Join us at Powell's
Powells Bookstores, Chicago
1218 S Halsted
7-9pm
in the poetry bunker
It's the amazing return of a W4tB friend and favorite, The Coolest Cat in the City, Scott De Katch.
be there or be some kind of multi-sided figure that has no real application in life.

the show is free
we do ask a donation to pay the featured performer.

Buy books, they offer unconditional love, unconditional surrender, unconditional somethin'

NOV 3-Waiting 4 the Bus has got THE GOODS

Joining us for this Open Mic poetry festival of love is the fabulous masters of hip hop infused wordplay and reality checks THE GOODS will be our featured performers

showtime is from 7-9pm
show up early to sign up for the open mic
all readers get 5 minutes or 3 poems whichever comes first

Powell' bookstore
1218 S Halsted St
Chicago, IL

The show is free, we do ask for a donation to provide a stipend for the featured performers.

Buy books, books are already paper trained

Red Rover Series / Experiment #80

Red Rover Series  
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #80:

Humanity 102 - Daily Exercises in Futility & Thwarted Desire 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm 

Featuring: 
Travis Cebula
Adrienne Dodt
Sarah Suzor
The Activists Poet's Brigade 

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

logistics --

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

TRAVIS CEBULA lives with his wife and trusty dogs in Colorado, where he writes, edits and teaches creative writing. He graduated from the MFA program at Naropa University in 2009—the same year he founded Shadow Mountain Press, a small press that focuses on hand-made editions of poetry chapbooks. His poetry, stories, essays, reviews, and photography have appeared internationally.  He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, including Ithaca, One Year in a Paper Cinema, and After the Fox with Sarah Suzor.  You can find him in Paris every summer teaching with the Left Bank Writers Retreat.

ADRIENNE DODT is a poet, essayist, and amateur photographer. Adrienne's chapbook Return. is forthcoming from Damask Press this year. Zir work can be found in The Body Electric anthology and Fact-Simile, Apothecary, and Con/Crescent magazines. Ze is a regular contributor to Spoon River Poetry Review blog, and was the Poetry Editor for Bombay Gin magazine in 2008-2009. Adrienne currently teaches at a few community colleges in Chicago.

SARAH SUZOR's full-length collection of poetry, The Principle Agent, won the 2010 Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2011. She also has a collaboration After the Fox, which is co-authored with Travis Cebula (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). Her reviews and interviews can be found in Tarpaulin Sky and Rain Taxi, and she has recently guest blogged for the Best American Poetry series. She lives in Venice, California where she is a founding editor for Highway 101 Press, a correspondent for Omnidawn’s online magazine OmniVerse, and a guest lecturer for the Left Bank Writers Retreat in Paris.
 
THE ACTIVISTS POET'S BRIGADE is a group of students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who are studying and creating political lyrics.  They will be performing a selection of Asymmetries by Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004), the renowned Buddhist/Pacifist/Anarchist writer. These poems were composed by chance operations and intended for public performance.

 Upcoming Red Rover events:

NOVEMBER 29 - Melina Ausikaitis, LeRoy Bach, Abigail Blueher,
Timmy Kinsella, Bryan Saner & Marvin Tate

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Chicago Cultural Center

78 E Washington

6-7 pm.

Join the Poetry Center of Chicago on October 15 for the next installment of the Six Points Reading Series.

Admission is free in the Garland Room on the 1st floor of the Chicago Cultural Center.

October will feature poets Hannah Gamble and Kenyatta Rogers. Curated and hosted by Danielle Susi.

HANNAH GAMBLE is sending out her second book of poems. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from American Poetry Review, The Believer, POETRY, Court Green, and RATTLE. She lives in Chicago, where she is an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Science and Industry, and has recently completed a screenplay about a midwestern community college that offers an associate’s degree in not getting raped. She is one of this year’s Ruth Lilly fellows.

KENYATTA ROGERS was the 2012-2013 Visiting Poet in English, at Columbia College Chicago where he also earned his MFA in Creative Writing Poetry. He is a Cave Canem fellow and also a Poet-in-Residence for the Hands on Stanzas program through the Poetry Center of Chicago. A Pushcart nominee and Best of the Net nominee, his work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from Jubilat, Vinyl, Court Green, Rhino Poetry, The Volta among others. He is an Associate Editor with Rhino Poetry.

