Monday, March 4, 2013-Tom Curry is Waiting 4 the Bus+open mic

sign up at 7:30
showtime 8-10pm
come out and see one of the best of a new breed of Chicago Poet
bring your humor, your sentiment, and double up on brain power. Tom Curry is going to make you think

our Suggested theme is
Debunking the Anachronistic
join us at
Jaks Tap
901 W Jackson
Chicago Il
they have good beer and good food, you provide the good poetry

Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar
901 W. Jackson, Chicago, Illinois 60607

2/27/13 Virginia Hunt poetry feature night at "the Cafe Gallery" open mic at Gallery Cabaret!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

February 27, 7:00 - 9:00PM
The Cafe Gallery 
open mic at Gallery Cabaret
2020 N. Oakley Ave.
(a block away from Western and Armitage, by Milwaukee Ave., near a Blue line el stop)
 
Say Aloha! "The Cafe" open mic is now the Café Gallery, now at Gallery Cabaret! See us at 2020 N.Oakley Ave. on every other Wednesday from 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. for poetry and performance art. Come February 27th (7-9pm) for the Virginia Hunt poetry feature for this open mic! Sign up and read at the open mike before the great feature!

You can also sign up for a later feature with Janet Kuypers and side-kick Bob Rashkow... For info about the open mike and the 2013 schedule (and getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature) you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for the regular podcast, feature videos or future schedules. Email the open mike at thecafe@scars.tv (or janetkuypers@gmail.com - only if the scars.tv email has problems) with any questions, but details about the CALL for 2013 features is also available on line!

RHINO Reads! 2-22-13 Open Mic & Featured Readers Nick Demske & Ariana Nadia Nash

Open Mike        6:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Featured Poets        6:45 pm – 7:30 pm

Brothers K

500 Main St.

Evanston, IL

Directions

Nick Demske is a rogue librarian, maniac prophet, devastator and redeemer of words. His first book is titled “Nick Demske” and it lifts its voice to the heavens in such sweet, radical song. Nick was featured in 2011 as one of fifteen emerging poets to watch for by Poets and Writers magazine and his book was chosen as one of the 10 Best Books of Poetry in 2010 by a Believer Magazine reader survey. A year ago, he went on a month and a half-long, cross-country book tour that involved giving 43 readings, driving over 10,000 miles, having his vehicle searched for drugs by Kansas state troopers and sleeping in 5—count them, 5!—Walmart parking lots across the nation. Is there anything more patriotic? Probably. Nick also curates the BONK! performance series in Racine, which is basically like Christmas every month. You may visit him online sometime at his blog nickipoo.wordpress.com. In fact, you are hereby contractually obligated to do just that. Amen.

Ariana Nadia Nash is the recipient of the 2011 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry for her manuscript, Instructions for Preparing Your Skin (2013, Anhinga Press). She is also the author of the chapbook Our Blood Is Singing (2012, Damask Press). She is the winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize and is a MacDowell Colony fellow. Her work can be found in The Café Review, Rock & Sling, and Treehouse, among other journals, and is forthcoming from Poet Lore, Southeast Review, and Cimarron Review.

As always, authors will have books available for purchase & signing!

Looking forward to seeing you this Friday! Bring 1-2 poems for the Open Mic.

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Feb 21-23: Black Took Collective

Black Took Collective:
Duriel E. Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, Ronaldo V. Wilson 

3 Chicago events in 3 neighborhoods! All open to the public. No tickets or registration needed.  

Black Took Collective is a group of Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race, gender, and sexuality.

*Thursday, February 21 @ 6:30pm
Workshop at Columbia College
33 E. Congress Pkwy (Room 101, Downtown)
free admission

*Friday, February 22 @ 2pm
Reading & Presentation at the Washington Park Arts Incubator
301 E. Garfield Blvd (55th & Prairie Ave, Washington Park)
free admission

*Saturday, February 23 @ 7pm 
ON INTIMACY AND ORIGIN: Betraying Blackness II
Performance for the IN>TIME Festival at Tritriangle
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave (3rd floor, Wicker Park)
suggested donation $5

Facebook Event Page
 all events listed here

Sponsored by:
Red Rover Series and Tritriangle

Co-sponsored by:
Poets & Writers
IN>TIME Performance Festival
Creative Writing at the University of Chicago
Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago
The Creative Writing Programs at Columbia College Chicago
The Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Poetry Forum Led by Steven Teref – Fourth Sunday Poetry Workshop – February 24, 2013

RHINO Poetry Forum: Workshop & Critique

Evanston Public Library

Church & Orrington
map

1:30-4:30 — Room 108

Steven Teref is the translator of Assembly (Host Publications, 2009), the selected poems of the Serbian poet Novica Tadic. Steven’s translations and poetry have appeared in numerous literary magazines, such asRhino, Another Chicago Magazine, South Loop Review, and forthcoming in Artifice Magazine. He teaches literature and writing at Columbia College Chicago where last year he was the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Ricochet Review. The first issue is due out this spring.

TOPIC:  Translation as Cover Song Translation has much to teach writers about the suppleness of language. The act of translation, paired with reading work in translation, reveals the nuance of meaning and intention. Translation is an interpretation much like the cover of a song (i.e., a new version of an original or previously recorded song): the success or failure of a cover rests on enhancing the tone, pacing, texture, or complexity of the original. Now, imagine if one had access only to covers. Which cover is the “best?” Rarely does a faithful rendition garner that honor.

Bring 17 or more copies (2 page limit) of a poem you want critiqued.*$5 – $10 donation appreciated.

