Haiku: Where Do We Go From Here? The Midwest Region of the Haiku Society of America will host the organization’s Annual National Meeting with an exciting symposium and cultural events in Metro Chicago, Friday through Sunday, Sept. 27-29. The Symposium’s theme will be: Contemporary Haiku: Where Do We Go From Here? The event will be […]
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VERSeFest 2013: Day 2, 9pm
Dave Currie introduces the in/words line-up, and the first in his small press titles…”So Far”. Jordon Chevalier had poems of urbane subjects, such as girls who love jazz too much or cocaine too much, “Gillespie blows up like a bullfrog and you blow up like a white girl”. In another line “he made reservations Chez […]
Books! at VF
The Great Black North Anthology, Susan Glickman’s, Ken Babstock’s… Anita Lahey’s. Rita Ann Higgins’ Bunches and bunches, McKay, Owen, Ross Mortiz, McNair, Ross Simpson, Ross, Winger
VERSeFest 2013: Day 2, 7pm
The 7pm was sponsored by Voice of Venus. The features were: Luna Allison and Lady Katalyst. Luna Allison I’ve heard 3 times this year but each time is different, even when the set list has some overlaps. Part of that is the energy in the room, intimate room vs. cavernous space, small group vs crowded, […]
On The Need to Say
With 6 poets reading, by the next day, the first poet of the night is a week or two of information ago. When on the weekend that goes up to 9 or so over 10 hours,…hm, should be interesting to wrangle. Some people come for one event each day, some for all. There’s many ways […]