W4tB presents in conjunction with Molly Malone's Reading Series and Open Mic the 3rd annual Molly Malone's all star reading. We have a super line up for you all this year
come on out to
Powell's Bookstore in University Village(1218 S Halsted St)
for this amazing show
Friday Nov 1
7-9 pm
Ralph Hamilton is editor of RHINO. He has an MFA in Poetry from Bennington. His poems have appeared in Court Green, CutBank, Blackbird, and other journals. His first book of poems, Subtle Knot, will be published in 2015. He serves on the board of the Ragdale Foundation and is the 2013 judge for Fifth Wednesday’s prize in poetry.
Steven Schroeder is a poet and visual artist who has spent many years moonlighting as a philosophy professor. His most recent collections are Turn and (with David Breeden) Raging for the Exit. More at stevenschroeder.org.
Kristin LaTour’s most recent chapbook is Agoraphobia, from Dancing Girl Press (2013), as well as two others: Blood and Town Limits. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Fifth Wednesday, Cider Press, After Hours, dirtcakes, , and The Adroit Journal. Recently she became a staff writer at Luna Luna Magazine, and had an essay published in TAB about writing and teaching. She teaches at Joliet Jr. College and lives in Aurora, IL with her writer husband, a lovebird, and two dogitos.
Albert DeGenova is the co-host of the Molly Malone's Reading Series and has published two full-length poetry collections and two poetry chapbooks. In 2000, he launched After Hours, a journal of Chicago writing and art; he continues as publisher and editor. He is a blues saxophonist and one-time contributing editor to Down Beat magazine. He received his MFA from Spalding University, Louisville.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
Red Rover Series / Experiment #68
Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #68:
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19th
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm
Featuring:
Oliver Bendorf
Ching-In Chen
Meg Day
TT Jax
Stacey Waite
& guest curated by Jen (Jay) Besemer
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4
logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
About the new anthology published by Nightboat Books:
The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections by each poet that provide context for their work covering a range of issues from identification and embodiment to language and activism.
OLIVER BENDORF's book, The Spectral Wilderness, was chosen by Mark Doty for the 2013 Wick Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Kent State University Press. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he recently earned his MFA and now teaches creativity, comics, and composition.
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19th
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm
Featuring:
Oliver Bendorf
Ching-In Chen
Meg Day
TT Jax
Stacey Waite
& guest curated by Jen (Jay) Besemer
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4
logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
About the new anthology published by Nightboat Books:
The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections by each poet that provide context for their work covering a range of issues from identification and embodiment to language and activism.
OLIVER BENDORF's book, The Spectral Wilderness, was chosen by Mark Doty for the 2013 Wick Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Kent State University Press. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he recently earned his MFA and now teaches creativity, comics, and composition.
JEN JAY BESEMER is the
author of several poetry books and chapbooks, including Telephone, Object
with Man’s Face, Quiet Vertical Movements, Ten Word Problems,
and What Is Born. A new chapbook, Aster to Daylily, is
forthcoming in 2014 from Damask Press. Jay’s recombinant poetry projects are
also found in Monsters & Dust, Aufgabe, Drunken Boat, BlazeVOX,
e-ratio, Sentence and other delicious publications. Jay also writes
feature essays and reviews, and teaches art and poetry workshops in and beyond
Chicago. To find out more, visit www.jenbesemer.com.
CHING-IN CHEN is author
of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press) and
co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate
Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press). They are a
Kundiman, Lambda and Norman Mailer Poetry Fellow and a member of the Voices of
Our Nations Arts Foundation and Macondo writing communities. A community
organizer, they have worked in the Asian American communities of San
Francisco, Oakland, Riverside and Boston. In Milwaukee, they are cream
city review's editor-in-chief. See www.chinginchen.com.
MEG DAY, recently
selected for Best New Poets of 2013, is a 2013 recipient of an NEA
Fellowship in Poetry and the author of When All You Have Is a Hammer (winner
of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest) and We Can’t Read This (winner
of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). A 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award
Winner, Meg has also received awards and fellowships from the Lambda Literary
Foundation, Hedgebrook, Squaw Valley Writers, and the International Queer Arts
Festival. Meg is currently a PhD fellow in Poetry & Disability Poetics at
the University of Utah.
TT JAX is a parent,
poet, mixed media artist, and writer living in the Pacific Northwest by way of
28 years in the Deep South.
STACEY WAITE is
Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and has
published four collections of poems: Choke (winner of the 2004 Frank
O'Hara Prize), Love Poem to Androgyny, the lake has no saint (winner
of the 2008 Snowbound Prize from Tupelo Press), and Butch Geography (also
from Tupelo Press in 2013). Waite is the co-host of Prairie Schooner's
podcast "Air Schooner" and has individual poems
appearing most recently in Bloom, The Indiana Review, and Heart
Quarterly. One of Waite's poems from Troubling the Line was
selected by Denise Duhamel and David Lehman for Best American Poetry 2013.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Jennifer Dotson is Waiting 4 the Bus (with Open Mic)

