Save the date and plan your escape!
2012 Feb. 29 in the lounge at the Chopin Theatre
1543 W Division, Chicago, IL 60642
$5 if dressed Victorian $10 if not

Musical guests: Jeff Levin on piano! & The White City Rippers!
Burlesque beauties! & Chicago’s finest Poetry Whores!
Of course, nectar for the thirsty souls!

Just in time for AWP!

In conjunction with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, a release and reading for the ninth issue of COURT GREEN, the Department of English’s faculty-edited poetry journal, which features a dossier on the short poem.

BERNADETTE MAYER’s poetry has been praised by John Ashbery as “magnificent.” Brenda Coultas calls her a master of “devastating wit.” Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, including Midwinter Day, Sonnets, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, and Poetry State Forest. Recently published are her works Studying Hunger Journals and Ethics of Sleep. A former director of the Poetry Project at St.

The Columbia College Chicago Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival brings together 12 poets from Chicago-area colleges and universities to read their work. Schools include Columbia College Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago State University, DePaul University, Loyola University, National-Louis University, North Central College, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, University of Illinois-Chicago, and University of Chicago.