Monday, January 6-Charlie Rossiter is Waiting 4 the Bus + open mic

Kick off the new year in a poetically correct fashion
Meet me in the Rendevous Room at Jaks Tap for a super cool night of poetry
Sign up 7:30
Show time 8pm
Featured poet:Charlie Rossiter
Suggested theme "beginnings"

Great food
Awesome beer selection
Jaks Tap
901 W Jackson

The show is free
We do suggest donations to pay the featured performer

Red Rover Series / Experiment #70

Red Rover Series

{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #70:

Monster Light & Go

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13th
7pm / doors lock 7:30pm
*please note: event is Friday*

Featuring:

Stephanie Anderson
Julia Cohen
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Soham Patel
and Regeneration X

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

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

STEPHANIE ANDERSON is the author of In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments (Horse Less Press) and five chapbooks, including the forthcoming Sentence, Signal, Stain (Greying Ghost) and LIGHTBOX (The New Megaphone).  Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 6x6, Coconut, Lana Turner, Not Enough Night, Typo, and elsewhere.  She lives in Chicago and edits the micropress Projective Industries, though next month she'll move to Tokyo for the foreseeable future.

JULIA COHEN is the author of two poetry books, Triggermoon Triggermoon from Black Lawrence Press, and most recently, Collateral Light, from Brooklyn Arts Press. A collection of nonfiction, I Was Not Born, releases this fall from Noemi Press. Her work appears in journals like jubilat, New American Writing, Banango Street, and DIAGRAM. She just moved to Chicago.

SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE teaches creative writing and literature courses at Richard Stockton College, and language craft for the College of Art Media and Design at the University of the Arts.  She's also a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts.  Her third full-length collection, SOLAR MAXIMUM, is forthcoming from Futurepoem Books.  In 2006, she founded COROLLARY PRESS, a chapbook series dedicated to innovative multi-ethnic writing.  She reviews poetry for The Constant Critic and curates poetry for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s digital magazine, The Margins. 

SOHAM PATEL's first chapbook, "and nevermind the storm," is now out from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.  Her recent work is up in The Volta and The Destroyer Magazine.  She has also recently received her first Pushcart nomination and her manuscripts, "Hello::Ghost" and "towards evening:" were both named finalist for the Omnidawn First/Second Book Contest and The Kundiman Poetry Prize.  She studies Creative Writing in the PhD Program at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she is a 2013-2014 Chancellor's Fellow.

REGENERATION X is a performance poetry collective with writing talent from Columbia College.  A brilliant and diverse group, the members come from different worlds to talk about the city.  They got it going on: Laura Arredondo, Robert Brown, Donnell McLachlan, Michaelangelo, William Montes, Vaughan Nelson-Lee, Alison O'Connor, and Dave Thompson.  

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. Founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin, the events have featured a plethora of renowned creative minds.

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Red Rover Series
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Monday, December 16-Meg Tuite & David Tomaloff are Waiting 4 the Bus

Come join us at Jaks Tap in the beautiful rendezvous room for a magnificent night of poetry and word things.
Sign up 7:30
Show time 8pm
Suggested theme "on a winter's night"

Jaks Tap
901 W Jackson blvd

Good food
Many varieties of beer

Suggested donation for the feature

Come early and grab dinner

It's an open mic

Dec 7: Memoryhouse Chapbook Festival

Saturday, December 7th
7-9:30pm at the University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

Join Memoryhouse for its first-ever Chapbook Festival! FREE food, drinks, handmade chapbooks, and performances by some of Chicago's finest poets including Kenyatta Rogers, Eric Elshtain, Jennifer Karmin, and Stephanie Anderson. Our student performance ensemble will also be debuting new work! 

Facebook event page here.

Questions? Email chicagomemoryhouse@gmail.com

Monday, December 2nd-Donna Vorrewyer is Waiting 4 the Bus+Open Mic

vorreyer is Waiting 4 the bus +

come out and join us at Jaks Tap (901 W Jackson) for a cool night of open mic poetry and then the even cooler feature... Donna Vorreyer
sign up at 7:30pm
showtime is from 8-10 pm

our suggested theme is...Houses and Windows

the show is free
suggested donation for the feature performer

the food is awesome and the beer is exceptional

Nov 15: Amina Cain & Veronica Gonzalez

Chicago book launch:
Creature by Amina Cain
& The Sad Passions by Veronica Gonzalez

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15th, 7:30pm
at the Logan Center for the Arts
915 E. 60th Street, Penthouse 901 
free admission
 
Facebook event page here

 AMINA CAIN is the author of two collections of short stories: Creature (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013) and I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009). Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in BOMB, n+1, Denver Quarterly, The Encyclopedia Project, Two Serious Ladies, and other publications.

VERONICA GONZALEZ's short fiction has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies. In 2006 she founded rockypoint press, a series of artist/writer collaborative prints, books, and films. In 2008 her first novel, twin time: or how death befell me, was awarded the Aztlan Literary Prize.

About Creature:
 
“To be among Amina Cain’s creatures is to stand in the presence of what is mysterious, expansive, and alive. Whether these distinctly female characters are falling in and out of uncanny intimacies, speaking from the hidden realms of the unconscious, seeking self-knowledge, or becoming visible in all their candor and strangeness, they move through a universe shaped by the gravitational pull of elusive yet resilient forces—the yin-dark energies of instinct and feeling that animate creative life. It’s here that the intuitive reach of fiction meets the reader’s own quest for understanding, through the subtle beauty of living the truth of one’s experiences in the most attentive and unadorned way possible.”
- Pamela Lu, author of Pamela: A Novel

"To answer these questions for you, let me describe where Creature rests in my body—deep within my thoracic spine, in the middle of my vertebrae alongside photo booth-sized images of unrequited knives. I am conscious of it as I watch my body read. Its language moves and settles. This process of watching—as opposed to thinking—may seem enigmatic. It is."
- Claire Donato, HTML Giant

 About The Sad Passions:

"In Veronica Gonzalez's truthtelling novel of four bright sisters growing up with a mentally ill mother, the lucid, elegant writing defies the very havoc it describes. Built of multiple voices, with curious, haunting photographs, The Sad Passions is immersive, harrowing, and wonderfully intelligent."
- Michelle Huneven, author of Blame

"For all of the effects of erasure and absence on The Sad Passions, the narration is incredibly present, crawling on the page in spidery, sprawling observations, setting up pools and lairs that lure a reader in."
- Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times

John Goode is W4tB+Open Mic

Come on out and join us for a special night, our madness has taken us to the strange theme...3 prompts and a feature.
you can write all, some, or one put please participate wisely. (none is also a choice, but it is the boring one)
prompts:
1-The secret life of blue
2-the blessings and curses of butterflies
3-in the days of mist and whiskey
Feature:
John Goode
join us at Jaks Tap Restaurant Bar
901 W Jackson
7:30 sign up
8-10pm show time
free (we do request donations for the feature performer)