Monday Oct. 21st
7:30 sign up
8-10pm showtime
jaks tap
901 w Jackson
Chicago IL
come on out for one of the most relaxed and fun open mics in the city. This being our "Close to Halloween" show it's time to beat the devil and follow our suggested theme "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" All poems with monsters mayhem, blood loss, body parts, and body counts are acceptable.
Our feature for the evening is Poetry Pentathlon 2013 champion Jennifer Dotson there is sure to be a splendid time for one and all
Jaks tap has great food and a wide and varied beer selection, you should partake of the amenities while you listen to poetry.
No Cover (we do pass the hat for the feature performer
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing Featuring Chicago Calling
Wednesday, October 9 (10 p.m.)
Phyllis’ Musical Inn
1800 W. Division Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Chicago, IL 60622
This Eighth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival event includes these artistic collaborations --
- Janina Ciezadlo (art criticism, Chicago) & Bambang Asrini Widjanarko (Jakarta Art Movement, Indonesia)
- Mario Andrea Rigoni (poetry, Italy), Vittorio Carli (poetry, Chicago), & Dom Carli (translation, Chicago)
- Bob Rashkow (poetry, Chicago) & Tony Renner (visual art, Chicago)
- & other surprise guests
free & open to the public
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Oct 6: Furniture Press Tour
Furniture
Press Books is celebrating 10 years of innovative publishing
with a 12
city American tour
The Chicago readings will feature:
The Chicago readings will feature:
Martine Bellen
Magus Magnus
Joshua Ware
Iris Cushing
Alicia Puglionesi
Toby Altman
Magus Magnus
Joshua Ware
Iris Cushing
Alicia Puglionesi
Toby Altman
October 6th, 7pm
at Spudnik Press Cooperative Annex
1821 W. Hubbard, Suite 302
The mission
of the tour is very simple: introduce a wider audience to the diversity
of the press’ poetics while collaborating with local poets to create an
ever-expanding community of emergent presses, curators and creative
human beings. Because our writers are spread out all over the country,
it is only fitting for us to bring our world to theirs.
For more information about Furniture Press Books visit their website:
For more information about Furniture Press Books visit their website:
Monday, September 30, 2013
Kate Greenstreet and Richard Meier Reading
Columbia College Chicago is proud to present Richard
Meier & Kate Greenstreet as part of the Fall 2013 Poetry Reading Series, sponsored by the Department of Creative Writing. The event is free and open to the public.
When: Wednesday,
October 2, 5:30pm
Where: Ferguson
Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave, 101
KATE
GREENSTREET is the author of Young
Tambling (2013), The Last 4 Things
(2009), and case sensitive (2006),
all from Ahsahta Press. Her poetry can be found in Chicago Review, Boston Review,
Colorado Review, and other journals.
RICHARD MEIER is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent being In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary (Omnidawn, 2012). Previous books Terrain Vague and Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar were published by Verse Press and Waves Books, respectively. He is writer-in-residence at Carthage College and lives in Madison and Chicago.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Eric Sirota is Waiting 4 the Bus + open mic (Oct 7th)
Live from Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar 901 W. Jackson
Eric Sirota will be joining us as our feature for the evening
there will of course be an open mic, Hosted by the Buddha 309 and his cast of Bus Stop Regulars. You should come out and join us it's gonna be more fun than a Pepe LePew cartoon.

Our suggested theme is...(themes are only suggested and not required. if you want to be themey, that's cool, but no one is forcin' ya) FIREWORKS AND OTHER THINGS THAT EXPLODE.
SIGN UP IS 7:30PM
SHOWTIME IS 8-10PM
THERE IS GOOD BEER, GREAT FOOD AND AWESOME POETRY
no cover
we do take donations for the feature
Eric Sirota will be joining us as our feature for the evening
there will of course be an open mic, Hosted by the Buddha 309 and his cast of Bus Stop Regulars. You should come out and join us it's gonna be more fun than a Pepe LePew cartoon.

Our suggested theme is...(themes are only suggested and not required. if you want to be themey, that's cool, but no one is forcin' ya) FIREWORKS AND OTHER THINGS THAT EXPLODE.
SIGN UP IS 7:30PM
SHOWTIME IS 8-10PM
THERE IS GOOD BEER, GREAT FOOD AND AWESOME POETRY
no cover
we do take donations for the feature
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