Haki R. Madhubuti @ 57th Street Books

Haki R. Madhubuti
Tue., Nov. 3, 6 p.m.
57th Street Books
1301 E. 57th
Hyde Park


Time: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6:00 p.m.
Location: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

Renown throughout the nation as an activist and educator as well as a poet, Dr. Madhubuti has been a pivotal figure in the development of a strong Black literary tradition. Emerging from the Civil Rights and Black Arts movements of the 1960s and continuing to the present, he helped define and sustain a new energy sweeping across America. With “healing words of wisdom and dynamic action plans rooted in history,” his poetry gave words to the conflicted emotions of many.

As the most comprehensive collection of Dr. Madhubuti’s poetry, Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 revisits work from popular volumes such as Don’t Cry, Scream (1969); Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions (1984); Black Men (1991); Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men (2002); and Run Toward Fear (2004), while a section titled “Liberation Narratives” offers new poems for 2009. Included is a tribute to the late Studs Turkel, repudiations of the Bush administration, musings on the election of America’s first Black president, and a number of other gems.

Elise Paschen @ The Book Stall

Paschen reads from her latest poetry collection, Bestiary; she'll be joined by Triquarterly editor and poet Susan Hahn (The Note She Left).

Sunday, November 1st
3pm.
Book Stall at Chestnut Court
811 Elm St.
Winnetka


Elise Paschen, a poet of Osage descent, is the author of Bestiary (Red Hen Press, 2009); Infidelities (Story Line Press), winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts (Oxford: Sycamore Press). Her poems have been published in The New Republic, Ploughshares and Shenandoah, among other magazines, and in numerous anthologies, including Turning Back to PoeReinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America; A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women; Poetry 180, and The POETRY Anthology, 1912—2002. She is editor of The New York Times best-selling anthology Poetry Speaks to Children (Sourcebooks) and co-editor of Poetry Speaks, Poetry Speaks Expanded (Sourcebooks), Poetry in Motion, and Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast (Norton).

Ballary Marvels

INDEX Press is pleased to announce the publication of BALLARY MARVELS, featuring pen-and-ink drawings by Ellen Lanyon and eleven "nonsense" poems by Lynne Warren. Twenty-four pages plus cover, perfect bound, trim size 10 x 8 ½.

The book is available at MCA Store, 220 E. Chicago Avenue, and Printworks, 311 W Superior Street.

It can also be purchased online at the MCA website.

Tara Betts @ Molly Malone's

Monday, November 9th

7:00 -- 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 Tara Betts

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

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.

Rec Room Series

Reconstruction Room
Wed., Nov. 4, 8 p.m.
black rock bar
3614 n. damen
chicago, il
8:00 pm

What is the sound of one woman turning 32? Is it a sad trombone, like this? We think so. Therefore, in honor of the actual 32nd birthday of rec room founder and organizer Erin Teegarden, we bring you a night of readings and performance that celebrate the various wah wah wah waaaahhhhhh moments of our lives.

Readers/performers include Allison Gruber, Barbara Perry, Dan Godston, Eric Elshtain, Katie Hartsock, Ellen Wadey, Sunny Byers, Jac Jemc, Jacob Knabb, Mary Hamilton, Krista Franklin, and Mary Scherer.

This Week at Myopic

Lihn Dinh & Kent Johnson

Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor


THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor
http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html

773.862.4882

Contact curator Larry Sawyer for booking information and requests.

E-mail: larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com

Linh Dinh in Chicago: Friday Night (& Saturday w/ Kent Johnson at Myopic)

This begins @ 9:30 pm.