THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks
Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor
Sunday, June 21 – Simone Muench, Philip Jenks, & Patrick Culliton
Simone Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now lives in Chicago, IL. She is the author of The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000),
Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry; Sarabande, 2005), and Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010). Her latest chapbooks are Orange Girl (dancing girl press, 2007) and Sonoluminescence written with Bill Allegrezza (Dusie Press, 2007). She also published collaboratively with Philip Jenks, writing a book of epistolary poems titled
Little Visceral Carnival on Cinematheque Press (2009). She is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, the PSA's Fine Lines Contest, the Charles Goodnow Award, the AWP Intro Journals Project Award, the Poetry Center's 9th Annual Juried Reading Award, the Frederick Stern Award for Teaching, and the PSA's Bright Lights/Big Verse Contest. She received her Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is director of the Writing Program at Lewis University where she teaches creative writing and film studies. Currently, she serves on the advisory board for Switchback Books and UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry, and is an editor for
Sharkforum.
Philip JENKS will be reading with Simone Muench from their new "
Little Visceral Carnival" (Cinematheque Press, 2009). Additionally, he wrote two volumes of poetry, On the Cave You Live In (
Flood Editions, 2002) and My First Painting will be “The Accuser” (
Zephyr Press, 2005). He's published two chapbooks, The Elms Left Elm Street (
Plane Bukt Press, 1993 and Cultural Society, 2008) and the ekphrastic How Many of You are You? (Dusie, 2006). He is completing his third manuscript, "Colony Collapse Disorder". He teaches at University of Illinois at Chicago. His poems have appeared in MoonLit, Chicago Review, Traverse, GutCult, h_ngm_n, The Canary, The Gig, Cultural Society, LVNG, Cultural Society and elsewhere. He collaborates with Simone Muench, publishing in The Canary, Zoland, Moonlit, barrelhouse, and Eleven Eleven and elsewhere. He is a vegan and plays percussion, sings, and howls with the
Howling Hex on
Drag City Records.
Patrick CULLITON was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His poems have appeared, or will soon, in American Letters & Commentary, Coconut, Columbia Poetry Review, Conduit, Court Green, The Hat, Indiana Review, The Journal, jubilat, Rabbit Light Movies, Realpoetik, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship from Illinois Arts Council.
Contact curator Larry Sawyer for booking information and requests.
E-mail: larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com
UPCOMING
Sunday, June 28 – Poet’s Talk: Tim Yu (w/Judith Goldman) on Race and the Avant-Garde - Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965
Sunday, July 26 – Farrah Field & Jared White
Sunday, August 2 – Kerri Sonnenberg & Guest
Sunday, August 23 – Carrie Etter & Guest
Sunday, October 4 – Chicago Calling w/Dan Godston (additional readers to be announced)
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