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Poetry off the Shelf Poetry off the Shelf Poetry off the Shelf Poetry off the Shelf Poetry off the Shelf Harriet Reading Series Poetry off the Shelf SONIA SA NCHEZ LUCILLE CLIFT ON RED,WHITE TRANSLATING POETRY & PIAN O: CEDAR SIGO SIJO POETR Y POETR Y: READINGS & INNA FALIK S, VALZHYNA poetry foundation TRIBUTE & & BLUE: POETS MORT & VERA PAVLOVA poetry foundation poetry foundation 61 West Superior Street CONVERSATIONS 61 West Superior Street 61 West Superior Street Free admission BOOK LAU NCH ON POLIT ICS Free admission Free admission poetry foundation curtiss hall Fine Arts Building, 410 South Michigan Avenue Sonia Sanchez is the internationally acclaimed author of poetry foundation poetry foundation 61 West Superior Street Free admission Cedar Sigo is a San Francisco poet and the author of the Though less familiar than its Japanese cousin, haiku, Korean more than 20 books, including Homecoming, Homegirls and 61 West Superior Street 61 West Superior Street Free admission full-length collections Stranger in Town and Selected sijo has a similarly rich heritage. Like haiku, it employs three Handgrenades , which won the American Book Award in 1985, Free admission Free admission lines, although its forty-some syllables are more flexible and Celebrated pianist Inna Faliks is the founder and curator of the Writings , as well as numerous chapbooks. He was raised on Shake Loose My Skin , and most recently, Morning Haiku . One The Poetry Foundation continues a conversation that allow for narrative developments that aren’t feasible in haiku’s award-winning interdisciplinary series Music/Words, which ex - the Suquamish reservation near Seattle, Washington and of the founding members of the Black Arts Movement, and “One always feels the looming humaneness around Part of a national series, this program explores the role of originated at the American Academy in Rome last May. seventeen-syllable form. