Red Rover Series

{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #52:

Full Court – Small Press Forum

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6th

7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

**please note change from usual day**

Featuring:

Patrick Durgin

Johannes Göransson

Caroline Picard

Susan M. Schultz

at Outer Space Studio

1474 N. Milwaukee Ave

Chicago, Illinois

suggested donation $4

logistics –

near CTA Damen blue line

third floor walk up

not wheelchair accessible

PATRICK DURGIN is the author of Imitation Poems (Atticus / Finch, 2006), and The Route (with Jen Hofer, Atelos, 2007-8). His poets theater script PQRS will be his next book, due out in 2012. He is the editor of Hannah Weiner’s Open House and The Early and Clairvoyant Journals of Hannah Weiner. He is editor and publisher of Kenning Editions, and teaches critical theory, literature, and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Kenning Editions @ http://www.kenningeditions.com.

JOHANNES GÖRANSSON is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate, and several books in translation, including works by Aase Berg, Henry Parland and Johan Jönson. He teaches at the University of Notre Dame, co-edits Action Books, and writes for the blog Montevidayo.com.  Action Books @ http://www.actionbooks.org.

CAROLINE PICARD is a writer, artist and performer. Based in Chicago, she is the Senior Editor for the Green Lantern Press. Recent writing and comics have been published in/by art.ltd, Bad at Sports, Proximity Magazine, Seven Stories Press, Artifice Magazine, MAKE Magazine and Pinch. Her first collection of short stories, Psycho Dream Factory (Holon Press, 2011) was released concurrently with a limited edition energy drink, “Happiness Machines”. She makes music/videos with Lady Rollins and manages The Paper Cave, an on-line bookstore curated with select work from independent presses around the world.  The Green Lantern Press @ http://press.thegreenlantern.org.

SUSAN M. SCHULTZ has lived and taught in Hawai`i since 1990.  Her books of poetry include Memory Cards & Adoption Papers (Potes & Poets, 2001), Dementia Blog (Singing Horse, 2008), and (at press now) Memory Cards: 2010-2011 Series.  She’s edited Tinfish Press since 1995 and blogs at http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com on publishing, Alzheimer’s, and much else.  She’s a lifelong fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. Tinfish Press @ http://tinfishpress.com.

RED ROVER SERIES is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin.  Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers.  The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.

Kenning Editions and New Corpse are pleased to announce a reading and talk by poet Jesse Seldess. Plus, The Paper Cave and Kenning Editions pop up shop, on site!

Seldess’ poetry has been critically acclaimed since it first saw wide exposure in the form of his first collection, Who Opens. He will read from his latest book, Left Having, and give a talk on his compositional process, under the working title of “Inconstants and Variables.”

Jesse Seldess recently relocated to Brooklyn from Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the author of two books, Who Opens (2006) and Left Having (2011), both from Kenning Editions. He has also published chapbooks with Hand Held Editions, Instance Press, Answer Tag Press, and the Chicago Poetry Project Press. His work has recently appeared in the journals The Recluse, EOAGH, Jacket, Little Red Leaves, and out of nothing. Since 2001, he has edited and published Antennae, a journal of experimental writing and language-based performance and music scores.

Saturday October 29th, 2011, 7:00 PM at Green Lantern Gallery, 1511 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Admission is free, along with beer, wine, and refreshments. The gallery is a third floor walk up and is not ADA accessible. This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. Bring extra cash and avail yourself of the best book shop in the whole midwest.

Seldess also reads at the Poetry Project in New York City, November 16th, with Hoa Nguyen, and in the Moles Not Molars series, Philadelphia, November18th, as well as the DC Arts Center November 20th.

Moe’s Books on storied Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, CA, hosts Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto, reading from Waveform. The event is free and begins at 7:30 PM, Tuesday, October 18th. The chapbook will be available for purchase at the store, of course, but if a preview is of interest, you may order one here.

Humboldt State University then features DiPietra and Leto at the culminating event of their “DAMN Week on Disability,” 7:00 PM, Friday, October 21st. The Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies blog at HSU offers full details on every event in the series, here.