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Fernandes, Joyce 2013

Saturday, March 16, 2013
Redefining Art in Public Space: Service Media
with Allison Peters Quinn and Stuart Keeler

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Read this article by Joyce Fernandes here:

Taking Back the Front Porch: Using Art to Reclaim Community Identity

The front porch is a space in-between our private family space and our more public spaces where we create our own definition of “community.” In many parts of Chicago, this space is often a battleground.

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Ford, Charles Henri 1976

Friday, April 9, 1976
Charles Henri Ford, reading his poetry
Accompanied by Indra of Nepal, on guitar, and showing Johnny Minotaur, a new film by Ford

the blood grows, the hair flows, the river burns,
from the veins, from the skin, by the home of the child,
pulled and repelled by Bloody Bones;
renewal of the swoon

– Charles Henri Ford, “The Bad Habit”

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Read this interview with Charles Henri Ford from BOMB Magazine:

http://bombmagazine.org/article/868/charles-henri-ford

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Fuentes, Carlos 1994

Friday, October 14, 1994

I realize that my writings are my masks as well, verbal masks I offer my country as mirrors.

– Carlos Fuentes, Interview with the Paris Review

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Watch Carlos Fuentes speaking with Charlie Rose:

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Forbes, Calvin 2005

Wednesday, March 2, 2005
with Rosellen Brown

A good chair a firm bed and you
Who said men aren’t domestic lied
My blues won’t make you blue
Never regret the world left outside

– Calvin Forbes, “Room 340”

Broadside of “Room 340” by Calvin Forbes

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Let the juices of watermelons sparkle, be candles
Near the shore. Yesterday’s rind is today’s
Twenty-four year old nostalgia. Listen–
Save the black seeds, and please laugh at your face.
The sea comes into my left ear on a visit, turns pink
Then goes away. I drop the seashell, return gingerly

– Calvin Forbes, “Poem On My Birthday”

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Flint, Roland 1994

Thursday, January 13, 1994
with Garrison Keillor

In his Saturday woodcraft classes,
During the war, to tall John Bina
We were equally poets, who taught us
To make ducks, guns, or dowels from wood.

– Roland Flint, “First Poem”

Continue reading this poem in Roland Flint’s book, “Easy”⇒

Listen to Roland Flint’s 1994 reading with Garrison Keillor at the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Roland Flint begins at 21:50 minutes.

Any day’s writing may be the last,
He’s reminded at 2 in the morning,
Making this year’s last Italian
Notes, before readying his machine
And self to get aboard the bigger
Machine and fly, Dio Volente, home.

– Roland Flint, “Prayer”

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Watch an interview with Roland Flint:

The craft of Roland Flint

The late poet Roland Flint speaks with Linda Pastan during his 1999 service as Maryland Poet Laureate. A former professor at Georgetown University and author of seven books of poetry, Flint talks of his last collection, Easy, with the poet Pastan. They discuss the irony and “reverberation” of the title poem after Flint reads it.

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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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