The Poet's Eye, The Artist's Voice

October 15, 2009 7:00pm
The Heartland Cafe, 7000 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago 773.465.8005

Are these images accompanied by poems or poems illustrated by images? A collaborative performance of projected images created by the artist and haiku-like poems read aloud by the poet.

Scottie Kersta-Wilson and Carma Lynn Park explore and combine themes of war, nature, and unintended consequences. Audience participation will follow the performance. Visit the web site to share thoughts and images: www.PoetsEyeArtistsVoice.com

Shakespeare Project of Chicago

Newberry Library
60 W. Walton
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
Saturday, October 31, 10:00 am

"I would not be a queen for all the world…"

The line between politics and love is blurred in Shakespeare's late history play. Join The Shakespeare Project of Chicago as they celebrate their 15th season of presenting all-Equity theatrical readings. Dramatizing Henry's historic divorce from Katherine of Aragon, marriage to Anne Boleyn and birth of the future Queen Elizabeth I, the show features Associate Artistic Director Peter Garino.

Admission is free. No reservation is required, but seating is limited.

POW-WOW and Little Black Pearl present Staceyann Chin
October 27, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Little Black Pearl Art and Design Center, 1060 East 47th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60653

October 27th - POW-WOW and Little Black Pearl present "Staceyann Chin: The Otherside of Paradise" performance and book signing. "The Otherside of Paradise" is POWWOW's book of the month for November.

http://www.staceyannchin.com/

Also featuring POW-WOW Protege - Deja Taylor performing from her one woman show - "Free Deja Taylor". This special event will take place from 7-9 PM at Little Black Pearl in Bronzeville, located at 1060 E. 47th Street. All ages.

After Party for the Libra's at Jeffrey Pub - 9PM until. Free admission with ticket stub or merchandise by staceyann Chin

ROCK 'N ROLL DREAMS BY BOB LAWRENCE

Title: Rock 'n Roll Dreams
Author: Robert Lawrence
Publisher: Naked Mannekin
Format: 7.5 x 5" Chapbook
ISBN: 978-1-60725-954-1
List Price: $8.00
Inquiries: nakedmannekin@gmail.com
http://nakedmannekin.blogspot.com/


Remember those old t.v. shows where aliens from Zong travel by mego-turbo-hyper-sub-sonic phenollian waves to Earth and infiltrate our society by posing as humans and they're so good at it no one knows what's up and just before they take over and turn us all into okra or guano or something equally disgusting a little kid who was wise to them all along defeats them by burping potato chip breath on them and they dissolve into dissipating waves of technicolor yawns? If you do, you'll dig Bob Lawrence's take on modern American life even though it's poetry not science fiction. And if you don't, it's about time you ended your sad cultural deprivation and read Rock ‘n Roll Dreams to see what in the name of all that's bitchin' I'm so stoked about. This is inescapable stuff. BTW: He is a man with 3 first names, you know, Robert Alan Lawrence. Like James Earl Ray and Lee Harvey Oswald. There are no coincidences.

--CHARLIE NEWMAN

Laura Kasischke at The Book Cellar

Thursday, October 29, 2009
At 07:00 PM
The Book Cellar
4736-38 N Lincoln


Reading: Laura Kasischke

Acclaimed fiction writer and poet Laura Kasischke visits The Book Cellar to share her newest book, The Pilot's Wife, a novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices people make when they feel they have no choices left.

K. Silem Mohammed & Nick Demske

Presented by the Gothic Funk Nation and BONK! in collaboration with Series A.


Please join us for our Special Event
that will take place at The Uncommon Ground
3800 N. Clark St.
Friday, October 16th at 9 PM.


NICK DEMSKE lives in Racine, Wisconsin, and works there at the Racine Public Library. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Action Yes, Sawbuck, Blazevox, Fact-Simile and Moria among other places. He curates the BONK! performance series in Racine and is the editor of the online forum boo: a journal of terrific things

K. SILEM MOHAMMAD is the author of Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), and The Front (Roof Books, 2009). He edits the poetry magazine Abraham Lincoln with Anne Boyer, and is a co-editor of the forthcoming Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf (Edge Books, 2010). He teaches literature and creative writing at Southern Oregon University

Polyphony H.S.

Monday, October 26, 2009 At 07:00 PM
The Book Cellar
4736-38 N Lincoln


Join us for a reading with contributors to Polyphony H.S., a student-run literary journal for high school writers and editors.

Polyphony H.S. was co-founded by Paige Holtzman (Latin School of Chicago ’06) and Billy Lombardo in August 2004. At that time, there was no other magazine like it in the country--that is, a professional quality, national literary magazine for high school writers, edited by high school students from public, private, and parochial schools; and there is still nothing like it in the world.