Sept 18: Adam Golaski & Jen Karmin

Saturday, September 18
7pm

Adam Golaski
Jennifer Karmin in a live improvisation
with Mairead Case, Chris Cuellar,
Denise Dooley, Kath Duffy & Ira S. Murfin

Myopic Bookstore
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor
http://www.myopicbookstore.com

ADAM GOLASKI darns his daughter’s socks. He wrote Color Plates (Rose Metal Press). He wrote Worse Than Myself (Raw Dog Screaming Press). He sleeps on the back of a bumble bee. He gnawed his own leg off. Adam is the co-founder of Flim Forum Press, a press he co-founded. Adam listens to Paul McCartney’s “Comin’ Up” on repeat hoping the cosmos will reveal itself and it does. Little Stories is his blog. This is the combination of search terms that hypnotized Google: “Adam + Golaski + Little + Stories.”

JENNIFER KARMIN's text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. In Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools.

Poetry Brothel

September 24 at 8:00pm
House Of Blues Chicago
329 North Dearborn Street


Gentlemen, leave your brass knuckles at the door. Ladies! Come out for a night! Come meet the Madame Black-eyed Susan & her lovely butterflies. They cannot wait to meet you!


The Chicago Poetry Brothel FIRST all CHICAGO cast presents: SEEDS OF SIN Burlesque Dancers! Whiskey! Vaudeville & POETRY Whores!

In the Foundation Room at the House of Blues Friday, Sept. 24.

Come out and enjoy a night in Chicago’s romantic Victorian past! Let a Poetry Whore whisk you away for a private reading.

Doors open at 8pm. $5 if you come dressed Victorian. $10 if not.

Good Evening

the G O O D
E V E N I N G readingseries


presents:

Holly Amos
&
Nate Slawson



Friday, September 17th
7:00-7:30p.m.
Open Mic
7:45p.m.

Features

B Y O B

M E S S H A L L
6932 N. Glenwood Ave.
in Rogers Park



H O L L Y A M O S received her BFA in Creative Writing amid Bowling Green State University's numerous cornfields and is currently in the MFA program at Columbia College (which has considerably fewer cornfields). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bateau, Columbia Poetry Review, North American Review, and Phantom Limb.


N A T E S L A W S O N designs books for Cinematheque Press. He is the author of two chapbooks, most recently The Tiny Jukebox (H_NGM_N Books, 2009). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slope, Handsome, Cannibal, Corduroy Mtn., Forklift, Ohio, Typo, and other places.



Feel free to contact curators Nicole Wilson & Kelly Forsythe with questions, suggestions, or reading interest at chitown.poetry[at]gmail[dot]com.

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Poetry Off the Shelf

Wednesday, September 15, 6:00 PM

Poetry Off the Shelf:
Valerie Martínez & Silvia Curbelo
Jazz Showcase
806 South Plymouth Court
Free admission

Valerie Martínez is a poet, teacher, translator, playwright, librettist, editor, and collaborative artist. Her first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent (Four Way Books, 1999), won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets after being a finalist in the Walt Whitman, National Poetry Series, and Intro Award competitions. Her second book, World to World, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2004. Martínez’s translation of the poetry of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), A Flock of Scarlet Doves, was published in special edition by Sutton Hoo Press in 2005. A book-length poem, Each and Her, is out this year, as is her collection of Santa Fe poems (written during her tenure as poet laureate of Santa Fe), And They Called It Horizon. Her poems have also appeared in various anthologies of contemporary poetry, including The Best American Poetry, New American Poets—A Breadloaf Anthology, and American Poetry—Next Generation. She is the executive director and core artist with Littleglobe, an artist-run nonprofit that collaborates with communities in creating public works of art, installation, and performance as well as producing smaller-scale artist collaborations.

Silvia Curbelo is the author of three collections of poetry: The Geography of Leaving (Silverfish Review Press), The Secret History of Water (Anhinga Press), and Ambush (Main Street Rag). Among her many laurels are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Arts Council, and the Cintas Foundation, as well as the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review and the James Wright Award from Mid-American Review. Her poems have been published in literary journals and more than two dozen anthologies, including The Body Electric: America’s Best Poetry, Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets, and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. A native of Matanzas, Cuba, she lives in Tampa, Florida, where she is managing editor for Organica magazine.

Co-sponsored by The Poetry Foundation, the Guild Complex and Letras Latinas

Molly Malone's

Monday, Sep 13

7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic (5 minutes per reader)
9:00 -- featured reader

Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073

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.

Featuring poet, performer and poetry promoter, Robbie Q. Telfer

Robbie Q. Telfer is a touring performance poet, having been a featured performer/reader in hundreds of venues across North America, Germany and Slovenia. He is the author of the recently released Spiking the Sucker Punch and has had work in the American Book Review, Octopus Magazine, Cream City Review and decomP magazinE, as well as several spoken word anthologies and DVDs. He was an individual finalist at the National Poetry Slam in 2007 and he co-wrote the video games Ninjatown DS and Space Miner: Space Ore Bust. He lives in Chicago where he curates the Encyclopedia Show, a live literary variety show now being staged in 10 cities. He is the Director of Performing Arts for Young Chicago Authors, a not-for-profit that gives creative writing opportunities and mentorship to Chicago teens. His work with YCA has been featured in two documentaries from HBO and Siskel Jacobs Productions. He is the poetry correspondent for TimeOut Chicago.

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



Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month.
Molly’s Features, mark your calendars:
October: Renny Golden
November: Nate Pritts and Matt Hart
December: Kristiana Colon
January: Don Share
February: John Paul Davis
March: Robin Behn

Red Rover Series / Experiment #39

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #39:
I Will Be Not Here

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th
7pm / doors lock 7:30

Featuring:
Kevin Kilroy
Amanda Marbais
Andrew K. Peterson

at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4

**NEW VENUE**
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible

KEVIN KILROY writes fiction. Excerpts form his recently completed novel, STAN a triptych have been published by Pinstripe Fedora, Fact-Simile, and Hot Whiskey. He teaches Beat Literature and Writing classes for Columbia College and Flashpoint. Zenyatta is his favorite horse. Paul Curreri is his favorite singer. Georgia is currently his favorite state. Nicolet Bay is his favorite Beach.

AMANDA MARBAIS' stories have most recently appeared in Monkeybicycle, Hobart web, Kill Author, Fiction at Work, The2ndHand, Staccato and elsewhere. She is the Managing/Fiction Editor for Requited Journal. She lives in Chicago.

ANDREW K. PETERSON is the author of Museum of Thrown Objects (BlazeVox 2010), Between Here and the Telescopes (collaborations with Elizabeth Guthrie, Slumgullion 08), and a forthcoming chapbook, bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile). His writing has appeared in Fact Simile's The A sh Anthology, Hot Whiskey Press' The Meat Issue, Jennifer Karmin's ongoing 4000 Words 4000 Dead project, and other journals, most recently, online at 350 Poems Project, Dusie, The Offending Adam, and Requited. He is a co-editor of Livestock Editions, a small press devoted to poetry. He received an MFA from Naropa Univ.'s Kerouac School, and lives in Massachusetts.

Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.

Email ideas for reading experiments to us at
redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

The schedule for events is listed at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries

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