ROCKBOX POETRY JAM
Poetry's Once Monthly Late Night Home

Featured Readers include: John-Franklin Dandridge, Matt Anderson, and a mystery third!

Open Mic to follow

Monday, December 7th, 2009
2624 N Lincoln Avenue
9:30 PM - 4 AM
$3 Drafts, $4 Jameson shots

The Rockbox Poetry Jam is the brainchild of Subterranean's Narciso Lobo and Columbia College's Joe Bly. This reading series and open mic were designed to incorporate the poetry of past and present in an informal conversational setting. We ask our features and open mic poets to indulge us in their own work along with the works that give them inspiration. This "return to sender" style of reading keeps us grounded in the resounding enjoyment of all poetry and enlightens us with the forthcoming work of our peers. Please join us for drinks, music, and convivial discussion!

Love,

Joe and The Rockbox

WHATCHU BEEN UPTO?

Current Students & 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

and particularly for Alumni and graduating seniors, please send me:
1) updates on MFA programs in which you're currently enrolled, or
2) MFA programs to which you've been accepted for the future, and/or
3) positions you currently hold.

I’d like to do a blog round-up post and help to recruit prospective BA students, so send all of your exciting news to Nicole Wilson at nwilson[at]colum[dot]edu by Thursday, November 5.

Many thanks!

Columbia College Chicago

brings you a special event
in conjunction w/

Elbowing off the Stage:

A Reading Featuring

Columbia College Chicago

POETRY FACULTY:

Jenny Boully, Sandra Lim, James Shea,

Tony Trigilio & David Trinidad

*Thank you to MFA Poetry Students Hafizah Geter

& Dolly Lemke for curating this reading!*

Monday, October 12th 7:00 p.m.
Three Peas Art Lounge

75 E 16th St.

(312) 624-9414

A Few Blocks away from the Roosevelt Orange/Green/Red CTA Lines

SAVE THE DATE: Monday, November 16th, 7p.m., Elbowing off the Stage returns to Manhattan's!

CATHERINE BOWMAN READING

Wednesday, October 7
5:30PM
Music Center Concert Hall
1014 South Michigan Avenue

CATHERINE BOWMAN was born in El Paso, Texas. She is the author of the poetry collections The Plath Cabinet, Notarikon, Rock Farm, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize and the Kate Frost Tufts Prize. She is the editor of Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines, and have been selected for six editions of The Best American Poetry anthology. She is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University in Bloomington.

This event is free and open to the public and is presented in conjunction with David Trinidad’s fall graduate literature seminar on Sylvia Plath. For more information, call 312.369.8819.

RHINO READING: TRIGILIO & LIM

Bros. K Poetry Series!

A Monthly feature of RHINO

September 25, 2009

FRIDAY

Open Mike 6:00 - 6:30

Featured Poets 6:45 - 7:30

Brothers K

500 Main St.

Evanston, IL

Featuring:

Sandra Lim's first book, Loveliest Grotesque, was published in 2006. Her poetry has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, and other journals. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Soul Mountain Fellowship, and a 2006 Pushcart Prize nomination. She has taught at UC Berkeley, the Univ. of Iowa, and Saint Mary's College of California.

Tony Trigilio's recent books include the poetry collection The Lama's English Lessons, and the chapbook, With the Memory, Which is Enormous. With Tim Prchal, he co-edited Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930. He teaches at Columbia College Chicago, where he also co-edits the poetry journal Court Green.

To order RHINO 2009, use PayPal, via our website:

www.rhinopoetry.org

O SAY CAN YOU SEE Nonverbal Reviews and Adaptations of Women's Poetry

*Abi Stokes (current BA) collages Matthea Harvey

*Tyler Flynn Dorholt (MFA '09) splices Sandy Florian, Joyelle McSweeney, Laura Solórzano, and Kim Hyesoon

*Jennifer Karmin street teams Kristin Prevallet

*Daniela Olszewska (BA '08) puts a bow on Chelsey Minnis

*Christine Neacole Kanownik horses around with Jennifer Scappettone

*Janet Snell goes Dickinson on Nanette Rayman-Rivera

Curated by K. Lorraine Graham and Becca Klaver (MFA '07) for DELIRIOUS HEM

What book, chapbook, performance, or poem by a woman poet published/presented in the last year or two has left you speechless? How might that speechlessness manifest itself visually, sonically, or through another nonverbal medium?

Rolling submissions through September 20.

HYDE PARK ART CENTER *FREE POETRY WORKSHOP*

Sunday, Sept 13
3-5 p.m.

This month the Hyde Park Art Center features a free poetry writing workshop from Valerie Wallace. Explore the galleries of the Hyde Park Art Center to write poems inspired by visual art and artists & come prepared with a desire to share your work in a collaborative, stimulating environment.

The workshop is part of the "Fun for All" event & space is limited.

You can reserve a spot by calling 773-324-5520.

The workshop is made possible with support from Poets and Writers.