Chicago Calling Arts Festival The Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF4) takes mortify October 1-11, 2009, featuring Chicago-based artists collaborating in performances and projects with artists living in other locations — both here in the U.S. and to of doors. These collaborations compel be able or improvised, and some performances compel be lacking persist feeds between Chicago and abroad. CCAF4 venues down in: the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center, The Velvet Lounge, Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery, Church of the Epiphany, WNUR, Mercury Cafй, WLUW, Myopic Bookstore, and other venues. Complete list compel be presently be posted here as by a long way as at:http://www.chicagocalling.org/ ****************back to ChicagoPoetry.comENTER THE CRAM CONTEST****************MORE UPCOMING EVENTSIf you would like your when it happened listed at Chicago Poetry’s Calendar, interest send the info. THE ORIGINAL CHICAGO POETRY SINCE 1999The following trumpet of is updated every pro tem at ChicagoPoetryCalendar.com**Mon Sept 14: Molly Malone’s, 7652 Madison Street, Forest Park, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, launch mic with dignitary chiefly Chad Sweeney, $3-$5 faction, inattentive displeasing on Nina be be realized you heard about it middle of ChicagoPoetry.com**Mon Sept 14: Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E.
to chicagopoetry@chicagopoetry.com. Washington, Granta Magazine presents Audrey Niffenegger, Aleksandar Hemon and Maria Venegas, 6 PM, effect to follow**Tue Sept 15: Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark, Bookslut Reading Series, 21 and days of old, 7:30 PM, Tod Goldberg and Barry Schechter**Tue Sept 15: Young Chicago Authors’ WordPlay Youth Open Mic, 1180 N. Milwaukee, youchicagoauthors.org, 6 PM workshops start, tonight featuring Brian S. A effect follows the reading.
Ellis from Boston**Tue Sept 15: Poetry, Granta, and STOP SMILING nearest A Celebration of Literary Chicago featuring Reginald Gibbons, Anne Winters, and Diego Bбez, with David Trinidad reading thitherto unpublished jog not later than James Schuyler. 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Stop Smiling Storefront, 1371 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago. Admission is unsparing and launch to the accessible. **Wed Sept 16:: Book Cellar, 4736 N. **Tue Sept 15: Homolatte at Tweet, 5024 N Sheridan, 7:30 PM, grotesque launch mic with feaures, pass the hat. Lincoln, Local Author Night, 7 PM.
With Tasha Alexander, Claire Zulkey, Scott Blackwood and Joan Naper**Wed Sept 16: Poetry Off the Shelf: Juan Felipe Herrera, Jazz Showcase, 806 South Plymouth Court, Dearborn Station, Free ticket, 6 PM. Juan Felipe Herrera is a poetess, photographer, screenwriter, artist, and activist. His words Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems was the co-winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award on versification.
His versification collections down in 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. A words signing follows. Co-sponsored with the Guild Complex**Wed Sept 16: Columbia College Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan, Womb-Words, Thirsting not later than Lenelle Moпse, 7 PM, unsparing. Through a intermingle of womanist Vodou jazz, grotesque theory hip-hop, viva voce scintilla, performance and displacement, Lenelle Moise re-conceives honour, dances major change, reclaims F-words and boldly speaks to about growing up alien, working-class, politicized and grotesque. Hailed as “a expedition de force” and “a autocratic performer”, Haitian-American artist-activist Lenelle Moise brings us WOMB-WORDS, THIRSTING, an interactive act of olla podrida metrical storytelling delivered, slam-style, from the gut. Presented not later than the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community in partnership with the Institute, and co-sponsored not later than African American Cultural Affairs, Center on Teaching Excellence and the English Department.
**Thur Sept 17: After a 3-month break, WORDS THAT KILL is aid!!! Starting September, Words That Kill becomes a monthly when it happened - EVERY 3rd THURSDAY OF THE MONTH at The Spot. Still your everyday versification & comedy series featuring county, local touring, and premium triumphant comedians and poets AND NOW COMPLETE WITH POETRY SLAM! 2 bouts, 3 judges, 0.0-10.0 register. Broadway.
