5th Day : Projective Industries

Visit here for info, ordering, and submissions guidelines:
http://projectiveindustries.com/

Bookslut Series

Wednesday, Dec 16
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Hopleaf, Second Floor

5148 N. Clark Street

Join Daniel Nester as he reads from HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE, his debut collection of humorous nonfiction that glorifies all things inappropriate and TMI, and


Kathleen Rooney as she reads from FOR YOU, FOR YOU I AM TRILLING THESE SONGS, an essay collection forthcoming in January 2010--sneak preview!

4th Day: Black Ocean

From early silent films to early punk rock, Black Ocean brings together a spectrum of influences and combines them with a radical social perspective on the nature of art and humanity. We manifest our aesthetic in the books we print, the shows we produce, and the work we promote.

Based out of Boston, New York and Chicago, our intent is to saturate the public with skillful and passionate forms of expression through a wide variety of mediums.

In conjunction with our book releases, we stage parties, concerts, exhibitions and other celebrations around the country. We are committed to promoting artists we firmly believe in, and sharing our enthusiasm for their work with a global audience.

For information and to order, visit: http://www.blackocean.org.

3rd Day: Mayapple Press

Mayapple Press is a small press established in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. We specialize in contemporary literature, especially poetry and works that straddle conventional categories: Great Lakes, women, Caribbean, translations, science fiction poetry, recent immigrant experience, Judaica. Publications are in both chapbook and trade paperback formats.

For more info and to order, visit: http://www.mayapplepress.com/

Molly Malones

Monday, December 14th


7 pm -- open mic sign-up
7:30 -- open mic
9:00 --featured reader
7652 Madison Street, Forest Park
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't

Ralph Hamilton is an editor of RHINO and has an MFA in poetry from Bennington. In Flannery O’Connor’s story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, the Misfit says, “She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life”—and Ralph looks for the same quality in poems: something to slice the world open, to reawaken perception, make it stranger, less certain, make living in this moment keener, more desperate, more delicate, its bruised beauty more manifest. Ralph’s recent publications include A Writer’s Congress: Chicago Poets on the Inauguration of Barak Obama, Talisman: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and the upcoming Court Green.

2nd Day: Swan Isle Press

The Mission of Swan Isle Press:

Swan Isle Press is an independent, not-for-profit, literary publisher dedicated to publishing works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction that inspire and educate while advancing the knowledge and appreciation of literature, art, and culture.

Since its inception in 1999, a special interest of the Press is publishing books related to Spanish and Latin American literature, art, and culture. When possible and editorially appropriate, the Press issues these works in bilingual editions, in the original Spanish with English translations. The imprints for literature with Spanish language or Hispanic cultural content are La Isla del Cisne Ediciones (and El Cisne Negro Ediciones).

The Press' bilingual editions and single-language English translations make contemporary and classic texts more accessible to a variety of readers. Our bilingual editions recognize the still largely unmet publication needs of the important and growing Spanish-speaking population within the United States.

Learn more and order titles at : http://www.swanislepress.com/intro.html

Orange Alert Series

Dec 20th @ 6:00pm
The Whistler
Logan Square 2421 N. Milwaukee


Jeff Phillips
Golda Goldboom
Jamie Calder
Tim Jones-Yelvington