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.

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!

Chad Sweeney & Peter Davis Reading

The Spring 2014 Reading Series, sponsored by the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, presents Chad Sweeney and Peter Davis.

When: Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 5:30pm
Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave, Second Floor

 
CHAD SWEENEY is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books, 2010) and Wolf’s Milk: Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift Books, bilingual Spanish/English, 2012), and two books of translation, The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H.E. Sayeh (White Pine Books, 2011, with Mojdeh Marashi) and Pablo Neruda’s The Call to Destroy Nixon (Marick Press, forthcoming).

PETER DAVIS is the author of three books of poetry, Hitler's Mustache (Barnwood Press, 2006), Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! (Bloof Books, 2010) and TINA (Bloof Books, 2013). His poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry series as well as many journals like Court Green, Jacket, and La Petite Zine.

Shanna Compton & Nick Twemlow Poetry Reading

Columbia College Chicago features Shanna Compton & Nick Twemlow as part of the Fall 2013 Poetry Reading Series, sponsored by the Department of Creative Writing. The event is free and open to the public. 

When: Wednesday, Novemeber 13, 5:30pm

Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave, Second Floor

NICK TWEMLOW's first book of poems, Palm Trees, won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is a senior editor at The Iowa review and co-edits Canarium Books. He is also a filmmakers, and his short works have played Tribeca, SXSW, Slamdance, Athens, and many other film festivals. He is an assistant professor at Coe College.  

SHANNA COMPTON's books include Brink (2012), For Girls & Others (2007), Down Spooky (2005) and several chapbooks. A Book-length speculative poem called The Seam is forthcoming next year. Her poems and essays have been published by The Best American Poetry series, the Poetry Foundation website, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day feature, among others. 

Kate Greenstreet and Richard Meier Reading

Columbia College Chicago is proud to present Richard Meier & Kate Greenstreet as part of the Fall 2013 Poetry Reading Series, sponsored by the Department of Creative Writing. The event is free and open to the public.

When: Wednesday, October 2, 5:30pm

Where: Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave, 101

KATE GREENSTREET is the author of Young Tambling (2013), The Last 4 Things (2009), and case sensitive (2006), all from Ahsahta Press. Her poetry can be found in Chicago Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, and other journals. 

RICHARD MEIER is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent being In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary (Omnidawn, 2012). Previous books Terrain Vague and Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar were published by Verse Press and Waves Books, respectively. He is writer-in-residence at Carthage College and lives in Madison and Chicago. 

Founders' Prize--RHINO Poetry

FOUNDERS’ PRIZE

RHINO Poetry is an award-winning annual journal of 37 years standing which invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a love affair with language. We publish poetry, flash fiction, and translations.

Submissions must be postmarked or submitted online between September 1 – October 31

All contest submissions will also be considered for regular publication in the 2014 edition of RHINO Poetry.

◦     The winner will receive $300.00, publication in the next issue, and will be featured on our website, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

◦     Two runners up will receive $50.00, publication in the next issue, and will be featured on our website. We occasionally nominate a runner-up for a Pushcart Prize.

Guidelines:

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS (preferred)

1.  Group up to 5 previously unpublished poems into one document – no identifying information should be on this document; Upload a single file in Word .doc or .docx format

2.  Cover letter in the “Comments” field – to “Founders’ Prize Contest” listing your name, address, email address and/or telephone number and titles of your poems, and how you learned of the contest.

3.  Pay your $10 entry fee through the online submission page.

4.  For Founders Prize 2014 online submissions and to check the status of your submission, go to rhinopoety.org.

 

SUBMISSIONS BY MAIL

◦     Send up to 5 unpublished poems (no more than 5 pages total) between September 1 and October 31. No identifying information should appear on the poems.

◦     Submissions must include a cover letter to “Founders’ Prize Contest” listing your name, address, email address and/or telephone number and titles of your poems, and how you learned of the contest.

◦     Enclose a $10 entry fee (check or money order payable to RHINO or Rhino Poetry – no cash)

◦     Manuscripts will not be returned. Include a SASE for notification of results.