Winner gets a premium! Ultimately, we intend to surmount a Words That Kill Grand Slam Champion, so be intricate associated with a arise able and like in on the snitch on off guard! WORDS THAT KILL compel down mortify Thursday, September 17th @ The Spot (4437 N. Near Wilson Red Line. 773.728.8934). Show begins at 7 PM -Slam Sign-Up: 6:45pm -Poetry/Comedy Showcase: 7:00pm -Slam: 8:00pm. 21+ http://www.spotchicago.com. Cover: $5 OR canned goods.
Featured Performer: J.W. BAZ. Baz’s dissonant persist shows and uncanny faculties to clutch an audience has garnered him a position as individual of the most compelling figures in the set of viva voce scintilla. In February of 2009, Baz premiered his actual individual chains dramedy - No One Can Fix You - to admiration reviews. His jog has appeared on NPR, in the Chicago Tribune, and in hundreds of venues across the United States and Canada.
Due to an astonishing customer acceptance wanted across the provinces, the arrive is company to adorn be intricate associated with a arise of a touring motion in the crumple. As a upon competition, Baz was a finalist at the 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam, has represented Chicago at the National Poetry Slam three times, and most recently, Baz finished 2nd at the National Underground Poetry Individual Championship. To tryst, he has released two full-length albums of versification, Poet Laureate of Apt. (2007), and has completed two local tours in their support**Thur Sept 17: Columbia College, 623 S. 2E (2006) and Love Crimes, Etc. Wabash, Silvertongue Reading Series presents Awkward Moments, 7 PM**Fri Sept 18: The Mercury Cafй, 1505 W. Chicago Avenue, versification launch mic, 7 to 9 PM, with dignitary chiefly Puddin’head Press Night, David Gecic, Tom Roby and others, pregnant off guard pronunciamento to grasp.
Hosted not later than Vito Carli**Fri Sept 18: UIC Hull House, 800 S. Madhubuti at 9, $3-$5 alms. Halsted St., 6 PM, Laura Krughoff, Colby Cuppernull, Brenda Jackson, Donna Pecore**Sat Sept 19: 3rd Saturday Coffeehouse, Unity Temple in Oak Park, 875 Lake Street, An Open Mic on Poets, Musicians, Storytellers & Other Performers! Open Mic set one’s hand to up 7:30, Open Mic 8, dignitary chiefly Haki R. Wheelchair at nearest to. Info at 708-660-9376**Sat Sept 19: Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Ave, San Francisco poetess Scott Inguito and Sandra Lim, 7 PM**Sat Sept 19: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Series A, the month reading series, is hosting a mini-conference on versification during the pro tem on Saturday.
Cornell, 9 AM to 5 PM, Series A, Conversations about Poetry: Mini-Conference. They’ll be dressed panels not later than writers on versification fortnightly, immature media poetics, synchronic versification schools, and much more. Over 30 writers compel talk/read. The pro tem compel conclude with a rapid-fire reading from poets, including Simone Muench, Ray Bianchi, Kristy Bowen, and numerous more. **Sun Sept 20: Wordslingers on WLUW 88.7 FM, coach persist at http://wluw.org, 8 PM, Dave Gecic interviews Helen Degen Cohen and Vito Carli**Wed Sept 23: Danny’s Tavern in generalized, 1951 W Dickens, Kate Greenstreet and Jared Stanley, 7:30 PM. Fee and launch to all. Kate Greenstreet’s succeeding words, The Last 4 Things, compel be elbow from Ahsahta Press in September.
Her inception, gull responsive, was published not later than Ahsahta in 2006. She is also the littВrateur of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I depressed you (Lame House Press, 2008). Jared Stanley was born in Arizona and raised in Northern California.
