Around the City: July 26 – August 7

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July 26–August 7

CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY

Poetry in Motion: A Teen Program with Artist Valerie Xanos

Tuesday, July 27, 3:00 PM
Bezazian Branch Library
1226 West Ainslie Street [map]
Free admission; registration required

POETRY READING

Featuring Gregg Shapiro

Tuesday, July 27, 8:30 PM
The Café
5115 North Lincoln Avenue [map]
$2 admission

GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX

B.Y.O.P. (Bring Your Own People) with Dancing Girl Press and Proyecto Latina

Wednesday, July 28, 8:30 PM
California Clipper
1002 North California Avenue [map]
Free admission for adults 21 and over

REVOLVING DOOR READING SERIES

ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) Release Party with readings by Tara Betts, Quaraysh Ali Lansana, Bayo Ojikutu, and Timothy Yu

Wednesday, July 28, 9:00 PM
Red Kiva
1108 West Randolph Street [map]
Free admission for adults 21 and over

BARRELHOUSE & ROSE METAL PRESS

James Tadd Adcox, Mary Hamilton, Philip Jenks, Tim Jones-Yelvington, and Simone Muench

Thursday, July 29, 7:00 PM
Open Books
213 West Institute Place [map]
Free admission

POETRY FOUNDATION

Printers’ Ball: PRINT <3 DIGITAL

Friday, July 30, 6:00 PM
Ludington Building
1104 South Wabash Avenue [map]
Free admission

RHINO READS!

Featured poets Nick Demske and Nina Corwin

Friday, July 30, 6:45 PM
Brothers K
500 Main Street [map]
Evanston, Illinois
Free admission

YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS

Reading by students from Check the Method: A Summer Spoken Word Camp

Friday, July 30, 7:00 PM
Southside Community Art Center
3831 South Michigan Avenue [map]
Free admission

MPAACT

The Underground Poetry Jam

Friday, July 30, 10:00 PM
Greenhouse Theatre
2257 North Lincoln Avenue [map]
Tickets $10

WOMAN MADE GALLERY

Robin Behn, Lucia Blinn, Kimberly Dixon, Simone Muench, Jennifer K. Sweeney, and Connie Voisine

Sunday, August 1, 2:00 PM
Woman Made Gallery
685 North Milwaukee Avenue [map]
Free admission

CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY

iRemix Spoken Word

Monday, August 2, 12:00 PM
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street [map]
Free admission

WAITING 4 THE BUS

Featuring Gregg Shapiro

Monday, August 2, 7:30 PM
Café Ballou
939 North Western Avenue [map]
Free admission

SERIES A

Gina Myers and Nick Demske

Wednesday, August 4, 7:00 PM
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue [map]
Free admission

WAITING 4 THE BUS

The First Friday Classic: Ralph Hamilton, Nina Corwin, Al DeGenova, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Kurt Heintz

Friday, August 6, 7:30 PM
St. Paul’s Cultural Center
Acme Art Works
2215 West North Avenue [map]
Free admission; donation requested

MPAACT

The Underground Poetry Jam

Friday, August 6, 10:00 PM
Greenhouse Theatre
2257 North Lincoln Avenue [map]
Tickets $10

MYOPIC POETRY SERIES

Amy De’Ath, John Wilkinson, Kristina Dipson, and Joel Duncan

Saturday, August 7, 7:00 PM
Myopic Books
1564 North Milwaukee Avenue [map]
Free admission

Ongoing

CAFFEINE THEATRE

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

August 4 to 8
Theatre on the Lake
2401 North Lake Shore Drive [map]
Tickets $17.50

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Weekly Wisdom

The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may have wine, but I have poetry.

~Terri Guillemets

Weekly Challenge

This past week, more storms raced through the Midwest.

Write about the beauty of a violent storm.

Weekly Poetry Term

quatrain
A stanza or poem of four lines.

Weekly Vocabulary Word

potlatch
\POT-latch\, noun

1. A ceremony at which gifts are bestowed on the guests in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.

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I did it!

Congratulations to JLorian and "Betty", this week's contest winner!

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Notable Discussions

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Are you a Street Poet or an Academic Poet. This is an interesting questions!

We have a brand new section in the forums: School of Poetry - A place to improve your poetry skills.

"Interactive Poetry", Poets Of Blood. ~Bleed for a Cause: Donating Poetic Verse Into Interactive Poems

"Elements of Poetry", this is a link to an Elements of Poetry site that takes you through all the elements of poetry, and helps you learn and build your skills.

"Tips and Tricks for effective writing", a ideas exchange.

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DarkPoetry Poem of the Day: Duct Tape Engineer

If it aint broke you ought not fix it
My pa would say,
Education is a fine thing, fancy thang for wich ya pay,
I'd thunk I learnd everything i needed ta in the barn tossing hay
But then a hunkering was a following
A black cloud that would not go away,
So I got down on my knees
To the lord ALmighty 'gan to pray
felt the lord had something
something special for me that he had to say

But if it be broke lord
please tell me true,
tell me how to fix it,
Make it good as new,
not trying to create nothin,
I'll leave that up to you.
I feel my life is fallin part
don know whata do,

Please answer my cries,
Give this lost soul a clue
I was starlted to hell,
When a voice came booming thru

"Keep it together child...
and look for the silver lining in the cloud hanging over you"

I figgered this was the the guy
Otta listen to what he said,
Put my hands to the darkness and found a silver thread
Could not fight tempation
I had to get it down

down on my head

It fell with a thump
on top of my skull
everthing was clear
the good lord had worked a miracle
...booming in my ear

"Keep it together
with this silver roll...
I now annoint thee...
a duct-tape engineer...
in-duct-ee"