Edwin Torres at Columbia College

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


Edwin Torres
Presented by The Poetry Foundation
Co-sponsored by The Center for Book & Paper Arts
Thursday, February 24, 6:00p.m.
Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan, Second Floor



A multimedia pioneer, EDWIN TORRES has appeared at venues as diverse as the Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Central Park, and MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged. He has been interviewed on The Charlie Rose Show and featured in Rolling Stone and Newsweek magazines. His many books and recordings include I Hear Things People Haven’t Really Said, The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker, Fractured Humorous, Holy Kid, Bingo Nihilist, In the Function of External Circumstances, and the newly released YesThingNoThing. He has received fellowships from the New York State Foundation for the Arts and the Poetry Fund.



The event is free & open to the public.

Red Rover Series / Experiment #43

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #43:
Restrictive Andragogies & Ex-Citation

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19th
7pm / doors lock 7:30

Featuring:
Jen Besemer
Nicholas Alexander Hayes

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

logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible

JEN BESEMER works with words, actions and images to expose hidden relationships (and discover new ones) between and within those media. “Misusing” text, processes and products to create camouflaged or hybrid forms, Jen comments on the entrenched systems of contemporary life and the unresolved contradictions they generate. Recent work appears this winter and spring in Artifice, at jellyrollmagazine.com and pankmagazine.com, and at The Fridge in Washington DC.

NICHOLAS ALEXANDER HAYES is the author of NIV: 39 & 27 (BlazeVOX [books]). His work has appeared in many journals and a few anthologies, including Word Riot, Bloom, and Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism. He is currently working on contemporary retellings of Greek Myths with Terri Griffith.

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

Chicago Poetry Brothel

Sat. March 05 2011
Drop everything & come!
The Chicago Poetry Brothel Explores the Seamy Side of Poetry.

Come for the most enjoyment you ever had in a bordello! A stage show
of enough splendor to match the startling grandeur of the Foundation Room itself—
floods of love-lorn poetry whores, whiskey, vaudeville, dancers, fortune tellers—
Pinch and Squeal out of Cleveland, OH & Chicago's darling Lula Houp-Garou!
Doors open at 8pm. $5 if dressed Victorian $10 if not. (21 and over event)

Never been to a Chicago Poetry Brothel? Here is a taste of what you have been missing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvykwKIS_dA

BE THERE!

Want to learn more? Check out Chicago poetry whore and author Kathleen Rooney's essay (and podcast) over at the Poetry Foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=241004 : Essay
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=2788 : Podcast

See you soon!
Love and debauchery!
Black-eyed Susan

Revolving Door Reading Series:: February

Join us for a wine & cheese to celebrate our continued CD/Book Exchange!

February features include:

Susan Yount was raised on a 164-acre farm in Southern Indiana where she learned to drive a tractor, harvest crops, feed chickens and hug her beloved goat, Cinnamon. Soon after receiving her BA from Indiana University in Photo-Journalism, she married a physicist and moved to Ohio. While attending Kent State University, she worked at the largest flour mill in northeast Ohio. She and her husband recently moved and built a home on the south side of Chicago. In the middle of the upheaval she found time to give birth to a bouncy baby boy! She is the Editor and Publisher of Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal and works fulltime at the Associated Press. She is a graduate student in poetry at Columbia College in Chicago. Her poetry chapbook, House on Fire, is forthcoming from Tilt Press and her poems have appeared in several print and online magazines including Elixir, Red Fez, Wicked Alice, Verse Daily and The Chaffin Journal. Susan is a 2003 recipient of The Lynda Hull Memorial Scholarship in Poetry.

Osiris Khepera is an itinerant hermit tripping frequently on the line betwixt genius and insanity on purpose just to see what it does to people. Just Kiddin. I'm a guy. I do stuff. I like words, pictures, and shiny fabrics. Sundays need to come three times a week and I miss Fats Waller. Is that enuff? I get confused... Oh Look!

Daniel Godston teaches and lives in Chicago. His writings have appeared in Chase Park, After Hours, BlazeVOX, Versal, Beard of Bees, Drunken Boat, 580 Split, Kyoto Journal, Eratica, The Smoking Poet, Horse Less Review, Moria, Apparatus Magazine, EOAGH, Requited Journal, Sentinel Poetry, and other print publications and online journals. His poem “Mask to Skin to Blood to Heart to Bone and Back” was nominated by the editors of 580 Split for the Pushcart Prize. He also composes and performs music, and he directs the Borderbend Arts Collective. http://www.borderbend.org/

Feb 18: The Simulationists

THE SIMULATIONISTS:
interdisciplinary engagements with
art history, digital performance,
new media poetry, and augmented choreography

Mixed Reality Symposium
Friday, February 18th
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

An Evening of Performance
Friday, February 18th
7:00 p.m.

Both events at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Performance Space
280 S. Columbus Drive, room 012

Free and open to the public
to reserve a spot email
exhibitions-saic@saic.edu

Exhibition
February 1 through March 23
Betty Rymer Gallery
280 S. Columbus Drive
Tue.–Sat., 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Reception: Friday, February 18 @ 4:30–7:00 p.m.

The symposium, performance evening, and exhibition address the impact of networks, computer code, avatars, and virtual environments on our understanding and expression of embodied performance.

Curated by SAIC faculty members Claudia Hart (Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department), Mark Jeffery (Performance and Contemporary Practices Departments), and Judd Morrissey (Art and Technology Studies and Writing Departments), THE SIMULATIONISTS features cris cheek, Ursula Endlicher, Kurt Hentschlager, Second Front, Alan Sondheim; SAIC alumni Chris Cuellar (MFAW 2010), Cassie Jackson (BFA 2009), Colin Self (BFA 2010), and Tessa Siddle (MFA 2010); Katrina Zimmerman (BFA 2010); and SAIC students Lauren Elder, André Lenox, Evan Lenox, Lou Regele, Molly Shea, Nancy Tien, and Wesley Wilson.

March 11-Top Shelf Poets-The Larry Janowski B-Day Bash

7:30-9:30 p.m.ish

St Paul Cultural Center

2215 West North Avenue

Chicago IL 60647

Chris Green

Jan Bottiglieri

Tony Trigilio

Larry Janowski

will celebrate our annual reading-cum-birthday party at St. Paul Cultural Center under the awesome auspices of David (the Buddha) Hargarten and the Inestimable Esteban Colon.

Tony will have his new book, and the rest of us will have new poems and/or books. In honor of the event, I will get a year older, and the rumor is that There will be cupcakes.

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop:

Featuring Robin Fine
Suggested Theme for the evening-Planes, Trains, and Automobiles:Poems from the Road
7:30pm - 10:00pm

Cafe Ballou
939 N Western Ave.
W4tB Open Mic Night
Cafe Ballou
939 N Western
7:30-10pm