Nina Corwin is Waiting 4 the Bus + open mic (April 21st)

come on out to the coolest most laid back place for poetry. With a loose format, W4tB is a place for folks who are serious about their craft and not much else.
Join guest host Dana Jerman
super cool feature Nina Corwin
and the W4tB regular Weirdos

sign up 7:30pm
showtime 8-10pm
Jaks Tap
901 W Jackson

R. Erica Doyle and Ronaldo Wilson Reading

The Spring 2014 Reading Series, sponsored by the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, presents Ronaldo Wilson and R. Erica Doyle.

When: Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 5:30pm
Where: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave, Second Floor

R. ERICA DOYLE is the author of proxy (Belladonna* Books, 2013). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles, and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, among others.

RONALDO WILSON, PhD, is the author of Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, forthcoming), Lucy 72 (1913 Press, forthcoming), Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), and is co-founder of the Black Took Collective.

Damask Press Release Reading for Aster to Daylily Saturday at Spudnik Press Annex

Join Damask Press in celebrating the release of Jay Besemer's chapbook Aster to Daylily this Saturday at the Annex to Spudnik Press.  Doors open at 6, with readings by Adrienne Dodt, Cean Gamalinda, and Jay Besemer beginning at 6:30.  Details and FB RSVP here:

http://www.spudnikpress.org/happenings/
https://www.facebook.com/events/752997351391832/

Janet Kuypers' poem "Holding Hands" at Chicago's "the Cafe Gallery" poe...

Janet Kuypers' poem "Holding Hands" at Chicago's "the Cafe Gallery" poe...

THE POETRY BOMB 2014--Sunday, April 27 at 3:30pm

 

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15th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival

Columbia College Chicago hosts the 15th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival, bringing together 12 poets from Chicago-area colleges and universities to read their work.

When: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 5:30pm
Where: Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave, Rm 101

Come celebrate emerging student writers in Chicago. Reception to follow.