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Reading April 2004
Thursday 1 - 5:30 p.m - Robert Creeley
Poem Present University of Chicago
Sunday 4 - 7 p.m. - Buck Downs
Myopic Series ( 1564 N Milwaukee in Wicker Park)
Buck Downs lives and works as a database manager and editor in Washington, DC. His book of poems, marijuana softdrink, was published by Edge Books in 2000. Other poems can be found at www.canwehaveourballback.com , and in the magazines Van Gogh's Ear and The Gig.
Friday 9 - 9 p.m. - Kent Johnson / John Tipton
Discrete Series ( 3030 W Cortland Ave in Humboldt Park )
Sunday 11 - 7 p.m. - Nathalie Stephens and Joel Felix
Myopic Series ( 1564 N Milwaukee in Wicker Park )
Nathalie Stephens writes in English and French, and
sometimes neither. Writing l’entre-genre, she is the author of
several published works, most recently of Je Nathanaël (l’Hexagone,
2003) and Paper City (Coach House, 2003). UNDERGROUND (TROIS, 1999),
was short listed in 2000 for the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de
Toronto. Stephens’s writing appears in various anthologies,
including The Common Sky : Canadian Writers Against the War (Three
Squares, 2003), side/lines: A New Canadian Poetics (Insomniac Press,
2002), Mondialisation et Identité (GREF, 2001) and Carnal Nation :
Brave New Sex Fictions (Arsenal Pulp, 2000), and in literary print
journals such as Revija 2000 (Slovenija), Inimigo Rumor (Brazil),
dANDelion (Calgary), filling Station (Calgary), LVNG (Chicago), and
Tessera (Montréal). She is the recipient of a 2002 Chalmers Arts
Fellowship and a 2003 British Centre for Literary Translation
Residential Bursary. Some of Stephens’s work has been translated
into Slovene, Basque, Bulgarian and Portuguese. She has translated
Catherine Mavrikakis into English and R.M. Vaughan into French. On
occasion, she translates herself. She lives between.
Joel Felix holds an MFA from Bard College. For the last
five years he has co-edited LVNG magazine in Chicago with Michael
and Peter O'Leary, a recipient of a Fund for Poetry grant in 2001.
His work has appeared in Chain, EcoPoetics, LVNG, Cello Entry. His
chapbook Catch and Release was published by the Chicago Poetry
Project. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute
Chicago.
Saturday 17 -12:30 PM - Rae Armantrout and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Chicago Poetry Project ( Harold Washington Library Chicago Writer's Room)
Rae Armantrout's most recent
books are Up to Speed
(Wesleyan, 2004), Veil:
New and Selected Poems
(Wesley
an, 2001) and The Pretext
(Green Integer,
2001). Her poems have appeared in many anthologies, including The Best
American Poetry
of 1988, 2001, 2002, and 2004, Poems
for the Millennium,
Moving Borders,
and Postmodern American Poetry: a
Norton Anthology.
Armantrout teaches writing at UC San Diego.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa grew up
in the Tibetan communities in India and Nepal. She
received her MA from University of Massachussetts and her MFA in Creative
Writing
from San Francisco State University. Tsering is the author of a book of poems,
Rules
of the House (Apogee Press), and two chapbooks, In Writing the Names (A.bacus,
Potes & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press).
Monday 19 - 5:30 p.m. - Nick Carbó and Denise Duhamel
Columbia College Concert Hall ( 1014 South Michigan Avenue )
Nick Carbó is the author of El Grupo McDonald's and Secret Asian Man, which won the Fourth Annual Asian American Literary Award. He has edited three anthologies of Philippine Literature: Pinoy Poetics; Babaylan; and Returning a Borrowed Tongue. He also has co-edited Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon with Denise Duhamel. Among his other awards are fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is a Visiting Poet-in-Residence during Spring 2004 at Columbia College Chicago.
Denise Duhamel's recent poetry collection is Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems. Her other titles include The Star-Spangled Banner, Kinky, and Oyl (a collaboration with Maureen Seaton). Her work has been anthologized in more than 50 volumes, including four editions of The Best American Poetry.
Monday 19 - 6:00 p.m. - Luciano Erba and Mark Strand
Monday 19 - 7:00 p.m. - John Tipton
57th Street Books (1301 E 57th Street, Hyde Park)
John Tipton will read from his new book Surfaces.
Wednesday 21 - 7:30 p.m. - Mark Strand and Joel Sloman
Danny's Reading Series ( 1951 Dickens in Bucktown near Damen and Dickens )
Saturday 24 - 7:00 p.m. - William Corbett
Woodland Pattern Book Center ( 720 East Locust Street - Milwaukee, WI )
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Sunday 25 - 7:00 p.m. - Li Bloom
Myopic Series ( 1564 N Milwaukee in Wicker Park )
Li Bloom, formerly of Ohio, has worked as a dancer, choreographer, & teacher throughout the US & in Canada. She began writing poetry 15 yrs. ago in NYC, moved to Chicago in '97 and recently published her first book radish in August 2003. She currently teaches children's literature classes and Dalcroze-Eurythmics on the Northshore. Her work online is displayed in the weblog archives www.abolone.blogspot.com & at www.fauxpress.com/e/bloom/index.html. Li's manuscript "North" was just completed... She intends to enjoy an early spring.
Tuesday 27 - 5:00 p.m. - Clayton Eshleman
Sponsored by:
Masters of Fine Art in Writing
Columbia College and the
Poetry Center of Chicago
(112 South Michigan, room 1307)
Eshleman will be
reading from his new book --25 years in the writing-- Juniper Fuse. Juniper Fuse
is a poetic exploration of Upper-Paleolithic Cave Paintings, and Mr. Eshleman's
presentation will consist of reading and slides. This is a School of the Art
Institute Writing Program and Poetry Center Event.
