2.23 the Café open mic & feature

February 23, 8:30PM

The Café open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 (plus donation for the feature)

The Café (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). February 23rd has Larry Janowski as a feature, as well as an open mic. See the Café on line at http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule, and YouTube video links of the 2010 features.

Poem Present

Thursday, February 11, 2010, 4:30 – 5:30pm
Social Sciences 201
University of Chicago, Social Science Research Building
Hyde Park 1126 E. 59th St.

Poem Present :
Pimone Triplett

Pimone Triplett is the author of The Price of Light (2005) and Ruining the Picture (1998). She has been the recipient of the Levis Poetry Prize and the Hazel Hall Poetry Prize. With Daniel Tobin, she is the co-editor of Poet's Work, Poet's Play, a collection of essays on craft by Warren Wilson MFA Program professors. Her MFA is from the University of Iowa.

THE NEW TENTACLE

THE NEW TENTACLE
literary uses for religious text: a reading

You are invited to an evening of work in response to religious texts (or to religion as text) -- from Gilgamesh to Buddha to Biblical woman to 18th century American hymns, watch the sacred and the profane mix and mingle before your very eyes for a one-time-only living room show overlooking Kedzie Boulevard in beautiful Logan Square, Chicago.

7pm Friday, February the 12th
free / donations accepted

2253 N. Kedzie Boulevard
Apartment #2 (buzzer: Murfin/Wooten/Bean)
btw Belden & Lyndale, s. of Fullerton
CTA Logan Square Blue Line

The evening's entertainments will include
the religo-linguistic stylings of:

HV Cramond
Daniel Godston
Nicholas Alexander Hayes
A D Jameson
Jennifer Karmin
Heather Momyer
Ira S. Murfin
Sherrie Weller
&
Alicia Jo Rabins
We are welcoming the Brooklyn-based poet & musician to town and celebrating the release of her her art-pop song cycle about Biblical women, Girls in Trouble. She is the violinist in klezmer-rock band Golem, and her album Girls in Trouble was released on Jdub Records in November 2009. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, 6 x 6, Poems of Brooklyn (NYU Press) and Horse Poems (Everyman's Library).

Of her appearance at The New Tentacle she says,
"My performance will definitely involve live violin looping, singing about obscure Biblical women, and perhaps reading from an ongoing series of surreal instruction manuals."

http://www.myspace.com/girlsintroublemusic
http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2009/session/alicia-rabins.html

The Play's the Thing: 400 Years of Shakespeare on Stage

The Play's the Thing: 400 Years of Shakespeare on Stage
February 16 - May 1, 2010
Donnelley Gallery
Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.




People have produced, starred in, and enjoyed the spectacle of Shakespeare’s work on stage for more than four centuries. Explore a surprising variety of materials created by professional and amateur actors, producers, theaters, and newspapers to create and publicize the latest Shakespearean creations. Broadside advertisements, homemade programs, a nineteenth-century fund raising show book, and a hand-made manuscript prompt book from the early nineteenth century are just some of the objects on display.

Admission is free.

Admission & Hours
Admission to all exhibits at the Newberry Library is free and open to the public.
Galleries are open Monday, Friday, Saturday from 8:15 am - 5:00 pm, and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, from 8:15 am - 7:30 pm. Holiday closings

Janet Holmes & Jenny Mueller at Columbia College

Janet Holmes & Jenny Mueller
Wednesday, February 17th
5:30p.m.
Hokin Hall
623 South Wabash, Room 109


JANET HOLMES is author of five books of poetry, most recently THE MS OF MY KIN (Shearsman, 2009) and F2F (U Notre Dame, 2006). She is a founding faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing at Boise State University, where she also edits Ahsahta Press, an all-poetry publisher.



JENNY MUELLER’s first book of poems is Bonneville, published by Elixir Press in 2007. A graduate of the University of Chicago, University of Utah, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently lives in St. Louis and teaches at McKendree University, where she is an associate professor of English.



This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call (312) 369-8819.

Poetry Center Juried Reading Contest Deadline Extended

Friday, Feb 26
Juried Reading Contest
Submission deadline extended!

New Postmark deadline: Friday, February 26, 2010
First prize: $1,500; Second prize: $500; Third prize: $250

Five finalists receive $50

The Poetry Center invites regional poets to submit their unpublished work for consideration in the 16th Annual Juried Reading. Eight finalists will have their poetry published in an e-book by Plastique Press as well as on the Poetry Center website, and all eight poets will be invited to read at an award ceremony in the spring.




Mark Nowak, Final Judge

A poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for "regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature," Mark Nowak regularly leads transnational poetry workshops between American and international trade unions. He is the author of Revenants and Shut Up Shut Down, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and finalist for the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award. A native of Buffalo, New York, he is now the Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College in Maryland.

The Juried Reading is open to all poets residing in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Poets may be unpublished or have published no more than one full-length book of poetry. All submissions are blind; the jury and the judge will have no access to identifying information about the submitting poets.

To submit, mail:

1. A cover sheet including your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and titles of poems submitted.

2. Four copies of a packet, independently stapled, of no more than five single-sided, typed pages of unpublished poetry. There is no restriction on the number of poems per page, but the packet should not exceed five pages. Your name should not appear on any of the pages containing poems.

3. 15 jury fee, check or money order made payable to "The Poetry Center." The contest is free for Poetry Center members.

Poems will be accepted by US mail only. Send poems to: 16th Annual Juried Reading, The Poetry Center of Chicago, 37 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL60603. E-mail and fax submissions will not be accepted. No phone calls please.

Visit the Poetry center website for for a list of the 2009 Juried Reading winners and a selection of their poetry.

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New from Virtual Artists Collective

Ink on Snow, Elizabeth Raby
isbn 9780981989846
$15.00
order it here



What unites all the poems in Ink on Snow is the voice of someone brave enough to see closely both the painful and the beautiful--to ask what will satisfy and to trust the words to respond in the way we trust prayers to be answered: not with easy solutions or simple fixes, but with a recognition that what we are looking for will never reveal itself in the way we expect it to. So many of the poems are acts of witness by a speaker who is both detached and passionate, intimate and observant, conscious of her distance from things--tragedies, natural phenomenon, people--and determined to bridge this distance through the agency of a loving and courageous language, exploring the dark energies that inform her life and the world's and in doing so, illuminating our lives and hers.

Christopher Bursk, author of The First Inhabitants of Arcadia