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Hanafi, Amira 2014; 2017

Thursday, September 11, 2014
with Ladan Osman
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Read/ Write Library

 Today what makes me conspicuous? Is it my arrested sisters, my
beaten sisters? Is it the ten thousand of us who march in the walking prison of men’s arms?
I came here to be an Arab, and I found myself a woman. 

– Amira Hanafi, “No Comment”

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Listen to Amira Hanafi, with Ladan Osman, read for the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Amira Hanafi begins reading at 26:47 minutes.

Read an interview with Amira Hanafi:

How To Get Lost in a City: An Interview with Amira Hanafi

Until very recently, Amira Hanafi lived in Chicago. Now she lives in Cairo. In both cities she makes a habit of walking, sometimes with others. It’s a deliberate kind of wandering, a determined getting lost-ness, and enough work comes out of her walking, that I have started to think of the city as her studio.

Watch Amira Hanafi present her work exhibiting art in the Artellewa Art Space in Ard El Lewa, Cairo, Egypt:

Making and Exhibiting Contemporary Art in an Informal Settlement – Amira Hanafi

March Meeting 2012

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Grajeda, Becky 2013

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Listen to a sample of Becky Grajeda’s work:

Evidence Poem 1: A blot could end everything by bgrajeda

A two channel sound collage made from field recordings of household heating systems and family members’ voices. The title comes from two types of paper and mixed media collages by Czech visual poet Jiří Kolář, evidence poems (created from ephemera from daily life) and elemental poems and collages (in which large areas of an image are removed or simple cuts are made into the image).

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Goldstein, Laura 2013

Thursday, April 11, 2013

The animal kingdom is archived in the sky, imprinted clouds explicated in domesticated
poems: That rough hold moss perfumes a forest bangs in on thunder claps clasps
gives its way what was that blur that blew through here as if on a cloud?

– Laura Goldstein, “nascent”

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Watch Laura Goldstein read some of her work:

Laura Goldstein, The Dollhouse Reading Series

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Glaz Serup, Martin 2012

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Between the houses the trees grope upward / the trees /nature
that is a place to start / it is like the economy
invisible and everywhere /a huge system /like love

– Martin Glaz Serup, “VI” from “Seven Poems”

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Watch Martin Glaz Serup read some of his poetry:

Fjender poetry: Martin Glaz Serup

Held on March 15th 2014, at the Rich mix arts centre in Shoreditch, London, Fjender (part of the Enemies project www.weareenemies.com) celebrated cutting edge avant garde poetry from Europe, centred around contemporary Danish poets. Here Danish poet Martin Glaz Serup presents his work.

Read this interview with Martin Glaz Serup from Words Without Borders:

The City and the Writer: In Copenhagen with Martin Glaz Serup – Words Without Borders

Special City Series/Copenhagen, Denmark 2015 If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains.

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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1986; 2002; ’03; ’06; ’14

Friday, April 4 1986
Thursday, October 17, 2002
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Sunday, June 26 2006
Thursday, October 2, 2014

The dove-white gulls
on the wet lawn in Washington Square
in the early morning fog
each a little ghost in the gloaming

– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “I Genitori Perduti”

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Listen to Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 2002 reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti begins at 10:34 minutes.

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Audio recording of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 2002 live reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Audio recording of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 2002 live reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

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Vintage poster of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail

– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “I Am Waiting”

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Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Billy Collins, Andrei Codrescu, Ron Padgett, Lucille Clifton, Mark Perlberg, Li-Young Lee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Ted Kooser, Paul Carroll, Jorie Graham, and Paul Hoover.

Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Billy Collins, Andrei Codrescu, Ron Padgett, Lucille Clifton, Mark Perlberg, Li-Young Lee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Ted Kooser, Paul Carroll, Jorie Graham, and Paul Hoover.

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Listen to an interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti:

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Dybek, Stuart 1994; 2015

Wednesday, December 14 1994
with Mark Doty

Thursday, March 12, 2015
with Sandra Marchetti
Chicago Cultural Center

Daylight perforates siding despite
the battered armor of license plates–
corroded colors, same state: decay,
their dates the only history
of whoever tilled the soil

– Stuart Dybek, “Scythe”

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Listen to Stuart Dybek’s 1994 Poetry Center reading with Mark Doty:

Stuart Dybek begins at 33:37 minutes.

