with the Truman
College TRiO Program. He is a Poet-in-Residence for the Hands on Stanzas
program through the Chicago Poetry Center and his poems have been
published or are forthcoming in
Cave Canem Anthology XIII,
Vinyl,
Arsenic Lobster,
Columbia Poetry Review,
Court Green,
350poems, and elsewhere. In 2009 he was nominated for an Illinois Arts Council Literacy Award.
Jill Magi’s text/image, poetry/prose
hybrid words document the generative space between ideology and
experience as it is lived. A teacher at Goddard College and a visiting
writer in the MFA Poetry Program at Columbia College, she is the author
of
SLOT (Ugly Duckling Presse),
Cadastral Map (Shearsman),
Torchwood (Shearsman),
Threads (Futurepoem), the chapbooks
Die for love/furlough,
Poetry Bam Bam!,
Confidence and Autonomy, and numerous handmade books. Recent work has appeared in
Drunken Boat,
The Michigan Quarterly Review,
Common-place: Journal of the American Antiquarian Society, and is forthcoming in
Rattapallax.
Her visual works have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Arts Council
Gallery, apexart, AC Institute, and Pace University. She was a textile
Arts Center resident in 2011, a writer-in-residence with the Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council in 2006-07, and currently is a recipient of a
multi-disciplinary arts grant from the City of Chicago Department of
Cultural Affairs. Magi runs Sona Books, a very small chapbook press,
from her apartment in Chicago. In 2010,
Poets & Writers magazine named her one of the most inspiring authors for her publishing work.