Sunday, January 31, 2010

First Friday Classic Poetry Series


Friday, Feb 5

7:30-9:30

St Paul’s Cultural Center

2215 W North Avenue

The W4tB Gang Presents

Chris Green, Tony Trigilio, Jan Botiglieri & Larry Janowski

For the Larry Janowski Birthday Bash

2+ blocks west of the Damen Blue Line stop

Street parking available

Beer, wine, soft drinks available @ cool-low prices

Free Admission

Donation Requested

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop


7:30pm - 10:00pm
Cafe Ballou
939 N Western Ave.
Waiting 4 the Bus
Featuring John Goode
Hosted by Buddha 309 and the W4tB Poetry Collective.
No cover, suggested donation

Saturday, January 30, 2010

milk magazine, new issue


photo by Gautam Narang

milkmag.org volume nine is complete with contributions from Ed Baker, Jessica Baron, Michael Bernstein, Daniel Borzutzky, William Corbett, Steve Dalachinsky, Steve Halle, Duriel Harris, Reginald Harris, Zach Harris, Pierre Joris, Megan Kaminski, Vincent Katz, Amy King, Rob Mclennan, K. Silem Mohammad, Simon Perchik, Kathleen Rooney, Elisa Gabbert, Spencer Selby, Jordan Stempleman, Steve Timm, Arpine Grenier

An online chapbook, Unusual Woods, by Gene Tanta
and Tony Trigilio reviews The Making of Collateral Beauty by Mark Yakich.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

Disturb the Universe: The Avant Garde and Modernism


Thursday, Feb 4th
Disturb the Universe: The Avant Garde and Modernism
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free admission

From Guillaume Apollinaire and Gertrude Stein to Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, avant-garde writers, in synch with artists such as Picasso, charted the future of modernism as it set off in myriad directions. Goodman Theatre actors present excerpts of prose, plays, and poetry.

But laugh laugh at me
Men everywhere especially people from here
For there are so many things that I don’t dare to tell you
So many things that you would not let me say
Have pity on me
—Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by James Wright

Why am I if I am uncertain reasons may inclose.
Remain remain propose repose chose.
—Gertrude Stein, from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza LXXXIII

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht, translated by John Willet

Co-sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and the Art Institute of Chicago

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tuesday Funk


Tuesday Funk
When: Tue., Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.
Phone: 773-968-2345
tuesdayfunk.blogspot.com


Please join us on Tuesday, February 2nd for the second Tuesday Funk Reading of 2010.
Hopleaf Bar at 5148 N. Clark Street
Reading starts 7:30 PM.
Upstairs room opens 7:00 PM.
Come early to get a good seat.
Cash only at the bar upstairs.


Liza Ann Acosta teaches Comparative Literature at North Park University and is an artistic associate of Chicago's only all-Latina theater company, Teatro Luna.

Mary-Terese Cozzola is a writer and filmmaker. Her prose and poetry have been published in Crawdad, After Hours, and Swivel, and her films have screened at the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Chicago Short Comedy Video & Film Festival, and the Midwest Independent Film Festival. She has performed solo pieces at the Stockyards Theatre Women’s Performance Art Festival and SpeakEasy/SpeakHard: the Malinowski salon. You can learn more about her work at www.mtcozzola.com. She lives in and loves Chicago.

Ryan Philip Kulefsky lives in Chicago, IL and holds an MFA from Bard College. His chapbook, DEAD TWINS, published by Bathroom Reading Materials (2010), is comprised of contributions to an email listserv during the fall of 2009. He teaches writing and rhetoric and American literature at Columbia College.

Brian Russell earned his MFA from the University of Houston, where he served as poetry editor of Gulf Coast. His poems have appeared or will in Mid-American Review; Epoch; Quarterly West; LIT; and Forklift, Ohio; among others. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in the past three years.

Steve Timm is a poet and author of ’n’altra storio, Disparity, and the chapbooks Stragetics and Averrage. He was the performer in A Poem by Steve Timm, a video by Ya-Ling Tsai chosen for the 2004 Wisconsin Film Festival. He teaches English as a second language at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Home rEc

Weds. Feb 3rd
8:00pm - 11:00pm
3614 N. Damen Ave.
Home rEc
curated by Allison Gruber and Erin Teegarden

Remember when you first discovered Feminism? You were young and idealistic. You worshiped the Earth Goddess and told your dad to "Fuck off". You slapped, "subvert the dominant paradigm" stickers on your Dodge Omni, told your mom to read bell hooks. Remember Adrienne Rich, Audrey Lord, Ani Difranco, that "oh-my-God-I-AM-being oppressed!" feeling? Remember the notion that you needed to free all women from patriarchy's restraints? Of course you were crestfallen when you realized the rest of the world did not share your ideals. Navigating the treacherous terrain of sexuality, employment, and relationships is no easy feat for an unapologetic Feminist (and worse if she's wearing high heels). Home Ec taught us to sew a crappy pair of shorts. But we needed a different kind of education. In a world where Hugh Hefner is a house hold name, and young women repeatedly insist: "I'm not a feminist or anything", Home rEc creates a space for readers, performers and listeners to consider if we've really come a long way, baby.

With performances by:

Ellen Wadey

Nina Corwin

Patricia McMillan

Matthias Regan and Amy Partridge

Allison Gruber and Kristine O'Sullivan

Sunny Byers

Gretchen Kalwinski

Kimberly Dixon

Erin Teegarden

Miki Howald

Randi Black

Cristina Correa

Series A

Wednesday, Feb 3
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell

February's show features Larry O. Dean & Kristin Dykstra.



series A is a reading series dedicated to showcasing experimental writing in the U.S., and specifically experimental writing in the Midwest. The series invites a variety of writers to read and discuss their works. In addition, the series also provides a home for performances of mixed media work, for any works that combine the language arts with other art forms. From its home space in the Hyde Park Art Center, series A focuses on the connection between various art forms with the language arts and provides a space to display/perform the experimental in any incarnation of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or drama.

It was founded by William Allegrezza.