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Look how happy poetry made Gary Snyder.
Don’t let the weather stop you. Precip that isn’t snow is a cause for celebration around here and I’m still reveling in the fact that birds are singing and leaves are appearing, finally, on the trees, so what better way to spend a Sunday night than attending one of the poetry-related events around town that makes Chicago a hotspot.
National Poetry Month continues and this afternoon finds CJ Laity hosting a workshop at the Evanston Public Library in room 108 from 1:30 to 4:30pm.
I’ll be hosting a reading tonight at Myopic at 7pm, as Jesse Seldess and Arpine Grenier visit Myopic Books. Jesse is making a homecoming tonight, because he’s been living in Germany and coordinating events there since he’s left Chicago. Jesse was the longtime curator of the Discrete Reading Series, along with Kerri Sonnenberg. His book Who Opens is out on Kenning.
Joining Jesse will be Arpine Grenier, who’s coming in from Arizona. Both are accomplished poets who are sure to expand your idea of what poetry does.
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Jesse SELDESS recently relocated from Chicago to Berlin. In Chicago, he co-curated The Discrete Reading and Performance Series with Kerri Sonnenberg. In Berlin, he organizes The Floating Series of exhibitions and events with Leonie Weber as well as continues to edit Antennae, a journal of experimental writing, music, and performance. Chapbooks of his poems have been published by Answer Tag Home Press, Bronze Skull Press, and the Chicago Poetry Project, and his first full-length book of poems, Who Opens, appeared on Kenning Editions (2006).
Arpine Konyalian GRENIER is a graduate of the American University of Beirut and the MFA Program at Bard College, NY. Her work has appeared in How2, milk, Columbia Poetry Review, Sulfur, Iowa Review, Phoebe, Situation, among others. Arpine’s reading will commemorate the Armenian genocide. The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.
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You’ll also find that Green Mill’s long-running Uptown Poetry Slam is the cure for this rainy weather and 6 bucks there will be all it takes for you to enjoy Marc Smith’s series, where tonight David Kodeski will perform two stories from his series, “True Life Tales from the Honeymoon Capital of the World.” The Green Mill is located at 4802 N. Broadway and the slam runs from 7 until 10 pm.
National Poetry Month is in full swing in Chicago. Put down that slice of Lou Malnati's and get outside to hear some exciting new work from our local and visiting authors.
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