Her immature jog is in coeval or revealing issues of journals including jubilat, Fence, VOLT, Court Green, and the Denver Quarterly. He lives in the San Joaquin valley. His poems appeared in Conduit, GutCult, Melancholia’s Tremulous Dreadlocks, horse less inspection, and Zoland Poetry Annual. He is the littВrateur of Book Made of Forest (Salt), the chapbook The Outer Bay (Trafficker Press) and is a co-author of In Fortune (Dusie e/chaps).
Bold and evocative French writers and artists crafted Modernism in the actual import of synchronic compulsion. **Thur Sept 24: Disturb the Universe: In Search of Modern, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Free ticket. Goodman Theatre actors cite dignitary passages from Baudelaire, Breton, Mallarmй, Proust, and Rimbaud while dancers from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago concoct in effect.
Co-sponsored with the Art Institute of Chicago, 6:00PM**Fri Sept 25: Rhino Reads, Brother K, 500 Main Street, Evanston, Tony Trigilio and Sandra Lim, with launch mic, 6 to 7:30 PM**Fri Sept 25:: Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, Joyland, 7 PM. Chicago Avenue, versification launch mic, 7 to 9 PM, with dignitary chiefly Wendy Brown-Baez**Sat Sept 26: Poet On Deck returns to its encoded position and CJ Laity compel reappear as tummler of the wildest versification badger in Chicago. Contributors to Joyland, an online “hub on blunt fiction.”**Fri Sept 25: The Mercury Cafй, 1505 W. Get avid on another behaviour prove in silliness. Invitations compel be sent to soon**Sun Sept 27: Fourth Sunday Rhino Poetry Workshop and become observable disagreement, Evanston Public Library, Church & Orrington, 1:30-4:30 — Room 108.
Drop in, be dressed poems critiqued, and participate in an continual deliberation of versification and poetics. Bring 15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of jog you need critiqued. No registration is required. *$5 - $10 alms appreciated. Leader: Kathleen Kirk. Kathleen’s question: Reading Poetry Aloud — as an grant-money to reassessment and in serve of versification at accessible events. She was an collector of RHINO Magazine on ten years, and ran the RHINO Poetry Forum at the Normal Public Library, in Normal, Illinois.
Kathleen Kirk is the littВrateur of Selected Roles (Moon Journal Press, 2006), Broken Sonnets (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and Living on the Earth, revealing from Finishing Line in 2010 and an honorable endorsement prizewinner in their New Women’s Voices series. As a graduate learner at DePaul University, she was an associate collector of Poetry East. Her poems, stories, and essays are a great extent published in language and online journals and anthologies, including After Hours, Common Review, Fourth River, Greensboro Review, Fifth Wednesday, Ninth Letter, Poems & Plays, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press, 2008), Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions, 2009), and A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration (edited not later than Chris Green, DePaul Poetry Institute, DePaul Humanities Center, January 20, 2009). She compel perceive from Broken Sonnets in the RHINO Reads series at Brothers K in Evanston on November 20. Western, 6:30 sign-up, 7:00 lit. **Tue Sept 29: Two With Water Reading Series & Open Mic, Usually the sojourn Tuesday of the month at Cafe Ballou, 939 N. 1-2 featured reader(s) then an launch mic.
We on an OPTIONAL exercise on stimulation randomly from the audience on operation at the next month’s reading. Next month’s: “fixation.” Two With Water compel be dressed its coming out/release corps unambiguously about that time– limit of Sept. Guild Complex presents a words unfetter when it happened on Susan Messer’s inception anecdote Grand River and Joy, which explores the “intersections of typeface, oodles and doctrine during the hanker multiplication summers of Detroit in the 1960s.” Check to Susan’s trap call (www.susanmesser.net) and her blog (http://ethnicwords.blogspot.com) which probes the nit-picking landscape of ethnic words and labels. ‘09! Very aflame to be intricate associated with a arise to in *print.* Work not later than Kristiana Colon, Nick Sarno, an Interview with Thax Douglas and more**Wed Sept 30: California Clipper, 1002 N California Ave, Susan Messer’s words unfetter, 8:30 p.m., Books on action marked down, 21 and days of old, Free ticket. **Thur Oct 1: Katerina’s, 1920 W.
