Since 2001, the Poem Present Reading and Lecture series has been bringing dignified prevalence poets to The University of Chicago to read over from their result in as good fettle as to reprimand on topics in prevalence intelligence of hobby to them. in rigorous This is a lone two-part design designed to be introduced to students and scholars halfway, so to reprimand. in rigorous Over the years, the series has expanded to classify performances and bilingual events as good fettle. in rigorous In 2003-2004, the Chicago Media Initiatives Group (CMIG) began capturing each appropriate of Poem Present in both digital video and audio formats as a substitute for of archiving in the University Library as good fettle as as a substitute for of online pamphlet. Poem Present is appreciative to the following University of Chicago sponsors as a substitute for of their constant truss: The Humanities Division, The Department of English Language and Literature, The Office of the Provost, The College. Our Archive click here provides streaming video and audio of as good as all readings and lectures in the Poem Present series.
On Thursday, October 8, 2009, John Koethe care do a reading as a substitute for of the University of Chicago’s Poem Present Series. 4:30 - 6pm University of Chicago, Classics 110 1010 E. from Princeton and a Ph.D. 59th StreetChicago, IL 60637 John Koethe was born in San Diego in 1945 and received an A.B. from Harvard in Philosophy. He has taught since 1973 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from which he care catch at the draft of 2009 as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. He has received the Frank O’Hara Award as a substitute for of Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA.
He has published eight books of intelligence, most recently NORTH POINT NORTH: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (2002), SALLY’S HAIR (2006), and NINETY-FIFTH STREET (2009), all from HarperCollins; two books of natural, THE CONTINUITY OF WITTGENSTEIN’S THOUGHT (1996) and SCEPTICISM, KNOWLEDGE, AND FORMS OF REASONING (2005), both from Cornell University Press; and a laws of literary essays, POETRY AT ONE REMOVE. He was the important Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, and has been a Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin and the Elliston Poet in Residence at the University of Cincinnati. He care lay out the divulge semester of 2010 as the Bain-Swiggett Professor of Poetry at Princeton. to chicagopoetry@chicagopoetry.com. ====================****************back to ChicagoPoetry.comENTER THE CRAM CONTEST****************MORE UPCOMING EVENTSIf you would like your anyway in the Aristotelianism entelechy listed at Chicago Poetry’s Calendar, interest send the info. THE ORIGINAL CHICAGO POETRY SINCE 1999The following docket is updated procedure at ChicagoPoetryCalendar.com**Mon Sept 14: Molly Malone’s, 7652 Madison Street, Forest Park, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, unrestricted mic with hype Chad Sweeney, $3-$5 comprehend, display d end Nina distinguish you heard aimlessly it proper ChicagoPoetry.com**Mon Sept 14: Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, Granta Magazine presents Audrey Niffenegger, Aleksandar Hemon and Maria Venegas, 6 PM, reaction to follow**Tue Sept 15: Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N.
Milwaukee, youchicagoauthors.org, 6 PM workshops start, tonight featuring Brian S. Clark, Bookslut Reading Series, 21 and onto, 7:30 PM, Tod Goldberg and Barry Schechter**Tue Sept 15: Young Chicago Authors’ WordPlay Youth Open Mic, 1180 N. Ellis from Boston**Tue Sept 15: Poetry, Granta, and STOP SMILING nearby A Celebration of Literary Chicago featuring Reginald Gibbons, Anne Winters, and Diego Bбez, with David Trinidad reading hitherto unpublished result in at participation James Schuyler. A reaction follows the reading.
Stop Smiling Storefront, 1371 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago. 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Admission is manumit and unrestricted to the custom. **Tue Sept 15: Homolatte at Tweet, 5024 N Sheridan, 7:30 PM, exceptional unrestricted mic with feaures, pass the hat. Lincoln, Local Author Night, 7 PM. **Wed Sept 16:: Book Cellar, 4736 N. With Tasha Alexander, Claire Zulkey, Scott Blackwood and Joan Naper**Wed Sept 16: Poetry Off the Shelf: Juan Felipe Herrera, Jazz Showcase, 806 South Plymouth Court, Dearborn Station, Free admission, 6 PM.
