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"A poem does not exist on the page alone. It has a voice that needs to be heard, and no one can unlock that voice more memorably than its author. The Poetry Center allows Chicagoans to hear our best poets read from their work month after month, and that is a rare gift."
-- Lisel Mueller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Chicago Poet
and Poetry Center Founder
Poetry at Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival
Two Events Featuring 16 Chicago Area Poets
Bridgette Bates, David Bond, Suzanne Buffam, Chris Green,Timothy David Rey, Chuck Stebleton, David Trinidad, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
Friday, September 10, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Wooden Gallery, 1007 N. Wolcott Ave., Chicago, IL
$5.00 (+ cash bar)
Carrie Olivia Adams, Sonya Arko, Erika Mikkalo, Kristy Odelius,
Ron Offen, Natasia Rana, Srikanth Reddy, Jason Stipp
Saturday, September 11, 2004, 6:00 p.m.
The Note, 1565 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL
$5.00 (+ cash bar)
Louise Glück Reading
Poet Laureate of the United States
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Introduction by Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein
Wednesday, September 29th 2004, 6:30 p.m.
$10 General Admission, Free for Poetry Center Members
112 South Michigan Avenue
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Post-Reading Benefit, 8:00 p.m. at the loft of Lynn and Allen Turner
Louise Glück is the author of the chapbook October and nine books of poetry including The Seven Ages and The Wild Iris, which received a Pulitzer Prize. Her honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. Tickets to Glück's reading are on sale through ticketweb.com. Members may reserve tickets through The Poetry Center. A broadside featuring Glück's poem "Eros" with an image by painter Vera Klement will be available at the event. Klements paintings have been shown widely in this country and in Europe. Her work is in major collections in New York and Chicago. Klement was born in the Free City of Danzig, Poland, in 1929.
Bukowski: Born Into This Movie Screening
Monday, October 11th 2004, 6:30 p.m.
$5 General Admission, Free for Poetry Center Members
112 South Michigan Avenue
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bukowski: Born Into This is a film that traces Bukowski's life, from an abusive childhood through decades of poverty and alcoholism; numerous menial jobs and turbulent relationships; through 14 years as a postal employee; and his eventual international celebrity as a poet, novelist and cult icon. Director John Dullaghan spent seven years researching and shooting Bukowski: Born Into This. He conducted dozens of interviews with relatives, neighbors, teenage pals, fellow post office workers, girlfriends and other poets as well as better-known friends like Bono, Sean Penn and Harry Dean Stanton.
American Poets Reading
Kristy Bowen, Misty Harper, Katrina Vandenberg
Monday, October 18th 2004, 6:30 p.m.
Free Admission
112 South Michigan Avenue
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kristy Bowen is the author of the chapbooks Bloody Mary
and The Archaeologist's Daughter. Her work has appeared
in Small Spiral Notebook, Stirring, Pedestal Magazine, Slow
Trains, and After Hours. Kristy was the first place winner of
The Poetry Center's 10th Annual Juried Reading, judged by
Campbell McGrath.
A dynamic and daring poet, Kristy Bowen reflects
Chicago's great depth of outstanding literary talent.
-- Campbell McGrath
Misty Harper, recipient of The Poetry Center's 2004 Summer Poetry Residency (a collaboration with the School of the Art Institute) grew up in Southern Georgia. She won Willow Springs' 2003 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, the National Society of Arts and Letters' 2003 Estell Carter 2nd Place Award, and Swink's Emerging Writer in Poetry Award. Harper is in her third year of her MFA in creative writing at Indiana University.
Katrina Vandenberg is a recipient of The Poetry Center's 2004 Summer Poetry Residency. Her first book of poems Atlas, will be published by Milkweed Editions in October of 2004. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, The Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, and other magazines. She is a former Fulbright fellow in creative writing and the visiting writer at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Anselm Hollo Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, November 11, 2004, 6:30 p.m.
$95 General Admission, $65 for Poetry Center Members
Call 312-899-1229 to reserve your spot. Limited to 15 participants.
Anselm Hollo & Ron Padgett Reading
Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 6:30 p.m.
$10 General Admission, Free for Poetry Center Members
112 South Michigan Avenue
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Anselm Hollo's recent collection, Notes On The Possibilities And Attractions Of Existence: New And Selected Poems 1965-2000, received the San Francisco Poetry Center's Best Book Award for 2001. His translation of Finnish poet Pentti SaarikoskiÕs Trilogy was awarded The Academy of American Poetsâ Harold Morton Landon Poetry Translation Prize in 2004. A native of Helsinki, Finland, Hollo has lived in the United States since 1967, teaching poetics and translation at colleges and universities. He is a Professor of Writing and Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where he lives with his wife, visual artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo.
