Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:30 sharp

Danny’s Tavern, 1951 W. Dickins, Chicago

Poetry by Travis Nichols and Sandra Lim

Sandra Lim is the author of the poetry collection Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press). She was born in Seoul, Korea, grew up in San Francisco, CA, and is the 2009-2010 poet-in-residence at Columbia College Chicago.

Travis Nichols was born and raised in Ames, Iowa. He now lives in Chicago. An editor at the Poetry Foundation, his writing has appeared in MAKE, The Village Voice, The Believer, Details, Paste, The Stranger, and the Huffington Post. Iowa, his first book of poems, is just out from Letter Machine Press, and will be shortly followed by his first novel, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, due out in April from Coffee House Press.

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Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:30 sharp

Danny’s Tavern, 1951 W. Dickins, Chicago

Poetry by Rob Schlegel and Catherine Theis

Catherine Theis is the author of the chapbook The Fraud of Good Sleep (SUN SUN SUN Press) and co-author of In Fortune (dusie kollectiv) with Jared Stanley and Lauren Levin. Her new poems are forthcoming in Action Yes, LIT, Sonora Review, and Volt and a poem appeared in MAKE issue 3, edited by Kevin Coval.  She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is the recipient of a 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council.

Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, Octopus, Volt, MAKE issue 8 and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.

If you’re in Chicago, then check out the launch of MAKE contributing editor Kathleen Rooney’s latest book, the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 7:30 pm at Women and Children First at 5233 N. Clark Street. She will be joined by co-reader Erika Mikkalo.

This will not be the last…

Chicago Tribune Books editor Amy Guth, Heather Momyer (303 Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, wordriver, PANK, Robot Melon),MAKE co-founder Mike Zapata, MAKE fiction editor Tom Mundt and contributor Ramsin Canon will be reading read at Cafe Wha Who?, 228 W Chicago Ave., on Friday, Jan 15

The reading introduced a new series to be held at the cafe.  Though we totally blew it on announcing this one, we’ll be sure to post info in the future.  EVen if the line-up is not stocked with MAKErs.

A Saturday Evening Pre: Cocktail Hour Reading and Discussion featuring Renowned Writers Stephen Elliott and Luis Alberto Urrea, and Emerging Writer Caroline Picard

Saturday, December 5, 6:30pm  at Bar DeVille

701 N. Damen, Chicago, IL 60622 / FREE

A cocktail hour reading and discussion featuring  novelists and nonfiction writers Stephen Elliott and Luis Alberto Urrea – two of today’s most innovative and honored writers – as well as  up-and-coming  fiction writer and publisher, Caroline Picard.   Each will read from new work and answer questions.

Evening hosted by Jonathan Messinger. Cofounder of Featherproof Books and books editor at Time Out Chicago.

Elliott is touring in support of his recent memoir The Adderall Diaries – described as “genius” by both the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair.

Urrea’s most recent books are the 2009 novel Into the North and The Hummingbird’s Daughter – culmination of 20 years of research and writing. The historical novel tells the story of Teresa Urrea, sometimes known as The Saint of Cabora and the Mexican Joan of Arc.

The reading will take place in Bar DeVille’s lushly furnished parlor – perfectly suited for a Saturday evening of storytelling and conversation.

Reading attendees will receive a bracelet granting a one-dollar discount on each drink!

The Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, November 18th
7:30PM

Poetry by:

Kiki Petrosino and Judith Goldman

JUDITH GOLDMAN is the author of Vocoder (Roof Books 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006), and a chapbook, “The Dispossessions” (Atticus/Finch 2009). Her work appears or will appear in recent issues of Mrs. Maybe, Wig, Parameter, 580 Split, onedit, Model Homes, Moonlit, West Wind Review, and cannot exist. She was a coeditor in the Krupskaya Collective from 2002 through 2004 and coedits the annual anthology War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino (#4 appeared in June). She teaches as a professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow in the arts humanities core and the creative writing department at the University of Chicago.

KIKI PETROSINO is the author of Fort Red Border, published in 2009 from Sarabande Books. Kiki holds an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Fence, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Verse Daily, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City.

next month:
Wednesday, December 9th

Alan Bernheimer (The Spoonlight Institute, Adventures in Poetry)
Karyna McGlynn (I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, Sarabande)

Danny’s Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the intersection of Armitage and Damen): 773-489-6457, 21+ please bring ID.

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This Sunday as part of the 20th Anniversary of The Underground Wonderbar, Chicago’s best underground bar that no one has ever heard of, a celebration will take place.

“Come Home Chicago” will celebrate the long tradition of Chicago writing and story telling that provides the foundation to the city’s contemporary literary world.

Some of the roster:
Rick Kogan
Billy Lombardo
Lonie Walker (celebrated owner of Wonderbar)
Don De Grazia
a band: Taggart Transcontinental
a DJ: DJ Bhunty

MALORT.

10. E. Walton
$3 Beer Specials
No cover until 8, then 5 bucks.

And later in the evening there will be a mini-Windy City Story Slam.

The Danny’s Reading Series
Wednesday, October 14th
7:30PM

Poetry by Jen Hofer & Patrick Durgin

Jen Hofer’s recent publications include The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008), sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008), and lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007). Her forthcoming books are from the valley of death (Ponzipo), Laws (Dusie Books), one (Palm Press), and a translation of Guatemalan poet Alan Mills’ Síncopes (Piedra Santa). She currently teaches at Goddard College, and in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts.

For MAKE issue 7, Jen interviewed novelist and translator Forrest Gander and Mexican poet Pura López-Colomé.

Patrick Durgin is a poet-critic whose most recent publications include The Route, a collaboration with Jen Hofer (Atelos, 2008), and contributions to Contemporary Women’s Writing, Denver Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Literature, Mark(s)zine, textsound.org and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics. New poems are forthcoming in the “A Tonalist” feature of the literary journal Aufgabe (edited by Laura Moriarty), and a new essay on the work of Lyn Hejinian is slated from Aerial: Contemporary Poetics as Critical Theory. Durgin teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Danny’s Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the intersection of Armitage and Damen), 21+, please bring ID. 773-489-6457.

www.noslander.com

As part of the most amazing Printers’ Ball yet, Opium Magazine brings their patented Literary Death Match to town. As you can see, MAKE has a man in the ring: Gabe Gudding. He will prevail. Oh, yes, he will.

“The third-ever Windy City LDM promises to be an absolute classic. We’ve teamed with The Printer’s Ball for Chicago Ep. 3 to bring together eight-count ‘em eight!-readers in a poetry-off for the ages. (But don’t worry, there’s a four-minute time limit for each reader.) Judges Jay Ryan (Animals and Objects In and Out of Water), Nami Mum (Miles from Nowhere) and comedian Barry Hite will preside over these poets (and who they’re reader-representing): Kathleen Rooney (Switchback), Adam Levin (Ninth Letter), Febronio Zatarain (contratiempo), Gabriel Gudding (MAKE), Spencer Dew (THE2NDHAND), Simone Muench (Poetry Magazine), Michael Czyzniejewski (ACM) and Paul Killebrew (Canarium Books).”

Hosted by: Todd Zuniga.
Co-produced by Fred Sasaki.

When: Friday, July 31; Doors at 7:00, show at 8:00 p.m. (sharp)

Where: Ludington Building
1104 S. Wabash Ave.

Cost: Free!

For one week in May, Amy Guth’sPilcrow Lit Fest brings authors, writers, poets, librarians, booksellers, and publishers from around the country together in support of small presses and independent media through small workshops, panel discussions, lectures and author readings in Chicago. Check their site for frequent updates, and subscribe to RSS feeds on the Pilcrow blog blog.