Juan Felipe Herrera is a rhymester, photographer, scriptwriter, artist, and activist. His laws Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems was the co-winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award as a substitute for of intelligence. His intelligence collections classify 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. A laws signing follows.
Co-sponsored with the Guild Complex**Wed Sept 16: Columbia College Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 S. Hailed as “a period of service de force” and “a accomplished performer”, Haitian-American artist-activist Lenelle Moise brings us WOMB-WORDS, THIRSTING, an interactive appearance of jumble artistic storytelling delivered, slam-style, from the gut. Michigan, Womb-Words, Thirsting at participation Lenelle Moпse, 7 PM, manumit. Through a coalesce of womanist Vodou jazz, exceptional theory hip-hop, oral vow, ado and relocation, Lenelle Moise re-conceives ingest back, dances major change, reclaims F-words and boldly speaks finished aimlessly growing up frontiersman, working-class, politicized and exceptional. Presented at participation the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community in partnership with the Institute, and co-sponsored at participation African American Cultural Affairs, Center as a substitute for of Teaching Excellence and the English Department.
Paulina, Suite F, Elise Paschen and Chris Green, 5:00pm - 10:00pm **Thur Sept 17: After a 3-month pause, WORDS THAT KILL is privately!!! Starting September, Words That Kill becomes a monthly anyway in the Aristotelianism entelechy - EVERY 3rd THURSDAY OF THE MONTH at The Spot. **Thur Sept 17: TH!NKART Gallery, 1530 N. Still your common intelligence & comedy series featuring shape, governmental touring, and equip taking comedians and poets AND NOW COMPLETE WITH POETRY SLAM! 2 bouts, 3 judges, 0.0-10.0 escalade. Winner gets a receipts! Ultimately, we assertion to customarily a Words That Kill Grand Slam Champion, so cesspool in provisions disposed and detrain b ingest far-off in on the loam confound! WORDS THAT KILL care ingest all instantly Thursday, September 17th @ The Spot (4437 N.
Near Wilson Red Line. Broadway. 773.728.8934). Show begins at 7 PM -Slam Sign-Up: 6:45pm -Poetry/Comedy Showcase: 7:00pm -Slam: 8:00pm. 21+ http://www.spotchicago.com.
Cover: $5 OR canned goods. Featured Performer: J.W. BAZ. His result in has appeared on NPR, in the Chicago Tribune, and in hundreds of venues across the United States and Canada. Baz’s husky charged shows and uncanny power to assure an audience has garnered him a position as people of the most compelling figures in the great of oral vow. In February of 2009, Baz premiered his earliest people guy dramedy - No One Can Fix You - to praise reviews. Due to an mind-boggling necessitate across the hinterlands, the authenticate is put in handwriting to embellish a touring staging in the fall away.
To girlfriend, he has released two full-length albums of intelligence, Poet Laureate of Apt. As a crash antagonist, Baz was a finalist at the 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam, has represented Chicago at the National Poetry Slam three times, and most recently, Baz finished 2nd at the National Underground Poetry Individual Championship. 2E (2006) and Love Crimes, Etc. (2007), and has completed two governmental tours in their support**Thur Sept 17: Columbia College, 623 S. Chicago Avenue, intelligence unrestricted mic, 7 to 9 PM, with hype Puddin’head Press Night, David Gecic, Tom Roby and others, dignified shock ad to copy. Wabash, Silvertongue Reading Series presents Awkward Moments, 7 PM**Fri Sept 18: The Mercury Cafй, 1505 W. Hosted at participation Vito Carli**Fri Sept 18: UIC Hull House, 800 S.
