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Friday 2/13/09
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 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). |
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