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Real Talk Live! With Third Throat & Bassel Al-Madani!

Rocking your faces and blowing your minds, AT THE SAME TIME! We’ve got a multi-sensory poetry experience and some AMAzing music for you with Third Throat and Bassel Al-Madani As always, doors & open mic list open at 7:30 and the raucous starts promptly at 8PM. $7 Cover. 18+. BYOB. Elastic Arts 2830 N Milwaukee [...]

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Poem 9 of 30 – April 30 – Muse

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News of the Word.

I’ve decided to move to New York come October. I’m feeling the same pull towards the city as I did towards Chicago more than two years ago. I’m sad to be leaving Chicago, and taking much of the summer to say a proper goodbye to all the beautiful places and people I know. I’m also [...]

Savannah, Gee Hey – live from Westside School for the Desperate

send me a word for faith

Overheard by Ross Gay Litany by Rebecca Lindenberg The Mistake by Jack Gilbert

IPPY  AWARD

I am very excited to announce that Good Grief, my first book, won the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze for Poetry! I am also super excited that Marty McConnell‘s book Wine for a Shot Gun got the silver! When I lived in Chicago, I regularly attended Marty’s community workshop series, Vox Ferus After Dark. [...]


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