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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
FALL 2005 SERIES
Rackett w/ Paul Muldoon
Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 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
Rackett emerged during the summer and fall of 2004. Paul Muldoon (lyrics, guitar,
percussion) and Nigel Smith (bass, vocals) began writing and recording songs
in January 2004. They invited Paul Grimstad (lead guitar, vocals), Beckman Rich
(guitar, mandolin, harmonica), Henry Rich (keyboards, vocals) and Eric Lybeck
(drums) to join them. Rackett has performed recently at the Cornelia Street Café,
the Knitting Factory (NYC), the Berlind Theater, Princeton, and Pete's Candy
Store, Brooklyn. This is Muldoon's second appearance at The Poetry Center.
Paul Muldoon Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, 9/6/05, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Poetry at Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival
Two Events Featuring 16 Chicago Area Poets
Saturday, September 10, 2005, 6-8 p.m.
Anne Holub, Ixta Menchaca, Ixtaccihuatl, Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, Tony Trigilio, Kristy Bowen, Bob Lawrence, Nathalie Stephens
Subterranean, 2011 North Ave, Chicago IL 60647, 773 278 6600
$5.00 (+ cash bar)
Sunday, September 11, 2005, 6-8 p.m.
Alyson Paige Warren, Chris Bower, Michael Kadela, Parnesha Jones, Joe Weintraub, Mirela Ramona Ciupag, Gene Tanta, Belen Neira
Subterranean, 2011 North Ave, Chicago IL 60647, 773 278 6600
$5.00 (+ cash bar)
From Poetry To Verse: The Making Of Modern Poetry
September 16, 2005 - January 7, 2006
An Exhibition in the Special Collections Research Center
The University of Chicago Library
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago
The University of Chicago Library recently acquired The Poetry Center's archive. The collection contains hundreds of event posters, handbills, brochures, papers, and other ephemera from the last 30 plus years, completing, spiritually at least, the Big Table Archive and Paul Carroll's personal papers, which also have a home in the library. The library also purchased rare complete run of The Poetry Center's Broadsides. The exhibit will feature some of The Poetry Center collection along with other pieces from their modern poetry collection.
Aleksandar Hemon
October 11,2005, 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
Born in Sarajevo, Hemon arrived in Chicago in 1992, and began writing in English in 1995. He is the author of Nowhere Man and The Question of Bruno, which appeared in Best Books of 200 lists nationwide and won several literary awards. He has been published in 18 countries and his work regularly appears in The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, McSweeneys, Paris Review and Best American Short Stories.
This event is funded by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation
Garrett Brown
Ander Monson
Ellen Wehle
October 26, 2005
Free Admission
112 South Michigan Avenue
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Garrett J. Brown was selected by Jorie Graham as the first place winner of The Poetry Center's 11th Annual Juried Reading. His poems have appeared in various journals, his book-length manuscript, Manna Sifting, was runner-up in the 2003 Maryland Emerging Voices competition and his chapbook, Panning the Sky, is available from Pudding House Publications. Brown is a Graduate of the School of the Art Institute's MFA in Writing program and he is currently teaching writing at University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is pursuing his PhD.
Ander Monson lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he edits the New Michigan Press and the magazine DIAGRAM. His first book of poems, VACATIONLAND, won the Tupelo Press Editor's Prize, and was published in 2005 simultaneously with a book of fiction, OTHER ELECTRICITIES (published by Sarabande Books). Monson has lived in the deep south and Saudi Arabia. He is from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Ellen Wehle is the recipient of The Poetry Center's 2005 Summer Residency at The School of the Art Institute. Wehle earned an MFA in poetry from Florida International University, and has taught literature, creative writing, and media analysis at various colleges. Wehle is widely published, her poems were nominated this year for four Pushcart Prizes, her work was featured at Poetry Daily and her manuscript, Spiral Staircase, placed second at BOA.
 
Ana Castillo
Carlos Cumpian
Monday, November 14, 2005, 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
Ana Castillo describes herself as a feminist writer examining her Mestiza heritage. She is widely anthologized, and has taught Creative Writing, feminist journal writing, Mexican and Mexican American History, women's studies and Chicano literature at a variety of Colleges and Universities. This is Castillo's second reading at The Poetry Center.
Carlos Cumpian is a long-time participant in and advocate for the Chicago poetry scene, and the editor of March Abrazo Press, devoted to publishing Hispanic and American Indian poetry.
