ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE
a c o mm u n i t yr e a din g se r i e s

featuring:

Todd McCarty
+
a special night of
Poetry Grab Bag:
bring a poem to get in;
if your poem's pulled from the bag
it's your turn to read!


Monday, November 16th
7:00p.m.
Manhattan's Bar
415 South Dearborn
312.957.0460

Paces away from the Jackson/Library-State/Van Buren
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Tell yer friends.



ToD d mCcA rtY is an M.F.A candidate at Columbia College Chicago where he's currently pursuing a degree in Creative Writing—Poetry. He is also an assistant editor for the literary journal Court Green. While living in Boulder, Colorado, he worked as Graduate Academic Advisor for Naropa University’s Department of Writing and Poetics. He also worked for Naropa’s Audio Archive Project and as a producer and host for KGNU radio. His poetry has appeared in 580 Split, Bombay Gin and Columbia Poetry Review.

Visual Art Poetry Workshop @ Hyde Park Arts Center

We'll explore the galleries of the Hyde Park Art Center to write poems inspired by visual art and artists. Come prepared with notebook, pen or pencil, and a desire
to share your work in a collaborative, stimulating environment.

Led by award winning poet Valerie Wallace, MFA.

Sunday, Nov 8 4 pm - 5 pm
FREE
Space is limited -- call 773.324.5520 or stop by the Hyde Park Arts Center
at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue to register.

BAC Street Journal Release

BAC Street Journal
Sun., Nov. 8, 2-5 p.m.


The second issue of BAC Street Journal, the literary arts magazine published through the Beverly Arts Center, will be introduced as a special event that includes an open reading plus a sale of used books to raise funds for the magazine.


Beverly Arts Center
Beverly, 2417 W. 111th
773-445-3838

Nov 8: Matthew Klane & Jennifer Scappettone

Sunday, November 8th
7pm

Matthew Klane
Jennifer Scappettone

at Myopic Bookstore
1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue

MATTHEW KLANE is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The-Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a sprawling hypertext, online at http://www.housepress.org.

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus, 2009) and of several chapbooks, including Ode oggettuale / Thing Ode, translated into Italian with Marco Giovenale (La Camera Verde, 2008). She edited Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse (Belladonna, 2009), also featuring work by Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian, and the feature section of Aufgabe #7, devoted to contemporary Italian poetry of research. Exit 43, in progress for Atelos Press, is an archaeology of Superfund sites interrupted by an opera of pop-ups. She is now collaborating with choreographer Kathy Westwater on translating pop-up windows into scores for PARK, coming to Dance Theater Workshop and the Center for Performance Research in Winter 2010. Some readings, talks, and interviews are archived at her PennSound page, http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Scappettone.html.

Joy Harjo's For A Girl Becoming

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Women & Children First
5233 N Clark Street

Co-sponsored by Literature for All of Us

We are honored to welcome internationally beloved Mvskoke/Creek poet, writer, and musician Joy Harjo (The Woman Who Fell from the Sky) with her captivating and inspirational release, For a Girl Becoming. Recognizing that coming-of-age can be one of the most confusing stages in a person’s life, Harjo composed For a Girl Becoming as a gift for her first grandchild as she moved from childhood to womanhood. Not just for children, this ritual poem-song speaks to that part of each of us who still stands at the door of becoming. Beautifully illustrated by Mercedes McDonald, For a Girl Becoming is the perfect gift to recognize the transformative milestones in a girl’s or woman’s life.

Series A

Wednesday, Nov. 4th
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Hyde Park Art Center.
5020 S. Cornell Avenue

series A presents:
Jorge Sanchez
Francesco Levato



Francesco Levato is the author of Marginal State (Fractal Edge Press, 2006) and is a contributor to Witness: Anthology of Poetry (Serengeti Press, 2004). His poetry has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online, including The Progressive, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Versal, and many others. His awards include two consecutive poetry fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center. His poetry-based video artwork has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere.

Levato is a vocal advocate of using the arts as a form of political engagement and social responsibility; he is founder of the Samizdat Series, a reading series of socially engaged poetry, and is a founding editor of the online literary journal Ink & Ashes :: a journal of the senses. He has served as poetry editor or guest poetry editor for LocusPoint, Newtopia, and others.

Jorge Sánchez is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, playwright and teacher. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan , where he received a Hopwood Award and a Cowden Fellowship, and received his undergraduate degree from Loyola University Chicago, where he received an Academy of American Poets Prize . His work has appeared in numerous journals, among them Iowa Review, Indiana Review , can we have our ball back? and The Adirondack Review He is at work on a book of poems, Non-Cartoon World , a collection of stories, Work & Play , and a novel, Havana Imaginaria . When not writing, he teaches English at Loyola University Chicago and Hebrew Theological College .



series A is curated by William Allegrezza.
To hear or download series A readings, visit Chicago Amplified and select Hyde Park Art Center from the drop-down menu.

The Encyclopedia Show

Wednesday, November 4th
7:30pm - 9:00pm

The Chopin Theatre
1543 W Division
Chicago Slam Works brings to you The Encyclopedia Show – The Zodiac


With music, poetry, visual art and spoken word on the topic: The Zodiac. Featuring
Amber Rose Tamblyn (Feature Film Star of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) – Virgo
Anne Elizabeth Moore (Best American Comics founding editor) – Aquarius
Toni Asante Lightfoot (Workshops Manager of Young Chicago Authors) – Gemini
Eric Mata (DePaul University Professor) – Aries
Laura Yes Yes (Bay Area Slam Maven) – Leo
Caitlin Parrish (Playwright) – Scorpio

Jill Summers (Silvertongue Reading Series) and Susie Kirkwood (CallingAllMonkeys.com) – Capricorn
John "from Wyoming" Ryan (Louder Than A Bomb College Slam Finalist) – Pisces
with music by Diana Lawrence (Singer/Songwriter) – Taurus

Featuring Hosts:
Robbie Q Telfer (Author of Spiking the Sucker Punch) and
Shanny Jean Maney (Author of Our Brave Faces Were Just Smiles)

with cast regulars:

Kurt Heintz (E-Poets.net) – Fact Checker
Aaron Enskat (Former Normal Slammaster) – The Fact Checker's Fact Checker
Tim Stafford (The Love Psychic)
Joel Chmara (HBO Def Poet)
Mike Slefinger (Actor)
Evan Chung (Musician) - House Band Leader "The Encartagans" and
Emily Rose (Poetry Vet and House Manager) – as Jilted Emily Rose.

Tickets $6 at the door
All ages. www.encyclopediashow.com