01.25 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

January 25, 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). January 25th has Maxwell Baumbach as a feature, following an open mic.

For info about the open mic and the 2011 schedule (or getting the chance to sign up for your OWN feature, or even to check out 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.

01.18 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

January 18, 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). January 18th has Jeff Helgeson as a feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2011 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.

01.11 the Cafe poetry open mic & feature

January 11, 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). January 11th has Vittorio (Vito) Carli as a feature, as well as an open mic. For info about the open mic and the 2011 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.

12.21 the Cafe poetry open mic & group reading for podcast

December 21, 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 21st has no singular feature, so all attendees bring 1 page poems for others to read. The end of the year feature for the Cafe in 2010 will BE the open mic. Everyone can pick writings from others beforehand and we will repeat the names in order on the sign-up sheet (Janet will be the first on the list, and she's bringing her poems AND poems from regulars at the Cafe she has copies of to read) so many people can read many DIFFERENT writers. It is great to hear a poet's poetry in another person's voice, so... bring cleanly written or typed poems for OTHERS to read, dress in red or green (if you want), borrow our Santa caps or reindeer headband when you're at mike reading for the podcast (if you're in the holiday spirit), and let's celebrate poetry at the Cafe together on Tuesday, December 21st!

For info about the open mic and the 2011 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.

Speaking of a podcast, if we read a lot on Tuesday, December 21st, we may do a few half hour sets and have more than one podcast for the weeks the Cafe is not running before the January 11th 2011 poetry open mic and feature at the Cafe.

Make Magazine Release Party

Friday, December 17 · 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Stop Smiling Storefront
1371 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL



MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine
More Info $10 donation includes complementary PBR, wine,
and holiday snacks.
21+


Features readings from contributors, including:
...-Alvilde Falck
-Judith Goldman
-Elizabeth Hildreth
-Devin King
-Fred Sasaki

Music from the one and only TCB (Tiny Cover Band)

Mini Chicago Ward Primer from Joe Drogos, featuring the" top five things that are five things"

DJ Joel Craig and guests

PLUS! Issue 10 "At Play" subscriptions and individual copies at a discount!

Alvilde Falck is a nineteen-year-old Norwegian girl currently studying in Chicago. In Norway, her poetry has been published in a collection of poems by teenage writers, as well as in a nonfiction book on female youth culture. In America, her creative nonfiction has been published in Orion Magazine.

Judith Goldman received her PhD from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature (2007). She is also the author of two books of poetry, Vocoder (Roof 2001) and DeathStar/Rico-chet (O 2006), and the co-editor, with Leslie Scalapino, of War and Peace, an annual anthology of experimental writing against the war.

Elizabeth Hildreth lives in Chicago and works as an instructional designer and a regular interviewer for the online literary magazine Bookslut. She blogs at The Effect of Small Animals. HYPERLINK "http://theeffectofsmallanimals.blogspot.com/"http://theeffectofsmallanimals.blogspot.com/

Devin King lives and works in Chicago. His first book of poetry, CLOPS, is out from the Green Lantern Press.

Fred Sasaki's work in this issue is from a manuscript called "Letters of Interest," parts of which have appeared or are forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Pax Americana, ACM, Artifice, Proximity, Rocktober, and other places.

Danny's Reading Series

Wednesday, December 15 · 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location 1951 W. Dickens, Chicago


Poetry by N S (Nathanaël), Peter O'Leary, and Chris Glomski

I am sad to say that after over four years and some 50 readings, Chris Glomski has decided to move on from being a curator at Danny's. I would like to thank him for his friendship, his love for and knowledge of poetry, and for all of his contributions over the past years...I have learned so much from him. Chris will also be reading this night, to bid farewell to his cura...ting role. He is the author of TRANSPARENCIES LIFTED FROM NOON (Spuyten Duyvil), and his THE NINETEENTH CENTURY is forthcoming from the Cultural Society. Chris has been a major contributor to our community, and will continue in that, no doubt, but please join me in thanking him for all he's done for The Danny's Reading Series.

--Joel Craig


N S (Nathanaël) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. She is the author of a dozen books including ABSENCE WHERE AS (CLAUDE CAHUN AND THE UNOPENED BOOK) (Nighboat Books, 2009), AT ALBERTA (BookThug, 2008), THE SORROW AND THE FAST OF IT (Nightboat Books, 2007), TOUCH TO AFFLICTION (Coach House, 2006), PAPER CITY (Coach House, 2003), Je Nathanaël (l'Hexagone, 2003) and L'Injure (l'Hexagone, 2004), a finalist for the 2005 Prix Alain-Grandbois and Prix Trillium. JE NATHANAËL exists in English self-translation (BookThug, 2006). Other work exists in Basque and Slovene with book-length translations in Bulgarian (Paradox Publishing, 2007). In addition to translating herself, Stephens has translated works by Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, Bhanu Kapil, and Sina Queyras.

Peter O’Leary was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1968. Though he has lived for extended stays in Portland, Vienna, St. Louis, and Budapest, the bulk of his life has been lived alongside the Great Lakes and their waterways: the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River, and Lake Michigan. His books include Watchfulness, A Mystical Theology of the Limbic Fissure, Depth Theology, Wren/Omen, and Benedicite. Luminous Epinoia, his third full-length book, has just been published by the Cultural Society. He lives in Berwyn, Illinois and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and for the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. Vocations to poetry and religion have committed him to the pursuit of what St. Bonaventure named an itinerarium mentis in deum, or the journey of the mind to God, with particular attention devoted to the mystagogical-initiatic and the mytho-poetical.

Elastic Collision

Friday, December 10 ·
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield
Chicago, IL


The SMASH edition of the Calisthenics for Shrapnel festival at Links Hall is proud to present

PATRICK ROSAL -- author of "Uprock, Headspin, Scramble, and Dive" and "My American Kundiman" -- and local favorite poet superstar playwright KRISTIANA COLON

with opening showcase of emerging poetic talent including Victor Ortiz, Malcolm London, and more!
...
For tickets, visit www.linkshall.org. Get yours today!!!

PATRICK ROSAL is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive , which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and more recently, My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines. He currently teaches at Drew University's Low-Residency MFA program and Sarah Lawrence College. The son of immigrants from the Ilocos region of the Philippines, Rosal is a New Jersey native, a life-long amateur musician, an old-school b-boy and DJ. In the late 80s and early 90s, he produced music for Metropolitan Recording Corporation, working with acts like April Kelly, Laissez Faire, and Joey Gold. He can still uprock and do baby swipes.

Kristiana Colón, one of Chicago's Def Poets, is a poet, playwright, actress, and educator who has been writing and performing for eight years. Kristiana has rocked the mic at some of the Midwest's top venues including the Park West, the Metro, the Star Plaza Theater, the Aragon, the HotHouse, Darkroom, Subterranean, the Funky Buddha Lounge and Sonotheque, as well as venues across the nation and abroad. Kristiana's first original play, "but i cd only whisper" was produced at the University of Chicago. It has since received a reading at the Lincoln Center in New York and won 2nd place in the 2008 Theodore Ward Playwriting Competition. She believes in the power of art as an educational tool and is committed to arts integration as a way to reinvigorate the learning experience, build social awareness, and provoke critical analysis of the world in which we live.