Irving Park Rd, The Bridge of the Arts Series, 7:30 to 10 PM, Tara Betts, Tristan Silverman, Max ZT in generalized, with lilting guests, $7**Fri Oct 2: The Silver Room, 1442 N. Milwaukee Ave, Tara Betts celebrates the unfetter of her immature words, ARC & HUE (Willow Books), 8 PM. Arrive betimes since we are fraught a durable turn-out!**Fri Oct 2: Mercury Cafe, 1505 W.
This is Tara’s recognized Chicago unfetter corps. Chicago Ave, Chicago Calling arrive at 6-9 pm (see http://www.chicagocalling.org/)**Fri Oct 2: Borders Books & Music in Highland Park, 595 Central Avenue in generalized, versification launch mic with dignitary chiefly William Graham, 8 PM, all welcome**Sun Oct 4: Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee, Writing the Transdiasporic Experience versification reading, 2 to 4 PM, hosted not later than Nina Corwin, unsparing and launch to the accessible, refreshments compel be served**Sun Oct 4: Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee 2nd Fl, 7 PM, Chicago Calling w/ Dan Godston**Tue Oct 6: Homolatte at Tweet, 5024 N Sheridan, 7:30 PM, grotesque launch mic with feaures, pass the hat. Sheffield, Reading Under The Influence, Where the Wild Things Are with Devon Polderman, John Flaherty, Rob Duffer and Jesse Jordan, 7:30 PM, $3**Wed Oct 7: Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N.
**Wed Oct 7: Sheffield’s, 3258 N. Clark, Bookslut Reading Series, 21 and days of old, 7:30 PM, Dave Reidy, David Taylor and Brian Evenson **Wed Oct 7: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell, Series A, 7 to 8 PM, Michelle Taransky and Nick Demske**Wed Oct 7:: Columbia College Concert Hall. 1014 S. Catherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas.
Michigan, Catherine Bowman, 5:30 PM. She is the littВrateur of the versification collections The Plath Cabinet, Notarikon, Rock Farm, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS, prizewinner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize and the Kate Frost Tufts Prize. She is the collector of Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her poems be dressed been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, and be dressed been selected on six editions of The Best American Poetry anthology.
State St., 7th off guard, 6:30pm. She is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University in Bloomington**Wed Oct 7 New Media Poetics, Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. Featuring readings not later than Bill Allegrezza, Robert Archambeau, Ray Bianchi, Justin Cabrillos, Steve Halle, Philip Jenks, Simone Meunch, and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas. This out is an artistic effect to the Learning Modern donation, with critical rВclame to modernist trends in versification and the means in which company up sensibilities shipment across media and are constant conspicuous in our understandings of the sonic paddy. Building on the works on volunteer observable, synchronic poets company up texts, which are then perceive in the Sullivan Galleries on Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30 p.m. The resulting projects compel be presented in the crush of the Sullivan Gallery as a transitory solid establishment November 6 - 25.
Subsequently, SAIC solid students clutch these poems as profane on at effect, reframing the auditory elements of each poem’s form into a immature solid packs. New Media Poetics is a collaboration between Experimental Sound Studio on its 2009 Outer Ear Festival of Sound, the Poetry Center of Chicago, and the SAIC Department of Exhibitions. **Thur Oct 8: Prose, Poetry and Pints is a gay / lesbian literary launch mic held at Wild Pug, 4810 N Broadway (at Lawrence Ave) in Andersonville, 773-784-4811. It is unsparing and launch to the accessible. Sign-up begins at 7:30pm, readings at 8pm**Fri Oct 9: Union Street Gallery, 1527 Otto Boulevard, Chicago Heights, launch mic versification with dignitary chiefly Luis Humberto Valadez, 6:30 to 8 PM. Hosted not later than “Tavern Boy Craig” and Drew Ferguson (The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second). **Fri Oct 9: UIC Hull House, 800 S.
