POETRY STUDENT PUBLICATIONS!

Students and alumni! Please email your updates to rklaver[at]colum[dot]edu (or after July 17 to nwilson[at]colum[dot]edu)!

ANDREW TERHUNE (MFA ’09) has poems in the most recent issues of Buffalo Carp and Meridian and poems forthcoming in Eleven Eleven, Another Chicago Magazine, Makeout Creek, and Diagram. His chapbook, Helen Mirren Picks Out My Clothes, is still forthcoming from Greying Ghost. His other chapbook, Handle This Bludgeon and Run Me Through, is available from Tilt Press.

TYLER FLYNN DORHOLT’s (MFA ’09) current work appears in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Qarrtsiluni, Sub-Lit, Front Porch Journal, Action Yes, Octopus, and Zaum; forthcoming work will appear in Zoland Poetry, Eleven Eleven, Dewclaw, and Quarterly West. A chapbook, Dog the Man a Star, is available online at Scantily Clad Press. Read online work at Sub-Lit.

JEFFREY ALLEN, an incoming MFA student, has poems in recent issues of Inscribed:

http://www.inscribed.org/archive/msw/pdf/Vol4Issue5.pdf

http://www.inscribed.org/archive/msw/pdf/Vol4Issue1.pdf

JESSICA DYER, incoming MFA student, published her poem “On Sunday” in Triton College’s journal Ariel, and her poem “Why you should never wear mascara to a funeral” was published on WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com.

MAUREEN EWING (MFA ’09) has an essay (p. 42) in the current issue of Mindful Metropolis (formerly Chicago’s Conscious Choice).

Poetry major ABI STOKES’ Stuckey Award-winning poem, “Ocean Irradiated,” is forthcoming in Eleven Eleven.

Poetry major ERIC UNGER edits string of small machines with Luke Daly, Barrett Gordon and Michael Slosek. Issue 4 is out now. Eric’s chapbook, Bastion, will be out later this summer with House Press.

BURDOCK #6, co-edited by current MFA student DOLLY LEMKE, is bursting with Columbia students and alums, including Dolly, Izzy Oneiric, Meg Reilly, Meghan M. Lee, y madrone, Abi Stokes, and Becca Klaver. It also features Switchback poet Peggy Munson!

Current MFA student SUSAN YOUNT has been publishing online, offline, and in anthologies:

• “All That It Takes.” One Three Eight (Autumn 2008)
• “Socks of Fire” and “Woman/women you/we are not like/unlike a cow/cattle.” blossombones (Jan. 2009)
• “Zinnias Yawn or X Means To Dream Of A Treasure Map: 25 titles for poems I wish I could write” Red Headed Step Child, 2009
• “All That It Takes” Buffalo Carp, Vol 6, 2009.
• “Notes on Desire” Not a Muse: the inner lives of women, a world poetry anthology edited by Kate Rogers & Viki Holmes, Haven Books, 2009.
• “Socks of Fire” Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems edited by Vasiliki Katsarou, Ruth O'Toole, and Ellen Foos. Ragged Sky Press, 2009.
• “Elementary Catastrophe”, “Ars Catastrophe”, “Swallowtail Catastrophe” and “Butterfly Catastrophe” forthcoming in July & August from Goldfish Press: The World According to Goldfish (Poetry Anthologies) “Volume I - Looking Past” and/or “Volume II- Sight”

Send Me Poems!

Poetry majors and alumni! Please send me:

1) a list of any recent or forthcoming publications (magazines, books, chapbooks); and/or
2) links to said publications online; and/or
3) hard copies of publications for the display case

I’d like to do a blog round-up post, and to rotate the poems in the display case in the third-floor hallway.