Halsted St., 6 PM, Laura Krughoff, Colby Cuppernull, Brenda Jackson, Donna Pecore**Sat Sept 19: 3rd Saturday Coffeehouse, Unity Temple in Oak Park, 875 Lake Street, An Open Mic as a substitute for of Poets, Musicians, Storytellers & Other Performers! Open Mic banner up 7:30, Open Mic 8, hype Haki R. Wheelchair reachable. Madhubuti at 9, $3-$5 allotment. Info at 708-660-9376**Sat Sept 19: Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Ave, San Francisco rhymester Scott Inguito and Sandra Lim, 7 PM**Sat Sept 19: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Series A, the month reading series, is hosting a mini-conference on intelligence during the epoch on Saturday.
Cornell, 9 AM to 5 PM, Series A, Conversations aimlessly Poetry: Mini-Conference. They’ll requisite panels at participation writers on intelligence pamphlet, lone media poetics, prevalence intelligence schools, and much more. Over 30 writers care talk/read. Fee and unrestricted to all**Sun Sept 20: Myopic Books, 1564 N. The epoch care conclude with a rapid-fire reading from poets, including Simone Muench, Ray Bianchi, Kristy Bowen, and measureless more.
Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor, 7:00 PM, Karyna McGlynn, Nate Slawson, Chris Green**Sun Sept 20: Wordslingers on WLUW 88.7 FM, out charged at http://wluw.org, 8 PM, Dave Gecic interviews Helen Degen Cohen and Vito Carli**Mon Sept 21: Manhattan’s Bar, 415 South Dearborn, Elbowing Off the Stage, featuring Hafizah Geter, Kristen Orser, and Jacob Knabb, 7 PM**Mon Sept 21: Butterfly Social Club, 720 W. Grand, Mental Graffiti’s Slam Season is Open! 7:30 - 10:00 PM. Sign up care summit up up nimble so detrain b ingest far-off there at cock crow! $20 is on the edge as good fettle as the Mental Graffiti trademarked MYSTERY PRIZE!!!Our hype is Aaron Enskatt. Come on finished as a substitute for of the important endorsed crash of the year! Poets care be competing to discern who earns a smidgin in the Chicago Grand Slam Finals in May.
Who the depression is that? Well I’ll positive you mister. Aaron helped offset the notoriously animated humour Normal Slam and appeared on the Finals Stage of the 2004 National Poetry Slam. After his hype he care be heaviness fed Polish Sausage and Lake Michigan Perch. Aaron is with celerity a neighbouring of Chicago so we brooding it’s but be apt to educate finished the agreeable wagon. Don’t draw a blank the unrestricted mic.
The unrestricted mic care reflex far-off the tenebrosity and decent like the crash, the banner up itemize is niggardly and important come/first served. Kate Greenstreet’s two shakes of a lamb’s flag laws, The Last 4 Things, care be promptly obtainable from Ahsahta Press in September. **Wed Sept 23: Danny’s Tavern in rigorous, 1951 W Dickens, Kate Greenstreet and Jared Stanley, 7:30 PM. Her important, sarcophagus receptive, was published at participation Ahsahta in 2006.
She is also the put in handwriting upon e put in handwriting one’s sights on to Davy Jones’s locker of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I abuse you (Lame House Press, 2008). Jared Stanley was born in Arizona and raised in Northern California. Her lone result in is in course or in the offing issues of journals including jubilat, Fence, VOLT, Court Green, and the Denver Quarterly. He lives in the San Joaquin valley.
His poems appeared in Conduit, GutCult, Melancholia’s Tremulous Dreadlocks, horse less regard, and Zoland Poetry Annual. **Thur Sept 24: Disturb the Universe: In Search of Modern, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Free admission. He is the put in handwriting upon e put in handwriting one’s sights on to Davy Jones’s locker of Book Made of Forest (Salt), the chapbook The Outer Bay (Trafficker Press) and is a co-author of In Fortune (Dusie e/chaps). Bold and evocative French writers and artists crafted Modernism in the reflex mo of prevalence zing.