Ana Castillo Poetry Workshop
Sunday, November 13, 2005, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
SPRING 2006 SERIES
12th Annual Juried Reading Postmark Deadline
Final Judge TBA
$2,500 in Prizes
Post-Mark Deadline Friday, February 10, 2006
A contest for Illinois poets and the poets of Illinois' Neighboring states: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Previous Juried Reading Winners and Finalists
James McManus
February 15, 2006, 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
James McManus's new book, Physical, An American Checkup will be released in January 2006. McManus' book Positively Fifth Street was a New York Times bestseller and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2003, among many other honors. He is author of four novels, most recently Going to the Sun, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award. In 2001 he received the Peter Lisagor Award for sports journalism. His writing appears in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Esquire, Chicago, and Harper's, and is widely anthologized. He is the poker columnist for The New York Times. Jim teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ted Kooser
March 15, 2006, 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
Ted Kooser's is the U.S. Poet Laureate and author of ten collections of poetry, including Delights & Shadows;
Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison, which won the 2001 Nebraska Book Award for poetry; Weather Central; One World at a Time; and Sure Signs. He also writes fiction and non-fiction books. Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (2002), won the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003. His honors include two NEA fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize from Columbia, and a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. This is Kooser's third reading in as many decades at The Poetry Center.
Ted Kooser Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, March, 14, 2006, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Moira Linehan
Christina Pugh
April 12, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
Free Admission
112 South Michigan Avenue
Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
12th Annual Juried Reading and Awards
at the Chicago Public Library's Poetry Fest
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Free Admission
Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street
$2,500 in Prizes
Kay Ryan
May 10, 2006, 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
Kay Ryan has published five collections of poetry, including Say Uncle; Elephant Rocks; Flamingo Watching, which was a finalist for both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the Lenore Marshall Prize; Strangely Marked Metal; and Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New Republic, and The Best of the Best of American Poetry,
among other places. This
is Ryan's second reading at The Poetry Center.
Sponsored Events
Necessary Angel
January 17- March 11
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL; Altgeld Hall, Room 130
Free Event
Broadsides Reading: John Rezek, Simone Meunch, Dan Beachy-Quick and Christian
Wiman
Thursday, February 23, 2006 6 pm
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL; Altgeld Hall, Room 315
Free Event
For more information, contact 815 753-1936 or log on to www.niu.edu.
Northern Illinois University and The Poetry Center of Chicago present an exhibition
of The Poetry Center of Chicagos broadsides project, which pairs some of the
countrys best poets with premiere visual artists. As part of the exhibit, broadside
program participants will read their work.
An incomplete map of everything
Fridays - Sundays, February 3 - February 26, 2006, 7:30 pm Links Hall,
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue.
$10 General Admission For more information, log on to www.linkshall.org or
email info@linkshall.org. To make reservations, call 773 281-0824.
Links Hall and The Poetry Center of Chicago unite to present
a month-long event. See the world from art curator Mark Booth's perspective
in this interdisciplinary festival of language, performance and sound. This
program changes nightly; performers include Christian Bok, Terri Kapsalis,
Judd Morrissey, Jesse Seldess, Bjorn Ross, Lou Mallozzi, Kenneth Goldsmith,
Matthew Goulish and many others. an incomplete map of everything was made possible
with support from the Boeing Company.
Hands on Stanzas at The Old Town School
of Folk Music
Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 10:30 am The Old Town School of Folk Music
American Airlines Concert Hall 4544 N. Lincoln Avenue
$5 (discounts for groups) Tickets by reservation only. To make reservations,
log on to www.oldtownschool.org/fieldtrips.
For ticket information, call The Old Town School of Folk Music at 773 728-6000
or The Poetry Center of Chicago at 312 899-1229
The Old Town School of Folk Music and The Poetry Center of Chicago present
the poets in residence of the Hands on Stanzas program reading their work and
joined on stage by the Chicago Public school children they teach.
12th Annual
Juried Reading and Awards at
Chicago Public Librarys 7th Annual Poetry Fest
April 29, 2006, 3 pm
Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 S. State Street
Free Event
For more information, call 312 899-1229
The Chicago Public Library and The Poetry Center present work by the eight
finalists of the 12th Annual Juried Reading.
No Danger of the Spiritual Thing
May 7, 2006, 7 pm, The Prop Theater, 3502 N. Elston
For more information, call 773 267-6660.
$10 or pay what you can
As part of Beckett Fest, a year-long celebration of the 100-year anniversary
of Samuel Becketts birth, The Curious Theater Branch and The Poetry Center
present Chicago actors and poets reading Becketts poetry. Featured readers
include John Starrs, Cin Salach, Winifred OReilly, Dwight Eastman, Stefan Brun,
Lisa Buscani and Dan Beachy-Quick.
Powells North Reading Series
Powells Bookstore
2850 N Lincoln Avenue
For more information, contact (773) 248-1444 or log on to www.powellsnorth.blogspot.com
All readings begin at 7 pm
Thursday, February 16, 2006: Samantha Hunt with Emily Anderson and Amanda Marbais
Thursday, March 16, 2006: Robin Schiff with Meg Barboza and Elizabeth Graettinger
Thursday, April 20, 2006: Powells North Anniversary Reading
Thursday, May 18, 2006: Natalie Stephens with Dana Vinger and Allison Gruber
Thursday, June 15, 2006: Peter Orner and Chaz Reetz-Laiolo with Lauren Pretnar
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