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Speak Truth to Power
An evening of protest
poetry sponsored by The World Can't Wait.
Featuring 20 poets from Chicago, New York, and Virginia including: Emily Calvo,
public relations director for the National Poetry Slam Championship in Chicago; Nina
Corwin,
author of Conversations
with Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints; Dan Halberstein (VA); Mary
Hawley, author of Double Tongues; Laura Heidy (Alexandria,
VA); Wayne Allen Jones, publisher Fractal Edge Press, author of Decades
of Rehearsal; Allison Joseph, editor of Crab Orchard Review; CJ
Laity, publisher of ChicagoPoetry.com; Francesco Levato, activist;
founder of Street Level Series & author of Marginal State; Lauren
Levato, author of Marriage Bones; Mars, founder of She Laughs,
a female interdisciplinary improvisational poetry/music mob; Brent Mesick; Erika
Mikkalo; Shelly Nation; Mike Puican, author of 30 Seconds; Steven
Schroeder, author of Revolutionary Patience; Purvi Shah (NYC),
Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, a community-based anti-domestic
violence organization; Lina ramona Vitkauskas, editor at Milk Magazine,
author of Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star; Michael C. Watson, host
of Wordslingers radio; Ruan Wright.
Date: October 6th, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Acme Building, 2418 W. Bloomingdale, Chicago, IL 60647
Cost: Free
Poets
for Human Rights
Speak out against systemic injustice
On December 10, 1948, in response to the tragedies of World War II the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Fifty eight years later, on May 18, 2006, a resolution was submitted in support of a national day and week honoring human rights—this, to the same congress that legalized torture and immunized torturers against prosecution for war crimes.
Speak out against the injustice committed in our name with Poets for Human Rights: an evening of social engagement featuring the poetry of Robert Archambeau, Emily Calvo, Nina Corwin, Melissa Culbertson, Teneice Delgado, Richard FammerČe, Maureen Tolman Flannery, Chris Gallinari, Francesco Levato, Christina E. Lovin, Mikki Mendelsohn, Brent Mesick, Erika Mikkalo, Simone Muench, Charlie Newman, Kristy Odelius, Steven Schroeder, Susan Slaviero, Jen Vazquez, and Rachel Webster.
For more information on Poets for Human Rights visit: http://www.poetsforhumanrights.org
Date: December
9th, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Acme Art Works, 1741 North Western Avenue, Chicago, I
From Sham to
Shame
A reading of poetry that explores the feelings and reactions of those disillusioned
by the agendas of government, particularly after 9/11. The reading will be held
in the confines an artist’s recreation of the Abu Ghraib prison at Woman
Made Gallery in conjunction with their exhibition titled From Sham to Shame.
Featured poets include Francisco Aragón, Brenda Cardenas, Maureen Tolman
Flannery, Francesco Levato, Lauren Levato, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Mars, Paul
Martinez Pompa, and Michael Warr.
Date: February 11th, 2007
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Woman
Made Gallery, 685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago Il 60622
Telephone: 312-738-0400
Cost: Free |
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