Court Green Reading & Release

The 2014 Spring Reading Series at Columbia College Chicago presents a release and reading for the eleventh issue of Court Green, the Department of Creative Writing’s faculty-edited poetry journal, which features a dossier on James Schuyler.

When: Thursday, March 13, 2014, 6pm
Where: Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave, 8th Floor

Come celebrate the new issue with us!

May 9: Columbia Poetry Review Reading & Release

Columbia Poetry Review releases Issue No. 26! Contributors will read their work as well as special guest reader, Traci Brimhall. This free event is sponsored by the Department of English at Columbia College Chicago.

When: Thursday, May 9, 2013, 5:30pm
Where: Ferguson Hall at 600 S Michigan Ave, Rm 101

Come to the reading, stay for the party! Food and refreshments to follow.

CM Burroughs & Roger Reeves Reading

Come hear CM Burroughs & Roger Reeves read as part of Columbia College Chicago’s Fall 2012 Poetry Reading series.
 
When: Wednesday, October 17, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, Second Floor

CM BURROUGHS, a graduate of Sweet Briar College and the MFA Program at the University of Pittsburgh, has been awarded fellowships and grants from organizations including Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cave Canem, Callaloo Writers Workshop, and the University of Pittsburgh. A Pushcart Prize Nominee, her poetry has appeared in journals including Ploughshares, Callaloo, jubilat, VOLT, Bat City Review, La Fovea, and Eleven Eleven. The 2011-2013 Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago, her first book, The Vital System, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2012. 


[PHOTO – CREDIT  Rachel Eliza Griffiths]

ROGER REEVES’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Tin House, Gulf Coast, and the Indiana Review, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. Recently, he earned his MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas. Currently, he is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois Chicago. His first book, King Me, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2013.

New from Orange Alert Press

now available

In his debut collection, Jamie Iredell calls on a classic and seldom used literary form to tell a story of travel, adventure, boredom, and life in general. Prose. Poem. A Novel. is a precisely written series of poems that when collected tell an addictive story. However, don’t expect to see complex titles and strict structure, this after all is a novel. Iredell masterfully pushes the reader through every detail, but as each page is turned form and genre melt quickly into a vital story.

"If Mary Robison listened to more punk, grew up in Las Vegas in the 80s before the 80s sucked, did whippits while reading Ben Marcus and scrolling the alternative personals for golden lines to crib, she might have exploded into the post-post-Beat sentence index that is Atlanta. But she didn't. Jamie Iredell did, and in reading this lean but dense meat-eater of a sui generis prose poem cycle, one realizes there might still be a way for chapbooks to compete with porn." – Blake Butler

Prose. Poems. A Novel., the third release from Orange Alert Press, is filled with brilliant and thematic illustrations from Christy Call (Literary Dispatch, Publishing Genius, and Willows Wept Press). These illustrations are in full color and add an even more vibrant visual element to Iredell’s story.

Jamie Iredell was born in Carmel-by-the-sea, California, andgrew up near Castroville. He moved to Reno, Nevada for his Bachelor’s and Master’s dregrees, and to Atlanta for his PhD. His writing has appeared in many magazines, among them The Chattahoochee Review, The Literary Review, Keyhole, Zone 3, Descant, elimae, Lamination Colony, Elysian Fields Quarterly, and Weber: The Contemprary West.