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Red Rover Series{readings that play with reading}Experiment #45:Water, Water, EverywordSATURDAY, APRIL 27pm / doors lock 7:30Featuring:Cris MazzaDavis SchneidermanLidia Yuknavitchat Outer Space Studio1474 N. Milwaukee Avesuggested donation $4logistics --near CTA Damen blue linethird floor walk upnot wheelchair accessibleCRIS MAZZA has authored sixteen books, most recently Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, a novel. Her other fiction titles include Waterbaby, Trickle-Down Timeline, and the critically notable Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? In 1995 & 1996, Mazza was co-editor for the original Chick-Lit anthologies: Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction, and Chick-Lit 2: No Chick Vics. In 2006, her essay “Who’s Laughing Now: Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre,” explaining the co-opting and corrosion of the title, appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine and Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction (Routledge). In addition to fiction, Mazza also has published a memoir, Indigenous: Growing Up Californian. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in San Diego County. She currently lives 50 miles west of Chicago and is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She can be found online at www.cris-mazza.com.DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of eight print and audio works, including the recent novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern) and Blank: a novel (Jaded Ibis), with audio from DJ Spooky. His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review,TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he is a contributor to The Nervous Breakdown and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing. He can be found, virtually, at davisschneiderman.com.LIDIA YUKNAVITCH is the author of the new memoir The Chronology of Water from Hawthorne books, as well as three books of short stories and a forthcoming novel. Her stories have appeared in Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, as well as in several national anthologies. She has twice been a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and is the Editor of Chiasmus Press. Her essay "About a Boob, or the Hermeneutics of a Woman's Body," was just awarded a "Best of the Web" essay award. She lives with her husband Andy and her son Miles in Portlandia.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. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.
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unday, March 277pmat Myopic Books 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave
Featuring:Erika Jo BrownMatthew KlaneBJ LoveAdam Roberts ERIKA JO BROWN is from New York, where she founded the Chinatown reading series Floetry at 169. She is editor of Stretching Panties magazine, an oft-annual print collection of experimental poetry, architecture and drawing. Her poems can be found at H_NGM_N, Spork and Back Room Live. Further Adventures Press just published her chapbook, What a Lark! She’s currently a MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.MATTHEW KLANE is editor and co-founder of Flim Forum Press. His book is B_____ Meditations (Stockport Flats, 2008). Recent work can be found in Taiga, muthafucka, Harp&Altar, and Word For/Word. He currently lives and writes in Iowa City.BJ LOVE is the author of Michigander (Greying Ghost, 2010), We are Two Bastards (Indivia, forthcoming) and A Revisionist History...(Small Fires, 2011) with Friedrich Kerksieck. Additionally, he is an MFA candidate in the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and the editor of Further Adventures Chapbooks & Pamphlets.ADAM ROBERTS grew up in Rhode Island, and is currently a post-graduate fellow at the University of Iowa. He's the author of the chapbook "Poem in Four Parts" and the epic blogger poem "Jersey Shore."
May 31, 8:30PM
The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature
The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 31st has Wayne Allen Jones as a feature, following an open mic.
For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.
May 24, 8:30PM
The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature
The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 24th has Jim Davis Jr. as a feature, following an open mic.
For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.
June 28, 8:30PM
The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature
The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). June 28th has Lucia Blinn as a feature, following an open mic.
For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.
May 10, 8:30PM
The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature
The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 10th has Oz Hardwick as a feature, following an open mic.
For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.
May 3, 8:30PM
The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda)
plus donation for the feature
The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). May 3rd has Maureen Flannery as a feature, following an open mic.
For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.
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