Speer, Peter 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Check out Peter Speer’s series “Slow Return”:
https://www.peterspeer.com/work/slow-return
Listen some of Peter Speer’s work:
MHz for Friz, Germana, Kolar and Farrow from Peter Speer on Vimeo.
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Friday, August 29, 2014
Six Points Reading Series
with Jason Koo and Simone Muench
Chicago Cultural Center
Six Points Reading Series
with Jason Koo and Simone Muench
Chicago Cultural Center
They part
here—the boy’s body found
in another man’s arms, carried back
to town, as the horse says nothing
because horses don’t speak, besides
this one’s dead.
– Roger Reeves, “The Mare of Money”
Roger Reeves, Simone Muench, and Jason Koo at the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series, August 29, 2014.
I will begin with braces
strung across a man’s teeth
as a downed kite might
string itself across four lanes
of a seven-lane highway
– Roger Reeves, “Brazil”
Watch Roger Reeves give his talk, “The Work of Art in the Age of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston,” at Poets & Writers Live Chicago:
Speer, Jessica 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Listen to the audio recording of the first performance in the series Things that should not be picked up in the first place created and produced by Becky Grajeda with Jessica Speer, and Kurt Peterson:
Watch this video about the Read/Write Library where Jessica Speer works:
Quinn, Allison Peters 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Redefining Art in Public Space: Service Media
with Joyce Fernandes and Stuart Keeler
Redefining Art in Public Space: Service Media
with Joyce Fernandes and Stuart Keeler
Watch a conversation with Allison Peters Quinn:
Curator talk: Allison Peters Quinn – 11.03.14
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Prufer, Kevin 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
with Elise Paschen
with Elise Paschen
Then it is autumn in the body.
Your hands are cold.
Then it is winter and we are still at war.
– Kevin Prufer, “In a Beautiful Country”
Listen to an interview with Kevin Prufer on New Books in Poetry:
They wanted him to stop kicking like that–
it made their eyes corkscrew, drilled the sun in the sky
so light dumped out like blood from a leak.
The boy in the trunk wouldn’t die.
– Kevin Prufer, “There Is No Audience for Poetry”
Read an interview with Kevin Prufer from the Kenyon Review:
Kevin Prufer | Kenyon Review Conversations
Kevin Prufer’s newest books are In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011) and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008). With D. A. Powell, he recently edited Dunstan Thompson: On […]
Smith, Marc 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
with Tony Fitzpatrick
with Tony Fitzpatrick
I wanted to do the right things.
Pull the spit back into my mouth.
Scrape the gum-chewed secretes
off the bottoms of the chairs.
Drag the dumb, go-along laughs
out of the air.
– Marc Smith, “i wanted to be”
Watch Marc Smith read some of his poetry:
Poster for Marc Smith & Tony Fitzpatrick at the Poetry Center of Chicago, 2011.
The pensive Daddy-O, cool on the patio,
Stares at the silver moon
Blowin’ out a why?
But the silver moon laughs
Dancin’ with the dipper spoon
Says, “Nobody’s gonna catch
The spirit in the sky.”
– Marc Smith, “Daddy-O on the Patio”
Watch Marc Smith on TEDx Talks – LUC:
Custom made poster of Marc Kelly Smith’s poem, “My father’s coat”
Pinto, Cecilia 2014
The other one dreaming
flutter, come and whisper
two green girls all deep and meaning
unseen mountains always moving.
– Cecilia Pinto, “Green Girls Villanelle”
Watch Cecilia Pinto read her work:
Listen to and read Cecilia Pinto’s short story, “Cups,” on the New Ohio Review:
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Price, C. Russell 2015; 2024
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Blue Hour Reading Series with C. Russell Price and Teresa Dzieglewicz
Haymarket House
Blue Hour Reading Series with C. Russell Price and Teresa Dzieglewicz
Haymarket House
Kiss my cheek and think cul-de-sac,
think normative fence, think, my love,
of all the stars where better versions are breathing,
where the soft-focused-wanted me slowly wakes.
– C. Russell Price, “Our Love Transcends Sexuality & Gender & Time & Place; Translation: Not Now, Not Ever”
Watch C. Russell Price’s 2024 reading with Teresa Dzieglewicz at the Chicago Poetry Center:
C. Russell Price begins at 41:47 minutes.
C. Russell Price reading at the Six Points Reading Series for the Poetry Center of Chicago
Listen to C. Russell Price, with Valerie Wallace, read for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series:
When I call him after a proper cry in the office supply closet,
he asks what is drowning me today, as if memory is a growing leak,
as if he could offer some Oprah level shit.
– C. Russell Price, “Why Can’t My Heaven Be A Mobile Home Park In A Carolina Where I Have Big Hair and Work Reception at My Husband’s Tattoo Parlor?”
Listen to C. Russell Price read their poem “Apocalypse with Eyeliner”
Picard, Caroline 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
She saw him sitting in the door of his motel room, half in/half out, two long legs splayed out in front of him. He looked vulnerable, wearing only underwear, and big, unlaced boots. The sun shone on his pale knees, turning them pink.
– Caroline Picard, “Diamond Vehicle”
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Watch Caroline Picard read some of her work at the MAKE reading:
Paschen, Elise 2009; 2011
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
with Reginald Gibbons
with Reginald Gibbons
Saturday, November 19, 2011
with Kevin Prufer
with Kevin Prufer
I had removed
the hook from which
he’d swung with such
momentous grace.
But wasn’t I snared?
That look, that flash
as I tossed him back,
alive, in air.
– Elise Paschen, “Angling”
Listen to an interview with Elise Paschen about the collection of poetry she edited:
From milkweed to lupine a woman shadows
a monarch. Slowly makes her way, conveys
her weight with care. Inside the womb her son
flutters, then butterfly-kicks against walls.
– Elise Paschen, “Monarch”
Read this interview with Elise Paschen from Valparaiso Poetry Review:
Elise Paschen Interviewed by Edward Byrne
EDWARD BYRNE ~ ELISE PASCHEN INTERVIEWED BY EDWARD BYRNE I n November of 2006 I was pleased to introduce Elise Paschen for her poetry reading in the excellent Writing Out Loud series of author presentations at the Michigan City Public Library, not far from Valparaiso.
