Feb 16: Frank O’Hara celebration

“Having a Coke with you”

a Frank O’Hara celebration
for Court Green 8

Wednesday, February 16th
5:30 pm

at Hokin Hall
Columbia College
623 South Wabash, Rm. 109

Contributors to the Frank O'Hara dossier include:
Denise Duhamel, David Emanuel, Elanie Equi, Kimiko Hahn,
Jennifer Karmin, Becca Klaver, D.A. Powell, Elizabeth Robinson,
Larry Sawyer, Anne Waldman, and more.

There will be a slide show of New York photographs from the 50s complemented with Frank O’Hara reading his work. A selection of contributors will then take the stage to read their poems. As an added touch, the evening will close with a raffle of Coke key chains, candied cigarettes, and bottles of Coke.

This evening is free and open to the public. For more information, call 312.369.8139. If interested in purchasing copies of the journal while at the event, please have cash on hand.

Sponsored by
the Department of English,
Columbia College Chicago
http://english.colum.edu/courtgreen

Our Difficult Sunlight

Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
When: Thu., Feb. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted St.


Poets Lansana and Popoff celebrate the release of Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community. A reception precedes at 5:30. RSVP required via ksuzanne@uic.edu.

An Afternoon with Sonia Sanchez

An Afternoon with Sonia Sanchez
When: Wed., Feb. 9, 1 p.m.
Phone: 312 369-7569
www.colum.edu

A prolific writer, Sonia Sanchez is serious and original. Her poems depict the struggles between Black people and White people, between men and women , and between cultures. She is innovative in her use of language and structure, sometimes using Black speech in her poetry. Her brilliant sense of history and vision of her people helps her to create expressive poetry, with themes, and underlying tones.

Columbia College
South Loop Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan

John Beer & Julie Carr

Spring 2011
PO
ET
RY
Reading
Series
Sponsored by
the English Department
of Columbia College Chicago

John Beer & Julie Carr
Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall
1312 S. Michigan Avenue
Wednesday, February 9th, 5:30p.m.


JOHN BEER is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010). Associative and imaginative, his work has been compared to that of John Ashbery. Poet Lewis Warsh wrote that The Waste Land and Other Poems "embraces and distills 'the bad dream' and all 'the muck' of the recent past, but the momentum of this book is full speed ahead." Beer's criticism has appeared in Verse, the Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, and other magazines. He is a theater writer for Time Out Chicago.


JULIE CARR is the author of four books of poetry: Mead: An Epithalamion, Equivocal, 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the Sawtooth Award), and Sarah—of Fragments and Lines, a National Poetry Series pick. Her book on Victorian Poetry, titled Surface Tension, is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. She is the co-publisher of Counterpath Press and teaches at the University of Colorado.



This event is free and open to the public.

Good Evening Series

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



presents:

K. BRADFORD

Friday, February 11, 2011
7:00-7:30p.m.
Open Mic
7:45p.m. Feature

B Y O B

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


K. B R A D F O R D is a poet, performer, educator, & chocolate fiend. Landing on both the page and the stage, K.'s poems are known to co-mingle with the spectacle of drag, pageantry & disco balls. K. has been published in journals such as Gulf Coast, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Web Del Sol's In Posse Review. She has received poetry scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Tin House Writers Workshop, and most recently, K. was awarded a poetry residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. K. teaches poetry and literature at Columbia College Chicago and is on staff as the college's Coordinator of the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community.



Contact curators Nicole Wilson & Kelly Forsythe with questions, suggestions, or reading interest at chitown[dot]poetry[at]gmail[dot]com. To be removed from the contact list, send an email with "Remove" in the subject line.

Red Rover Series winter/spring 2011

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

WINTER/SPRING 2011
Chicago, IL

*Experiment #43: February 19
Jen Besemer & Nicholas Alexander Hayes

*Experiment #44: March 26
The Ladies Ring Shout
(Felicia Holman, Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal)
& Adam Roberts with collaborators
Erika Jo Brown, Matthew Klane & BJ Love

*Experiment #45: April 2
Cris Mazza, Davis Schneiderman & Lidia Yuknavtich

*Experiment #46: May 2-6
Chicago Durutti Skool with CA Conrad & Frank Rogaczewski
seminar @ poetry & social existence
from anarchist/marxist perspective
----> open to all, to participate email lauragoldst@gmail.com

*Experiment #47: May 28
Serena Chopra, Michael Flatt,
Oren Silverman & Nancy Stohlman

*Experiment #48: June 11
Daniel Borzutzky, Krista Franklin, Judith Goldman,
Carla Harryman & Konrad Steiner neo-benshi
co-presented with the Chicago Poetry Project

at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Avenue
7pm event / doors lock 7:30pm

logistics --
suggested donation $4
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible

Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein & 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 & Jennifer Karmin.

Email ideas for reading experiments to
redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

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

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