The Danny's Reading Series
Wednesday, November 12st
7:30PM Sharp
We've been waiting years for this one…so don't miss it.
Poetry by:
Lewis Warsh and Donna Stonecipher
Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including The Origin of the World , Touch of the Whip, A Free Man, Avenue of Escape and Ted's Favorite Skirt. He is the coeditor of The Angel Hair Anthology, editor and publisher of United Artists Books, and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn. A new book, Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005, was published by Granary Books in 2008.
Donna Stonecipher is the author of three books of poetry: The Reservoir (Georgia, 2002), Souvenir de Constantinople (Instance, 2007) and The Cosmopolitan (Coffee House, 2008), winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by John Yau. She also translates poetry and prose from French and German.
next month:
Wednesday, December 10th
James Shea and Brian Young
Danny's Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the corner of Armitage and Damen). 21+, please bring ID. 773-489-6457
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
William Carlos Williams
Hello fans of poetry and theatre! Please share the following with your lists:
This Saturday, Caffeine Theatre presents a poetry reading and discussion of Williams Carlo Williams' legacy featuring several local poets.
Including: Amy England, Charlie Rossiter, David Breeden, Todd Heldt, Sid Yiddish, Dara Weinberg, Scott DeKatch
Following the 3pm performance of MANY LOVES (by Williams Carlos Williams) on Nov. 8
(The Coffeehouse will begin approximately 4:45 and last about one hour)
Free with ticket purchase to either the 3pm or 8pm performance of MANY LOVES on Nov. 8
Tickets are available at caffeinetheatre.com. $20 ($18 for seniors, $16 for students, and $14 per person in a group of ten or more)
Caffeine Theatre at Lincoln Square Arts Center, 4754 N Leavitt (south of Lawrence).
Caffeine Theatre's Coffeehouse Forums expand the conversation ignited by the performance, and in the coffeehouse tradition, provide a space for dialogue on the big questions, and a forum for enjoying coffee and talk.
This Saturday, Caffeine Theatre presents a poetry reading and discussion of Williams Carlo Williams' legacy featuring several local poets.
Including: Amy England, Charlie Rossiter, David Breeden, Todd Heldt, Sid Yiddish, Dara Weinberg, Scott DeKatch
Following the 3pm performance of MANY LOVES (by Williams Carlos Williams) on Nov. 8
(The Coffeehouse will begin approximately 4:45 and last about one hour)
Free with ticket purchase to either the 3pm or 8pm performance of MANY LOVES on Nov. 8
Tickets are available at caffeinetheatre.com. $20 ($18 for seniors, $16 for students, and $14 per person in a group of ten or more)
Caffeine Theatre at Lincoln Square Arts Center, 4754 N Leavitt (south of Lawrence).
Caffeine Theatre's Coffeehouse Forums expand the conversation ignited by the performance, and in the coffeehouse tradition, provide a space for dialogue on the big questions, and a forum for enjoying coffee and talk.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Molly Malone's
The Molly Malone's Open Mic with your hosts Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova invites you to be part of one of the longest running and most highly respected open mics in the Chicago area.
Monday, November 10, join us in welcoming poets Brandi Homan and Kathleen RooneyBrandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds, from Shearsman Books, and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of the independent publishing company Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading With Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), Something Really Wonderful (with Elisa Gabbert, dancing girl press, 2007) That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (also with Gabbert, Otoliths, 2008), Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback Books, 2008), and Live Nude Girl (Arkansas, 2009).
Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't
7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic
8:45 -- featured reader
9:15 -- open mic continues if necessary
Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month.
Feel free to forward this notice to your writing pals...we love new faces with new voices.
Monday, November 10, join us in welcoming poets Brandi Homan and Kathleen RooneyBrandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds, from Shearsman Books, and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and is Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of the independent publishing company Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading With Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), Something Really Wonderful (with Elisa Gabbert, dancing girl press, 2007) That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (also with Gabbert, Otoliths, 2008), Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback Books, 2008), and Live Nude Girl (Arkansas, 2009).
Molly Malone's Irish Pub
7652 Madison Street
Forest Park, IL
708-366-8073
$5 if you can, $3 if you can't
7:00 -- open mic sign-up begins
7:30 -- open mic
8:45 -- featured reader
9:15 -- open mic continues if necessary
Poetry/fiction at Molly's is the second Monday of every month.