Halsted St., 6 PM, Sneza Zabic, Chad Heltzel, Renoir Gaither, Beatriz Ruiz**Mon Oct 12: Molly Malone’s, 7652 Madison Street, Forest Park, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, launch mic with dignitary chiefly Susan Hahn in generalized, $3-$5 faction, inattentive displeasing on Nina be be realized you heard about it middle of ChicagoPoetry.com**Tue Oct 13: Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark, Bookslut Reading Series, 21 and days of old, 7:30 PM, Laird Hunt**Wed Oct 14:: Barbara’s Bookstore, 1218 S. Wright, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Free ticket. Halsted, Billy Lombardo, 7:30 PM**Thur Oct 15: 55th Annual Poetry Day: C.D. Now in its 55th year, Poetry Day is individual of the oldest and most illustrious reading series in the provinces. Inaugurated not later than Robert Frost, Poetry Day has featured such poets as T.S.
Eliot, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. C.D. Auden, Seamus Heaney, and Adrienne Rich. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has published a dozen collections; the most late is Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008), which won the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
She is the heiress of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the Robert Creeley Award. Co-sponsored with the Art Institute of Chicago, 6:00 pm**Thu Oct 15:: Book Cellar, 4736 N. A words signing follows. Lincoln, Witty Women Writers, 7 PM, Amy Guth, Stacey Ballis and Jen Lancaster**Thur Oct 15: DePaul Student Center, chamber 314, 2250 N Sheffield Avenue, Chris Green celebrates his immature bookEpiphany School (Mayapple Press), Thursday, 5:30 PM. Chris Green’s poems be dressed appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, Verse, Black Clock, North American Review, RATTLE, 5 AM, Poet Lore, and Poetry East.
His words, The Sky Over Walgreens, was published in 2007 not later than Mayapple Press; his chapbook, Conceptual Animals, was published in 2006 not later than Sheltering Pines Press. He has an M.F.A. He has been a featured reader and lecturer on the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Amnesty International, and National Public Radio. in Poetry from Bennington College and an M.A in British and American Literature from the University of Utah. He has been an collector on Quarterly West and RHINO. He was Editorial Manager on BearingPoint Inc., individual of the largest consulting companies in the set. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the DePaul University Humanities Center.
He has also taught on fifteen years at exorbitant schools and colleges across the country; he currently teaches versification at Loyola University and DePaul University. **Tue Oct 20: Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark, Bookslut Reading Series, 21 and days of old, 7:30 PM, Mary Caponegro and Matthew Gavin Frank **Tue Oct 20: Homolatte at Tweet, 5024 N Sheridan, 7:30 PM, grotesque launch mic with feaures, pass the hat.
**Wed Oct 21: Decima Musa, 1901 S Loomis St, Jen Hofer, Laura Solуrzano & Dolores Dorantes perceive on Guild Complex’s Palabra Pura,, 7:30 p.m. Dolores Dorantes & Laura Solуrzano compel tour from Mexico to perceive with poet/translator Jen Hofer. All ages, Free ticket. Presented in partnership with the Mexican Consulate and Southwest Airlines. **Thur Oct 22: Poetry Off the Shelf: Helen Vendler, On Robert Lowell and the Modern Legacy, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Free ticket.
Helen Vendler, the A. A words signing follows the talk. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard, discusses the poetess Robert Lowell at the limit of his deal, when he viewed the horrific American Modernists Pound, Eliot, Frost, Tate, Crane, and Williams no longer as intimidating predecessors but as escort generous beings. 6 PM**Fri Oct 30: Rhino Reads at Brother K in Evanston presents Al DeGenova and Judy Valente**Tue Nov 3: Homolatte at Tweet, 5024 N Sheridan, 7:30 PM, grotesque launch mic with feaures, pass the hat. **Wed Nov 4: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S.
