Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Red Rover in Chicago this Saturday

I'll be reading this Saturday with Kate Greenstreet in Chicago. I am reading a new piece that is a collaboration with photographer Jaime Torres, and I will also be showing some of my own photos too. Here are the official details:

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #33:
Someone Was There to Take a Picture

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
7pm

Featuring:
Kate Greenstreet & Gina Myers

NEW LOCATION
at the Orientation Center
2129 N. Rockwell
corner of Milwaukee/Rockwell
left side of the Congress Theater building
http://orientationcenter.wordpress.com
suggested donation $4

KATE GREENSTREET's second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta Press in September. Her first, case sensitive, was published by Ahsahta in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Her new poems are in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, Court Green, VOLT, Fence, Hotel Amerika, and the Denver Quarterly.

GINA MYERS is the author of A Model Year (Coconut Books, 2009) and four chapbooks, most recently Behind the R (ypolita press, 2008). She lives in Saginaw, MI, where she makes books for Lame House Press, teaches, and works as a freelance journalist.

Red Rover Series is curated by Lisa Janssen 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.

Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

The schedule for events is listed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries