* Columbia College Chicago * BA in Poetry

2011-08-11T14:23:00.001-05:00

theG O O D

E V E N I N G readingseries

presents:

Stephen James Dvorak,

Joseph Mains,

Ashley Toliver

Friday, August 19

7:00p.m.

T H R E E P E A S L O U N G E

75 E. 16^th Street

Easily accessible from Michigan Avenue buses & a few blocks south of the Roosevelt Redline at 16^th (between Michigan and Wabash).

/ / / /

S T E V E N J A M E S D V O R A K has the strength of 100 men. He has an MFA from the University of Miami and works as a shipping clerk in Chicago.

J O S E P H M A I N S received his MFA from The University of Arizona, where he served as Chief Poetry Editor of Sonora Review. He is the author of the chapbooks To Live Don's Life: A Film in 15 Creams, and Poum Poum Tralala. His work appears in Forklift, Ohio, Cream City Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Front Porch, Shampoo, Spork, and Poor Claudia, among others. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where, along with Zachary Schomburg and Drew Swenhaugen, he co-curates the reading series Bad Blood.

A S H L E Y T O L I V E R’s recent work can be found in Caketrain, elimae, DIAGRAM and Third Coast journals. She has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Until 5 days ago, she lived and worked in Portland, Oregon. Now, she’s driving across the country to Providence, RI where she will be studying in the graduate Literary Arts program at Brown University.

July 29

2011-07-19T12:20:00.000-05:00

http://www.printersball.org/

2011-06-07T13:16:00.003-05:00

POETRY READING: POETS EMBODYING ABSTRACTION

Sunday, June 19, 2011 / 2:00 p.m.
Guest Curator: Lisa Fishman

Woman Made Gallery
685 N MILWAUKEE AVE

CHICAGO IL 60642

Featured Readers:

Benicia Blue
Judith Goldman
Kristin Ravel
Nicole Wilson
Lisa Fishman

Free & open to the public.

2011-05-19T10:49:00.001-05:00

the G O O D

E V E N I N G readingseries

presents:

ARIELLE GREENBERG

¯ a farewell reading¯

Friday, May 20

Open Mic: 7:15-7:45p.m.

Feature : 8:00p.m.

M E S S H A L L

6932 N. Glenwood Ave.

in Rogers Park

____________

B Y O B

A R I E L L E G R E E N B E R G is co-author, with Rachel Zucker, of Home/Birth: A Poemic, and author of My Kafka Century, Given and several chapbooks. Ugly Duckling Presse will republish her chapbook Shake Her in 2012. She is co-editor of three anthologies, most recently Gurlesque with Lara Glenum, and is the founder-moderator of the poet-moms listserv. She is leaving a tenured position in poetry at Columbia College Chicago in 2011 to move with her family to live a different kind of life in a small town in rural Maine.

2011-04-04T10:35:00.001-05:00

Amanda A. Abraham | WritersCafe.org

2011-02-21T03:35:00.000-06:00

Amanda A. Abraham | WritersCafe.org

Spring 2011 POETRY Reading Series

2011-02-07T12:07:00.003-06:00

John Beer & Julie Carr

Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall

1312 S. Michigan Avenue

Wednesday, February 9^th, 5:30p.m.

Kind Poets, Send Me Your News!

2010-12-15T14:28:00.001-06:00

Dear Students & Alumni of Columbia's B. A. & MFA Poetry Programs,

I would like to send a semi-regular (maybe twice a month) "round-up" of student and alumni news because I know yer all publishing regularly and as much as I try to keep up with everything, I just can't. But I want to!

Whenever you get something published, or if you have other writing-related news, do send me a sentence or two letting me know (nwilson@colum.edu) and I'll be sure to include it in the regular-round-up-announcement-newsletter thing.

Yer the best,
Nicole W. (MFA '08)
Assistant Director, Poetry Program

5th Annual Minds of Winter Student Reading:

2010-12-06T16:10:00.001-06:00

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

4:30pm

Graduate Lounge, Room 404

33 East Congress

Featuring:

Sarah Jedd

Zachary Green

Kayla Sargeson

Nathan Masters

Jessica Dyer

All I Need

2010-09-19T09:31:00.000-05:00

You can watch the trees blow through the breeze

Cover your eyes, pretend not to see

Block off your soul, claim perfect harmony

Deep down your fighting struggles, loneliness it seems

Daily routines, come and go as you please

Your life revolving around pleads of honesty

But when the night comes, and all you seek is clarity

Thoughts prohibit such a thing to come naturally

Please let me sleep, for it’s all I need.

-Cole

A Letter To My Husband: How To Love Our Daughter

2010-09-16T09:02:00.002-05:00

You must be her father

So she doesn’t find you at the bottom of a bottle.

I don’t want her to search for

Daddy’s kisses in the mouths of

One night stands. She mustn’t see your proud

Eyes in the face of a man staring at her

Breasts.

I want your daughter,

Our daughter—to hold hugs in a body

Not broken by rejection. You must love her

So she doesn’t look for you in pearled blunts and

Get lost in smoke clouds of nonexistent

Family dinners. I don’t want her to use sex in

Place of your phone calls, and flirt with undesevering

Men pretending it’s innocent affection.

Love our daughter baby. Love her so she doesn’t have to love

Strangers and sleep alone in her heart.

Love our daughter. Make sure she knows

How a man should treat her.

Don’t let boys use her back as their cutting board.

Carving insecurities deep into the back cage of her ribs.

Don’t let them use my baby’s arms to hold your place.

She shouldn’t overdose on muggy

Cologne and five o’clock shadows when

Remembering your smile.

Don’t let false teeth grip her

Bare when she tries to speak of your

Gray hair. I don’t want to see her die of a

Battered spirit because men she

Called daddy never held her hand.

A car crash of tricycles and chicken pox

Shouldn’t be replaced with

Abandonment and lonely kisses.

Don’t let tears

Fall for a boy who was never you.

Don’t make my baby girl desperate.

A mother’s love is never

Enough for a daughter with no man to hold

Hands strong. Protection isn’t provided

Outside of the womb. So you must be her

Wind to carry shattered wings out of hell.

She still fits perfectly under your arm.

So let her rest cheeks on your chest.

Hold her. So boys don’t trap our daughter in

Catacombs of sexual abuse and disappointment.

She shouldn’t find truth in every

Sad song and cry when she’s alone.

Make my baby strong.

Don’t let her be me.

--Gaby

White Flower

2010-09-03T09:59:00.005-05:00

White Flower

Born alone, I've got an ear for the notes,

but I keep it clear, so I know which direction to go

when I grow old.

What - I guess I'm just an old soul.

Lost on a road, trying to find my way home.

See it's the times, that I read the signs

telling me i'll be fine

that I cry.

I wish I could tell the other guys

and maybe save a life.

But man, it just ain't right.

Can't give away the secret to life,

unless they see inside.

It's in the mind, that takes the time to be,

a flower in the concrete.

See the secrets in the trees,

I hear them speak.

I let the breeze blow me away.

Cuz I'm taking trips to a safer place,

somewhere it doesn't rain.

When I paint I use the colors others disregard.

So many things I want to say, man

but where to start?

Yeah it's hard, but it's the struggle that we're meant to face.

Just because you're late, doesn't mean you'll never get to change.

I escape, into ivory keys.

Play sonatas in between her knees;

been playin' since I was 3.

What do you think that means?

Gettin' you to scream is pretty easy

with fingers like these.

She's saying "PLEASE" but it's my time to leave

her place tonight,

I tell her twice,

she wants to fight.

Thank God for moonlight.

I need the bright vibes.

They help me stay alive.

And when it's gettin' tight,

they open up my mind.

I keep to myself, but it's hard for me to keep a secret.

Do you believe it?

It's up for you to see it!

If you speak it, then you feel it.

You deal it around.

It's like a flower in the ground,

it's energetically loud

- look.

What I've found is a drug

and when I blow it out, it's in clouds.

It isn't bud,

it's love,

and you can't have enough.

Oh, you want a blunt?

Here man, take a puff.

But when you're feelin' rough

you're gonna need the stronger stuff.

You want a rush? I've got the perfect thing for you.

Live your life as if you've got something to prove,

and when you lose?

That's when you'll say you're abused,

but you pay your dues, here's a clue,

you get to choose whether you win or lose,

it's up to you.

These blue skies got me thinkin' about the other side,

I wonder

what it's like,

and this is why I like to write.

All the other guys I find just want a couple bills,

to buy a couple pills

Hah - just got a double kill.

It's like you're scared man.

Life isn't fair, and

you've got a plan -

stay as far away as you can.

How's life in the sand?

You're slowin' down, you need a hand?

I've got a plan, but you're gonna need to trust me, man.

We ain't about to crash, we're landing in the safest place.

Within' a couple days you'll think you heard amazing grace.

It isn't fake, all it takes is just a little faith.

It's like I'm blazin' through the days,

but I'm about to fly away.

-Cole

WEEKS OF WELCOME 2010

2010-08-27T12:42:00.002-05:00

The B. A. Poetry Program wishes to extend a warm welcome to the twenty-two poets joining us this academic year!

If you seasoned poets would like to help greet new students, you should attend some of the Weeks of Welcome events currently being held throughout Columbia's campus and beyond.

Here's wishing our new students a wonderful first semester!

2010-06-30T14:46:00.002-05:00

Quimby's Bookstore

1854 W. North Avenue

A Poetry Reading:

Nicole Wilson

Kate Dougherty

Patrick Culliton

July 6, 2010

7:00p.m.

Octopus Books

2010-03-24T10:26:00.001-05:00

Columbia College Chicago
Ferguson Hall
600 South Michigan
April 1
5:30p.m.

Becca Klaver’s (MFA '07) "probing meditations and acerbic wit " now available from Kore Press

2010-03-12T16:21:00.004-06:00

POETRY ALUMNI: SEND NEWS

2010-02-05T12:09:00.003-06:00

The English Department at Columbia College Chicago is preparing its annual newsletter, Ampersand, and we want to brag about you!

If you’d like to be included in the alumni section of the newsletter, please send updates featuring publications, awards, professional pursuits, continuing education, exhibits, or anything you would like the Columbia College community and its affiliates to know about you. Also, be sure to include your current mailing address and we’ll send you a copy of the completed newsletter.

Updates should be sent to Nicole Wilson at nwilson@colum.edu.

The deadline for entries is Monday, February 19^th. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to include any entries received after February 15^th, but you can always post your latest news on this blog.

Thanks!

New Publications for Winter 2010

2010-01-19T14:12:00.002-06:00

Hello All!

My name is Amanda A. Abraham, and I am currently attending Columbia College part-time for a Creative Writing/Poetry major. I have several poetry publications I'd like to share, due for release early this year:

"Friday, April Thirteenth", which has been selected for print in the upcoming 2010 issue of Columbia Poetry Review

"The Bug", and "Some consquence hanging in the stars", both due to appear in the February 2010 issue of The Toucan, a literary magazine created and ran by Columbia students.

Additional poems may be viewed at WritersCafe.org:
http://www.writerscafe.org/writers/thecatsmeow85.
Your feedback and support are most welcome.

Please view my page for contact information if you'd like, or feel free to add me via Facebook.

Thanks for your time!

Sincerely,
AAA

MAD CONGRATS!

2010-01-07T11:39:00.003-06:00

DOLLY LEMKE's poem "I never went to that movie at 12:45" was selected for publication in Best American Poetry 2010 by Amy Gerstler. The poem was originally published in Columbia Poetry Review 22.

Dolly is an MFA student from Milwaukee. You can check out more of her work in the fall 2009 issue of Wicked Alice.

2009-12-04T10:25:00.001-06:00

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?

2009-10-27T16:31:00.002-05:00

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!

2009-10-09T11:05:00.001-05:00

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

2009-09-29T15:32:00.001-05:00

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

2009-09-18T10:11:00.000-05:00

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

2009-09-10T09:31:00.001-05:00

*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

2009-08-24T10:35:00.000-05:00

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.

Black Warrior Review

2009-07-10T00:45:00.004-05:00

Black Warrior Review, the journal fellow Columbia College BAer Kristin Aardsma and I work for, is now accepting entries for their 5th annual contest.

Guest Judges this year are Larissa Szporluk (poetry) and Brian Evenson (fiction).

Send your entry to:
Fiction Contest OR Poetry Contest
Black Warrior Review
Box 862936
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486

The Reading Fee is $15 per short story (up to 7500 words) and $15 per
group of up to 3 poems.

Winners in each genre will receive $1,000 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue.

Finalists in each category will receive notation in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue, and are also considered for publication.

Contestants will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to Black Warrior Review.

All entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2009.

For more details and guidelines, please visit:
http://www.bwr.ua.edu

POETRY STUDENT PUBLICATIONS!

2009-07-02T15:47:00.001-05:00

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!

2009-06-03T12:57:00.001-05:00

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

2009-05-27T12:29:00.002-05:00

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

2009-05-12T17:21:00.005-05:00

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!

2009-05-01T13:25:00.002-05:00

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!

2009-04-29T10:31:00.001-05:00

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!

2009-04-27T14:49:00.003-05:00

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)

Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker

2009-04-14T17:41:00.003-05:00

A Film by Cathy Cook

**Free** one night only!

Friday April 17th, 7pm

Loyola University (Rogers Park Campus)
Damen Hall
Finnegan Auditorium, Room 144

Red Line Train to Loyola Stop

The filmmaker will be on hand for a Q&A afterwards--

Columbia Poetry Happenings

2009-04-13T18:58:00.005-05:00

Kneeling on Grits, a feminist zine outta good ol' Columbia college, is calling for submissions. they want poetry, fiction, nonfiction/essays, and visual art (digital art, drawing/paintings, photography, comics). Submissions should address feminist, gender/sexual orientation, race, class, or other issues of discrimination and oppression. email stephzanie@gmail.com by April 23rd (a week from this Thursday) and include the name you would like to be published under. You will be notified by April 30th if your work is selected.

also, look out for Verbatim's Green Light Special on Monday, April 20th in the Hokin Lecture Hall @ 7PM. if you aren't aware of them, Verbatim is the Spoken Word/Performance Poetry group that just got started at Columbia, and they want to welcome any and all poets with an interest in performing their work to join! you can mail stephanie for info on that, too.

lastly, check out GenderFusions 5: Freak Parade Extraordinairre! SATURDAY APRIL 18th: starts at 6pm at Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave (1st flr) & at 7pm, the Freak Parade (anyone can join!) and free food. At 8pm, the Spectacle begins at 618 S Michigan (2nd flr). The spectacle will include performances by drag queens, drag kings, musicians, writers, & dancers in fabulous costumes and all shades of gender expression. it's a mere $5 for students ($10 gen), with 75 FREE tickets being reserved for the first 75 kids to e-mail lgbtq@colum.edu. I'm doing my "pussy poem"! FULL INFO

Call for Submissions

2009-04-10T10:01:00.001-05:00

City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Poems About Chicago

Edited by Ryan G. Van Cleave

One of the largest cities in North America, Chicago’s metropolitan area boasts 10 million residents, placing it in the world’s top 25 urban areas by population. A leader in transportation, telecommunications, and finance, Chicago is a city of great architectural significance, ethnic diversity, and cultural wealth. It’s also the birthplace of house music, the Poetry Slam, the skyscraper, chemotherapy, and improvisational comedy.

For these and many other reasons, Chicago has long been the inspiration for and subject of poems (Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago,” Marge Piercy’s “Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day,” Ezra Pound’s “Epilogue,” and Maxwell Bodenheim’s “South State Street: Chicago” to name just a few), though no definitive collection currently exists. Edited by Chicago native Ryan G. Van Cleave, City of the Big Shoulders intends to fill this void by gathering the best new poems about Chicago from natives, visitors, friends, and critics of this exciting city.

While any Chicago-related poems are welcome, possible topics might include:

• The Great Chicago Fire
• O’Hare International Airport
• Al Capone
• Lake Michigan
• Grant Park, Lincoln Park, & Jackson Park
• Chicago Bulls / Bears / White Sox / Cubs / Blackhawks
• Lake Effect snow
• The El
• The “Magnificent Mile”
• Soldier Field
• The Shedd Aquarium
• The Adler Planetarium
• Navy Pier
• The Chicago Tribune
• Chicago pizza
• The Chicago Loop
• The Sears Tower
• Lincoln Park Zoo
• Mayor Richard J. Daley (Sr. & Jr.)
• McCormick Place
• The TV show “ER”
• Barack Obama
• 1893 World Expo
• Louis Armstrong
• Chicago’s Native American background (Potawatomi, Miami, Sauk, Fox, Ottawa, Ojibwa)

As part of a commitment to lessen his own environmental impact, the editor requests all submissions be emailed (along with a 3–5 line bio) as .rtf or .doc attachments to: chicagopoetryanthology(at)yahoo.com (replace (at) with @). If you must send in hard copy, email and ask for a snail mail address.

Payment will be in copies. Tentative publication date is early 2010 (by the University of Iowa Press). Previously published submissions are fine if you control the rights.

The deadline for receiving submissions is May 1, 2009.

CHAPBOOK-O-RAMA

2009-04-01T09:46:00.007-05:00

New chapbooks just out by three of our poetry faculty!

Lining
by Lisa Fishman (Boxwood Editions)

With the Memory, Which Is Enormou s
by Tony Trigilio (Main Street Rag)

By Myself
by D.A. Powell & David Trinidad (Turtle Point Press)

Collect all three!

Act now, while supplies last!

Citywide Poetry Festival: Thursday, April 2

2009-03-30T12:07:00.000-05:00

Jettison Quarterly

2009-03-11T14:45:00.003-05:00

dude, this is badass. it's a highly visual new online magzine by the guys who brought you the mustache gallery. food and fashion, art and fiction, with the chicago art outsider in mind. dense and playful, with teeth. check it out at jettisonquarterly.com. allow loading time: it's worth it.

Villains of Poetry!

2009-03-09T18:06:00.001-05:00

as posted on the elephant blog:
the columbia poets collective is holding a reading at Villains Bar & Grill, 649 S. Clark St on Wendesday March 11th starting at 10pm. for more info or if you want to get on the reading list, e-mail kristinravel@gmail.com.

also on the 20th there may be a reading at a buddhist temple. stay tuned.

and dont forget about bex & hanna on friday!

weekend happenings

2009-03-04T13:21:00.001-06:00

(as posted on elephant blog):

JETTISON QUARTERLY RELEASE PARTY
brought to you by the some of the folks behind the mustache gallery, this is a new, mysterious online zine that will be available at jettisonquarterly.com. come by Subterranean THURSDAY MARCH 5th at 2011 NORTH AVE (right off Damen Blue Line) 8pm to celebrate. kids, its a bar, so bring your fake IDs. punch and pie.

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SWITCHBACK BOOKS: LATE NITE WITH HANNA AND BECCA

chapbook party to celebrate the release of two new kickass books by two kickass poets from the Switchback Books press. poetry. music. good times. FRIDAY MARCH 13th 9pm at 4181 N Claredon (off Sheirdan red line). BYOB. flier. punch and pie.

Elephant Zine Blog

2009-01-30T10:09:00.004-06:00

Elephant Zine, a zine partly edited and produced by Columbia students and alumni, is publishing Issue 2: The Notebook online! Check back for a weekly page-to-page view.

http://elephantzine.blogspot.com/

WORD 4 Opening Reception Tonight!

2009-01-29T12:57:00.004-06:00

WORD 4 Opening Reception
Thursday, January 29, 2009, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Hokin Gallery, 623 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor

Readers: Maureen Ewing, Steve Smaczniak, Mykhiel Deych, Ines Pujos, Katie Spero, Zach Green, Abi Stokes

Slideshow of Exhibit

“Word 4: Type + Image” is the fifth annual D.E.P.S. exhibition celebrating the union of art and the written word. The exhibit features work from Columbia College Chicago’s Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration and Poetry students, along with other Columbia College students who use text as an integral component of their work. A portion of the exhibition contains typeset poetry that was written by students from Columbia College’s Creative Writing--Poetry program and designed by students in Dawn Peccatiello’s Intermediate Typography class. Poetry curated by Becca Klaver, Assistant Programs Director, Poetry and Literature. Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday 9-7, Friday 9–5. Contact: Justin Witte, Exhibition Coordinator, 312.369.8177, jwitte[at]colum[dot]edu.

Elbowing Off The Stage

2009-01-12T18:49:00.003-06:00

Thanks Nicole! You rock for throwing these!

guys- go to this if you can, I garantee it'll be good times!

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE

a c o mm u n i t yr e a din g se r i e s

presents:

Andrew Terhune, David Trinidad,& Jan Beatty

Monday, February 2

7:30p.m.

1278 North Milwaukee 4W

a few blocks North of Ashland

(blue line -division stop)

B Y O B

Tell yer friends.

Happy Collaborationist Jiggity

2009-01-05T17:41:00.003-06:00

heyo, there is an art show at the happy collab space comin up:

Starts at 7:30pm
January 17 2009
1254 N Noble, First Floor
Chicago IL 60642

http://beforecakeafterdinner.blogspot.com/

Joe Bly in Japan

2009-01-03T17:55:00.001-06:00

From the Red Floors Blog:

"...I will be making a report of my wrongdoings ;) ;) ;) I am going to visit the Imperial Palace East Gardens, a beer museum, the Harajuku arts fest (probably a few times), Shibuya, Roppongi (the international district, this place isn't even Tokyo even though it is in Tokyo, all sorts of crazy internationals, 20-30 year olds for the most part, like spring break every night + 400-500 yen drink specials, + sneaking a flask in, I'm so there), as many art museums as I can find in other areas, some chillax parks, an onsen (japanese mineral bath house--so relaxing), a massuese I pray to god soon, and with a budget of 6000 yen a day (w00t, i saved up!) I should be coming home with plenty of money to spare (I only spent 3500 yen today including snacks I haven't eaten yet, a great dinner (some type of fried potato thing? what turned out to be like little mini chicken wing things? what turned out to be tempura chicken, totally thought that was a veggie too, btw did I mention it is really hard to eat vegetarian here because you can't understand a fucking thing that is going on?"

joe in japan

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE

2009-01-02T11:40:00.000-06:00

Micah Perry, Jesse Crouse,
& Goodrich Gevaart

Thursday, January 8
7:30p.m.

1278 North Milwaukee 4W
a few blocks North of Ashland

B Y O B

Tell yer friends.

Humming Down in Alabama

2008-11-25T22:33:00.001-06:00

New e-chapbook by Daniela Olszewska (BA '07)!!!

Resort to Humming

(I recommend reading in full-screen mode.)

2008-11-04T16:03:00.003-06:00

Poetry & Prints #3

2008-11-02T11:52:00.001-06:00

POETRY READING
at SPUDNIK PRESS
***new location***
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 308, Chicago, IL 60622

POETRY & PRINTS #3

Saturday, Nov. 15th
8pm
FREE; Poetry collections & broadsides will be available to help
support the artists.

Poets:
Melissa Severin, Chicago, IL
Roberto Harrison, Milwaukee, WI
Aaron Lowinger, Buffalo, NY

Music:
The Scott Tuma and Mike Weis Duo

Prints:
"Not Recent Work", by Angee Lennard, Director of Spudnik Press. Angee will be going out on a limb and showing her own work. She'll be putting together an installation of older projects as a stepping stone to creating some new work.

Poetry and Prints is an ongoing collaboration between Spudnik Press and House Press. It is a series of approachable, unpretentious, and progressive poetry readings combined with visual art and live music in a way that cultivates interesting and meaningful interactions among artists working in different disciplines, and our community.

Hot Whiskey Press was a contributor in the past, but recently relocated to Prague.

Melissa Severin earned her MFA in Poetry from New England College and is managing editor for Switchback Books. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Moonlit, The Cultural Society, Ectoplasmic Necropolis, and Sawbuck. Brute Fact, her first chapbook, is available from dancing girl press.

Roberto Harrison's most recent publications include Counter Daemons (Litmus, 2006), Os (subpress, 2006), and Elemental Song (Answer Tag Home Press, 2006). He edits Crayon with Andrew Levy, and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. He lives in Milwaukee, where he hosts the Enemy Rumor reading series. A collection of his journal entries and drawings, Ineffable Isthmus, was shown at Woodland Pattern in the winter of 2007/2008.

"All poetics is local," writes Michael Kelleher in response to Aaron Lowinger's Front Park poems. From Buffalo's Psych Ward Flats he writes at the ecstasy of despair and the irony of joy. Recent author of chapbook Open Night Poems, about which Michael Basinski exclaims "The poet is in love and singing it poetry and finds all the silly and stupid and mundane things terrific! And finds all the important and special unique love things terrific! And terrific they are and the mind wanderings and celebration of imagination terrific and taxi cabs! And corn! And etc. of the city and as Bard of Buffalo!!"

--
http://www.spudnikpress.com
http://housepress.blogspot.com

Submit to CPR

2008-10-29T14:35:00.002-05:00

Here's the official call. But if you're a student, you can just drop it in the box on the 3rd floor of the English Office.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Columbia Poetry Review no. 22

Columbia Poetry Review, a nationally-distributed journal edited by undergraduate and graduate students at Columbia College Chicago, is still accepting submissions for its upcoming issue. The postmark deadline is November 30, 2008. Published once a year since 1988, Columbia Poetry Review remains an aesthetically diverse journal, showcasing work from solicited and unsolicited poets alongside the best Columbia College student work. The editorial board encourages work from across aesthetics, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, etc. Poems from CPR have been included in the Best American Poetry series, but more importantly, the journal provides a space dedicated to displaying the great array of work written today.

In our latest issue, no. 21, you’ll find work by Rae Armantrout, Anselm Berrigan, Rafael Campo, Diane di Prima, Amy Gerstler, Paul Muldoon, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, Danielle Pafunda, and dozens of others.

Please send no more than five pages of poems to the following address. We do not accept e-mail submissions. Please include a SASE. Name and contact information must be on each page of the submission. We will respond by February.

Columbia Poetry Review

English Department

Columbia College Chicago

600 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago , IL 60605

Beat Symposium

2008-10-05T13:46:00.002-05:00

This Weekend! Columbia College Chicago celebrates the Beat generation and its' lasting influence on poetry, music, and art.
also note that Diane Di Prima was not able to make it, but Micheal McClure will be reading in her place.

follow the link for more info:

The Beat Goes On

Elephants Readings

2008-09-03T15:13:00.003-05:00

Elephant Zine will be featured readers at the Subterranean (2011 W. North Ave) on MONDAY, SEPT 22nd, 7:30-9:15. $3 drafts, no cover. Come out and hear some Poetry by Columbia College students! for more info, check out our website.

This Saturday, SEPT 6th, join us for the Pre-Release Party for Elephant Volume 2: The Notebook at the Red Floors Gallery in Pilsen (1328 W 18th St #4R). Music on the Roof: The Charming Gardeners Farewell Tour! Art, Poetry & Performance! Beer & Munchies! Your $5 Donation will go towards printing costs for The Notebook Issue. Support the Arts! Spread the Word!

1278 Recall!

2008-08-26T10:26:00.001-05:00

Dudes,
I don't know if any of you saw the event posting for Sunday the 24th at 1278 N. Milwaukee, but I stupidly posted it thinking it was happening this Sunday the 31st. If any of you marked your calendar, yer day's now free (but the space is still awesome).

So sorry.
-NW

Submit to Elephant!

2008-08-04T12:44:00.008-05:00

Elephantz is now accepting submissions for Volume 3: Immigrants. Send us any poetry, flash fiction, or artwork (1 page or less please; artwork should be about 5 by 8, or half of a regular 5 by 11 page) relating to the question: "where are you from?" You can talk about your ancestry, your hometown, or your alien reptilian forebearers. Please include a brief (3 lines or so) bio and contact information. All submissions should be sent via e-mail to elephantzine@gmail.com by November 1st.

A pre-release party for Elephantz #2: the Notebook will be held September 6th at the Red Floors Gallery in Pilsen. The show will feature poetry readings, performances, film screenings, and music on the roof. check out our website at: http://www.elephantzine.weebly.com/ for more information. The Issue will be released by September 20th.

Donna Pecore and Janet Kuypers Poetry Reading

2008-07-07T16:08:00.002-05:00

July 13, 2008
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Beach Poetry
Greenleaf and the Lake, just south of Touhy

Beach Poetry is a unique performance poetry venue. Since 1990, Ed Roberson, Maureen Flannery, Andrea Change, Carlos Cortez, Lisa Buscani, the Aztec Dancers, Malachi Abaja, Marc Smith, Michael Warr, and Neal Pollack have been features. Beach Poetry was created by award-winning poet and playwright, Cathleen Schandelmeier and was originally held at North Ave. Beach and earned Schandelmeier the title "Poet Laureate of North Ave. Beach" by the Chicago Tribune in 1996. Presently located at Loyola Beach, on Greenleaf and the lake, The Beach Poets takes place from 4:30 pm-6:00 pm every Sunday afternoon in the summer. Look for the Beach Poets tent South of the Heartland's "Stand in the Sand" and bring poetry (your own or someone else's) for the round-robin open mic! Children and pets welcome!

Columbia alum Donna Pecore will also be reading at Manhattan's, 415 S Dearborn, on August 18th at 8:30, as part of the Elbowing Off the Stage reading series.

Poetry & Prints #2

2008-06-22T14:16:00.003-05:00

up close, it's this friday (6.27) in chicago with
dana ward
michael carr
&
jess mynes
at spudnik press, # 2 in a new & re-untranquilized
run of independent readings in chicago from house press
& hot whiskey press.

see too:
http://www.spudnikpress.com/poetry.html

Printers Row Book Fair!

2008-06-10T15:18:00.011-05:00

Helen Kiernan

Rachel Finkelstein

Jesse Crouse

Jess Rose

Andrew Koszewski

Jennifer Watman

Alex Schmidt

Clockwise from upper left:
Jennifer Watman, Jacob Saenz, Jess Rose, Donna Pecore

ELEPHANT -LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

2008-06-04T14:50:00.006-05:00

Hey Poets,

For those who don't know: Elephants is a Chicago-based poetry zine dedicated to publishing the diverse styles and voices of up-and-coming poets and artists. We believe in uniting poets across genres, poetry for the people, respecting differences in style & aesthetics, fostering community between poets, & having fun. Because fun is good.

Elephants is currently seeking submissions for Volume 2: the Notebook. We are literally looking for a page from your notebook- a rough draft of a poem, maybe alongside a doodle or a grocery list. We are also seeking sketches and doodles from visual artists. The messier and rawer your submission, the better. The deadline is June 16th, and the Release is scheduled for August (and we're planning one hell of a party!). We will make at least 200 copies and distribute them at a low cost around the city.

Submissions should be sent via snail mail to:

elephant zine c/o Helen Kiernan 3265 W Wrightwood #3W CHGO IL 60647.

The official e-mail is: elephantzine [at] gmail [dot] com

Elephant reserves the right to accept, reject, or alter submissions. We will try to find a space for all submissions. Submissions will not be returned.

If anyone is interested in working on issue #2, let me know! We are happy to have you. Thanks!

While I'm at it, let me thank, once again, everyone who helped out with issue #1, particularly Becca, Faith, OEM, Jess Rose, & Philsy.

Student Reading @ Printers Row!

2008-06-04T09:52:00.001-05:00

Come one, come all--

Poetry MFAs, majors, and alumni to read at the Printers Row Book Fair!

Saturday, June 7, 2008
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Tent @ Harrison & Dearborn

The lineup:

Helen Kiernan
Rachel Finkelstein
Jesse Crouse
Jess Rose
Andy Koszewski
Jennifer Watman
Alex Schmidt
Kate Brady

Poets will read in this order for approximately 10 minutes each.