This project is partially supported by grants from:   Poets & Writers, the Illinois Arts Council

and The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

Feb 15: Utopic Monster Theory

UTOPIC MONSTER THEORY
7pm Friday, February 15th

at Rumble Arts Center
3413 W. North Avenue
free admission

Performers:
J’Sun Howard & Jennifer Karmin

Guest artists:
Honey Pot Performance
(Meida McNeal, Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson,
Boogie McClarin & Aisha Jean-Baptiste)

Post-performance talk moderated by:
Ira S. Murfin

Sponsored by:
Insight Arts, Nights of Insight cultural series
IN>TIME Performance Festival

Utopic Monster Theory is a polydesirous bricolage of text-movement exploring 21st century cultural work. The performance defines and attempts to understand why artists’ creative labor is undervalued. Source material and inspiration are derived from: Antony & the Johnsons, Joseph Beuys, the Black Panther Party, Bleach anime series, Family Guy TV show, the Internal Revenue Service, Andrew Joron, John Lennon, Bernadette Mayer, Herman Melville, Thomas More, Eric Satie, Mary Shelly, and Hannah Weiner.

Honey Pot Performance will present an excerpt of their newest project, The Price Point of Living, which illuminates stories of everyday citizens struggling to find a sense of direction, purpose, and value in the wake of an uncertain labor market. At its core, the work explores the abstract question “What is the value of living?” 

Feb 14: Toby Altman & Anne Shaw

A reading with Toby Altman & Anne Shaw
7:30pm Thursday, February 14th

at Ipsento Coffee Shop
2035 N. Western Ave

Toby Altman lives in Chicago, where he co-curates the Absinthe and Zygote series with Anne Shaw. His poems can/will be found in Rhino, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Gigantic Sequins, Drupe Fruits, and other magazines. He is the author of the chapbook "Asides" (Furniture Press, 2012) and co-founder of Damask Press.  

Anne Shaw is the author of Undertow, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize, and Dido in Winter forthcoming from Persea Books in 2013. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals including Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and New American Writing. Her extended poetry project can be found on Twitter at twitter.com/anneshaw and at www.anneshaw.org. She is currently a student of writing and sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Monday, February 18, 2013-W4Tb FEATURING DANA JERMAN+OPEN MIC

Come on out to Jaks tap
have some beer
listen to one of the coolest poets around
W4tB presents Poetry Pentathlon silver medalist Dana Jerman
and if that ain't enough
our suggested theme is Celluloid heroes,shadows on film, and the works of David Lynch
sign up--7:30
showtime 8-10pm
Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar
901 W. Jackson, Chicago, Illinois

Feb 8 & 9: Elia Arce

First Woman on the Moon 
February 8th & 9th at 8pm
Featuring Costa Rican-based performer, writer, director and filmmaker: Elia Arce  

at Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Ave 
http://www.linkshall.org 
Tickets: $15 General Admission/ $12 Online/ $10 Students & Seniors 

Performance artist Elia Arce conducts an investigation of space, movement through it and the claiming of one's own. Through the use of her body, language, sound and visual images, Arce leads us through a series of places both physical and emotional, from the dark, lush jungles of her Costa Rican roots to the barren, lunar landscape of her adopted desert home.  "First Woman on the Moon" was featured at the First International Latino Theatre Festival in Los Angeles and at the First Performance Art Festival in Chile.  In this piece, Arce explores the body as a site of memory and the eye of the camera as a paradigm for her unique visual constructions. She combines highly poetic scripts with multimedia projections. "First Woman on the Moon" is a compelling ritual-like meditation about the spiritual meaning of life.

About the Artist:
Elia Arce is an internationally known artist and cultural activist working in a wide variety of media including performance, experimental theater, film/video, writing, spoken word and installation. She is the recipient of the J. Paul Getty Individual Artist Award, The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation and a 1999 nominee for the Herb Alpert/CalArts Award in Theater.

2/13/13 Alex Sagona Birthday bash and poetry feature night at "the Cafe Gallery" open mic at Gallery Cabaret!

February 13, 7:00 - 9:00PM
The Cafe Gallery 
open mic at Gallery Cabaret
2020 N. Oakley Ave.
(a block away from Western and Armitage, by Milwaukee Ave., near a Blue line el stop)
 
Say Aloha! "The Cafe" open mic is now the Café Gallery, now at Gallery Cabaret! See us at 2020 N.Oakley Ave. on every other Wednesday from 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. for poetry and performance art. Come February 13th (7-9pm) for the Alex Sangona poetry feature for this open mic! Sign up and read at the open mike before the great feature - and wish Alex Sagona a Happy Birthday!

You can also sign up for a later feature with Janet Kuypers and side-kick Bob Rashkow... For info about the open mike and the 2013 schedule (and getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature) you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for the regular podcast, feature videos or future schedules. Email the open mike at thecafe@scars.tv (or janetkuypers@gmail.com - only if the scars.tv email has problems) with any questions, but details about the CALL for 2013 features is also available on line!

IN>TIME 13: Chicago Performance Festival

IN>TIME 13
Performance Festival

January 11–March 2, 2013
A city-wide multi-venue performance festival for Chicago
http://www.in-time-performance.org

IN>TIME is a biennial performance series of new, emerging, and established work by local, national, and international artists presented in Chicago.  Organized by Mark Jeffery, this year's festival features 14 diverse venues across the city collaborating to curate and exhibit performance art, video screenings, lectures, and symposia that investigate intersections of body, text, object, sound, and technology.  

Check out IN>TIME 13 on facebook here.