The Columbia College Chicago Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival brings together 12 poets from Chicago-area colleges and universities to read their work. Schools include Columbia College Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago State University, DePaul University, Loyola University, National-Louis University, North Central College, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, University of Illinois-Chicago, and University of Chicago. A reception follows the reading.

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #35:
Fairy Tales

Featuring:
Jenny Boully
Kate Zambreno

Celebrate the release of
RHINO 2010
Annual spring reading & reception!

Poets from RHINO 2010 will read
& all RHINO poets are invited to perform
at an Open Mic

Dina Elenbogen Brett Foster Marc Frazier

ED ROBERSON (b.1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is author of eight books of poetry. His most recent book, The New Wing of the Labyrinth was published by Singing Horse Press in 2009. City Eclogue, was published spring 2006, Number 23 in the Atelos series. His collection, Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In, was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; his book Atmosphere Conditions was a winner of the National Poetry Series and was nominated for the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Award.

ED ROBERSON (b.1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is author of eight books of poetry.

Alejandro Morales, a major voice in United States literature and a leading Chicano novelist, will read from his work and engage the audience in a vibrant discussion of his work and other literary and cultural issues.

Chicago Poetry Symposium

Featuring Don Share, Al Filreis, Nancy Kuhl, Garin Cycholl, Phil Jenks, and Stephanie Anderson

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 12:30 p.m. through 5:00 p.m.

Special Collections Research Center
The Joseph Regenstein Library
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the University of Chicago Library welcomes you to the third annual Chicago Poetry Symposium, a yearly conversation on the history of Chicago poetry.

This event is free and open to the public.

This year’s talks include:

Food for Thought: Poetry About Food is a one-hour poetry writing workshop led by Cynthia Gallaher, followed by a half-hour round-table, open-mic poetry reading.

We'll be "cooking up" some poems, but no cooking or writing experience is necessary. First 20 participants will receive an issue of "Alimentum: The Literature of Food," a literary magazine dedicated to the topic of food, kindly provided by the publisher.

This writing workshop and reading is part of Chicago Public Library's CityVerse series of poetry events during Poetry Month.

Headlined by poet Zachary Schomburg, contributors to the 23rd issue of Columbia Poetry Review, the English Department’s student-edited, nationally distributed poetry magazine, read their work.

Featuring:

BILL YARROW is the author of WRENCH (2009). His poems have appeared in Central Park, Confrontation, Berkeley Poets Cooperative, Poem, The Literary Review, Mantis, The Orange Room Review, blossombones, ditch, The Centrifugal Eye, Rio Grande Review, Up the Staircase, New Aesthetic, Arsenic Lobster, Pank, DIAGRAM, and Pif Magazine. He is Professor of English at Joliet Junior College.