You can also browse the books and wares of alumni-run presses Switchback Books and dancing girl press at table 329, just west of Dearborn Station on Polk!

Hope to see you there!

Check It!

2008-05-24T12:56:00.001-05:00

Columbia Poetry Review, issue 21, gets some praise from D.A. Powell (with a shout out to Meg Reilly!):

http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/05/david_trinidad_is_doing_tim_dl_1.html

Please join us. . .

2008-05-14T14:14:00.001-05:00

COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO

Manifest Student Showcase

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT RECEPTION FOR POETRY PROGRAM GRADUATES

Friday, May 16, 2008

UNIVERSITY CENTER
Third Floor Great Room
525 South State Street
Chicago, IL 60605

Eleven to One ~ BA Graduates
Two to Four ~ MFA Graduates

Poetry readings by graduating students and by the winners of the Lannan and Elma Stuckey Poetry Awards. Hors d’oeuvres to follow.

Poetry Tattoo Parlor!

2008-05-09T13:48:00.001-05:00

Come get your free poetry tattoos!

Friday, May 16, 2008
1:00-5:00 p.m.

Tent at the corner of Wabash & Balbo
Chicago, IL 60605

Part of Columbia's Manifest Urban Arts Festival

JOIN US IN THE PARK!

2008-05-09T11:23:00.000-05:00

[BA alum] Stefania Iryne Marthakis, Tisa Bryant, and Joe Robitaille

will represent The Poetry Project in the Word for Word Poetry Series,

held seasonally in the Bryant Park Reading Room.

May 13th, 2008
Tuesday, 6:30pm

The Reading Room
Bryant Park (behind the New York Public Library)
between 40th and 42nd streets and 5th and 6th avenues
New York, NY

Subway: the F, V, D, B to 42nd Street/Bryant Park or the 7 to 5th Avenue

Further details, bios, and other exciting events at:
www.poetryproject.com
www.bryantpark.org

2008-04-21T18:04:00.003-05:00

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE:

A Community Reading Series

presents

Helen Kiernan, Patrick Justus,

Heidi McKye, and Rachel Smith

Tuesday, April 29

7:30 pm

Manhattan's Bar

415 South Dearborn
near the corner of Congress
and Dearborn

born and raised on the south side of chicago, HK is a bender of gender, grammar, and other rules and regulations. besides being a riffraff poet, she is the editor in chief of elephant magazine, a switchback newbie, a gallery 37 grad, a professional bookslinger, a chain smoker, and an off-key singer who is gratefully preparing for the coming apocalypse.

Patrick Justus writes: "A former Geology student in Colorado, I gave up all hope of a career digging in the ground and moved to Chicago to write poetry. With these poems I hope to construct a 'museum of clear ideas' (to steal a line from Donald Hall) with an eye towards the power of simplicity and a respect for straightforward language. Everyday moments can be the strangest, most beautiful little worlds when viewed from the right angle."

Heidi McKye owns ten villas in the south of France where she is known as that crazy Parrot Woman. She writes fictions. Teeny tiny ones. One of them can be found here: http://www.elimae.com/%202008/March/Thread.html. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA in writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She owns no parrots.

Rachel Smith teaches writing at Columbia College Chicago where she is completing her MFA in poetry. She enjoys holding babies, grading papers, caking it up on the phone and editing her thesis titled “Racist Jesus Lovers.”

Elaine Equi & Mary Jo Bang

2008-04-17T14:05:00.004-05:00

Columbia College alumna Elaine Equi is on the International Shortlist for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize!

Equi grew up in Chicago and the outlying suburbs, graduating from Columbia College. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, she and her husband, the poet Jerome Sala, were at the forefront of Chicago’s lively performance poetry scene. Equi is the author of more than 10 poetry collections including The Cloud of Knowable Things and Voice-Over, which won a San Francisco State University Poetry Center Award. Widely published and anthologized, her work has appeared in a number of Best American Poetry compilations as well as in publications such as The New Yorker and American Poetry Review. Equi lives in New York with her husband and teaches at New York University and in the MFA programs at The New School and City College.

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Mary Jo Bang, who served as student editor of Columbia Poetry Review no. 6 while she was a student at Columbia, won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Bang was poetry co-editor at the Boston Review from 1995 to 2005. Born in Waynesville, Mo., she grew up in north St. Louis, Mo., and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology from Northwestern University. She also holds a bachelor's degree in photography from the Polytechnic of Central London and a master's in creative writing from Columbia University. She became director of The Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis in 2005.

Spell: issue 4 (Eric Unger, editor)

2008-04-02T16:06:00.005-05:00

House Press is excited to announce the dynamic new issue of Spell magazine. Consisting of equal parts textual and visual poetry, this issue brings together contributors who provide unique perspectives of ways forward.

Featuring:

Alan May / Tom Wegrzynowski
Michael Slosek
Andrew Hughes
Nico Vassilakis
Sarah Menefee
Jessica Wickens
Jesse Ferguson
Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff
Aaron Lowinger
Catherine Daly
Michael Carr
cover art: Scott Shanley

A poem by Michael Slosek from the issue:

From Kafka to Kleist
for aa

To a body, unaccomplished in sleep
a wreath is held
"To the best of their house"

brought back to the slaughter's art:

"This city, owned by a glove
of chosen hands, larger each pull apart.
1911 - a spider crawls over your eyes.
I waif in the strength to die."

So sparing us -
the cold breathing.
The weight climbing around a denser world

as obstacles to an inner orbit.
An amulet with arms around itself.

--
Spell is available for trade or a five dollar check only. Items for trade / checks may be sent to:

Spell
c/o Eric Unger
3540 N. Lowell Ave.
Apt. 1L
Chicago, IL 60641

News from Donna Pecore (BA '07)

2008-04-02T13:28:00.002-05:00

Good news comes in threes for Donna Pecore:

She has been accepted into the Creative Writing Master's Program at UIC.
Her piece "Unknown Epidemic" will be published in the fall South Loop Review.
A short essay will be part of the Goodman Theater display during a play by another Columbia alum: Ifa Bayeza's The Ballad of Emmett Till.

Greenstreet/Robins Reading

2008-03-18T12:07:00.001-05:00

Reviewed at Literago!

2008-03-18T11:20:00.000-05:00

MARCH 25, 7-8pm

TONY TRIGILIO READING
with Gabriel Gudding and Tony Barnstone

Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell
as part of the "Series A" readings
curated by Bill Allegrezza

More info at:
http://www.moriapoetry.com/seriesa.html.

2008-03-18T11:18:00.003-05:00

MARCH 25, moved to 8:30pm:

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE:
A Community Reading Series

presents
Jennifer Steele, Thomas Mowe,
Kate Brady, and John Franklin Dandridge

in Crossed Fingers,
a "spring" reading.

Tuesday, March 25
8:30 P.M.

Manhattan’s Bar
415 S. Dearborn St
(312) 957-0460
near the corner
of Congress
and Dearborn

Tell yer friends!

Poetry: DIY Style

2008-03-06T13:40:00.000-06:00

March 20, 5-7 p.m.
Library, 3rd Floor East

What:

A panel of three emerging Chicago poets discuss their experiences fostering their work through a variety of time-tested DIY methods related to writing and building an audience, including publication, poetry groups and workshops, readings, literary journals, and independent presses. Looking for an answer to “What do I do now?”? Longing to put all your knowledge, ambition, and talent to use? This panel will give you some great ideas…

Who:

Jacob Saenz graduated from Columbia College Chicago in the winter of 2005 with a BA in Poetry. His work has appeared in a handful of journals such as RHINO, Columbia Poetry Review, Inkstains and Poetry. In 2007 he was nominated for an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award.

Kristy Bowen is the author of the fever almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006) and in the bird museum, (Dusie Press, 2008), as well as several small press and self-published chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Swink, Backwards City Review, DIAGRAM, Caffeine Destiny and others. She is the editor of the online litzine wicked alice, and publisher of dancing girl press, which has published over 30 chapbooks and book arts projects by emerging women writers. She recently moved the whole operation into a studio / reading / workshop in the Fine Arts Building down the street and off of her dining room table. Her third collection, girl show, is forthcoming from Ghost Road in late 2009.

Todd Heldt is a poet-librarian in Chicago, and his poems and short stories have appeared in dozens of print and electronic journals. He has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and helped judge the 2006 Poetry Superhighway poetry contest. His chapbook, The Science of Broken People, was published by Little Poem Press in 2003, and his first full-length collection, Card Tricks for the Starving, is to be published in 2009 by Ghost Road Press. In 2002 he toured coffee houses and bars in the South with a self-published book and CD of poetry, making enough money to replace the transmission when it dropped out of the car in Texas.

Daniela Olszewska on Sharkforum

2008-03-04T10:26:00.000-06:00

Daniela Olszewska is this week’s feature for Sharkforum’s Poem of the Week series, edited by Simone Muench. “Zombie: 24 Hours in The Life Of” is reprinted from her chapbook The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe (dancing girl press, 2008).

Harrison Haiku Slideshow

2008-02-20T15:47:00.002-06:00

Courtesy of Annabelle Echo

Daniela Olszewska (BA '07) Release Party!

2008-02-13T11:44:00.000-06:00

SWITCHBACK BOOKS AND DANCING GIRL PRESS PRESENT: THE RELEASE OF DANIELA OLSZEWSKA’S THE PARTIAL AUTOBIOGRAPY OF JANE DOE AND MELISSA SEVERIN’S BRUTE FACT

CHICAGO, February 5, 2008 -- A poetry reading and release party for Chicago-based poets Daniela Olszewska and Melissa Severin will be hosted by Dancing Girl Press and Switchback Books on Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. at the California Clipper. Daniela Olszewska’s chapbook, “The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe” and Melissa Severin’s chapbook, “Brute Fact,” both from the Dancing Girl Press imprint, will be available for purchase at the event along with other publications from both Switchback Books and Dancing Girl Press.

Daniela Olszewska is an editorial assistant and intern coordinator for Switchback Books. Daniela holds a BA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in recent issues of Wicked Alice, La Petite Zine, MiPOesias, Cranky, and Pebble Lake Review.

Melissa Severin is the managing editor at Switchback Books. Melissa lives in Chicago and currently works in the search engine marketing industry. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New England College, and her poems have appeared in MoonLit, Wicked Alice, The Alembic, and The Cultural Society.

The California Clipper is located at 1002 North California at the corners of Augusta Blvd. and California Ave., two blocks south of Division Street. Call (773) 384-2547 for further information.

About Switchback Books

Switchback Books is a feminist press publishing poetry by women. Our definition of "women" is broad and includes transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and female-identified individuals. Founded in 2006 by a group of students at Columbia College Chicago, Switchback Books publishes two books a year, one of which is the winner of the Gatewood Prize for a first book of poetry by a woman aged 18 through 39. Switchback Books welcomes young women writers who aren't afraid to look for answers in all directions.

About Dancing Girl Press

Dancing Girl Press, an indie publisher, was founded in 2004 to publish and promote the work of women poets through chapbooks, journals, and anthologies. Formed as a print subsidiary of the online zine Wicked Alice, Dancing Girl seeks to publish work that bridges the gaps between schools and poetic techniques--work that's fresh, innovative, and exciting.

Harrison Haiku in the Tribune!

2008-02-08T15:50:00.001-06:00

Haiku for the walls at Harrison stop inspire CTA, students
2 schools in South Loop turn subway station into poetry canvas

By Karoun Demirjian | Tribune reporter
January 31, 2008

For dreary subways, add a little poetry; it will come to shine.

It's a 17-syllable recipe for city beautification that a group of students from Columbia College and Jones College Prep has taken to heart over the last few months. The budding architects, artists and poets gathered their talents and time to transform the Red Line's Harrison subway station into a gallery of haiku, a form of Japanese poetry characterized by a three-line structure of five, seven and five syllables.

Read the rest of the article.

WORD 3 Opening Reception

2008-01-29T11:04:00.001-06:00

Word3 : TYPE + IMAGE
Hokin Gallery, 623 S. Wabash
January 28 – February 28, 2008

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 31, 5-7 p.m.

With readings by:
Sophia Burke (Poetry major), “The White Bell”
Helen Kiernan (Poetry major), “O, you Prankstirs”
Kate Dougherty (Poetry MFA), “Stunning”

Word 3: Type + Image is the fourth annual [C]Spaces exhibition celebrating the union of art and the written word. The exhibit features work from Columbia College Chicago’s Illustration, Graphic Design, and Poetry students, along with other Columbia College students who use text as an integral component of their work. Word 3 illustrates the different uses of typography in artwork and the interdependence of imagery and text. Work displayed includes typeset poems, original cartoons, creative typography, and artwork incorporating letterforms.

Participating Instructors: Ivan Brunetti, Dawn Peccatiello, and Jilly Simons

Poetry curated by: Becca Klaver, Assistant Program Director, Poetry & Literature, Columbia College Chicago

Harrison Haiku

2008-01-29T10:35:00.000-06:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Micki Leventhal 312-344-7383

January 23, 2008

Columbia College Chicago Beautifies Neighborhood Subway with Harrison Haiku
Art Installation Contributes to CTA Adopt-A-Station Program with Text & Graphics

Opening Celebration January 30

CHICAGO, IL -- Moments of awe, radiance and sudden insight in the midst of everyday life, captured in 17 syllables, are the essence of Haiku, Japanese minimalist poetry. A graphic art installation of Haiku, written by poetry students from Columbia College Chicago and Jones College Prep, will be unveiled in a community celebration in and around the Harrison Street Red Line subway station on Wednesday, January 30. The event takes place at 10:30 a.m. and will feature poetry readings and music, as well as comments by Columbia President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., Jones Prep Principal Donald Fraynd, Ph.D., Second Ward Alderman Robert Fioretti and a representative from the CTA.

“The spare beauty of the Haiku form paired with the colorful graphics will be a wonderful ‘awakening’ for the South Loop residents and workers, as well as the thousands of Columbia and Jones students, faculty and staff who use the Harrison subway each day,” says Kenneth Daley, chair of the English Department at Columbia, which offers both undergraduate and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Poetry.

Haiku will be read by Columbia MFA/Poetry students Nicole Wilson and Kate Brady, Columbia MFA/Poetry alumni John Franklin Dandridge and Jones students Nat Iosbaker (senior) and Erayna Wright (freshman). Jaman Dunn, first violinist and concert master for the Jones orchestra, will perform a violin piece and a short percussion performance will be provided by members of the Chicago Dragons Athletic Association.

The Harrison Haiku project was conceived as both a means to showcase the creative product of Columbia Poetry students and to contribute to the community. After getting approval from the CTA to adopt the Harrison station, the school’s Office of Campus Environment held a competition with Interior Architecture students to design the physical installation. Through workshops conducted by Poetry faculty and students and teaching artists from Columbia’s Center for Community Arts Partnerships, original Haiku were created by college students from Columbia and high school students from Jones.

Installation of artwork in the mezzanine, escalator/stair and platform levels will begin in January and will be staged over the upcoming months.

The Harrison Haiku art installation is another example of Columbia College Chicago’s innovative efforts to create a vibrant and welcoming environment in the South Loop,” says Alicia Berg, Columbia’s vice president of campus environment. “It will join the public art we have already installed on previously blank building facades and storefronts so that our campus better reflects the creative spirit of our institution. We are thrilled to be able to contribute Harrison Haiku as a beautiful and educational resource for the community.”

Under The Stairs Poetry

2008-01-16T16:14:00.000-06:00

New poetry website featuring the works of Zachary Green, an undergraduate freshman at Columbia College.

http://web.mac.com/zgreen88

Daniela Olszewska's Chapbook

2008-01-15T09:39:00.000-06:00

Hot off the dancing girl press!

Sample poem:

Introducing: Jane Doe

I was born in a concrete patch.
I was born with a complex system
of bicycle parts breathing me in
and then out and then in again.

I am the thing with the shiny yellow
saxophone voice. I am the girl
who cubed pomegranate juice;
the girl with a J-shaped pseudonym.

I drink from a zodiac-lidded jug.
My pockets full of special bugs,
my female-shaped hand bones
clutching a note written in red-
orange crayon: Do you like me?
Circle: YES NO

BJ Soloy in DIAGRAM

2008-01-07T09:53:00.000-06:00

Arielle Greenberg introduces Poetry major grad BJ Soloy in the new issue of DIAGRAM!

Call for Alumni Work

2008-01-03T11:23:00.001-06:00

BA Alums: We'd love to feature some of your published work (anything that's not self-published or published in one of the Columbia College journals) in the Poetry display case on the 3rd floor of the Congress building. Please email links to online poems to rklaver at colum dot edu, or drop off copies or tear sheets with me in Office 300-M or in my mailbox.

Current students are still welcome to submit as well.

Fame never came so cheap!!

Looking for a Winter Break Writing Project?

2007-12-20T14:43:00.001-06:00

Contribute to Kristin Aarsdma's

Poésie a la Poste

If you want to participate, please send an original, hand-written poem on a postcard to:

K. Aardsma
1119 15th Court
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401

2007-12-07T16:35:00.000-06:00

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE:
A Community Reading Series

presents

Micah Perry, Lindsay Bell, Russell Jaffe, and Patrick Culliton
in
Bone-Tired: An End of Semester Celebration!
-with guest emcee Jesse Crouse-

The semester is over & rollicking's in order:
a-guilt-and-stress-free, poetry-and-Christmas-ale-fueled evening out!

Monday, December 17th
7:00 P.M.

Manhattan’s Bar
415 S. Dearborn St
(312) 957-0460
near the corner of Congress and Dearborn

Readers of all genres & drinkers of all libations are welcome. Feel free to contact Nicole Wilson
with inquires, reading interest, or statements of inspiration: starnkw@hotmail.com.

THANK YOU to everyone for your continued support! Spread the word.

Let It Dance: A Poetry Reading*

2007-12-06T10:54:00.000-06:00

featuring the work of

Becca Klaver’s Beginning Poetry Workshop students

Rachel Angres * Logan Beaver * Sophia Burke * Tisa Butler * Chris Ditton * Zach Green * Lily Izguerra * Joh Jans * Ben Jones * Jeff Keener * Travis Kniffin * Bobby Marks * Nate Olison * Efrain Reyes * Alison Stein

C-33 Gallery

33 E. Congress, ground floor

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

12:30 p.m.

*and class motto

2007-11-30T17:29:00.001-06:00

Columbia College English Department’s BA and MFA Poetry Programs are pleased to announce the second annual

Minds of Winter
Student Poetry Reading

“For the listener, who listens in the snow....”

featuring

Joe Bly * Jesse Crouse * Meghan Lee * Kate Dougherty

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

4:30 p.m.

Columbia College Library, Third floor

624 South Michigan Avenue

Two continuing and two outgoing BA and MFA student poets will represent their programs. A reception featuring homemade goodies from Swim Café will follow. The reading is free and open to the public. Please come and enjoy poems and refreshments! (Quotation from Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man.”)

Elbowing Off the Stage -- TONIGHT!

2007-11-12T14:36:00.000-06:00

Jacob Saenz Sweeps the Slush Pile

2007-11-08T11:48:00.000-06:00

Jacob Saenz, a recent Columbia College Chicago Poetry major graduate (B.A. '06), has a new poem, "Sweeping the States," in this month's issue of Poetry magazine. He's also the featured poet on Poetry's website and on PoetryFoundation.org's blog Harriet today. I asked Jacob to answer a few questions over email, and he dispensed all the wisdom of one who has made it through that open yet ever-elusive door.

How many times had you submitted to Poetry before “Sweeping the States” was accepted?
None. This was my first time.

How did you choose which poems to send to Poetry?
I submitted poems that were different from each other, whether in form, language, tone, etc. I tried to offer them a variety of work that still maintained my voice. I also submitted poems that had received good feedback from my writing group, whose opinions I value greatly.

How did you find out your poem was accepted?
I actually found out the morning after the letter was delivered. Before I showered, I saw the envelope from Poetry and it was thicker & larger than most rejection letters I receive. I waited till after I showered to open it but I felt pretty good that at least one of my poems was accepted, considering the size of the mail. When I opened it, my good feeling was confirmed, which prompted me to raise my fists in the air and holler a “Hell Yeah!” I was really excited and honored.

Did the editors give you any feedback on the poem?
Christian Wiman actually hand wrote a brief response to the poem, congratulating me on a well-crafted piece.

What are you working on now?
No major projects. Just simply working on individual poems and bettering my craft.

Do you have any other publications coming up that we can look out for?
Sadly, no.

Do you have advice for Poetry majors about submitting their work?
As cliché as it sound, just do it. Read work from a particular magazine and send in poems which you think might fit their aesthetic. If you feel your work doesn’t fit with the magazine, send in your best work anyway and make them fit. Also, buy lots of stamps.

What’s the most important thing about writing that you learned while a Poetry major at Columbia College?
I believe in the importance of establishing a writing group. I wouldn’t be writing as well had I not been part of a group, whether in the classroom or out. I value the opinion of my peers very much. They not only make me a better writer but also a better reader, even of my own work. I also want to note that my peers and I met at Columbia College where we established a group outside of our academic workshops.

What’s your day job?
I work for Columbia College’s Library as an Acquisitions Assistant. Basically, I buy books, movies, music and video games.

How do you nurture your writing life when writing poems is no longer an “assignment”?
Like I stated earlier, being part of a group helps a lot. Though I’m no longer writing poems as an “assignment”, meeting regularly prompts me a bit to have a draft ready for the group. Still, there are times, weeks even, when the writing doesn’t come as easy. Some days are better than others but when it comes, I try to take advantage and write down as much as I can. That way I’ll always have something to bring to the group, no matter how old the piece is.

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE

2007-10-30T11:14:00.001-05:00

A Community Reading Series

presents

Carol Eding, Becca Klaver, Julie Rouse, & BJ Soloy
in
Adieu Broad Shoulders, Bonjour Tall Corn: A Poetry Reading

Becca and Carol are both alums of the Columbia College M.F.A. poetry program and were both born on July 1st. BJ and Julie—of Minds of Winter fame, and now eternally bound in matrimony—will be leaving Chicago and heading off to Iowa at the end of the semester. Please come and bid them farewell! You’re encouraged to bring Goodbye Poems (yours or someone else’s) to read at the Open Mic portion of this event, which will be dedicated exclusively to poems of this ilk and will run from 7:00-7:30.

Monday, November 12, 2007
7:00 P.M.

Manhattan’s Bar
415 S Dearborn St
(312) 957-0460
near the corner of Congress and Dearborn

Readers of all genres & drinkers of all libations are welcome. Feel free to contact Nicole Wilson with inquires, reading interest, or statements of inspiration: starnkw@hotmail.com.

THANK YOU to everyone for your continued support! Spread the word.

Be there or be elbowless.

New from House Press

2007-10-18T19:19:00.000-05:00

string of small machines is pleased to announce its third issue.

the issue features :

sabrina calle
harold abramowitz & amanda ackerman
kathryn l. pringle
cedar sigo
maureen thorson
mark lamoureux
brandon downing
roberto harrison
paul klinger
elizabeth robinson

cover: michael slosek

string of small machines is the house press poetry magazine, published in chicago, edited by luke daly, barrett gordon, and eric unger.

copies are available for $6 through paypal at http://housepress.blogspot.com

Green, Trigilio, Trinidad!

2007-10-17T09:16:00.001-05:00

POETRY READING

Chris Green
Tony Trigilio
David Trinidad

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave.
7:00 p.m.

New Chicago Lit. Journal

2007-10-16T13:42:00.000-05:00

Those wild and crazy kids over at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have a new literary journal called The Moustachioed Dissident. According to their website, “the journal includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, work for the stage and screen, as well as hybrid works incorporating text. We are especially interested in these mixed forms, however we see the journal overall as a hybrid work in and of itself. We may also be interested in looking at paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, etc.”

