Please come to the Series A Conversations mini-conference on Saturday,
Sept 19 in Chicago at the Hyde Park Art Center. The HPAC is at 5020
S. Cornell in Hyde Park. It has a parking lot and free street parking
and is close to both Metra and the CTA (only 15-20 minutes from
downtown).

BYOB. The conference is not associated with any university or
organization except for Series A (which is not really an organization
at all). Feel free to come and throw your voice into the conversation
and perhaps join us afterward for food and drink.

All events take place in the 4833 studio room.

10:00-11:15 New Media Poetics--Film and Poetry (with a film screening)
Francesco Levato, Moderator
Kurt Heintz, Julia Miller, Eric Gelehrter, and Nate Slawson

11:30-12:30 Other People's Poetry
Tim Yu
Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy
Judith Goldman

12:45-1:45 Poetry and Place
Raymond Bianchi and Garin Cycholl,

2:00-3:00 Poetry Publication--Founding, Editing, and Distributing a
Print Journal
Chad Heltzel, Moderator
Jennie Berner, Garrett Brown, Tasha Fouts,
Jennifer Moore, Sara Tracey, and Snezana Zabic

3:15-4:45 Rapid Poetry Reading
Bill Allegrezza, Moderator

Larry O'Dean, Tim Yu
Kristy Bowen, Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Ray Bianchi
Kristy Odelius, Garin Cycholl
Chad Heltzel ,
Dan Godston,
Simone Muench,
Nick Demske, and many others.

For more information, contact Bill Allegrezza at wallegrezza@gmail.com.

Please come to the Series A Conversations mini-conference on Saturday,
Sept 19 in Chicago at the Hyde Park Art Center. The HPAC is at 5020
S. Cornell in Hyde Park. It has a parking lot and free street parking
and is close to both Metra and the CTA (only 15-20 minutes from
downtown).

BYOB. The conference is not associated with any university or
organization except for Series A (which is not really an organization
at all). Feel free to come and throw your voice into the conversation
and perhaps join us afterward for food and drink.

All events take place in the 4833 studio room.

10:00-11:15 New Media Poetics--Film and Poetry (with a film screening)
Francesco Levato, Moderator
Kurt Heintz, Julia Miller, Eric Gelehrter, and Nate Slawson

11:30-12:30 Other People's Poetry
Tim Yu
Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy
Judith Goldman

12:45-1:45 Poetry and Place
Raymond Bianchi and Garin Cycholl,

2:00-3:00 Poetry Publication--Founding, Editing, and Distributing a
Print Journal
Chad Heltzel, Moderator
Jennie Berner, Garrett Brown, Tasha Fouts,
Jennifer Moore, Sara Tracey, and Snezana Zabic

3:15-4:45 Rapid Poetry Reading
Bill Allegrezza, Moderator

Larry O'Dean, Tim Yu
Kristy Bowen, Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Ray Bianchi
Kristy Odelius, Garin Cycholl
Chad Heltzel ,
Dan Godston,
Simone Muench,
Nick Demske, and many others.

For more information, contact Bill Allegrezza at wallegrezza@gmail.com.

Series A, July 8th

Series A, July 8th

Series A: Mary Kasimor and Carrie Hunter
July 8, 2009
Hyde Park Art Center

Come to Series A on July 8th at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago to hear Mary Kasimor and Carrie Hunter. The reading takes place from 7-8. The HPAC is at 5020 S. Cornell. Parking is easy, and it's easy to get to on public transportation. BYOB.

Great few days of poetry all over town...

DAVID TRINIDAD & ROBYN SCHIFF

Sunday, October 15, 7 pm
Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave, Wicker Park, Chicago

And while I'm at it... for anyone reading who is not getting Discrete word,

This Friday the 13th at 8 p.m. Discrete has Brandon Downing and Anselm Berrigan.
2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd floor. $5 suggested. BYOB.

tomorrow.. Jordan Davis and Jim Behrle are in town for a

Special The Million Poems Show Event
October 12th 7:30 pm
Mercury Cafe
1505 W Chicago Avenue

Series A Literary Reading


September 26, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Ray Bianchi
Jimmy Wynn Ensemble


At the Hyde Park Art Center.
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL


Raymond L Bianchi lived for most of the 1990's in Latin America in Brazil and Bolivia. A native of suburban Chicago and the child of Italian Immigrants, he worked in international publishing since 1996. His poetry has appeared or is upcoming in Antennae, Near South, Tin Lustre Mobile, 26, Moria, Red River Review, Sentence, Bird Dog, Literatura e Cultura and his essays have appeared in the Economist and the Financial Times. He is the section editor of the fall 2006 issue of Aufgabe, which includes a translation section of contemporary Brazilian poetry that he translated. His book Circular Descent was published by Blaze Vox Press in 2004, and a chapbook, The American Master, was published by Moria Books in 2006. He is the publisher of Cracked Slab Books in Chicago and edits the website chicagopostmodernpoetry.com.


The Jimmy Wynn Ensemble is composed of Chicago writers Dale Barrigar, Michael Antonucci, and Garin Cycholl. The Ensemble's previous work has appeared with Exquisite Corpse, Admit 2, and the Guild Complex Series.

Myopic Books, Sep 10, Paolo Javier & Tim Yu

Myopic Poetry Series presents

PAOLO JAVIER and TIM YU

Sunday, September 10, 7 p.m.
Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago

PAOLO JAVIER is the author of 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada), which received a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award. He edits 2nd Ave Poetry, and lives in New York.

TIM YU's poetry and prose have appeared in Chicago Review, Meanjin, SHAMPOO, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He teaches English at the University of Toronto. A native of the Chicago area, he now lives in Toronto and Chicago.

Sunday, July 23 at Myopic Books

Sunday July 23 - Ray Hsu and Kristy Odelius


Ray Hsu is the author of Anthropy, which won the 2005 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award. He has published poems in journals and magazines including Fence, New American Writing, and The Walrus. Last year he was awarded a University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Humanities grant to teach poetry and literacy in prisons. His next book, Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, will be published fall of 2007.

Kristy Odelius is a poet and Assistant Professor of English at North Park University, where she teaches creative writing and 19th century British literature. She taught poetry and American literature in Sweden last fall, and has dreams of translating contemporary Swedish poetry into English. Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Chicago Review, Notre Dame Review, ACM, Versal, Diagram and others. She is currently "seeking a publisher" (can you say that seriously, without quotation marks?) for her first book-length collection of poems, Strange Trades.

Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee
all readings start at 7pm

Myopic Books/this Sunday, May 21, 7pm

Looking forward to this...hope you can make it.

Sunday May 21 - Juliet Patterson & Jackie Lalley
7pm

Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee, Wicker Park, Chicago

Juliet Patterson's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Bellingham Review, Bloom, Conduit, DIAGRAM, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Journal, Typo, Washington Square, Verse and other magazines. A semi-finalist in The Nation/Discovery Award, she is the recipient of a 2004 SASE/Jerome fellowship in poetry, and a 2003 Arts fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Patterson is an adjunct faculty member at the College of Saint Catherine and Hamline University. She lives in Minneapolis. For more information, visit her website: www.julietpatterson.com.

Jacqueline Lalley's poetry has been published in The Harvard Review, Court Green, The Nebraska Review, and other magazines. She is a contributor to The Onion, Bitch Magazine, and Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women's Friendships (Seal Press, 2004). Her essay on reproductive rights messages will appear this fall in a Seal Press anthology. A Madison native, she now lives, writes, and teaches in Milwaukee and serves on the board of Woodland Pattern Book Center.