Ron Padgett's books include a collection of poems, You Never Know, and a memoir,
Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers. He is the editor of The Handbook of Poetic Forms and the translator of Blaise Cendrarsâ Complete Poems. Padgett has taught imaginative writing at Columbia University and Brooklyn College, and for 20 years he was publications director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative. His poetry has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation. His new book, from Coffee House Press, is Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard.
Franz Wright Poetry Workshop
Monday, November 29, 2004, 6:30 p.m.
$95 General Admission, $65 for Poetry Center Members
Call 312-899-1229 to reserve your spot. Limited to 15 participants.
Franz Wright Reading
Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 6:30 p.m.
$10 General Admission, Free for Poetry Center Members
112 South Michigan Avenue
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Franz Wright was born in Vienna in 1953 and grew up in the Northwest, the Midwest, and
northern California. His most recent works include Walking to Martha's Vineyard, which
received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, The Beforelife, and Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems. He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, and the PEN/Voelcker Prize, among other honors. He works at the Edinburg Center for Mental Health and the Center For Grieving Children & Teenagers, and lives in Waltham, Massachusetts with his wife Elizabeth. A broadside of one of Wright's poems with an image by celebrated visual artist Tony Fitzpatrick will be available at the event. Fitzpatrick is an actor, a poet, a radio talk-show host and a visual artist with a gift for imagery and detailed drawing in both small and large formats. He lives and works in Chicago.
American Poets Reading
Joel Craig, Kristy Odelius, Srikanth Reddy
Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 6:30 p.m.
Free Admission
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue
Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy serves as the literacy director for The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust, an early childhood literacy program in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India. His first collection of poetry, Facts for Visitors, was published by the New California Poetry Series. Reddy's poetry has been featured in APR, Fence, Verse, Conduit and Ploughshares. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and doctoral candidate at Harvard University, Reddy is currently the William Vaughan Moody Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago.
Joel Craig is from Des Moines, IA, and lives in Chicago, where he works as a deejay and graphic designer. His poems have appeared in Fence, Bridge, Spoon River, The Iowa Review and canwehaveourballback.com. Craig co-founded and animates The Danny's Reading Series. Craig is also a member of the artist collective Pulseprogamming.
Kristy Odelius lives in Chicago. She teaches creative writing and literature at North Park University, where she is an Assistant Professor. She is a co-editor and co-founder of Near South, a Chicago-based journal of innovative writing. Her poem "Vertigo to Eros" was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize, and she recently received the 2004 Charles Goodnow Memorial Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chicago Review, ACM, and Diagram, and she recently completed her first book-length manuscript of poems titled Strange Trades.
Cin Salach
Thursday, February 10, 2005, 9:00 p.m.
Around the Coyote Winter Arts Festival
Flat Iron Arts Building, 1935 1/2 West North Avenue
$20 Includes Food, Drinks, Entertainment
Cin Salach, poet of page and stage, performs and publishes her work widely. Her credits include publication in Columbia Poetry Review, ACM and others, as well as the book The Spoken Word Revolution and the indie release reVerse. Salach is the author of Looking for Soft Place To Land, and a play titled Undone, which was produced by About Face Theatre. She is currently finishing her new manuscript, when I am yes. She regularly performs with her band ten tongues, whose new album is titled a wide arc, and she teaches performance poetry at the University of Chicago.
11th Annual Juried Reading Postmark Deadline
Final Judge Jorie Graham
$2,000 in Prizes
Post-Mark Deadline February 15, 2005
A contest for Illinois poets and the poets of Illinois' Neighboring states: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Rosellen Brown & Calvin Forbes
Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 6:30 p.m.
$10 Admission, Free for Members
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue
Poet Rosellen Brown's novel Before and After, a New York Times best seller was translated into 23 languages. Her distinguished body of work includes an additional three acclaimed novels, Civil Wars, Tender Mercies, and Autobiography of My Mother; a collection of short stories, Street Games; two volumes of poetry, Cora Fry and Some Deaths in the Delta; a collection of prose and poetry, A Rosellen Brown Reader; and uncollected essays, articles, and plays. Brown is on faculty in the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1984, Brown was named person of the year by MS Magazine.
Calvin Forbes is a poet and professor of jazz history. Jersey born, Forbes is the chair of the School of the Art Institute's Writing Program. His books of poetry include The Shine Poems, From the Book of Shine, and Blue Monday. Forbes was recently featured by Press Lorentz in their artist book series, Everywhere Godfrey. Forbes' honors and awards include fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
PRINTERS’ BALL
{Drink, Music & Print*}
Thursday, March 3, 2005, 6pm—9pm, FREE
The HotHouse, 31 E Balbo Ave, Chicago
Featuring: ACM, The Bird Machine, Bridge, Chicago Review, Firebelly Design, Found Magazine, In These Times, IPA, Lumpen, NewCity, Pistil, POETRY, The Poetry Center, Punk Planet, Quimby’s, The 2nd Hand, Stop Smiling, TriQuarterly, Venus & others.