The 17th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Conference on Black Literature

2007-10-15T11:24:00.001-05:00

Chicago State University
More info at: www.csu.edu/gwendolynbrooks

October 17-20, 2007

This year the conference features Donda West, former Chicago State University faculty member and mother of famous rapper Kanye West.

Along with renowned writer and journalist Bakari Kitwana, West will take part in a panel entitled "Hip-hop and Social Justice."

This year’s conference will also induct some of the most accomplished literary artists of our time for the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. Martín Espada, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Poetry and American Book Award Winner, will be among those inducted into this esteemed group of writers and scholars.

The conference's Giant's Day Honoree is poet Sonia Sanchez.

Chicago State University Distinguished Professor Haki R. Madhubuti will join musician, Nicole Mitchell, ranked #1 in Downbeat Magazine’s Critic’s Poll for "Rising Star Flute," to reprise Madhubuti's acclaimed poetry and jazz LP Rise Vision Coming.

In addition, award-winning novelist Tayari Jones will take part in a fiction reading and discussion.

The conference offers a wide range of readings, panel discussions, children's literature programming, and workshops.

For the last 17 years, the four-day event has become a destination conference for the most renowned writers in the country. Luminaries such as Toni Morrison, August Wilson, Nikki Giovanni, and Cornel West were featured guests at past conferences.

The Gwendolyn Brooks Writers' Conference is sponsored The Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University. The Brooks Center was founded in 1990 and is inspired by the life and works of former CSU professor, Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize. The goal of the Center is to promote the study of Black writers and strengthen the humanities, especially literature.

For more information on conference pricing, programming, dates, and locales please refer to www.csu.edu/gwendolynbrooks.

For more information, call 773-995-3750.

Elbowing Off the Stage TONIGHT

2007-09-24T10:05:00.001-05:00

featuring poetry by Daniela Olszewska, Ivan Ramos, Rey Escobar, and Jesse Crouse

hosted by Nicole Wilson

7:00 P.M.

Manhattan's Bar
415 S Dearborn St.
near the corner of Congress and Dearborn
(312) 957-0460

More info.

Call for Publication Credits

2007-09-17T10:58:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone,

As we work on improving recruitment to our BA and MFA programs, we're asking for your help. If you are a current student in, or graduate of, one of these programs, please email any recent publication credits (within the last 2 years, approximately) to rklaver [at] colum [dot] edu so we can combine them into a report for Admissions, who will then use the information as they advertise the programs and make school visits. We also might use this information in brochures or on the website.

Even if you're typically shy about self-promotion, please send this information my way; your name will not be included without your permission, and you will be doing the service of letting the world know about the accomplished, innovative, important work done in poetry at Columbia College.

We're interested in hearing about:

poems or translations published in journals, magazines, and newspapers;

scholarly essays, reviews, or other critical prose writing published;

chapbooks or full-length collections published or accepted for publication;

any press that you or your projects have received.

We're not interested in listing self-published work, though we encourage you to get your work out into the world by whatever means necessary! Please include the title of poem/article, the title of the publication or press, the month/year of publication, and a very brief description, if necessary.

Thanks!
Becca

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE: A COMMUNITY READING SERIES

2007-09-11T10:43:00.000-05:00

featuring poetry by Daniela Olszewska, Ivan
Ramos, Rey Escobar, and Jesse Crouse

Monday, September 24

7:00 P.M.

Manhattan's Bar
415 S Dearborn St(312) 957-0460
near the corner of Congress and Dearborn

Thank you to everyone who participated in and supported the last reading. It was a tremendous success!

Continue to spread the word--readers of all genres & drinkers of all libations are welcome. (This one may include some surprise fiction writers!)

Feel free to contact Nicole Wilson with inquires, reading interest, or statements of inspiration at starnkw [at] hotmail [dot] com.

CALL FOR WORK!!

2007-09-02T12:09:00.001-05:00

I'm putting together a collaborative project where people send me postcards with poems on them.

You can use the space of the postcard for original poetry or send a longer piece on several postcards.

If you're interested or know someone who is, please inquire as to where you should send the cards!

I'll be binding this into a book for my collaborations class this semester & want as many cards as possible! The final work will be then sent to Switchback HQ so you Chicagoans can see the work, if you so desire.

All work is welcome!

xxx
Kristin

IN THESE TIMES Magazine Seeks Interns

2007-08-29T14:34:00.001-05:00

“If it weren’t for In These Times
I’d be a man without a country.”

-Kurt Vonnegut

IN THESE TIMES, a national monthly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago, seeks PUBLISHING INTERNS for Fall, Winter, and Summer. Depending on experience, interns work on press releases, event coordination, or donor/grant prospecting. Interns should have high-quality writing and research skills, attention to detail and knowledge of basic office software. Familiarity with FileMaker Pro and Raiser's Edge a plus. Individuals with experience in marketing, event-planning, non-profit management and fundraising are strongly encouraged to apply. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in a career in nonprofit management or independent media. Internships are unpaid and run 2-3 days a week for four months beginning in September, January, and May.

Applicants should e-mail a cover letter with résumé to Jarrett Dapier at Jarrett@inthesetimes.com. No attachments, please. For more information about IN THESE TIMES, visit www.inthesetimes.com.

Chris Green, Tony Trigilio, & David Trinidad Reading

2007-08-28T10:17:00.000-05:00

Sunday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.
Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622

* Columbia College Chicago * BA in Poetry

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Spring 2011 POETRY Reading Series

Kind Poets, Send Me Your News!

5th Annual Minds of Winter Student Reading:

All I Need

A Letter To My Husband: How To Love Our Daughter

White Flower

WEEKS OF WELCOME 2010

Becca Klaver’s (MFA '07) "probing meditations and acerbic wit " now available from Kore Press

POETRY ALUMNI: SEND NEWS

New Publications for Winter 2010

MAD CONGRATS!

WHATCHU BEEN UPTO?

CATHERINE BOWMAN READING

RHINO READING: TRIGILIO & LIM

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

HYDE PARK ART CENTER *FREE POETRY WORKSHOP*

Black Warrior Review

POETRY STUDENT PUBLICATIONS!

Send Me Poems!

Sense & Nonsense: A Poetry Workshop with Becca Klaver

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE

The Tattoos Have Arrived!

Columbia Poetry Review no. 22 Reading & Release Party!

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

Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker

Columbia Poetry Happenings

Call for Submissions

***CHAPBOOK-O-RAMA***

Citywide Poetry Festival: Thursday, April 2

Jettison Quarterly

Villains of Poetry!

weekend happenings

Elephant Zine Blog

WORD 4 Opening Reception Tonight!

Elbowing Off The Stage

Happy Collaborationist Jiggity

Joe Bly in Japan

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE

Humming Down in Alabama

Poetry & Prints #3

Submit to CPR

Beat Symposium

Elephants Readings

1278 Recall!

Submit to Elephant!

Donna Pecore and Janet Kuypers Poetry Reading

Poetry & Prints #2

Printers Row Book Fair!

ELEPHANT -LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Student Reading @ Printers Row!

Check It!

Please join us. . .

Poetry Tattoo Parlor!

JOIN US IN THE PARK!

Elaine Equi & Mary Jo Bang

Spell: issue 4 (Eric Unger, editor)

News from Donna Pecore (BA '07)

Greenstreet/Robins Reading

Poetry: DIY Style

Daniela Olszewska on Sharkforum

Harrison Haiku Slideshow

Daniela Olszewska (BA '07) Release Party!

Harrison Haiku in the Tribune!

WORD 3 Opening Reception

Harrison Haiku

Under The Stairs Poetry

Daniela Olszewska's Chapbook

BJ Soloy in DIAGRAM

Call for Alumni Work

Looking for a Winter Break Writing Project?

Let It Dance: A Poetry Reading*

Elbowing Off the Stage -- TONIGHT!

Jacob Saenz Sweeps the Slush Pile

ELBOWING OFF THE STAGE

New from House Press

Green, Trigilio, Trinidad!

New Chicago Lit. Journal

HYDE PARK ART CENTER FREE POETRY WORKSHOP

CHAPBOOK-O-RAMA

Elbowing Off the Stage TONIGHT