Feel free to forward this notice to your writing pals...we love new faces with new voices.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
POETRY & CHICAGO CONVOCATION
November 7th
12pm at Loyola University
Lake Shore Campus in Rogers Park
FEATURING TALKS & READINGS BY:
Lisa Fishman, poetry & farming
Jennifer Karmin, poetry & activism
John Keene, poetry & collaboration
Quraysh Ali Lansana, poetry & history
Robyn Schiff, poetry & publishing
Abraham Smith, poetry & performance
The event is free and open to the public
Lunch will be served between the poets' brief talks and readings
Hosted by Loyola University Chicago
at the Simpson Living Learning Center
in the Multi-Purpose Room
on Sheridan Boulevard
at the corner of Winthrop & Sheridan
two blocks from the Loyola train station
on the CTA Red Line
LISA FISHMAN is the author of several books, most recently Dear Read and The Happiness Experiment (both from Ahsahta Press). She lives in rural Wisconsin and Chicago and is Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago.
JENNIFER KARMIN's Aaaaaaaaaaalice cantos are anthologized in A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press). She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College, works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools, and presents her public art projects nationally.
JOHN KEENE is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and Seismosis(with Christopher Stackhouse / 1913 Press). He lives in Chicago and is Associate Professor at Northwestern University.
QURAYSH ALI LANSANA is the author of several books including They Shall Run--Harriet Tubman Poems and southside rain (both from Third World Press). He directs the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and teaches at Chicago State University.
ROBYN SCHIFF is the author of Worth and Revolver (both from U of Iowa Press). She lives in Iowa City where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Iowa.
ABRAHAM SMITH is the author of Whim Man Mammon (Action Books) and teaches at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
12pm at Loyola University
Lake Shore Campus in Rogers Park
FEATURING TALKS & READINGS BY:
Lisa Fishman, poetry & farming
Jennifer Karmin, poetry & activism
John Keene, poetry & collaboration
Quraysh Ali Lansana, poetry & history
Robyn Schiff, poetry & publishing
Abraham Smith, poetry & performance
The event is free and open to the public
Lunch will be served between the poets' brief talks and readings
Hosted by Loyola University Chicago
at the Simpson Living Learning Center
in the Multi-Purpose Room
on Sheridan Boulevard
at the corner of Winthrop & Sheridan
two blocks from the Loyola train station
on the CTA Red Line
LISA FISHMAN is the author of several books, most recently Dear Read and The Happiness Experiment (both from Ahsahta Press). She lives in rural Wisconsin and Chicago and is Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago.
JENNIFER KARMIN's Aaaaaaaaaaalice cantos are anthologized in A Sing Economy (Flim Forum Press). She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College, works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools, and presents her public art projects nationally.
JOHN KEENE is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and Seismosis(with Christopher Stackhouse / 1913 Press). He lives in Chicago and is Associate Professor at Northwestern University.
QURAYSH ALI LANSANA is the author of several books including They Shall Run--Harriet Tubman Poems and southside rain (both from Third World Press). He directs the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and teaches at Chicago State University.
ROBYN SCHIFF is the author of Worth and Revolver (both from U of Iowa Press). She lives in Iowa City where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Iowa.
ABRAHAM SMITH is the author of Whim Man Mammon (Action Books) and teaches at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Tuesday Funk at the Flourish Bakery, Nov. 11 at 7pm
Please join us for the next installment of Tuesday Funk on Tuesday, November 11th at reading at the Flourish Bakery in Edgewater. Tuesday Funk is a monthly reading that combines poetry, essays and fiction with an emphasis on new work and works in progress. It's free and open to the public. Some of the poets we've hosted are: Kristy Bowen, Jett McAllister, Carl Marcum, Roy Guzman, and Adam Jameson.
This month we're having a special love themed edition of Tuesday Funk. Dancing Girl Press founder Kristy Bowen commissioned fifteen poets to imagine the love letter and sold them boxed together under the title billet-doux The result was something breathtaking, beautiful and full of surprises. Now Kristy and some of those same writers come to Tuesday Funk to share these letters in front of our microphones. Lisbeth Levine, co-author of the The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day will share her thoughts on the phenomenon of the contemporary American Wedding. And poet and essayiest Roberta Wilson reflects on the nature of love itself.