Books will be available for purchase after the reading.

Where the Weird Things Are

Sept 27: Ferguson Goddam

Red Rover Series 
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #79:  
Ferguson Goddam  

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

A special event with

100 Thousand Poets for Change
http://www.100tpcmedia.org
 
On September 27, 2014, many poets around the world will make their voices heard. To declare the change they'd like to see most in the U.S. and throughout the international community, events are being staged worldwide as part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change.  In Chicago, this night of poetry and activism is based on the theme "Ferguson Goddam".  Inspired by Nina Simone's song Mississippi Goddam, writers will address the recent shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
 
FEATURING:Jay Besemer, Aricka Foreman, Cean Gamalinda, Dan Godston, Jeannette Gomes, Kevin Gunnerson, Nathan Hoks, David Moran, Fernando Olszanski, Ladan Osman, Timothy David Rey, Keith Wilson, The Next Objectivists & more special guests

Co-sponsored by the Chicago Calling Arts Festival & curated by the 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Chicago Community Council 2014:  Beatriz Badikian-Gartler, Barbara Barg, Laura Goldstein, Jennifer Karmin, Toni Asante Lightfoot & Kenyatta Rogers 

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

**proceeds to be donated to the Michael Brown Memorial Fund**  

Logistics --

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

Email ideas for reading experiments
to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

The schedule for events is listed at
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Wednesday, Sept 24th

Say Aloha to poetry and performance art with "the Cafe Gallery" at Gallery Cabaret! See us at 2020 N. Oakley Ave. on Wednesday from 9:00 - 11:00 P.M. for poetry, music and performance art. Come out on Wednesday, September 24th 2014 for our open mic with the Buddha 309 feature!!!

Omniphonic poetry music fusion fest at Bucktown Arts fest

Saturday, August 23

at 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Next Week

W4tB presents the poetry and music fusion fest that sets the city on its ear. This year we are live from the Bucktown Arts Fest. 

This year we will continue to entertain and enlighten with the coolest acts in the city.

Primo Fine

Billy Tuggle

The Charlie Rossiter Experience

The Goods

The incredible Bob and Andy Bob Lawrence

and of course the founders of the feast...Omniphonic

Poetry Pentathlon 2014

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Friday, August 29
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Uncharted Books2620 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 6064

This ain't your Daddy's Poetry War. This is how the ancient poets intended it. A battle of performance and writing skil

The rant--self explanatory (we hope)

the Reverse Sonnet--(Shakespearean)The meter and line breaks are the same, the rhyming words are at the beginning of the line
Pot Luck--each contestant will present a poem of their own creation to the judges. This poem will be in a sealed envelope. This poem will be given to an opposing contestant to perform.the scoring for this round is different 1-5 points will be awarded to the performer1-5 points will be awarded to the author
Letter Poem--each contestant will present a poem of their own creation to the judges. This poem will be in a sealed envelope. This poem will be given to an opposing contestant to perform.the scoring for this round is different 1-5 points will be awarded to the performer1-5 points will be awarded to the author
On the spot Prompt---all contestants will be presented with a poetry prompt upon arriving at the Pentathlon Arena . A poem will be written based upon the prompt during the course of the evening and will be presented to the judges as the final event of the evening

Our contestants are

Bill Tarlin

Clara Berman

Gary Ketchum

Dina Stuart

Nora Leon

Peyton Stewart

Suzanne Sosnowski

link to Facebook event  https://www.facebook.com/events/323175671184381/?context=create&source=49

Bill Yarrow and John Goode are Waiting 4 the Bus and Al DeGenova is driving

Aug4Mon

Poetry Reading: John Goode and Bill Y... When Mon Aug 4, 2014 7:30pm – 10pm  Where Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar

Agenda Mon Aug 4, 2014

Live from the rendezvous room at Jaks Tap 901 W Jackson

40 beers on tap

great food

free poetry*

sign up-7:30

showtime 8-10pm

*we request donations for the features 

Robin Fine is Waiting 4 the Bus +Open Mic

Once again the maxi=cool open mic at Waiting 4 the bus is rocking out the rendezvous room at Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar
Sign up at 7:30
showtime at 8pm
come check out the most laid back open mic in the Universe (we apologize for the hyperbole)

in a special event Robin Fine kicks off her birthday week with a super feature

special guest host Jenene Ravesloot and Tom Roby IV moderate this poetic circus
so come on out, grab a beer, eat some good food
donate some pay to the featured poet

it'll be cool

Red Rover Series / Experiment #74

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}
 
Experiment #74:
Intercutting Present with Past

SATURDAY, APRIL 26
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

Featuring:
Carrie Olivia Adams
Megan Kaminski
Kathleen Rooney
Sara Tracey

at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4
 
logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible

CARRIE OLIVIA ADAMS lives in Chicago, where she is a book publicist for the University of Chicago Press and the poetry editor for Black Ocean. She is the author of Forty-One Jane Doe’s (book and companion DVD, Ahsahta 2013) and Intervening Absence (Ahsahta 2009) as well as the chapbooks “Overture in the Key of F” (above/ground press 2013) and “A Useless Window” (Black Ocean 2006). Her third book, Operating Theater, is forthcoming from Noctuary Press.

MEGAN KAMINSKI's first book of poetry is Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012). She is also the author of seven chapbooks, most recently Wintering Prairie (Dusie Kollektiv, 2014). She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Kansas and curates the Taproom Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence.  See more at http://www.megankaminski.com/

KATHLEEN ROONEY is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait.  She is the author, most recently of the novel in poems Robinson Alone (Gold Wake, 2012) and her debut novel O, Democracy! has just been released by Fifth Star Press. Her latest chapbook with Elisa Gabbert is The Kind of Beauty that has Nowhere to Go from the feminist publisher Hyacinth Girl Press.  Follow her @KathleenMRooney and see more at http://kathleenrooney.com/

SARA TRACEY is the author of Some Kind of Shelter (Misty Publications, 2013) and Flood Year (dancing girl press, 2009). Her work has recently appeared in Vinyl Poetry, The Collagist, Harpur Palate, Passages North, and elsewhere. She has studied at the University of Akron, the North East Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) and at the University of Illinois at Chicago Program for Writers. Originally from Ohio, she has lived in Chicago since 2008. Follow her at @SomeKindofSara.

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. Founded in 2005, the over seventy events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.

Email ideas for reading experiments
to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

The schedule for events is listed at
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Nikky Finney @ Parker School

Nightviews Presents

Th e Jeanne Harris Hansell Endowed Fund for Poetry

An Evening with Nikky Finney

John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature at the University of South Carolina
Tuesday, April 22
7 p.m. | Heller Auditorium

Free and Open to the PublicRegister online here

Award-winning American poet Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina. A child of activists, she came of age during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. As a student at Talladega College, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Themes in Finney’s work reveal her commitment to social justice and cultural preservation. Finney has authored four books of poetry and a short story cycle. Her most recent book of poetry, Head Off & Split, was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.

Please join us for wonderful evening of poetry!

More on Nikky Finney is available here.

This event is made possible through a gift from the Hansell family. The Jeanne Harris Hansell Endowed Fund for Poetry, established in the name of Jeanne Harris Hansell ’45, will ensure continued success of the “Poetry at Parker” series, as well as allowing the school to host renowned guest poets and speakers about poetry in years to come. Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins was Parker’s inaugural visiting poet in the 2012–13 academic year.

more details, here...

April 12: Reading for MATTER

Matter a (somewhat) monthly online journal of political poetry and commentary established with the intention of breaking down structural antimonies between labor and capital, aesthetics and politics.

