6:30PM-11:00PM

Red Rover Series presents Experiment #26:

Friday Night in Chicago

Location: Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield Ave

Cost: $5

A Small Press Showcase with Action Books, Effing Press, Flood Editions, Futurepoem Books, Les Figues Press, Slack Buddha Press, Switchback Books, & Ugly Duckling Press.

Saturday 02-14-2009

12:00 at AWP conference-CHICAGO
The Hilton in downtown Chicago, go to awpwriter.org for more info, Chicago, Illinois
Cost: conference registration necessary

S138. WritersCorps: A Reading from a New City Lights Anthology Celebrating 15 Years. (with Chad Sweeney, Jeffrey McDaniel, Thomas Centolella, Elissa Perry, Ishle Yi Park) Fifteen years ago, AWP and NEA conceived WritersCorps as a government-supported arts program that would pay writers to serve communities in need. Teaching artists—some with graduate degrees, some home-schooled—enlisted in this domestic Peace Corps and taught writing for minimal pay and the huge reward of making a difference. Over the years, WritersCorps has become a celebrated national model, one that provides youth with opportunities for creative expression and improved literacy, and professional writers with a teaching gig. This event will feature some of the exceptional writers who have taught in San Francisco, Bronx, and Washington, D.C.WritersCorps' programs. They will be reading from a new anthology published by City Lights (Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose).