ROCKBOX POETRY JAM
Poetry's Once Monthly Late Night Home
Featured Readers include: John-Franklin Dandridge, Matt Anderson, and a mystery third!
Open Mic to follow
Monday, December 7th, 2009
2624 N Lincoln Avenue
9:30 PM - 4 AM
$3 Drafts, $4 Jameson shots
The Rockbox Poetry Jam is the brainchild of Subterranean's Narciso Lobo and Columbia College's Joe Bly. This reading series and open mic were designed to incorporate the poetry of past and present in an informal conversational setting. We ask our features and open mic poets to indulge us in their own work along with the works that give them inspiration. This "return to sender" style of reading keeps us grounded in the resounding enjoyment of all poetry and enlightens us with the forthcoming work of our peers. Please join us for drinks, music, and convivial discussion!
Love,
Joe and The Rockbox
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Poetry Center Holiday Sale!
NOW until Thursday, 5:00pm, Dec 31
Like many non-profit organizations the Poetry Center of Chicago is trying to weather these difficult economic times. One of the ways we raise funds is through our online store. If you love poetry and support the work we do you can help by visiting our store and giving the gift of poetry this holiday season.
20% off Poetry Center Broadsides, Books, CDs, T-shirts, and Hats
Now through December 31st, 2009
Just enter coupon XMAS09 at checkout
Visit the store at: http://www.poetrycenter.org/store
Treat the poetry lover in your life to one of our beautifully crafted, limited edition, poetry broadsides or choose from any of our quality products. The Poetry Center store carries a variety of goods, including superbly mastered digital CD recordings of compiled and individual Poetry Center readings, past and current editions of the Hands on Stanzas anthology, and unique poetry t-shirts and caps. Visit our gallery to browse our collection of broadsides and for a complete catalog of all our products.
Make a Gift of Poetry Today!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
This Weekend at Myopic Books
THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays (and occasional Saturdays) 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
SATURDAY, December 5 – Lina ramona Vitkauskas & Kristina Marie Darling
Lina ramona VITKAUSKAS is the author of Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press), Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press), and THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press). She is the 2009 recipient of The Poetry Center of Chicago’s 15th Annual Juried Reading award, judged by Brenda Hillman. Her short fiction was also recently featured on Chicago Public Radio’s Vocolo.org. Her work has appeared in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007), The Prague Literary Review, Van Gogh's Ear, The Chicago Review, Aufgabe, Drunken Boat, MiPoesias, Paper Tiger, and elsewhere.
Kristina Marie DARLING is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Night Music (BlazeVox Books, 2008) and Strange Machine (Gold Wake Press, 2009). A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her writing appears or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Colorado Review, Shenandoah, New Letters, and other periodicals. Awards include residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Prairie Center of the Arts, as well as a scholarship to attend the Squaw Valley Community of Writers' annual poetry conference.
Sunday, December 6 – Jacob S. Knabb, Luis Valadez & Charlie Newman
Jacob S. KNABB’s double-life as Fiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine and lecturer of composition at UIC has led him to cast his demons into a herd of swine he saw by a ravine. He is still waiting to hear them hit bottom and if they ever do he will blog about it at jacobsknabb.tumblr.com.
Luis VALADEZ is from Chicago Heights, Illinois. He's written plays and writes poetry and has written a book called "what i'm on" from the University of Arizona Press and has released a CD called "wat ahm on (ep)" on Cerda/Last Minute Records. He received an MFA in Poetry from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He loves reading here and he's glad to see you.
Charlie NEWMAN has had 4 books and a chapbook published and 3 CDs released. His poetry has appeared in: honeydu, After Hours, Ink & Ashes, milk, Poetry Bay, Locuspoint, exsanguinate, and Saw, among others. He has performed at venues in Chicago, NYC and London, in such events as Insomniacathons, the Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Jam, the Big Sur 40th Anniversary Read, the London International Poetry & Song Festival, the New York Underground Music & Poetry Festival, the U.N. Dialogue Through Poetry, Around The Coyote, WLUW David Amram 75th Birthday Celebration, and many ChicagoPoetry.com events including several Chicago Poetry Fests, Poets Against The War, the 22nd Annual Chicago Blues Festival, and the 21st Annual Printers Row Book Fair. He hosts The Café Tuesday night open mic.
Stay tuned for more, as yet unannounced, readings that are in the works. All best wishes,
—Larry
http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html
Myopic Books — 18 years of innovative poetry in Chicago
(THANK YOU for all of your support in 2009. Here’s wishing you the best for 2010!)
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Danny's Reading Series
Danny's Reading Series
Wed., Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Danny's Tavern
1951 W. Dickens
Born and raised in New York City, Alan Bernheimer graduated in 1970 from Yale University, where he studied with New York poets Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco and spent time with other young writers such as Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten—a group who would soon become known as the San Francisco Language poets. Bernheimer also wrote and performed for Poets Theater and produced and hosted In the American Tree, a radio program of new writing by poets on KPFA. This collection includes recent work; brief selections from his first two books; the entirety of Billionesque (The Figures, 1999); and the play Particle Arms, which was produced by the San Francisco Poets Theater in the early '80s.
Karyna McGlynn grew up in Austin, TX. She studied at Seattle University and received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Zell Postgraduate Fellowship in Poetry and a Hopwood Award. Her first book, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, won the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. Karyna’s recent chapbooks include Scorpionica (New Michigan Press, 2007) and Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008). Her poems have appeared in Fence, Gulf Coast, Willow Springs, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse Daily, Octopus, CutBank, and Ninth Letter.
Wed., Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Danny's Tavern
1951 W. Dickens
Born and raised in New York City, Alan Bernheimer graduated in 1970 from Yale University, where he studied with New York poets Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco and spent time with other young writers such as Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten—a group who would soon become known as the San Francisco Language poets. Bernheimer also wrote and performed for Poets Theater and produced and hosted In the American Tree, a radio program of new writing by poets on KPFA. This collection includes recent work; brief selections from his first two books; the entirety of Billionesque (The Figures, 1999); and the play Particle Arms, which was produced by the San Francisco Poets Theater in the early '80s.
Karyna McGlynn grew up in Austin, TX. She studied at Seattle University and received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Zell Postgraduate Fellowship in Poetry and a Hopwood Award. Her first book, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, won the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. Karyna’s recent chapbooks include Scorpionica (New Michigan Press, 2007) and Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008). Her poems have appeared in Fence, Gulf Coast, Willow Springs, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse Daily, Octopus, CutBank, and Ninth Letter.
Elbowing off the Stage
Monday, Dec 14
7:00 pm
Monday, December 14, 7:00 p.m.
Manhattan's
415 S. Dearborn St.
312-957-0460
Elbowing Off the Stage community reading series presents poets
Brandi Homan (Switchback Books)
Liz Hildreth (Switchback Books)
Sarah Carson (RHINO magazine)
for a night of purty poiesis.
Come have a drink and hear some poems.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Encyclopedia Show
Wednesday Dec 2nd
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Chopin Theatre
1543 W Division
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW PRESENTS!
SERIES 2, VOLUME 4: HOCKEY
Chicago Slam Works brings to you The Encyclopedia Show – Hockey, at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division, on Wednesday, December 2 at 7:30 pm. Tickets $6 at the door. All ages. www.encyclopediashow.com
With music, poetry, visual art and spoken word on the topic: Hockey. Featuring (Contributor – Topic):
Javon Johnson (National Poetry Slam Champion) – Black Hockey Player
Mary Hamilton (Quickies) – Billy Coutu
Death From Below (Tim Stafford and Dan Sullivan, HBO Def Poets) – The Philadelphia Quakers
Aris Theotokatos (Louder Than A Bomb Teen Slam Champion) – Chicago Blackhawks’ Cup Draught
Ian Chillag (writer for NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) and Justin White (Visual Artist) – Lord Frederick Stanley
Music by Shanny Jean Maney (Encyclopedia Show Host) – 1980 US/USSR Olympic Semifinal
Art by Claire Niederberger (Young Chicago Authors' Saturday Writing Program Student) – The Original 6 NHL Teams.
Featuring Hosts
Robbie Q Telfer (Author of Spiking the Sucker Punch)
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 (HBO Def Poet);
Joel Chmara (HBO Def Poet);
Mike Slefinger (Actor);
Evan Chung (Musician) - House Band Leader "The Encartagans";
Emily Rose (Poetry Vet and House Manager) - as Jilted Emily Rose.
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Chopin Theatre
1543 W Division
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW PRESENTS!
SERIES 2, VOLUME 4: HOCKEY
Chicago Slam Works brings to you The Encyclopedia Show – Hockey, at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division, on Wednesday, December 2 at 7:30 pm. Tickets $6 at the door. All ages. www.encyclopediashow.com
With music, poetry, visual art and spoken word on the topic: Hockey. Featuring (Contributor – Topic):
Javon Johnson (National Poetry Slam Champion) – Black Hockey Player
Mary Hamilton (Quickies) – Billy Coutu
Death From Below (Tim Stafford and Dan Sullivan, HBO Def Poets) – The Philadelphia Quakers
Aris Theotokatos (Louder Than A Bomb Teen Slam Champion) – Chicago Blackhawks’ Cup Draught
Ian Chillag (writer for NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) and Justin White (Visual Artist) – Lord Frederick Stanley
Music by Shanny Jean Maney (Encyclopedia Show Host) – 1980 US/USSR Olympic Semifinal
Art by Claire Niederberger (Young Chicago Authors' Saturday Writing Program Student) – The Original 6 NHL Teams.
Featuring Hosts
Robbie Q Telfer (Author of Spiking the Sucker Punch)
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 (HBO Def Poet);
Joel Chmara (HBO Def Poet);
Mike Slefinger (Actor);
Evan Chung (Musician) - House Band Leader "The Encartagans";
Emily Rose (Poetry Vet and House Manager) - as Jilted Emily Rose.
