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
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries

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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