Friday, September 24
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Brothers K
500 Main Street
Evanston, IL
DONNA VORREYER’s poetry has appeared in many journals including New York Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Apparatus, Umbrella, qarrtsiluni, and After Hours. Her chapbook Womb/Seed/Fruit is available from Finishing Line Press. Donna spends her days teaching middle school, trying to convince teenagers that words matter. Visit her online: www.donnavorreyer.com.
VALERIE WALLACE's poems appear most recently in Waccamaw, Margie, Potomac, Valparaiso Review, and Santa Clara Review. She received awards from the Illinois Arts Council and Illinois Center for the Book, and fellowships from Writers in the Heartland and Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Valerie works with the Afghan Women's Writing Project, is an associate editor of RHINO Poetry, and leads poetry workshops throughout Chicago.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Myths, SHEroes and Revolutionaries
Myths, SHEroes and Revolutionaries
Sunday, October 3, 2010 / 1-3 p.m.
WomanMade Gallery
685 N Milwaukee
Curated by Nina Corwin and in partnership with WBEZ's Chicago Amplified Series, Woman Made Gallery will host a poetry reading on October 3 from 1 to 3 p.m. Participating readers include Jenny Priego, Ching-In Chen, Maureen Flannery, Susan Slaviero, and Kristine Uyeda. Free admission and refreshments will be served.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Revolving Door Reading Series
Join us for another great night at Revolving Door!
(@ Red Kiva-1108 W. Randolph)
Wednesday, Sept 22
NEW
7 -10, Open Mic starts at 7:30
Red Kiva
1108 W. Randolph
Revolving Door Series
Revolving Door Reading Series continues this month!
More Art, Words, and Music!
We would like to welcome FathomDJ to the Revolving Door Family! Besides just being a fabulous, funky presence herself, she will be spinning only the coolest of sounds.
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OPEN MIC: 7:30 PM
Our space is your space!
Bring a poem, song, joke, or story for our open mic. Each month brings out some great talent, so don't miss the chance to grace our stage!
WORDS: 8:15 PM
Erika Mikkalo lives and writes in Chicago. She received the Tobias Wolff Award for short fiction and her M.F.A. from Columbia College. Her work has appeared in The 2nd Hand, Massachusetts Review, Exquisite Corpse, Columbia Review, fence, Another Chicago Magazine, Chicago Review, and other publications.
Nikki Patin has taught hundreds of workshops at high schools, colleges and universities on performance poetry, body image, sexual assault prevention and LGBT issues. She was a member of Chicago’s 2001 Mental Graffiti National Poetry Slam team and was featured on the fourth season of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. In 2004, she was voted one of Chicago’s six most fabulous 20-somethings by Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye newspaper. In 2006, she took the gold medal in the Gay Games International LGBT poetry slam. Nikki Patin resides in Chicago and is lead singer of rock band, Like A Hundred.
Kenyatta Rogers’s interest in writing began with scary stories and TV shows such as the Twilight Zone and R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. While writing short stories as a child he began to focus more on poetry in high school. His work has been featured in the Word 4: Type + Image Exhibit and published in Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, 350poems.blogspot, les figues press, and The Arsenic Lobster. He was nominated for a 2009 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for his poem “Safety,” which appeared in the Columbia Poetry Review and is a current Cave Canem Fellow and member of The Chicago Poetry Brothel.
We hope to see you there!
Tall Grass Writer's Guild
Tuesday, Sep 28
7:30 pm
The Bourgeois Pig
738 West Fullerton
Contact: Whitney Scott, 219-322-7270
Larry Janowski Headlines TallGrass Open Mic-9/28
Award-winning Chicago poet Larry Janowski, will headline the Tuesday, September 28, TallGrass Writers Guild Open Mic, held upstairs at 7:30 pm at The Bourgeois Pig, 738 West Fullerton,Chicago. The phone number there is 773-883-5282. Larry Janowski's most recent book is BrotherKeeper (The Puddin'head Press 2007). He is a 2008 recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and this year, his poem "Just Take It," was awarded "Best Original Poem 2010" by the Catholic Press Association.
