Featuring Krista Franklin, Robyn Schiff, Philip Jenks, Joshua Corey
and special guest Murakami Sound Machine
B.Y.O.P. Bring Your Own People
When: Saturday, Sept. 29th, 2007
Time: Reading begins at 7:00PM
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Peter Jones Gallery, 1806 W. Cuyler, 2nd Floor, Chicago
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Krista Franklin is a poet, visual artist and educator from Dayton, OH who currently works and resides in Chicago, IL. Franklin's poems and visual art have appeared in/on several print and web literary journals including Callaloo, Warpland, Obsidian III, nocturnes 2: (re)view of the literary arts, MiPOesias.com, and in the anthologies Gathering Ground, The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order and Bum Rush The Page: a def poetry jam. She is a Cave Canem alum, and has performed her poetry internationally in featured readings at The Guild Complex, The Hothouse, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Elastic Arts Foundation's 3030, the ETA Performing Arts Center, Speakeasy in London and Manchester, UK, Book Jam, and Alphabet Soup in London, UK. The forthcoming CD, Aural Anarchy, a poetry and music collaboration with renowned cellist Alison Chesley, featuring Franklin's poetry inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Chesley's original compositions will be released on Naïveté Records in the winter of 2008.
Robyn Schiff's poetry collection, Worth (Kuhl House Poets), which was honored by a Greenwall Award from the Academy of American Poets, was published by the University of Iowa Press. Her poems have appeared in various publications, including Verse, Volt, Kiosk, and Fence, and her work was recently anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Schiff holds an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Bristol in England and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern.
Philip Jenks was born in North Carolina and grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. He got his BA from Reed College, MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, and doctorate from University of Kentucky in Political Science. He has studied under Susan Bordo, Stanley Fish, Robert Pinsky, and Derek Walcott. He is thrilled to be living in Chicago. He teaches English at UIC. Recently, he has been working on a series of collaborative epistolary poems with Simone Muench and feeling bad about not finishing his dusie chapbook for 2007. He also sings, plays percussion (even reads an occasional poem) with The Howling Hex and played on their new album XI. Flood Editions published his first volume of poems in 2002, On the Cave You Live In and a second volume of poems, "My First Painting will be The Accuser" was released on Zephyr Press (2005). He has published two chapbooks - The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt, 1994) and How Many of You Are You? (Dusie, 2006). His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Traverse, GutCult, h_ngm_n, The Canary, The Gig, Monkey Puzzle, LVNG, The Poker, The Oregonian, Rain City Review, Poetry New York, Cultural Society (among others), and he has published translations of Hölderlin in Outlet.
Joshua Corey is the author of two full-length books of poetry, SELAH (Barrow Street Press, 2003) and FOURIER SERIES (Spineless Books, 2005), along with two chapbooks: COMPOS(T)ITION MARBLE (Pavement Saw Press, 2006) and HOPE & ANCHOR (forthcoming from Noemi Press). He is assistant professor of English at Lake Forest College and keeps a blog on poetry and poetics at Cahiers de Corey.
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