Indie Lit Roadshow Hits Chicago

Chicago hosts a one-day-only pop-up bookshop featuring the best of the Midwest’s independent presses, bookstores, and magazines. They’ll be plenty of book shopping (just in time for the holidays) as well as sporadic performances, all at the Green Lantern Gallery, originally meant to be the home for the new bookstore The Paper Cave. Instead, we’ve condensed the bookstore into a one-day booktravaganza. This will be your first and last chance to shop Chicago’s curatorial pop-up bookshop. In honor of the venture there will be a ribbon un-cutting, and Artifice Magazine’s papier-mâché cave, which the curious can crawl inside to hear some of the best in Chicago readings.

Presenters Featherproof Books, Green Lantern Press, Artifice Magazine and Knee-Jerk Magazine are joined by participants Quimbys, Hobart, Poetry, The Book Cellar, Another Chicago Magazine, Rose Metal Press, THE2NDHAND, Dzanc, Make Magazine, The Show ‘n Tell Show, Other Voices Books, The Encyclopedia Show, Sara Ranchouse Publishing, Vouched Books, The Paper Cave, PANK Magazine, Golden Age, and Stop Smiling Books.


December 12th, 10am to 10pm

The Green Lantern Gallery/The Paper Cave

2542 W. Chicago Ave., Storefront


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The Indie Lit Roadshow is a cross-country celebration of the best in independent literature. It represents a coming-together of some of the most innovative book lovers around: independent bookstores, presses, journals, magazines, reading series and pop-up bookshops. It’s a weekend full of events, each rooted in the home-grown literary scenes blossoming in the following cities:

Austin, TX (N.A.R.W.A.L.L.)
Baltimore, MA (Monumental ...Genius)
Baton Rouge, LA (River Writers)
Brooklyn, NY (Gigantic)
Brooklyn, NY (Birdsong)
Chicago, IL (Featherproof, Green Lantern, Artifice, Knee-Jerk)
Lawrence, KS (Beecher’s Magazine)
Hadley, MA (Flying Object)
Portland, OR (Redefine Magazine)
Seattle, WA (Pilot Books)

So join us for a weekend of nonstop parties, performances, and pop-up book shops from coast to coast!

More info at: http://www.indielitshow.com/.

A selection of Participants: Pilot Books, N.A.R.W.A.L.L., Ampersand, Monumental Genius, River Writers, Birdsong, Featherproof, Green Lantern, Artifice, Knee-Jerk, Beecher’s Magazine, Gigantic, Bouwerie, Flying Object, Redefine Magazine, Paul Legault, Margo Greenfield, John Haskell, Melissa Broder, Quimbys, Hobart, Poetry, The Book Cellar, Another Chicago Magazine, Rose Metal Press, THE2NDHAND, Dzanc, Publishing Genius, Shattered Wig Review, The Monumental Reading Series, Normals Books & Records, the WORMS reading series, Stephanie Barber, Laura van den Berg, Dina Kelberman, Michael Kimball, Justin Sirois, John Dermot Woods, Make Magazine, The Show ‘n Tell Show, Other Voices Books, The Encyclopedia Show, Sara Ranchouse Publishing, Vouched Books, Switchback Books, The Paper Cave, PANK Magazine, Golden Age, Domy, and Stop Smiling Books.See More

Vocesueltas

Thurs December 9th, 6pm.

Contratiempo presents readings and a panel discussion with Spanish-language authors. Panelists include Jochy Herrera, Febronio Zatarain, Raul Dorantes, and Juana Iris Georgen.

Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park Room
78 E. Washington St.
312-744-6630
chicagoculturalcenter.org

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop

Dec 5: Poets Theater in Chicago

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5th

6 local poets with
48 hours to devise
a program of Poets Theater

6:00PM
Roundtable Discussion featuring
John Beer, Jennifer Karmin, Ruth Margraff & Don Share
moderated by Patrick Durgin, publisher of Kenning Editions,
and Valerie Johnson, Managing Editor of Poetry Magazine

7:30PM
Performance & Talkback featuring
Daniel Borzutsky, Duriel Harris, John Keene,
Jacob Saenz, Leila Wilson & Tim Yu

at Oracle Theatre, 3809 N. Broadway
Admission is free. ADA accessible.
Reservations are strongly recommended.
http://www.oracletheatre.org

a celebration for
The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985
edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil
http://www.kenningeditions.com

Sponsored by
Kenning Editions
Oracle Productions
& The Poetry Foundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.org

John Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010). He has curated a poet’s theater showcase at Links Hall in Chicago, directed Robert Duncan’s Medea at Kolchis, and is editing a special section on poet’s theater for Jacket. He is a staff theater writer at Time Out Chicago.