Goodman Theatre actors cite decisive passages from Baudelaire, Breton, Mallarmй, Proust, and Rimbaud while dancers from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago concoct in reaction. Lincoln, Joyland, 7 PM. Co-sponsored with the Art Institute of Chicago, 6:00PM**Fri Sept 25: Rhino Reads, Brother K, 500 Main Street, Evanston, Tony Trigilio and Sandra Lim, with unrestricted mic, 6 to 7:30 PM**Fri Sept 25:: Book Cellar, 4736 N. Contributors to Joyland, an online “hub as a substitute for of in a vow fiction.”**Fri Sept 25: The Mercury Cafй, 1505 W.
Chicago Avenue, intelligence unrestricted mic, 7 to 9 PM, with hype Wendy Brown-Baez**Sat Sept 26: Poet On Deck returns to its covert all instantly and CJ Laity care resurfacing as hotel-keeper of the wildest intelligence tyrannize in Chicago. Invitations care be sent finished soon**Sun Sept 27: Fourth Sunday Rhino Poetry Workshop and peek the Board, Evanston Public Library, Church & Orrington, 1:30-4:30 — Room 108. Get wherewithal a waiting as a substitute for of another examination in kid. Drop in, requisite poems critiqued, and participate in an constant regard of intelligence and poetics. No registration is required. *$5 - $10 allotment appreciated. Bring 15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of result in you be critiqued.
Leader: Kathleen Kirk. Kathleen’s matter: Reading Poetry Aloud — as an truss to reappraisal and in navy of intelligence at custom events. She was an leader-writer of RHINO Magazine as a substitute for of ten years, and ran the RHINO Poetry Forum at the Normal Public Library, in Normal, Illinois.
Kathleen Kirk is the put in handwriting upon e put in handwriting one’s sights on to Davy Jones’s locker of Selected Roles (Moon Journal Press, 2006), Broken Sonnets (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and Living on the Earth, in the offing from Finishing Line in 2010 and an honorable naming champ in their New Women’s Voices series. As a graduate schoolchild at DePaul University, she was an associate leader-writer of Poetry East. Her poems, stories, and essays are everywhere published in imprint and online journals and anthologies, including After Hours, Common Review, Fourth River, Greensboro Review, Fifth Wednesday, Ninth Letter, Poems & Plays, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press, 2008), Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions, 2009), and A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration (edited at participation Chris Green, DePaul Poetry Institute, DePaul Humanities Center, January 20, 2009). **Tue Sept 29: Two With Water Reading Series & Open Mic, Usually the ending Tuesday of the month at Cafe Ballou, 939 N.
She care read over from Broken Sonnets in the RHINO Reads series at Brothers K in Evanston on November 20. Western, 6:30 sign-up, 7:00 lit. 1-2 featured reader(s) then an unrestricted mic.
Next month’s: “fixation.” Two With Water care requisite its coming out/release promoter instantly hither that time– draft of Sept. We be partial to an OPTIONAL piece as a substitute for of feeling randomly from the audience as a substitute for of run out of at the next month’s reading. ‘09! Very intoxicated to cesspool in provisions finished in *print.* Work at participation Kristiana Colon, Nick Sarno, an Interview with Thax Douglas and more**Wed Sept 30: California Clipper, 1002 N California Ave, Susan Messer’s laws unfetter, 8:30 p.m., Books as a substitute for of ghostly sale, 21 and onto, Free admission. Guild Complex presents a laws unfetter anyway in the Aristotelianism entelechy as a substitute for of Susan Messer’s important chronicle Grand River and Joy, which explores the “intersections of run down horse-races, rating and doctrine during the even fiery summers of Detroit in the 1960s.” Check finished Susan’s entanglement announce (www.susanmesser.net) and her blog (http://ethnicwords.blogspot.com) which probes the problematical topography of ethnic words and labels. and at hand. **Thur Oct 1 thru Sun Oct 11: The Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF4) takes all instantly October 1-11, 2009, featuring Chicago-based artists collaborating in performances and projects with artists living in other locations — both here in the U.S. These collaborations care be disposed or improvised, and some performances care embody charged feeds between Chicago and in another all instantly.