*Facebook event page here

Nina Corwin is Waiting 4 the Bus + open mic (April 21st)

come on out to the coolest most laid back place for poetry. With a loose format, W4tB is a place for folks who are serious about their craft and not much else.
Join guest host Dana Jerman
super cool feature Nina Corwin
and the W4tB regular Weirdos

sign up 7:30pm
showtime 8-10pm
Jaks Tap
901 W Jackson

R. Erica Doyle and Ronaldo Wilson Reading

The Spring 2014 Reading Series, sponsored by the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, presents Ronaldo Wilson and R. Erica Doyle.

When: Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 5:30pm
Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave, Second Floor

R. ERICA DOYLE is the author of proxy (Belladonna* Books, 2013). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles, and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, among others.

RONALDO WILSON, PhD, is the author of Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, forthcoming), Lucy 72 (1913 Press, forthcoming), Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), and is co-founder of the Black Took Collective.

Damask Press Release Reading for Aster to Daylily Saturday at Spudnik Press Annex

Join Damask Press in celebrating the release of Jay Besemer's chapbook Aster to Daylily this Saturday at the Annex to Spudnik Press.  Doors open at 6, with readings by Adrienne Dodt, Cean Gamalinda, and Jay Besemer beginning at 6:30.  Details and FB RSVP here:

http://www.spudnikpress.org/happenings/
https://www.facebook.com/events/752997351391832/

Janet Kuypers' poem "Holding Hands" at Chicago's "the Cafe Gallery" poe...

Janet Kuypers' poem "Holding Hands" at Chicago's "the Cafe Gallery" poe...

THE POETRY BOMB 2014--Sunday, April 27 at 3:30pm

 

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15th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival

Columbia College Chicago hosts the 15th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival, bringing together 12 poets from Chicago-area colleges and universities to read their work.

When: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 5:30pm
Where: Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave, Rm 101

Come celebrate emerging student writers in Chicago. Reception to follow.

(April 7) Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart are waiting 4 the bus+open mic

Come on out to the rendezvous room at Jaks tap to see a pair of fabulous poets. Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart will entertain and enlighten.

Donna Vorreyer guest hosts
7:30pm sign up for open mink

8pm show time
The entertainment is free, ewe suggest you make a donation to the feature
Buy some beer
Eat some awesome food
Have fun

Jaks tap
901 w Jackson

Red Rover Series / Experiment #73

Red Rover Series

{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #73:

Dog Liar

SATURDAY, MARCH 22
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

Featuring:

J. Hope Stein
Daniel Tiffany
John Wilkinson
Russ Woods

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

logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
 
J. HOPE STEIN is the author of the chapbooks [Talking Doll]: (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), [Mary]: (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2012) and Corner Office (H_NGM_N, 2011).  You can find her work in Verse, Tarpaulin Sky, Everyday Genius, Ping Pong, Web del Sol, movingpoems.com and Poetry International.  J. Hope Stein is also the editor of PoetryCrush.com and the author of the poetry/humor site eecattings.com.

DANIEL TIFFANY is the author of a chapbook, along with nine slim volumes of poetry and literary theory, including My Silver Planet:  A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch (Johns Hopkins) and Neptune Park (Omnidawn).   His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, Boston Review, Fence, New American Writing, jubilat, Verse, and Lana Turner.  Tiffany has also published translations of texts by Sophocles and the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, as well as Georges Bataille’s pornographic tale, Madame Edwarda.  He has been awarded the Chicago Review Poetry Prize, a Whiting Fellowship, and the Berlin Prize by the American Academy.

JOHN WILKINSON is an English and South Loop poet whose most recent book is Reckitt's Blue (Seagull Books, 2012). In 2014 Salt will publish his selected poems under the title Schedule of Unrest, and a new chapbook, Courses Matter-Woven, will appear from Equipage. John Wilkinson is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago and teaches there in the Department of English.

RUSS WOODS is a poet/librarian living in Wicker Park. He is the author of the  books Wolf Doctors (Artifice, 2014) and Sara or the Existence of Fire (Horse Less, 2014). He co-edits Skydeer Helpking with Jeannette Gomes. His poetry and collaborations are published or forthcoming in Salt Hill, Guernica, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. He is online at Moonbears.biz.

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. Founded in 2005, the over seventy events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.

Email ideas for reading experiments
to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

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

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