The Poetry Center of Chicago

Chicago Scene

The Poetry Center's Chicago Scene lists poetry events in and around the city. For a complete list of events click here.

RHINO Reads! - Monthly Poetry Series - Open Mike & Featured Poets - Nick Demske & Nina Corwin
July 30, 2010 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Brothers K, 500 Main St., Evanston, IL

Open Mike 6:00 - 6:30
Featured Poets 6:45 - 7:30

NICK DEMSKE lives in Racine, Wisconsin, and works there at the Racine Public Library. He was awarded the 2010 Fence Modern Poets Series prize for a self-titled manuscript that will be published in fall of 2010. He's a curator of the BONK! Performance series and is an editor of the online venue boo: a journal of terrific things. Visit him sometime at nickipoo.wordpress.com

Announcements

Hands on Stanzas Anthology Live!

The 2010 Hands on Stanzas Anthology of Student Verse is here.

Students participating in the Poetry Center's literacy through poetry program for the 2009-2010 academic year are assembled here, for the first time, in this comprehensive electronic collection of poetry.

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Juried Reading Winners Announced!

1st Place - Susan Yount

2nd Place - E.G. Cunnigham

3rd Place - Ruth Williams

Runners Up
Adam Day

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Hands on Stanzas Blogs

Excuses, Excuses! (reposted from June 2nd, due to uploading error)
Submitted by Janna Sobel on July 3, 2010 - 7:38pm.
Moos Elementary

It has been such a tremendous pleasure to work with the 3rd grade students of Moos Elementary this school year. Ms. Santiago's and Ms. Becker's classes are groups of smart, funny, warm, respectful and creative friends, who do a great job of expressing their ideas, and of supporting each other in doing so. I'm honored to have gotten to work with them. For our last assignment this week, I brought the students a very playful, whimsical poem, which continues our final exploration of writing poetry about imagined worlds.

News & Updates

Hands on Stanzas Anthology Live!

The 2010 Hands on Stanzas Anthology of Student Verse is here.

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Natalie Merchant on NPR's Morning Edition

Natalie Merchant spoke to Morning Edition host Renee Montagne this morning about her newly released album Leave Your Sleep, which features Merchant's musical interpretations of poetry by a diverse array of writers. Merchant will be performing songs from this album in an upcoming concert brought to you by the Poetry Center. The interview is available online here.

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16th Annual Juried Reading & Award Ceremony Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 6:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue

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Poets from all over the Midwest will be selected as finalists for the Poetry Center of Chicago's 16th Annual Juried Reading Competition, judged by poet and labor activist Mark Nowak. Winners will receive awards and read from their work at this annual celebratory event.

Natalie Merchant Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 7:00pm
Rubloff Auditorium, 111 S. Michigan Avenue

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Online Box office Closed!

Remaining tickets will be sold on site - Rubloff Auditorium
Door open 6 pm.

Paul and Maryrose Carroll Beat Collection

Through his editorship of literary journals, Paul Carroll promoted the development of the 1950s era Beat poets. While serving as the poetry editor of the Chicago Review, Carroll and editor Irving Rosenthal included controversial rising poets William Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although Chicago Review was recognized for avant garde works, University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton suppressed its Winter 1959 issue leading Carroll and Rosenthal to found a new journal Big Table with increased literary freedom to publish Beat poets.

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Li-Young Lee reading on Chicago Amplified

Li-Young Lee's October 20th reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago is featured on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio's Chicago Amplified. To listen to the program just click the link below.

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=29727

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