Molly Malone's

Monday, Mar 8
7:30pm - 10:00pm
7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic (5 minutes per reader)
9:00 -- featured reader

Molly Malone’s
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL

Featured Kathleen Driskell

Hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova invite you to the Molly Malone's Open Mic and Reading Series. Be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.

Kathleen Driskell’s poetry collection Seed Across Snow (Red Hen, 2009) has been listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation. Kathleen serves as the Associate Program Director of Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky, where she is Associate Professor of Creative Writing. She is the author of one previous book of poetry, Laughing Sickness (now in its second printing), and the editor of two anthologies of creative writing. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines including North American Review, The Southern Review, and The Greensboro Review. Kathleen lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband and two children in an old country church built before The Civil War.

$5 if you can, $3 if you can't

Oyez Review

The Book Cellar
4746 N Lincoln Avenue
Friday, March 12, 2010 At 07:00 PM


Oyez Review

Contributors read from the 2010 edition of the Oyez Review, an annual literary magazine produced by Roosevelt University MFA students.

The Oyez Review has featured work of writers such as Charles Bukowski, James McManus, Carla Panciera, Michael Onofrey, Tim Foley, John N. Miller, Gary Fincke, and Barry Silesky.

The Future of Literary Magazines and Journals

"The Future of Literary Magazines and Journals"
When: Fri., March 5, 7 p.m.


Panel with Creative Nonfiction managing editor Hattie Fletcher, book critic Donna Seaman, Poetry magazine associate editor Fred Sasaki, and TriQuarterly assistant editor Ian Morris.

Barbara's Bookstore
1218 S. Halsted St.

Frank Rogaczewski @ Roosevelt University

Frank Rogaczewski, Tuesday, March 9, 5 - 6 p.m.
Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Avenue

Rogaczewski's debut collection of prose poems, The Fate of Humanity in Verse, was published in Spring 2009. His poetry has been published in Notre Dame Review, Denver Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, Samizdat, BlueSky Review, Oyez Review and elsewhere. He teaches poetry in Roosevelt's MFA in Creative Writing Program.

The Encyclopedia Show

The Encyclopedia Show
When: Wed., March 3, 7:30 p.m.
Phone: 773-342-4141
Price: $6
encyclopediashow.com
Vittum Theater
1012 N. Noble St.


Music, poetry, visual art, and spoken word on the topic: Fast Food. With Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Claire Zulkey, Matt Guenette, Jared S. Fogle, Eric Uchalik, Jacob Knabb, and many more.

Danny's Reading Series

Wednesday, March 10th
1951 W Dickens
7:30PM

Rick Snyder & John Tipton


Rick Snyder’s books include Escape From Combray (Ugly Duckling), Blueprint (811 Books, 1999), Double Ear (811 Books, 1999), Forecast Memorial (Duration, 2002), Flown Season (Portable Press, 2004), and Guestbook (Dusie, 2007). His poems have appeared in print and online journals such as 6×6, Aufgabe, Barrow Street, Dusie, Hanging Loose, jubilat, LIT, LVNG, Lungfull!, Milk, Open City, The Poker, Radical Society, Readme, Skanky Possum, and TheEastVillage. His poem “How Are You Doing?” was recently featured in the syndicated column American Life in Poetry.



John Tipton is the author of surfaces (Flood Editions, 2004) and the translation of Sophocles' Ajax . He is the founder and director of the Chicago Poetry Project.

Spring 2010

PO
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Sponsored by
the English Department
of Columbia College Chicago


Alan Michael Parker & Matthew Shindell
Wednesday, March 3rd
5:30p.m.
Hokin Hall
623 South Wabash, Room 109



ALAN MICHAEL PARKER is the author of five collections of poems, including Elephants & Butterflies, a novel, Cry Uncle, and the editor or co-editor of three scholarly volumes. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Paris Review, among other magazines; his prose appears in journals including The Believer, and The New York Times Book Review; for the past fifteen years, his book reviews have appeared regularly in The New Yorker. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Pushcart Prize and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (for a poem on a humanitarian theme), he holds degrees from Washington University and Columbia University. He has taught at Davidson College since 1998, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing; he is also a Core Faculty member in the Queens University low-residency M.F.A. program.



MATTHEW SHINDELL’s first full-length book of poems, In Another Castle, was a finalist for the 2008 Tupelo Press First Book Award. He is the author of the Poetry Postcard Project and a limited edition chapbook, Were something to happen it would be both funny and interesting (University of Iowa Type Kitchen, 2001). His poems have appeared in numerous journals including American Letters and Commentary, The American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, FENCE, and Jubilat, and in the anthologies Digerati: 20 Contemporary Poets in the Virtual World (Three Candles Press, 2006) and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Books, 2006). He lives and writes in La Jolla, California where he is currently in the dissertation stage of a Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of California, San Diego.