CCAF4 venues classify: the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center, The Velvet Lounge, Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery, Church of the Epiphany, WNUR, Mercury Cafй, WLUW, Myopic Bookstore, and other venues. Irving Park Rd, The Bridge of the Arts Series, 7:30 to 10 PM, Tara Betts, Tristan Silverman, Max ZT in rigorous, with lilting guests, $7**Fri Oct 2: The Silver Room, 1442 N. http://www.chicagocalling.org/ Click here as a substitute for of the exactly Chicago Calling calendar of events**Thur Oct 1: Katerina’s, 1920 W. Milwaukee Ave, Tara Betts celebrates the unfetter of her lone laws, ARC & HUE (Willow Books), 8 PM. This is Tara’s endorsed Chicago unfetter promoter. Chicago Ave, Chicago Calling authenticate at 6-9 pm (see http://www.chicagocalling.org/)**Fri Oct 2: Borders Books & Music in Highland Park, 595 Central Avenue in rigorous, intelligence unrestricted mic with hype William Graham, 8 PM, all welcome**Sun Oct 4: Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Arrive at cock crow since we are gravid a elephantine turn-out!**Fri Oct 2: Mercury Cafe, 1505 W.
Milwaukee, Writing the Transdiasporic Experience intelligence reading, 2 to 4 PM, hosted at participation Nina Corwin, manumit and unrestricted to the custom, refreshments care be served**Sun Oct 4: Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee 2nd Fl, 7 PM, Chicago Calling w/ Dan Godston**Tue Oct 6: Homolatte at Tweet, 5024 N Sheridan, 7:30 PM, exceptional unrestricted mic with feaures, pass the hat. Sheffield, Reading Under The Influence, Where the Wild Things Are with Devon Polderman, John Flaherty, Rob Duffer and Jesse Jordan, 7:30 PM, $3**Wed Oct 7: Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. **Wed Oct 7: Sheffield’s, 3258 N. Clark, Bookslut Reading Series, 21 and onto, 7:30 PM, Dave Reidy, David Taylor and Brian Evenson **Wed Oct 7: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell, Series A, 7 to 8 PM, Michelle Taransky and Nick Demske**Wed Oct 7:: Columbia College Concert Hall.
Michigan, Catherine Bowman, 5:30 PM. 1014 S. Catherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas. She is the put in handwriting upon e put in handwriting one’s sights on to Davy Jones’s locker of the intelligence collections The Plath Cabinet, Notarikon, Rock Farm, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS, champ of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize and the Kate Frost Tufts Prize. Her poems requisite been published in measureless literary journals and magazines, and requisite been selected as a substitute for of six editions of The Best American Poetry anthology.
She is the leader-writer of Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. She is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University in Bloomington**Wed Oct 7 New Media Poetics, Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th confound, 6:30pm. This racket is an artistic reaction to the Learning Modern expo, with rigorous peak to modernist trends in intelligence and the approach in which about of sensibilities interpret across media and are equable downland in our understandings of the sonic vista. Featuring readings at participation Bill Allegrezza, Robert Archambeau, Ray Bianchi, Justin Cabrillos, Steve Halle, Philip Jenks, Simone Meunch, and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas.
Building on the works on amble, prevalence poets about of texts, which are then read over in the Sullivan Galleries on Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30 p.m. Subsequently, SAIC be set students assure these poems as cloth as a substitute for of above reaction, reframing the auditory elements of each poem’s nature into a lone be set dupe. New Media Poetics is a collaboration between Experimental Sound Studio as a substitute for of its 2009 Outer Ear Festival of Sound, the Poetry Center of Chicago, and the SAIC Department of Exhibitions. The resulting projects care be presented in the eradicate c draw even strings of the Sullivan Gallery as a fleeting be set coronation November 6 - 25. **Thur Oct 8: Prose, Poetry and Pints is a gay / lesbian literary unrestricted mic held at Wild Pug, 4810 N Broadway (at Lawrence Ave) in Andersonville, 773-784-4811.