Please send your info to rklaver[at]colum[dot]edu by Wednesday, June 17. If you’re not around this summer and want to get me a hard copy, you can mail it to:

Becca Klaver
English Department
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605

Sense & Nonsense: A Poetry Workshop with Becca Klaver

Saturday, May 30, 12-4pm

Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust St.
Milwaukee, WI 53212

$40 / $35 members - includes a ticket to the 7pm Switchback Books Reading

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414-263-5001 to register
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Through a variety of sensory and nonsensical experiments, in this workshop we will explore our relationships to each of the traditional five senses (especially those we take for granted), consider the additional senses that poets rely on (sixth, seventh, seventeenth), examine synesthesia and other sense-related poetic topics, and indulge in nonsense. Experiments may or may not include flâneuring, blindfolds, taste/smell/touch-tests, and speaking in tongues, or in Stein. Participants will be asked to bring a few simple supplies to aid in the experiments, and will use the material generated to compose one or more poems or short texts by the end of the workshop.

Becca Klaver was born and raised in Milwaukee, attended the University of Southern California (BA) and Columbia College Chicago (MFA), and currently lives in Chicago, where she works and teaches at Columbia. With Brandi Homan and Hanna Andrews, she co-edits the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. Recent work can be found online in No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, and Coconut. She is the author of the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost press, 2009).

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE

Abi Stokes, y madrone,
& John Murillo

Thursday, May 14
7:30p.m.

1278 North Milwaukee 4W
a few blocks North of Ashland

B Y O B

Push the door really hard when you get there!

Abi Stokes is originally from Portland, Oregon. She is a junior in the BA poetry program at Columbia College Chicago. She currently co-edits for Columbia Poetry Review and Elephant Zine. She finds robots irresistibly cute.

y madrone currently writes in Chicago, IL via Olympia, WA via Detroit, MI via Baku, Ahzerbaijan. S/he collects locations to place verbs and find nouns in, enjoys multi-syllabic names and miniature bicycling. Currently s/he is holding the breath for a hot air balloon to lift and land with.

John Murillo is a two-time Larry Neal Writers' Award winner and the 2008-2009 Elma B. Stuckey Visiting Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago. His poetry has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, Lumina, and the anthology DC Poets Against the War.

The Tattoos Have Arrived!

Come and get 'em!

Poetry Parlor @ Manifest
Friday, May 15, 11:00-6:30
Sculpture Garden, 11th and Wabash
Chicago, IL 60605


Text by Jen Watman (BA '07) from her poem "(an offering)" in Columbia Poetry Review no. 22. Designed by Abi Stokes.



Text by Joy Katz from her poem "When I Look At Architectural Models" in Court Green 6. Designed by Mykhiel Deych.

Columbia Poetry Review no. 22 Reading & Release Party!

Thursday, April 30, 2009
5:30 p.m.
Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall
1312 South Michigan Avenue
(1 block south of Roosevelt)

Reception to follow
Half-price issues

Contributors to this year's issue of Columbia Poetry Review, now in its 22nd year as the Columbia College Chicago English Department's student-edited, nationally distributed poetry magazine, will read their work.

Readers: Stevie Curl, Maureen Ewing, Susan Firer, Geoffrey Forsyth, Johannes Göransson, Gregory Kiewiet, Becca Klaver, Dolly Lemke, Tisha Nemeth-Loomis, Catherine Theis, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

The new issue features 100 pages of poetry from a wide array of poets, including Rachel Zucker, Maureen Seaton, Joshua Beckman, Joanne Kyger, Donald Revell, Christian Hawkey, and Timothy Liu to name a thin (but rich) slice!

Starting Today -- First a Blog, Now a Book!

The University of Iowa Press will publish Starting Today: Poems for Obama's First 100 Days, in 2010!

Columbia College poetry professor Arielle Greenberg has been editing the "Starting Today" blog with her friend and collaborator Rachel Zucker since inauguration day in January.

Contributors to include:

Tony Trigilio, Director of Creative Writing--Poetry
Becca Klaver (MFA '07)
Ian Harris (MFA '07)
Yvette Thomas (current MFA student)
BJ Soloy (BA '07)