This Wednesday, November 12th
Aleksandar (Sascha) Hemon will read at Oakton Community College. He is the winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for 2008, as well as a MacArthur Grant.
Also on Wednesday
FILM DIRECTOR’S PREVIEW
Screening followed by Q&A with Filmmaker Gus Reininger
7:00 PM
Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 South Michigan, 1st floor
The feature length film “Corso – The Last Beat” introduces a new generation to the icons of
“The Beat Generation” – Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso.
ETHAN HAWKE, two time Academy Award Nominee, takes us on an on the road discovery of
GREGORY CORSO - the most colorful of the inner circle of THE BEATS, writers who changed
world culture and social history. Please visit this site for more details.
Also also on Wednesday
Tom Raworth
6:30 pm
In partnership with the Chicago Poetry Project
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue
From the Poetry Center’s newsletter:
Since 1966 Tom Raworth has published more than 40 books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations, including Meadow, Clean & Well Lit: Selected Poems 1987-1995, Eternal Sections , and The Relation Ship, winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. During the 1970s he traveled and worked in the United States and Mexico, returning to England in 1977 to be Resident Poet at King’s College, Cambridge, in which city he still lives. Raworth’s graphic work has been shown in France, Italy, and the United States, and he has collaborated and performed with musicians (Steve Lacy, Joëlle Léandre, Steve Nelson-Raney, Esther Roth, Nino Locatelli), painters (Giovanni D’Agostino, Micaëla Henich), and other poets (Franco Beltrametti, Corrado Costa, Dario Villa). In 1991 he was invited to teach at the University of Cape Town: the first European writer to visit there for thirty years. Of his selected early poems, Tottering State, Lyn Hejinian has written “These are among the greatest writings of our times.” Since 1970 he has read across the United States and Canada almost annually, and lived with his family in the US and Mexico between 1972 and 1977 (Ohio, Mexico City, Chicago, Texas, San Francisco).
Sunday, November 16
Free Poetry Workshop
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Hyde Park Art Center - 5020 S. Cornell Avenue
FREE
Led by award-winning poet Valerie M. Wallace, MFA, this free workshop will draw upon the Art Center’s exhibitions for inspiration, conversation and playfulness. The goal will be to establish a positive environment for critical feedback and community, and to generate new work.
All levels welcome. Past participants welcome!
Enrollment is limited and registration is required. For more information or to register, call 773-324-5520.
Near CTA Routes #6, #15, #28, Metra 51st Street
Valerie M Wallace
Editor, Deep Dish Poem-a-Month
http://chicagopoem.typepad.com/
Over the weekend...
Poetry and Hip-hop with Kevin Coval (Four-time HBO Def Poetry Jam alumnus and published poet)
“This is one of my favorite poets.”
– Mos Def, rapper/actor
“...raw, straight no chaser. That’s the real lethal weapon right there.” – Michael Eric Dyson, author/professor/sociologist
“In Coval’s voice is our hope for a new world for peace, grace and beauty.” - Studs Terkel, author/historian
A Gwendolyn Brooks Center Two-Day Workshop Series
November 15 & 16, 2008
1 to 4 p.m. – Nov. 15/11 to 2 p.m. – Nov. 16
at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center @ Chicago State University (95th and King Drive)
Cost: $10
This event is sponsored by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University. For more information, please call 773-995-4440 or e-mail .