Cornell, Series A, 7 to 8 PM, Jorge Sanchez and Francesco Levato**Thur Nov 5: Katerina’s, 1920 W. Poets W.B. Irving Park Rd, The Bridge of the Arts Series, 7:30 to 10 PM, Paul Martinez Pompa, Stella Vinitchi Radulescu in generalized, with lilting guests, $7**Thur Nov 5: Disturb the Universe: Modernism across Europe, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Free ticket.
Yeats, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others revolutionized metrical practices, while novelists such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann delved into their characters’ minds. Goodman Theatre actors depose the literary passages to compulsion. 6 PM. Halsted St., 6 PM, Maggie Anderson, Sara Tracey, Brooke Wonders, Derek Philips**Sun Nov 15: Poetry Off the Shelf: Billy Collins and Kay Ryan, Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law, 375 East Chicago Avenue. **Mon Nov 9: Molly Malone’s, 7652 Madison Street, Forest Park, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, launch mic with dignitary chiefly Tara Betts, $3-$5 faction, inattentive displeasing on Nina be be realized you heard about it middle of ChicagoPoetry.com**Fri Nov 13: UIC Hull House, 800 S.
6 PM. Tickets are $10 in begin up, $15 at the door, unsparing on students and teachers. Tickets compel be elbow at www.chicagohumanities.org or via phone at 312.494.9509 starting Tuesday, September 8, on all CHF members and Monday, September 21, on the generalized accessible.
Two terribly droll poets-one the coeval Poet Laureate of the United States and the other a late holder of that office-share poems and chin-wag in the concluding program of the Chicago Humanities Festival Laughter series. A $5 handling bill applies to all orders. A words signing follows. Billy Collins’s sojourn three collections of poems be dressed on the blink sales records on versification. Among his honors are fellowships from the National Endowment on the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Characterized not later than deep, surprising rhymes and agile rhythms, Kay Ryan’s consolidated poems are charged with plotting caricaturist and Bohemian penetration. In 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural heiress of the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Award on facetious versification. Her awards down in the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Ingram Merrill Award. In 2008, the Librarian of Congress appointed her the 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Co-sponsored with the Chicago Humanities Festival**Wed Nov 18:: Decima Musa, 1901 S. **Fri Nov 20: Rhino Reads at Brother K in Evanston presents Kathleen Kirk**Wed Dec 2: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Loomis, Palabra Pura, 7:30 PM, Rita Maria Martinez and Luis Tubens perceive on the Guild Complex**Thur Nov 19: Rockpile Poetry and Jazz Festival at The Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia, 8 to 11:30 PM, with The Spider Trio, Bob Malone, Art Lange, Dan Godston, Larry Sawyer, Francesco Levato and Ed Roberson and more.
Cornell, Series A, 7 to 8 PM, Miekal And and Maria Damon**Thur Dec 3: Katerina’s, 1920 W. Irving Park Rd, The Bridge of the Arts Series, 7:30 to 10 PM, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Judith Valent, with lilting guests, $7**Thur Dec 3: Poetry Off the Shelf: Reginald Gibbons, Odes and Fragments of Sophocles, National Hellenic Museum, 801 West Adams Street, 4th FloorFree ticket. Reginald Gibbons retells the anecdote of Oedipus, reading the five odes from Oedipus the King.
Reginald Gibbons’s most late words of poems is Creatures of a Day (2008), a finalist on the 2008 National Book Award. Filled with sparkling dialect, intellectual and surprisingly present-day heat, and prevarication, the five odes are crowd the most smashing poems of antiquity. His immature translations of Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments (2008), won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser movement premium from the Texas Institute of Letters. He teaches at Northwestern University. Co-sponsored with the National Hellenic Museum. Cornell, Series A, 7 to 8 PM, George J.
6 PM**Wed Jan 6: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S.