Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #23:
How to Hear a Sentence

Featuring:
Ira S. Murfin
Marisa Plumb
Srikanth Reddy

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18th
7pm

at the Division Street Dance Loft
735 W. Division, 3rd floor
new location in the Work House building
Division @ Halsted, enter parking lot off of Halsted
http://www.rtgdance.com/teach_schedule.htm

suggested donation $4
doors lock at 7:30pm

IRA S. MURFIN is a writer and theatre maker. His work has appeared in elimae, Fiction at Work, Lark(!), Mobius, and the book The Mind Garden. It has also frequently been spoken aloud in crowded rooms. Ira is Co-artistic Director of the Laboratory for Enthusiastic Collaboration and a founding member of the Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials, two theatre collectives. He attended the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and will soon complete an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

MARISA PLUMB is a writer and sometimes a programmer. Her work is currently centered on designing interactive environments that use figurative language as a basis for structuring and representing data. She is developing several ongoing projects that are informed by methodologies in knowledge engineering, natural language processing, and socioeconomics. These projects manifest as performances, fictional works, and computer programs, and have been shared at a handful of Chicago venues in the last two years. In her spare time, she is also working on a never-ending story. Marisa grew up in Michigan. She did her undergraduate work in Literature at Brown University, and her graduate work in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

SRIKANTH REDDY's first collection of poetry, Facts for Visitors, received the 2004 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. His work has been published in various journals, including APR, The Canary, Fence, jubilat, and A Public Space. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the doctoral program in English literature at Harvard University, Reddy currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Chicago.

Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading} is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each Red Rover event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.

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The schedule for upcoming events is listed at
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COMING UP
Saturday, November 1 at 7pm
Experiment #24: Words of War - The Politics of Truth
with Mike Applegate, Marc Falkoff & Peter Sullivan