Featuring Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Jason Bredle
Also Erin Teegarden and Rafael Torch
B.Y.O.P. Bring Your Own People
When: Saturday, June 30, 2007
Time: Reading begins at 7:00PM
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Peter Jones Gallery, 1806 W. Cuyler, 2nd Floor, Chicago
"Chicago is a storytelling town. Whether through poetry or prose, Chicagoans have plenty to say about life, the world, home teams, and cicadas...but too often we only talk to those in our own neighborhoods. The Guild has always stood for crossing the street into the next neighborhood to learn where our stories intersect and differ. Through B.Y.O.P., the Guild invites two members of Chicago's literary neighborhoods -- reading series, individual writers, lit mags -- to partner together to offer an evening of literature, conversation and hanging out."--Guild Complex
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Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of several collections of poetry including Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball), Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (Iowa), A Ghost as King of the Rabbits (New Michigan), The Book of Truants & Projectorlight (Octopus). Forthcoming collections are The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo), Figures for a Darkroom Voice (with Noah Eli Gordon; Tarpaulin Sky), The Book of Flashlights, Clover, & Milk (Pilot), and A Brief History of Gossip (Dos). He lives in Chicago and teaches at Loyola University. He is co-directing with Solan Jensen, the feature-length documentary entitled Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape (a film about Califone on tour).
Jason Bredle is the author of Pain Fantasy, forthcoming from Red Morning Press; Standing in Line for the Beast, winner of the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize; A Twelve Step Guide, winner of the 2004 New Michigan Press chapbook contest; and A Pocket-Sized Map of My Heart, a self-published collaboration with Leigh Stein. He lives in Chicago and works at a translation agency in Evanston, Illinois.