Chicago Underground Library celebrates the Science of Obscurity!


The Chicago Underground Library celebrates “The Science of Obscurity,” an evening of new, unpublished, and in-progress works presented as science fair experiments. The night will also feature a public book launch via catapult and the mass purging of rejection letters–community literary rituals in need of revival!

If you are a writer, publisher, bookmaker, or booklover of any stripe who has recently finished writing a book, has published a book in the past year, or just feels like taking out some aggression on a publication of your choice, we invite you to celebrate by launching your work into space–or at least halfway down the block. We define “book” broadly, so zines, magazines, chapbooks, textbooks, and more are welcome. Read a paragraph, then release!

And while we’re busy launching texts outside, we’ll be dissecting the mysteries of the literary universe inside. Join a dozen local, national, and international writers as they intricately explain the scientific principles underlying their work, real or imagined. Dioramas! Volcanoes! Colorful graphs! Higher mathematics!

We’ll cap the remarkable evening with the shredding and launch of your collective rejection letters, so take them out of storage and cart them along to hand over to our nurturing, accepting staff at the Rejection Table.

This event is free and for all ages. Its other attractions will include the dazzling debut of the Chicago Underground Library’s artist-designed drop boxes, debutantes, prizes, and a raffle!

This is an official Printers’ Ball lead up event. Save the date for the Ball on July 31st at Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts!

Logistics
Friday, 10 July 2009, 7–10pm
Jupiter Outpost (1139 W. Fulton Market, Chicago) Map
Food and drink will be available for sale + BYOB
Free, all ages

@ the cafe

Open mike & feature every Tuesday...8:00-10:00

The Cafe

5115 N. Lincoln

Great poetry, great drinks, great googlie-mooglie!

$2 Admission

(And we do pass the Crown Royal bag for voluntary feature financial enhancement.)

The Café is a Poetry Green Zone.

Call for Submissions

Nirala Publications (New Delhi/Kathmandu) has announced the forthcoming publication of Chicagoland Poets, the latest poetry anthology in a distinguished series that includes the poets of London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. The 300-page anthology, edited by Illinois poets Robin Metz and Nina Corwin, will be launched in Chicago, New York, London, New Delhi, and Kathmandu for worldwide distribution. The series editor is Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma. Poets born or currently living in Chicago may submit up to five poems of any length on any subject (including, especially, poems about Chicago and environs or southeast Asia). While unpublished poems are preferred, previously published poems are welcomed. A statement indicating that the poet retains reprint rights (as well as where the poem appeared) should accompany each submission of previously published poems. A brief biographical statement (100 words) including the poet’s ties to Chicago area should also accompany the submission as well as complete contact info. Poets not born or currently living in Chicago may also submit up to five poems (as above, with accompanying rights/biographical statement(s)) on any subject related to Chicago. Deadline for submissions is August 31, 2009 and should be emailed to: Nina at treehouse523 (at) sbcglobal.net in a SINGLE .doc or .rtf file or sent snail-mail addressed to: Chicagoland Poets c/o Nina Corwin 523 S Plymouth Ct. Chicago, IL 60605.


Please include SASE for reply only. MSS will not be returned. Poets included in the anthology will receive a complimentary copy.

7:30 p

Jaks Tap

901 W. Jackson

Waiting 4 the Bus

Featuring...Janet Kuypers...and Janet sez: Hi there... It's my birthday, and my husband takes a flight out of town this morning on a work trip. So I figure, since I'm here, and it's a Monday, it's exactly two weeks before my next poetry reading feature/performance art show. So I figured I'd send you an ultra-early message to let you know about it...July 6th is the first time I will be featured at Waiting 4 the Bus (W4tB is an energetic, eclectic, electric poetry powerhouse that fires up on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, hosted by Buddah309... Right by the Loop in downtown Chicago at Jaks Tap — the back room, 901 W. Jackson, Chicago IL 60035). This 7:30-10pm evening starts with an open mic, and features get a 20 minute set each... I have seen two features during an evening at Waiting 4 the Bus — and for this July 6th show, I am the only feature for the night (so I'm pulling out all the stops for this show!). After seeing one acts of play performances in Chicago 05/17/09 (where one was of a single man telling a story, like a prose poem), I thought that this show of mine on 07/06/09 at Waiting 4 the Bus is exactly that — a series of "one acts". So this is bound to be a fascinating event with not only background noise (including bus noise and one-line sampling from Soul Coughing, but also water sound effects and meditation music) and projected images and videos with a new large screen for my artwork during the performance. Tack on a few picture frames with images from around the world on display throughout the show, and there will be tons in this performance art show at this new downtown Chicago venue! So you've got the date early... if you're interested - stop by this evening by the Loop in downtown at Waiting 4 the Bus (at Jaks Tap — the back room, 901 W. Jackson) right after the 4th of July celebrations!