Says one reviewer, “The poem’s message of action and decision offers profound insight into the human condition. The conversational and direct tone lends the poem great power, appropriate to the subject matter and to Frost’s own voice. The sonnet-like structure further supports the poem’s quiet, understated wisdom.” Larry suggests that “Just take it" is a take off on Robert Frost's Poem "The Road Not Taken," and encourages making a decision as more important (and necessary) than making sure it's the "right" one or that others will approve.
His previous chapbooks are Chicago Cantata (2002) and Celibate Dazzled (2006). Larry's poetry has been anthologized in A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration (DePaul University Institute, 2009), On the No Road Way to Tomorrow: Poems from the Chicago-Kunming [China] Poetry Group (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective, 2009), and [Saints] Francis and Clare in Poetry: An Anthology (Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005).
Individual poems have won prizes at Literal Latte (New York), Passager (Baltimore) and River Oak Review in Oak Park, Illinois. His work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Court Green, Rhino, and every issue of After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art since it began in 2000. He also has a poem in the online journal: Big Shoulders Magazine.
Larry is currently working on a second collection. He is a native Chicagoan, a Franciscan friar and teaches poetry at Loyola University.
Immediately following his presentation is the regularly scheduled Open Mic, where everyone is welcome to perform poetry, fiction,music, comedy, and more for up to 10 minutes. Cover charge for the evening's events is $6 reduced to $5 for students, with sign-up tp read starting at 7 pm. TallGrass Writers Guild is a registered, 501-c-3 non-profit arts organization. For information: 219-322-7270.
7:30 pm
The Bourgeois Pig
738 West Fullerton
Contact: Whitney Scott, 219-322-7270
Larry Janowski Headlines TallGrass Open Mic-9/28
Award-winning Chicago poet Larry Janowski, will headline the Tuesday, September 28, TallGrass Writers Guild Open Mic, held upstairs at 7:30 pm at The Bourgeois Pig, 738 West Fullerton,Chicago. The phone number there is 773-883-5282. Larry Janowski's most recent book is BrotherKeeper (The Puddin'head Press 2007). He is a 2008 recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and this year, his poem "Just Take It," was awarded "Best Original Poem 2010" by the Catholic Press Association.
Says one reviewer, “The poem’s message of action and decision offers profound insight into the human condition. The conversational and direct tone lends the poem great power, appropriate to the subject matter and to Frost’s own voice. The sonnet-like structure further supports the poem’s quiet, understated wisdom.” Larry suggests that “Just take it" is a take off on Robert Frost's Poem "The Road Not Taken," and encourages making a decision as more important (and necessary) than making sure it's the "right" one or that others will approve.
His previous chapbooks are Chicago Cantata (2002) and Celibate Dazzled (2006). Larry's poetry has been anthologized in A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration (DePaul University Institute, 2009), On the No Road Way to Tomorrow: Poems from the Chicago-Kunming [China] Poetry Group (Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective, 2009), and [Saints] Francis and Clare in Poetry: An Anthology (Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005).
Individual poems have won prizes at Literal Latte (New York), Passager (Baltimore) and River Oak Review in Oak Park, Illinois. His work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Court Green, Rhino, and every issue of After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art since it began in 2000. He also has a poem in the online journal: Big Shoulders Magazine.
Larry is currently working on a second collection. He is a native Chicagoan, a Franciscan friar and teaches poetry at Loyola University.
Immediately following his presentation is the regularly scheduled Open Mic, where everyone is welcome to perform poetry, fiction,music, comedy, and more for up to 10 minutes. Cover charge for the evening's events is $6 reduced to $5 for students, with sign-up tp read starting at 7 pm. TallGrass Writers Guild is a registered, 501-c-3 non-profit arts organization. For information: 219-322-7270.
Becca Klaver & Jaswinder Bolina @ Columbia College
Fall 2010
PO
ET
RY
Reading
Series
Sponsored by
the English Department
of Columbia College Chicago
Becca Klaver & Jaswinder Bolina
Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall
1312 S. Michigan Avenue
Wednesday, September 29th, 5:30p.m.