Mail your submission and entry fee to:

Founders’ Contest

RHINO Poetry
P.O. Box 591
Evanston, IL 60204

Nicole Wilson, David Trinidad, and Tony Trigilio Reading

Columbia College Chicago kicks off its Fall 2013 Poetry Reading Series with poets Nicole Wilson, Tony Trigilio, and David Trinidad. The event is sponsored by the Department of Creative Writing and is free and open to the public.

When: Wednesday, September 18, 5:30pm
Where: Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave, 101

NICOLE WILSON is the author of the chapbook Amazing Face (Phantom Limb Press) and the forthcoming collection Supper & Repair Kit (The Lettered Streets Press). A graduate of the MFA Poetry Program at Columbia College Chicago, she lives and teaches in Ohio.

TONY TRIGILIO's most recent books are White Noise (Apostrophe Books, 2013) and Historic Diary (BlazeVOX Books, 2011). He is the editor of Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments, forthcoming in 2014 from Ahsahta Press, and co-editor of Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008). He also is the author of two books of criticism, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007) and "Strange Prophecies Anew" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000). He directs the program in Creative Writing/Poetry at Columbia College Chicago and co-edits Court Green.

DAVID TRINIDAD's most recent books are Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011) and Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (2013), both published by Turtle Point Press. His other books include The Late Show (2007), By Myself (with D.A. Powell, 2009), and Plasticville (2000). He is also the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books, 2011).

Carmen Giménez Smith Reading

As part of the Fall 2013 Reading Series, the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago will feature Carmen Giménez Smith reading both poetry and nonfiction.

When: Wednesday, September 11, 5:30pm

Where: Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave, 101

CARMEN GIMÉNEZ SMITH is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, and four poetry collections— Milk and Filth, Goodbye, Flicker, The City She Was, and Odalisque in Pieces. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she teaches in the creative writing program at New Mexico State University, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press. 

Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Maxine Scates Reading

Come hear Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Maxine Scates read as part of Columbia College Chicago’s Fall 2012 Poetry Reading series.
 
When: Wednesday, November 14, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, Second Floor

[Photo credit - Bibiana Huang Matheis, Bill Cadbury]

JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT is the author of Burning of the Three Fires (BOA Editions, 2010), a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award, Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004), and Placebo Effects, selected by William Matthews as a National Poetry Series winner (Norton, 1997). She is coeditor of the anthology The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines including Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Conduit, Good Poems for Hard Times, Hotel Amerika, LIT, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New Letters, Poetry Daily, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2007, When She Named Fire: Contemporary Poetry by American Women, World Literature Today, and many others. She won the 2009 Dana Award for Poetry. Her poem “Afraid So” was made into a short film by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt with narration by Garrison Keillor; it has been shown at over two dozen international festivals, at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and on IFC, and it won 2nd prize at the Black Maria Film Festival, among other awards.  She has taught at Rutgers University and the Frost Place in Franconia, NH. She currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y and in the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. Since 1983, she has made her home in Manhattan.

MAXINE SCATES is the author of three books of poetry, Undone ( New Issues, 2011), Black Loam (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005), which received the Lyre Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and Toluca Street (University of Pittsburgh Press,1989), which received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press and the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Agni, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Court Green, Crazyhorse, Ironwood, Lyric, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and ZYZZYVA. Her poems have also been anthologized in For A Living (University of Illinois Press), The Pittsburgh Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press), A Gathering of Poets (Kent State University Press), Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets (Oregon State UniversityPress), New Poets of the American West, She Walks In Beauty (Hyperion), and Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses. Her poetry has also received a 2010 Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Literary Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, The American Voice, Calyx, Mississippi Review, Poetry East and Prairie Schooner and the anthologies: Liberating Memory: Our Work, Our Working Class Consciousness (Rutgers University Press), Stories That Shape Us: Women Write About The West (W.W. Norton) and Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis (Anchor/Doubleday). She is co-editor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford published by Copper Canyon Press. She has taught at Lane Community College, Lewis and Clark College and, for many years, as Poet-in-Residence, Visiting Associate Professor, at Reed College. She now teaches privately. Originally from Los Angeles, she has lived in Eugene, Oregon since 1973.

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.

Kenyatta Rogers and Jill Magi Reading

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.