Janet Kuypers

http://www.janetkuypers.com

Scars Publications

http://scars.tv

Art & Radio

http://www.chaoticarts.org

and take some POETRY POT LUCK

Hosted by Buddah309

W4tB is wowie-zowie on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month

Green Zone Baby

July 5: Buckminster Fuller Performance

Jen & Ira & You at the MCA Meet Buckminster Fuller Meeting the Hippies in Golden Gate Park : A Re-Performance

SUNDAY, JULY 5th

2-4:30pm

4th-floor lobby

Museum of Contemporary Art

220 East Chicago Avenue

DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE

instigated by Jennifer Karmin & Ira S. Murfin

This is a performance of a transcript of the video Buckminster Fuller Meets the Hippies in Golden Gate Park. You are invited to watch this performance for as long or as briefly as you like. You are also invited to be a performer in it. You may participate for as long or as briefly as you like, and return as often as you wish.

FINAL DAY OF EXHIBIT

Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe is a fascinating mix of utopian vision and organic pragmatism, combining models, sketches, and other artifacts -- many on view for the first time -- represent six decades of the artist's integrated approach to housing, transportation, communication, and cartography. The exhibition features numerous models of Fuller's projects including his famous geodesic dome. Fuller's extensive connections with Chicago are also highlighted through photographs and documents from his years spent living, teaching, and working in the city.

JENNIFER KARMIN is the author of the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice (Flim Forum Press, forthcoming 2009). She curates the Red Rover Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented nationally at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets including: Betalevel (CA), Links Hall (IL), the Poetry Project (NY), the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (MI), and Woodland Pattern Book Center (WI). The recipient of numerous grants and residencies, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet in Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. Recent poems are published in the journals Cannot Exist, MoonLit, Otoliths, and anthologized in Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books).

IRA S. MURFIN is a writer, educator, and theatre maker. His writing has appeared in Requited, elimae, Fiction at Work, Lark(!), Mobius, and the book The Mind Garden, among other places. Ira is Co-Artistic Director of the Laboratory for Enthusiastic Collaboration and a founding member of the Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials, two devised theatre collectives. His solo and collaborative writing and performance work has been presented at venues including the Chicago Cultural Center, Links Hall, Version Fest, The Neo-Futurists, Prop Thtr, the Chicago Calling Festival, by Walkabout Theater at the Peter Jones Gallery, and the Red Rover, Powells North, Quickies, and Reconstruction Room reading series. Ira is also the former Head of the Soleri Book Initiative at the urban design project Arcosanti. He lives in Chicago and teaches writing at North Park University, St. Augustine College, and with Urban Gateways.

Monday, July 13th

:00 -- open mic sign-up begins

7:30 -- open mic (5 minutes per reader)

9:00 -- featured reader

Molly Malone's Irish Pub

7652 Madison Street

Forest Park, IL

708-366-8073

Join us for a very special evening with BUDDAH309

The Molly Malone's Open Mic with your hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova invites you to be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.

$5 if you can, $3 if you can't

(mark your calendars!) Upcoming Molly’s featured readers:

August 10: Wayne Allen Jones

September 14: Chad Sweeney

October 12: Susan Hahn

November 9: Tara Betts

Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month.

Feel free to forward this notice to your writing pals...we love new faces with new voices.

Series A, July 8th

Series A: Mary Kasimor and Carrie Hunter
July 8, 2009
Hyde Park Art Center

Come to Series A on July 8th at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago to hear Mary Kasimor and Carrie Hunter. The reading takes place from 7-8. The HPAC is at 5020 S. Cornell. Parking is easy, and it's easy to get to on public transportation. BYOB.