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Current Event
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No Love For Love: The Poetry Center's 3rd Annual Valentine's Day Show
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 8:00pm
Victory Gardens/Biograph Theater
$20 admission. Tickets will be available in the new year at the Victory Gardens Box Office at 773-871-3000, online at www.victorygardens.org
Humorist, Essayist, Author, and Actor David Rackoff headlines a cast of talented local writers, poets and performers, tackling love, romance, fidelity and other maladies.
David Rakoff has written for the New York Times Magazine, Outside, GQ, Vogue and Salon. He has also been a frequent contributor to NPR's This American Life. His essays have been collected in the books Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable and are largely autobiographical and humorous.
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Announcements
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Juried Reading Poetry Contest
Friday, January 30, 2009 - 5:00pm
The Poetry Center invites regional poets to submit their unpublished work for consideration in the 15th Annual Juried Reading. Eight finalists will have their poetry published in a chapbook by Dancing Girl Press as well as on the Poetry Center website, and all eight poets will be invited to read at an award ceremony at the Harold Washington Library Center in the spring.
Postmark deadline: Friday, January 30, 2009
First prize: $1,500; Second prize: $500; third prize, $250; five finalists receive $50
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Hands on Stanzas Blogs
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Special Edition!
Submitted by Cecilia Pinto on January 6, 2009 - 4:32pm.
Orrington Elementary
Great News!
We were very, very excited to learn that two students from Orrington have had poems selected for the next round of the Inaugural Poetry Contest sponsored by the Poetry Center of Chicago.
These two students join 26 other students selected from among the students at 40 schools who participate in the Hands on Stanzas program.
The poems selected will now be reviewed by poet, Yusef Komunyakaa.
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News & Updates
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Poetry Center to take part in Berlin Film Festival
The Poetry Center's Cinema Poetic program partners with New York based multi-media literary magazine Rattapallax at ZEBRA Film Fest.
As part of its highly anticipated fourth year, the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin is featuring American Perspectives: Rattapallax & The Poetry Center of Chicago. Francesco Levato, Executive Director of the Poetry Center, will attend the festival to present 10 poetry films from the United States. Ram Devineni, founder and editor of Rattapallax will present alongside Levato.
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The Poetry Center Celebrates 36th Year
This year marks the 36th anniversary of the Poetry Center's Annual Reading Series. It is a bittersweet time for us as we prepare for an exciting fall reading season while mourning the loss of one of our founders, Mark Perlberg.
When it began, The Poetry Center pioneered the first independent, public and regular poetry reading series in the city of Chicago. Since then, we have strived for innovation in poetry featuring presentations that blend multiple art forms and genres, including performances by major recording artists like Billy Corgan and Lucinda Williams.
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