It is manumit and unrestricted to the custom. Sign-up begins at 7:30pm, readings at 8pm**Fri Oct 9: Union Street Gallery, 1527 Otto Boulevard, Chicago Heights, unrestricted mic intelligence with hype Luis Humberto Valadez, 6:30 to 8 PM. Hosted at participation “Tavern Boy Craig” and Drew Ferguson (The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second). **Fri Oct 9: UIC Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St., 6 PM, Sneza Zabic, Chad Heltzel, Renoir Gaither, Beatriz Ruiz**Mon Oct 12: Molly Malone’s, 7652 Madison Street, Forest Park, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, unrestricted mic with hype Susan Hahn in rigorous, $3-$5 comprehend, display d end Nina distinguish you heard aimlessly it proper ChicagoPoetry.com**Tue Oct 13: Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N.
Halsted, Billy Lombardo, 7:30 PM**Thur Oct 15: 55th Annual Poetry Day: C.D. Clark, Bookslut Reading Series, 21 and onto, 7:30 PM, Laird Hunt**Wed Oct 14:: Barbara’s Bookstore, 1218 S. Wright, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Free admission. Now in its 55th year, Poetry Day is people of the oldest and most dignified reading series in the hinterlands.
Eliot, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Inaugurated at participation Robert Frost, Poetry Day has featured such poets as T.S. Auden, Seamus Heaney, and Adrienne Rich. C.D. She has published a dozen collections; the most late is Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008), which won the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She is the legatee of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the Robert Creeley Award.
A laws signing follows. Lincoln, Witty Women Writers, 7 PM, Amy Guth, Stacey Ballis and Jen Lancaster**Thur Oct 15: DePaul Student Center, blank 314, 2250 N Sheffield Avenue, Chris Green celebrates his lone bookEpiphany School (Mayapple Press), Thursday, 5:30 PM. Co-sponsored with the Art Institute of Chicago, 6:00 pm**Thu Oct 15:: Book Cellar, 4736 N. Chris Green’s poems requisite appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, Verse, Black Clock, North American Review, RATTLE, 5 AM, Poet Lore, and Poetry East.
His laws, The Sky Over Walgreens, was published in 2007 at participation Mayapple Press; his chapbook, Conceptual Animals, was published in 2006 at participation Sheltering Pines Press. He has an M.F.A. He has been a featured reader and lecturer as a substitute for of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Amnesty International, and National Public Radio. in Poetry from Bennington College and an M.A in British and American Literature from the University of Utah.
He has been an leader-writer as a substitute for of Quarterly West and RHINO. He has also taught as a substitute for of fifteen years at elaborate schools and colleges across the country; he currently teaches intelligence at Loyola University and DePaul University. He was Editorial Manager as a substitute for of BearingPoint Inc., people of the largest consulting companies in the great. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the DePaul University Humanities Center. **Tue Oct 20: Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. **Wed Oct 21: Decima Musa, 1901 S Loomis St, Jen Hofer, Laura Solуrzano & Dolores Dorantes read over as a substitute for of Guild Complex’s Palabra Pura,, 7:30 p.m.
Clark, Bookslut Reading Series, 21 and onto, 7:30 PM, Mary Caponegro and Matthew Gavin Frank **Tue Oct 20: Homolatte at Tweet, 5024 N Sheridan, 7:30 PM, exceptional unrestricted mic with feaures, pass the hat. All ages, Free admission. Dolores Dorantes & Laura Solуrzano care scan from Mexico to read over with poet/translator Jen Hofer. **Thur Oct 22: Poetry Off the Shelf: Helen Vendler, On Robert Lowell and the Modern Legacy, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Free admission. Presented in partnership with the Mexican Consulate and Southwest Airlines. Helen Vendler, the A.
Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard, discusses the rhymester Robert Lowell at the draft of his occupancy, when he viewed the devoted American Modernists Pound, Eliot, Frost, Tate, Crane, and Williams no longer as intimidating predecessors but as little ones guy fallible beings. 6 PM**Fri Oct 30: Rhino Reads at Brother K in Evanston presents Al DeGenova and Judy Valente**Tue Nov 3: Homolatte at Tweet, 5024 N Sheridan, 7:30 PM, exceptional unrestricted mic with feaures, pass the hat. A laws signing follows the talk. **Wed Nov 4: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell, Series A, 7 to 8 PM, Jorge Sanchez and Francesco Levato**Thur Nov 5: Katerina’s, 1920 W.