We're always on the look out for poets to read. If you're interested in participating in one of our future readings contact me, Hallie Gordon, with an email that includes a writing sample, short bio and which of the following dates you would be available to read: December 2nd, January 6th, February 3rd, March 3rd.
This month we're having a special love themed edition of Tuesday Funk. Dancing Girl Press founder Kristy Bowen commissioned fifteen poets to imagine the love letter and sold them boxed together under the title billet-doux The result was something breathtaking, beautiful and full of surprises. Now Kristy and some of those same writers come to Tuesday Funk to share these letters in front of our microphones. Lisbeth Levine, co-author of the The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day will share her thoughts on the phenomenon of the contemporary American Wedding. And poet and essayiest Roberta Wilson reflects on the nature of love itself.
We're always on the look out for poets to read. If you're interested in participating in one of our future readings contact me, Hallie Gordon, with an email that includes a writing sample, short bio and which of the following dates you would be available to read: December 2nd, January 6th, February 3rd, March 3rd.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Please come to Series A on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 7-8:00 p.m. The readers will be
Chris Glomski
Eirik Steinhoff
John Tipton (read by Peter O'leary)
The reading will be held at the Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell
Chicago
BYOB
For more information, visit http://www.moriapoetry.com/seriesa.html
Monday, November 3, 2008
Myopic
Myopic Books/ Sunday, November 9th, 7 pm - Lisa Janssen, Jennifer Karmin & Hugh Behm-Steinberg
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES, a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.myopicbookstore.com%2Fmynews%2F
Sunday, November 9th, 7 pm - Lisa Janssen, Jennifer Karmin & Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Lisa JANSSEN is a poet and archivist living in Chicago. Her poetry has appeared most recently in WSQ – Women's Studies Quarterly, MAKE, and the chapbook Riffing on Bird and Other Sad Songs (dusi/e-chap kollektiv). Her film criticism has been published in Molten Rectangle and the upcoming Drag City anothology Yes/No Movies. She is a graduate of the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) writing program and currently co-edits the literary journal MoonLit.
Jennifer KARMIN curates the Red Rover Series with Lisa Janssen and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her poems appear in the new anthologies A Sing Economy and Come Together: Imagine Peace. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. In January 2009, she and Amina Cain will present the festival When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation) at Links Hall.
Hugh BEHM-STEINBERG is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv). His poems can be found in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope, Aught, Swerve, Fence, and Zeek, as well as more multisyllabic places as Ping Pong, Free Verse and Left Facing Bird. He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.
Upcoming
Sunday, November 16 - Katy Lederer & Special Guest
Sunday, December 7 - Daniel Borzutzky, Kristin Dykstra & Kent Johnson
2009 Schedule
Sunday, January 11 - Dan Godston & Special Guest
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES, a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago -- Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
2nd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.myopicbookstore.com%2Fmynews%2F
Sunday, November 9th, 7 pm - Lisa Janssen, Jennifer Karmin & Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Lisa JANSSEN is a poet and archivist living in Chicago. Her poetry has appeared most recently in WSQ – Women's Studies Quarterly, MAKE, and the chapbook Riffing on Bird and Other Sad Songs (dusi/e-chap kollektiv). Her film criticism has been published in Molten Rectangle and the upcoming Drag City anothology Yes/No Movies. She is a graduate of the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) writing program and currently co-edits the literary journal MoonLit.
Jennifer KARMIN curates the Red Rover Series with Lisa Janssen and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her poems appear in the new anthologies A Sing Economy and Come Together: Imagine Peace. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. In January 2009, she and Amina Cain will present the festival When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation) at Links Hall.
Hugh BEHM-STEINBERG is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv). His poems can be found in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope, Aught, Swerve, Fence, and Zeek, as well as more multisyllabic places as Ping Pong, Free Verse and Left Facing Bird. He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.
Upcoming
Sunday, November 16 - Katy Lederer & Special Guest
Sunday, December 7 - Daniel Borzutzky, Kristin Dykstra & Kent Johnson
2009 Schedule
Sunday, January 11 - Dan Godston & Special Guest
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