On a brick street slicked
by a reddish, spiritual neon,
I thought I saw you again,
bareheaded in damp weather.
I recognized the shape
of your breath in the cold.

– Stuart Dybek, “Vigil”

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Read this interview with Stuart Dybek by Poetry Center of Chicago’s own Danielle Susi:

http://www.americanmicroreviews.com/interview-with-stuart-dybek/

The garments worn in flying dreams
were fashioned there–
overcoats that swooped like kites,
scarves streaming like vapor trails,
gowns ballooning into spinnakers.

– Stuart Dybek, “Windy City”

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Listen to Stuart Dybek read his work with Sandy Marchetti at the Poetry Center of Chicago’s 2015 Six Points Reading Series:

Stuart Dybek begins at 16:42 minutes.

Stuart Dybek reading for the March installment of the Poetry Center of Chicago's Six Points Reading Series.

Stuart Dybek reading for the March installment of the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series.

It’s the metallic hour
when birds lose perfect pitch.
On a porch, three stories up,
against a copper window
facing the El,
a woman in a satin slip,
and the geraniums she waters,
turn to gold.

– Stuart Dybek, “Angelus”

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Check out this On the Fly interview with Stuart Dybek:

Writers On the Fly: Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction: “I Sailed With Magellan”, “The Coast of Chicago”, and “Childhood and Other Neighborhoods”. Both “I Sailed With Magellan” and “The Coast of Chicago” were New York Times Notable Books, and “The Coast of Chicago” was a One Book One Chicago selection.

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Durbin, Kate 2013

Saturday, April 13, 2013

My spectators loved my Orange County neighborhood
in the sluggish melt of summer:
avocados thudding to earth,
bougainvillea petals browning the asphalt,
the old woman with Aqua-net hair
hosing her Bermuda grass.

– Kate Durbin, “Captives”

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Read this interview with Kate Durbin from BOMB Magazine:

http://bombmagazine.org/article/1000214/kate-durbin

I don’t remember learning how. Only not knowing, then knowing. Before: lines chickens made in the dirt inside the coop; circles and triangles I drew in the garden mud with my fingers. The only meaning attributed these symbols, that of a child’s whimsy.

– Kate Durbin, “Unlearning to Read”

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Watch Kate Durbin read from her chapbook, “Kept Women,” at the Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses:

Kate Durbin reads Kept Women during BESHT Gallery Hours! 2012-12-16 (2 of 5)

Kate Durbin reads from her “Kept Women” (Parrot Press, 2012), meanwhile Prof. Padu Paga does a pipe smoking performance to accompany. Broadcast live on 12/16/2012 from the Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses (BESHT), located at the Pomona College Museum of Art! https://www.facebook.com/BESHTx

 

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Curdy, Averill 2013

Thursday, May 23, 2013

I left you where you are:
A humming late summer afternoon
& mottled by shade a man reading a letter
Becomes the image of a man reading
That I am forgetting.

– Averill Curdy, “Ovid in America”

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Listen to Averill Curdy read her poetry in the Poetry Magazine Podcast:

Averill Curdy begins at 6:40 minutes.

It will be another artifact when found,
The wallet gone, of course, the phone.
On a metal desk lies the rest tossed
Into the vast, municipal ether, a static
Of things whose signal owner is lost.

– Averill Curdy, “Evidence”

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Read this interview with Averill Curdy from AGNI Online:

AGNI Online

A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.

We could be dead and this
our little limbo. Where breathless,
blind, cramped we find
a table laid with the sterling world
we’d lost.

– Averill Curdy, “Dark Room”

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Crawford, Romi 2013

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Watch Romi Crawford and others discuss the “I Can’t Breathe” ARC Gallery exhibition:

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Curators Romi Crawford, PhD and Mary Patten discuss “I Can’t Breathe”, an ARC Gallery exhibition that explores police violence against unarmed citizens. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).

Romi Crawford in a panel on motherhood and feminism, as relating to her artistic work:

PART 1 – A Conversation About Motherhood & Feminism

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