Danny's Reading Series

Danny's Reading Series
Wed., Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m.


Poets Kiki Petrosino (Fort Red Border) and Judith Goldman (DeathStar Rico-chet) are the featured readers. 21+.

Danny's Tavern (map)
1951 W. Dickens
Wicker Park/Bucktown

Open Books Grand Opening
Sat., Nov. 21, 10 a.m. and Sun., Nov. 22, 10 a.m.
10 am - 7 pm.
Open Books
213 W Institute Pl


Open Books is thrilled to announce the grand opening of their flagship bookstore location! Join us for two days of author events, story time, puppet shows, tours, promotions and much more. All sales of book purchases go to fund literacy programs for adults and children in Chicago, which take place in our new classrooms above the bookstore. Come experience the joy of reading and writing like you never have before and give back to the community at the same time, all at Open Books. For more information about Open Books and a full schedule of events, visit, www.open-books.org ...



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15th Annual Juried Reading & Award Ceremony

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 6:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue



Poets from all over the Midwest have been selected as finalists for the Poetry Center of Chicago's 15th Annual Juried Reading Competition, judged by award-winning poet Brenda Hillman. Winners will receive awards and read from their work at this annual celebratory event.

This year's winners are:

1st place: Lina ramona Vitkauskas
2nd place: Carrie Oeding
3rd place: Richard Fox


Runners up:

Stephanie Anderson
Patrick Culliton
Ellen Elder
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Megan Levad
Stephanie Sauer

Monkeybicycle

A Monkeybicycle / Knee-Jerk Reading Event

When: Sat., Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m.
Phone: 773-293-2665
www.monkeybicycle.net/event.html

Monkeybicycle and Chicago's newest online literary journal Knee-Jerk Magazine team up for an exciting night of reading and humor, featuring some of Chicago's finest up and coming writers: Billy Lombardo, Aaron Burch, Amy Guth, Jac Jemc, Simon A. Smith, Angi Becker Stevens and the Book Cellar's own Brandon Will. Come meet the readers, and see why everyone should support local artists and publishers.

Start time: Saturday, November 21, 2009 At 07:30 PM
Book Cellar
Ravenswood 4736 N. Lincoln

Rhino Poetry Workshop

Evanston Public Library
Church & Orrington

November 22nd, Sunday
1:30-4:30 -- Room 108

FOURTH SUNDAYS
RHINO POETRY WORKSHOPS
and peer exchange
sponsored by RHINO/the Poetry Forum

COME AND TRY OUT YOUR NEW WORK ON US!

Past leaders and readers and all poets welcome. Drop in, have poems critiqued, and participate in an ongoing discussion of poetry and poetics. Sessions are free* and no registration is required.

Leader: Martha Vertreace


A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody is Distinguished Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Kennedy-King College, Chicago, IL. She received her MFA at Vermont College. Her several books include Second House from the Corner, Under a Cat’s-Eye Moon, Oracle Bones, Cinnabar, Smokeless Flame, Kelly in the Mirror, Maafa: When Night Becomes a Lion, Dragon Lady:Tsukimi., and Glacier Fire. Light Caught Bending and Second Mourning, published by Diehard Publishers, Edinburgh, won Scottish Arts Council Grants. Named the Glendora Review Poet, Lagos, Nigeria, she was twice a Fellow at the Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat in Scotland. Eastern Washington University chose her as Poetry Fellow, in residence at the Writers Center, Dublin, Ireland. She was a Fellow at St. Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, Wales, on a bursary. She has poems in Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and Poets of the New Century (David R. Godine Publisher, 2001). Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein published her poem, “Walking Under Night Sky” in his cassette “Bread & Steel: Illinois Poets Reading from Their Works.” She lives in Chicago with her husband, Tim, and their cats, Fred and Patrick Samuel.

Martha’s topic: Poetry and History: Living Someone Else’s Life

Bring 15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of work you want critiqued.

*$5 donation appreciated

This project has been partially supported by a grant from Poets & Writers.

For more info: RHINOPOETRY.ORG

Orange Alert Reading Series

When: Sun., Nov. 15, 6 p.m.


Orange Alert Press hosts Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter, Laura Pearson, Patrick Somerville (The Cradle), and Kyle Beachy (The Slide); Knee-Jerk magazine cohosts.

The Whistler
Logan Square 2421 N. Milwaukee

This Sunday on Wordslingers

8:00 PM
WLUW
88.7-FM
online at http://www.wluw.org.




Once again, I have the fine privilege of serving as your guest host on Wordslingers, Chicagoland’s longest-running poetry radio program on the air. Join me and Wordslingers producer Shelley Nation-Watson as we explore fresh language arts, where the words we live are not for the meek.

On this Sunday, at 8:00 PM, we’re featuring two new voices for Wordslingers

Live performances by John Paul Davis and slam champion Roger Bonair-Agard, both recently “settled” in Chicago with the Vox Ferus writers group.

Hear all the Wordslingers shows on WLUW, community radio from Loyola University, 88.7-FM or (when streaming services are available) listen online at http://www.wluw.org. Programs go to air totally live on the first and third Sundays of the month, at 8:00 PM, Central time.

hoping to “see” you on the radio!

Kurt Heintz
e-poets network, Chicago
http://www.e-poets.net
http://voices.e-poets.net