Baxter Black
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 6:30 p.m.
$20 Admission, Free for Members
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue
Baxter Black-cowboy, philosopher, large animal veterinarian and poet--stands as the "best- selling cowboy poet of all time," and has been called the "best-selling American poet of all time." His website lists him as "head cowboy" of The Coyote Cowboy Company. His column "On the Edge of Common Sense" appears in over 100 newspapers and is the most widely syndicated agricultural column in America. His radio show, "Baxter Black on Monday," is broadcast on over 200 radio stations, and Black has been featured widely, from NPR to PBS, and The National Farm Report to The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson has said of Black: "It's just a tragedy Keats didn't live to hear this...."
Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ, 91.5 is the media sponsor for the Baxter Black event.
Learn About Baxter Black at his website
Coyote Cowboy Company.
Learn about the Cowboy Poetry Movement at Cowboypoetry.com
A broadside featuring Baxter Black's poem "The West" with an image by artist Deborah Johnson will be available at the event. Above is a peek of Johnson's creation: a mythological 3-headed guardian of the west called "westerror."
Call TicketWeb @ 1.866.468.3401 to order by phone.
Poetry Center Members: Call the office to reserve your free tickets.
11th Annual Juried Reading And Awards
@ the Chicago Public Library's Poetry Fest
Saturday, April 30, 2005, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street
$2,000 in Prizes
11th Annual Juried Reading by the Finalists
Evanson Public Library
1703 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Saturday, May 7, 2005, 2:00 p.m.
Jill Scott Poetry Reading
Monday, May 9, 6:30 p.m.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Jill Scott cancelled 2 hours before her scheduled Poetry Center reading. People who purchased tickets will be given a refund.
The Poetry Center apoligizes to all who were looking forward to the reading. We are as surprised and upset as any at the last minute turn of events.
Gary Soto
Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 6:30 p.m.
$10 Admission, Free for Members
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue
Gary Soto was born and educated in California, where he worked as a migrant laborer before attending Fresno State. The grandson of Mexican immigrants, Soto began writing poetry in college. He is one of the youngest poets to appear in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Soto has written ten poetry collections, including One Kind of Faith, Junior College and 1995's New And Selected Poems. He was a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. Soto has also won the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Tomás Rivera Prize. In addition to poetry, Soto has written novels, children's books and a memoir. Having taught in both English and Chicano studies departments, Soto is currently the Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.
2005 Printers Row Book Fair
Poetry Center Sponsored Readings
Saturday, June 11
1:00 p.m.: Li-Young Lee
1:30 p.m.: Quraysh Ali Lansana
Sunday, June 12:
11:30 a.m.: Poetry Workshop w/ Kenneth Clarke and Shirley Stephenson
1:00 p.m.: Simone Muench
1:30 p.m.: Christian Wiman
Fall 2004 Co-Sponsored Events:
Midwest Literary Festival
September 11 & 12, 2004
Downtown Aurora, Illinois
Festival Hours: Saturday, 11 pm to 6 pm and Sunday, 12 pm to 5 pm
The festival is free to the public and made up of author presentations, book signings, panel discussions, writing workshops, poetry slams and specialty events: Romance Author Tea, Literary Salon and the very popular Culinary Event.
Saint Xavier University presents
Poetry and the Search for Meaning: a series of readings and lectures hosted by the Center for Religion and Public Discourse. Unless otherwise noted, all events will be held at Saint Xavier University, Warde Academic Center, 3700 West 103rd Street.
September 23, 2004, 7:00 p.m.: "Gods of the Second Chance: an evening with Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein." Poetry Center Executive Director Kenneth Clarke will introduce Stein.
February 2, 2005, 7:00 p.m.: an evening with Joseph Parisi, former editor of Poetry Magazine.
Hedwig Dances Word/Dance Collaboration
November 5 & 6 at 7 p.m. and November 7 at 2 p.m.
The Chicago Cultural Center
77 E. Washington St.
Word/Dance is a performance event featuring the work of four poets (Jim Harrison, Shin Yu Pai, Dulce Maria Loynaz and John Koethe) and four choreographers (Jan Bartoszek, Mei-Kuang Chen, Maray Gutierrez and Deb Loewen). This event presents work that focuses on themes of custom and place through the fusion of word and movement. Each of the four works probes these themes from various perspectives.
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