Tuesday Funk tonight at Hopleaf
Tonight, Tuesday December 1st at Hopleaf we have two fabulous poets in the mix for our December edition of Tuesday Funk. They are both very different and equally amazing. They are Nicolas Michael Ravnikar and Jennifer Scappettone. Their bios are below.
Reading starts at 7pm, upstairs opens at 6:30pm. (The cash-only bar upstairs will be open throughout the reading.)
Hopleaf is located at 5148 N. Clark Street in Andersonville at the southwest corner of Clark and Foster. Hope to see you tonight!
The Tuesday Funk Organizers
(P.S. If you are interested in reading at our future events please shoot me an email at halliepalladino [at] gmail.com with a short bio and a poem or two. Currently we book two to three months in advance and our readings are always on the first Tuesday.)
December Poets Bios:
NICHOLAS MICHAEL RAVNIKAR (BA, University of Wisconsin; MFA, Naropa University) lives in Racine, WI, where he edits the irregularly published webzine, The Bathroom and is organizing with Nick Demske the first annual Racquetball Chapbook Tournament. His writing has appeared in most recently in Otoliths and Boo: A Journal of Terrific Things and is forthcoming in BlazeVOX and unarmed. His first feature-length documentary, Quilts on Barns: The Beauty of Rural Art, wrapped post-production in August 2009 and will be available for free viewing online soon. He's currently working on a documentary titled SMALL PRESS, MIDWEST. Midwest-affiliated writers, publishers, readers and scholars interested in letting him interview them for that project can send an email to nicholasmichaelravnikar@gmail.com. He has facilitated workshops in poetry, video, installation art and journalism in a variety of settings, most recently in conjunction with the Racine Arts Council and Woodland Pattern.
JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE, a translator, poet, and purveyor of visual stills and prose, is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009), and of several chapbooks. She is now at work on Exit 43 — an archaeology of the landfill and opera of pop-ups—for the cross-genre publishing project Atelos Press. Excerpts of that book appear in Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse featuring pop-ups and prose by Scappettone, a lyric sequence by Etel Adnan, and an essay by Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, 2009); pop-up scores are now being adapted for performance in collaboration with choreographer Kathy Westwater as LAND. She was guest editor of the feature section of Aufgabe 7, devoted to contemporary Italian experimental poetry, and is at work on a range of translations from Italian, with a focus on the "Babeling deeply felt" of the postwar polyglot author Amelia Rosselli. A selection of Neosuprematist Webtexts, filmed stills, was installed at Infusoria, an exhibit of visual poetry curated by Helen White for the Festival Le Off in Brussels and Het Zilverhof in Ghent in 2009. A range of readings, a talk on poetry and landscape, and a podcast dialogue with Al Filreis are available for download at her PennSound author page. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Reading starts at 7pm, upstairs opens at 6:30pm. (The cash-only bar upstairs will be open throughout the reading.)
Hopleaf is located at 5148 N. Clark Street in Andersonville at the southwest corner of Clark and Foster. Hope to see you tonight!
The Tuesday Funk Organizers
(P.S. If you are interested in reading at our future events please shoot me an email at halliepalladino [at] gmail.com with a short bio and a poem or two. Currently we book two to three months in advance and our readings are always on the first Tuesday.)
December Poets Bios:
NICHOLAS MICHAEL RAVNIKAR (BA, University of Wisconsin; MFA, Naropa University) lives in Racine, WI, where he edits the irregularly published webzine, The Bathroom and is organizing with Nick Demske the first annual Racquetball Chapbook Tournament. His writing has appeared in most recently in Otoliths and Boo: A Journal of Terrific Things and is forthcoming in BlazeVOX and unarmed. His first feature-length documentary, Quilts on Barns: The Beauty of Rural Art, wrapped post-production in August 2009 and will be available for free viewing online soon. He's currently working on a documentary titled SMALL PRESS, MIDWEST. Midwest-affiliated writers, publishers, readers and scholars interested in letting him interview them for that project can send an email to nicholasmichaelravnikar@gmail.com. He has facilitated workshops in poetry, video, installation art and journalism in a variety of settings, most recently in conjunction with the Racine Arts Council and Woodland Pattern.
JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE, a translator, poet, and purveyor of visual stills and prose, is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009), and of several chapbooks. She is now at work on Exit 43 — an archaeology of the landfill and opera of pop-ups—for the cross-genre publishing project Atelos Press. Excerpts of that book appear in Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse featuring pop-ups and prose by Scappettone, a lyric sequence by Etel Adnan, and an essay by Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, 2009); pop-up scores are now being adapted for performance in collaboration with choreographer Kathy Westwater as LAND. She was guest editor of the feature section of Aufgabe 7, devoted to contemporary Italian experimental poetry, and is at work on a range of translations from Italian, with a focus on the "Babeling deeply felt" of the postwar polyglot author Amelia Rosselli. A selection of Neosuprematist Webtexts, filmed stills, was installed at Infusoria, an exhibit of visual poetry curated by Helen White for the Festival Le Off in Brussels and Het Zilverhof in Ghent in 2009. A range of readings, a talk on poetry and landscape, and a podcast dialogue with Al Filreis are available for download at her PennSound author page. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
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