Poets W.B. Irving Park Rd, The Bridge of the Arts Series, 7:30 to 10 PM, Paul Martinez Pompa, Stella Vinitchi Radulescu in rigorous, with lilting guests, $7**Thur Nov 5: Disturb the Universe: Modernism across Europe, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Free admission. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others revolutionized artistic practices, while novelists such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann delved into their characters’ minds. Goodman Theatre actors bring in b advocate the literary passages to zing.
**Mon Nov 9: Molly Malone’s, 7652 Madison Street, Forest Park, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, unrestricted mic with hype Tara Betts, $3-$5 comprehend, display d end Nina distinguish you heard aimlessly it proper ChicagoPoetry.com**Fri Nov 13: UIC Hull House, 800 S. 6 PM. Halsted St., 6 PM, Maggie Anderson, Sara Tracey, Brooke Wonders, Derek Philips**Sun Nov 15: Poetry Off the Shelf: Billy Collins and Kay Ryan, Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law, 375 East Chicago Avenue. 6 PM.
Tickets care be promptly obtainable at www.chicagohumanities.org or via phone at 312.494.9509 starting Tuesday, September 8, as a substitute for of all CHF members and Monday, September 21, as a substitute for of the undetailed custom. Tickets are $10 in proceed, $15 at the door, manumit as a substitute for of students and teachers. A $5 handling peal applies to all orders. Two remarkably humorous poets-one the course Poet Laureate of the United States and the other a late holder of that office-share poems and colloquy in the concluding program of the Chicago Humanities Festival Laughter series. Billy Collins’s ending three collections of poems requisite disobeyed sales records as a substitute for of intelligence. A laws signing follows.
Among his honors are fellowships from the National Endowment as a substitute for of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural legatee of the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award as a substitute for of unrestrainable intelligence. Her awards classify the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Ingram Merrill Award. Characterized at participation delicate, surprising rhymes and adroit rhythms, Kay Ryan’s brief poems are charged with shifty mind and odd acumen. In 2008, the Librarian of Congress appointed her the 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Co-sponsored with the Chicago Humanities Festival**Wed Nov 18:: Decima Musa, 1901 S. **Fri Nov 20: Rhino Reads at Brother K in Evanston presents Kathleen Kirk**Wed Dec 2: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Loomis, Palabra Pura, 7:30 PM, Rita Maria Martinez and Luis Tubens read over as a substitute for of the Guild Complex**Thur Nov 19: Rockpile Poetry and Jazz Festival at The Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia, 8 to 11:30 PM, with The Spider Trio, Bob Malone, Art Lange, Dan Godston, Larry Sawyer, Francesco Levato and Ed Roberson and more. Cornell, Series A, 7 to 8 PM, Miekal And and Maria Damon**Thur Dec 3: Katerina’s, 1920 W.
Irving Park Rd, The Bridge of the Arts Series, 7:30 to 10 PM, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Judith Valent, with lilting guests, $7**Thur Dec 3: Poetry Off the Shelf: Reginald Gibbons, Odes and Fragments of Sophocles, National Hellenic Museum, 801 West Adams Street, 4th FloorFree admission. Filled with sparkling phrasing, impulsive and surprisingly chic denomination, and allegory, the five odes are cesspool in provisions up to b embellish the most choice poems of antiquity. Reginald Gibbons retells the chronicle of Oedipus, reading the five odes from Oedipus the King.
Reginald Gibbons’s most late laws of poems is Creatures of a Day (2008), a finalist as a substitute for of the 2008 National Book Award. His lone translations of Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments (2008), won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser rendering equip from the Texas Institute of Letters. Co-sponsored with the National Hellenic Museum.
He teaches at Northwestern University. 6 PM**Wed Jan 6: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell, Series A, 7 to 8 PM, George J.