Daniel Borzutzky is the author of The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011); The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVox, 2007); and Arbitrary Tales (Triple Press, 2005). He is the translator of Raul Zurita’s Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books, 2010) and Jaime Luis Huenún’s Port Trakl (Action Books, 2008).

Duriel E. Harris is a co-founder of Black Took Collective and a member of Douglas Ewart & Inventions free jazz ensemble. Extending the multivocal experiments of Drag (Elixir Press, 2003), she is currently at work on the AMNESIAC media art project. Her collection Amnesiac: Poems is being released by Sheep Meadow Press this fall.

Jennifer Karmin’s multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010.

John Keene is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of Seismosis (1913 Press). He teaches at Northwestern University.

Ruth Margraff is a playwright, librettist, lyricist, and performer. Her writing has been developed and produced internationally, notably in such venues as The Guggenheim Museum and Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The recipient of four Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts commissions, among other honors and awards, she is currently Associate Professor of Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jacob Saenz is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. His work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Inkstains, OCHO, Poetry and other journals. He works at a library and is an associate editor for RHINO.

Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine. His books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), and the forthcoming titles Wishbone (Black Sparrow); a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems (Faber and Faber); and Bunting’s Persia (Flood Editions). He has been Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review, Editor of Literary Imagination, and curator of poetry at Harvard University.

Leila Wilson’s The Hundred Grasses is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2011. Her poems have appeared in A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, Poetry, The Canary, and elsewhere. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute.

Timothy Yu is the author of a chapbook, Journey to the West (Barrow Street), winner of the Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman, and the critical book Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (Stanford University Press). He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

12.04 Poetry with short stories & flash ficktion videos hour-long feature

December 4, 7:00PM

Janet Kuypers
"the stories of women"
(at Swing State, 19041 W. Grand Ave, Lake Villa, IL, 60046)

"Swing State" is an all-ages hookah lounge, featuring a night called "Visual Nonsense" on Saturday, December 4th 2010, with a night of performers, often with video. Janet Kuypers is the first feature this evening, with a ~50 minute set of poems, flash fiction, and a short story pertaining to many women's issues. There will be videos during her entire performance displayed on a large background screen (including a number of videos she filmed specifically for this show), original background music, prerecorded vocals from Monica F. and live vocals from John Yotko. There will even be (for those addicted to video and television) streaming live video of Kuypers' performance on a large television monitor during the show.

Currently a play list is on line at http://scars.tv/av/20101204/women.htm, there is a $6 entry for Swing State but free coffee all night, and for those who cannot make the trip to Lake Villa for this long evening of Visual Nonsense, there will be web pages with mp3 and video highlights of the evening.

12.14 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

December 7, 8:30PM

The Cafe open mic
5115 N. Lincoln Ave.
$2 & 2 drink minimum (any drink, even bottled water or soda,
plus donation for the feature)

The Cafe (5115 N. Lincoln Ave.) hosts a weekly poetry/performance art open mic (hosted by Janet Kuypers). December 14th has GPA (the Poetic Unsub) as a feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2010 schedule (or even the menu for the great food at the Cafe, because we have a collection of books to choose from for anyone who orders food at the Cafe during the poetry evening), you can always check out http://www.chaoticarts.org/thecafe/ for weekly podcasts, feature videos or future schedules.

Seven Corners: Call for Digital Poetry

Seven Corners is seeking previously unpublished digital or new media poetry by Chicago or Midwestern poets that can be published in or linked from a blog venue. We are also seeking visual poetry that is digitally mediated.

Please send work or an abstract/description of your project to stevehalle77 at gmail dot com. Please put "Seven Corners Digital Submission" in the subject line.

Feel free to forward this call for poetry to others.