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Reading May 2004

Sunday 2 - 7 p.m. - "Talking about the Talk Poem" - John Beer

Myopic Series ( 1564 N Milwaukee in Wicker Park )

Thursday 6 - 7:00 p.m. - Nextbook Presents...

Beat Kitchen -2100 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago

An Evening of New Jewish Poets with Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker and Jessica Greenbaum

Three leading young female poets come together for an evening of readings and conversations about art, creativity and Judaism. Featuring award-winning poets Arielle Greenberg (Given), Rachel Zucker (Eating in the Underworld), and Jessica Greenbaum (Inventing Difficultly). Hosted by Eric Selinger, co-editor of Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary and Reflections. Visit www.nextbook.org for More information or call (312) 747-4074 / email apickus@nextbook.org

Saturday 8 - 7 p.m. - Anne Shaw, Lisa Fishman and Faith Barrett

Woodland Pattern Book Center ( 720 East Locust Street - Milwaukee, WI )

Anne Shaw's work has appeared in journals including "26", "Phoebe", and "Hayden's Ferry Review." She lives in Milwaukee and teaches creative writing at Carthage College.

Lisa Fishman is the author of Dear, Read, which was selected by Brenda Hillman for publication on Ahsahta Press (2002). Her first book, The Deep Heart's Core is a Suitcase, was published by New Issues Press (1996). Her poems appear in recent issues of Colorado Review, American Letters and Commentary, Elixir, and elsewhere. She teaches at Beloit College.

Faith Barrett is an assistant professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She received her M.F.A in poetry from the University of Iowa and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley. With Cristanne Miller, she has co-edited an anthology of American Civil War poetry for which she has an advance contract from U Mass Press. She is also at work on a scholarly book project which analyzes American poetry written in response to the Civil War. Her chapbook Invisible Axis was published by Etherdome Press in 2001.

Sunday 9 – 7 p.m. - Rachel Levitsky

Myopic Series ( 1564 N Milwaukee in Wicker Park )

Tuesday 11 – 5:30 p.m. - Andrei Codrescu

Poetry Center of Chicago (Price Auditorium, The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue)

Wednesday 12 – 6:30 p.m. - Lucille Clifton

Poetry Center of Chicago (Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue)

Wednesday 12 – 7:30 p.m. - Thisbe Nissen and Michael Byers

Danny's Reading Series ( 1951 Dickens in Bucktown near Damen and Dickens )

Friday 14 – 7 p.m. - Deborah Meadows and Peggy Hong

Woodland Pattern Book Center ( 720 East Locust Street - Milwaukee, WI )

Deborah Meadows teaches in the Liberal Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where she has been part of ongoing exchanges of writers and scholars to and from Havana. Recent works include a Tinfish chapbook, The 60s and 70s: from The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick and a book-length collection of her poetry, Representing Absence forthcoming from Green Integer.

The poem below is from Deborah Meadows' The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick a long serial poem. This chapter (forthcoming in Living Forge magazine, Buffalo, NY) and others forthcoming form Krupskaya Press as Itinerant Men.

Peggy Hong was born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Hawaii and New York. A graduate of Barnard College, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree at Antioch University with a dual concentration in poetry and fiction. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks The Sister Who Swallows the Ocean (CrowLadies Press)and Hoofbeats (Gokiburi Press), and her poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies including Margie Review, Rhino, Bamboo Ridge, and Asian Pacific American Journal.

She is a recipient of Milwaukee County’s Art Futures artist fellowship. Also a dancer and Iyengar yoga instructor, she teaches writing to children and adults, specializing in interdisciplinary approaches. She teaches at Alverno College, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and Riverwest Yogashala.

Friday 14 – 9 p.m. - Judd Morrissey and Nic Collins

Discrete Series ( 3030 W Cortland Ave in Humbolt Park )

Sunday 16 - 7 p.m. - Elizabeth Hatmaker

Myopic Series ( 1564 N Milwaukee in Wicker Park)

Friday 21 – 7 p.m. - Paul McComas

Woodland Pattern Book Center ( 720 East Locust Street - Milwaukee, WI )

Redletter is a reading series featuring local and regional poets and writers on the third Friday of each month, and is curated by Stacy Szymaszek. The program begins at 7 p.m. with an open mic, followed by two featured readers. The cost is $3, or $2 for open mic readers.

Sunday 23 – 7 p.m. - April Sheridan - Simon Pettet

Myopic Series ( 1564 N Milwaukee in Wicker Park)

Thursday 27- 5:30 p.m. - Maxine Kumin

Columbia College Series

Maxine Kumin is the author of 14 books of poems, most recently Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1988 and The Long Marriage. Her recent work also includes a memoir titled Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery and Always Beginnning: Essays on a Life of Poetry. Her awards include the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1980-81 before that post was renamed Poet Laureate of the United States, and as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1989-1994.