BECCA KLAVER received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago in 2007, and was the English Department's Assistant Programs Director of Literature and Poetry from 2007 to 2009. She holds a BA in English--Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literatures in English at Rutgers University. With Hanna Andrews and Brandi Homan, she founded the feminist poetry press Switchback Books in 2006. She is the author of the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost press, 2009) and the poetry collection LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010). A native of Milwaukee, WI, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
JASWINDER BOLINA received his MFA from the University of Michigan in 2003 and his PhD from Ohio University in 2010. His first book, Carrier Wave, won the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry and was published in 2007. Poems from his new manuscript have appeared in recent issues of American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. He is the 2010-11 Liberal Arts and Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago.
This event is free and open to the public.
PO
ET
RY
Reading
Series
Sponsored by
the English Department
of Columbia College Chicago
Becca Klaver & Jaswinder Bolina
Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall
1312 S. Michigan Avenue
Wednesday, September 29th, 5:30p.m.
BECCA KLAVER received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago in 2007, and was the English Department's Assistant Programs Director of Literature and Poetry from 2007 to 2009. She holds a BA in English--Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literatures in English at Rutgers University. With Hanna Andrews and Brandi Homan, she founded the feminist poetry press Switchback Books in 2006. She is the author of the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost press, 2009) and the poetry collection LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010). A native of Milwaukee, WI, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
JASWINDER BOLINA received his MFA from the University of Michigan in 2003 and his PhD from Ohio University in 2010. His first book, Carrier Wave, won the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry and was published in 2007. Poems from his new manuscript have appeared in recent issues of American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. He is the 2010-11 Liberal Arts and Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago.
This event is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW <3 SILVER TONGUE: College reading series pairs up with Chicago variety show
On September 29th Silver Tongue, Columbia College Chicago's student-run reading series, is excited to bring The Encyclopedia Show to a college campus for the first time ever. The Encyclopedia Show, created by Robbie Q. Telfer (author of Spiking the Sucker Punch) and Shanny Jean Maney (author of Our Brave Faces Were Just Smiles), is a live variety extravaganza that asks participants to perform pieces about an encyclopedia topic. On September 29th at 7:00pm, Columbia faculty and students will define BEARS in hilarious and raucous fashion, using poetry, film, music, and more. The event is located at The Conaway Center (1104 S Wabash Ave) and is free and open to the public.
Columbia faculty readers include Dan Sinker, Erin Teegarden, Dave Snyder, Brendan Riley, K. Bradford and Chris Bower along side featured students Ian “Dick” Jones, Abby Scheaffer, Stephanie Lane Sutton, Daniel Shapiro, Sabrina Dropkick, Patience Rowe, Nick Narbutas, and Zach Green.
The Encyclopedia Show showcases visual art, comedy, music and spoken word on a wide variety of subjects related to a chosen topic. Each month a new topic is picked from the encyclopedia and assignments are sent to a diverse group of writers, artists, poets and performers.
Past contributors have included Bill Ayers, Marc Smith, Paul Sereno, Anis Mojgani, Idris Goodwin, Lisa Buscani, Cameron McGill, Cin Salach, Roger Bonair-Agard and Derrick Brown. Past Silver Tongue readers include Kevin Coval, Lindsay Hunter, Chris Bower, Neal Pollack, Todd Zuniga’s Literary Death Match, among others.
Silver Tongue is Columbia College’s monthly reading series that showcases student work alongside established writers from Chicago and beyond. The themed readings guarantee quirky additions, stories, poetry and other work with host, fiction writer, Mason Johnson.
Columbia College Chicago is the largest private arts and media institution in the nation with over 12,000 students and 120 academic programs. The college produces over 850 events a year through its diverse student body and arts and media departments.
To learn more about the Encyclopedia Show, check out www.encyclopediashow.com
To learn more about Silver Tongue, check out www.silvertonguecolumbia.com
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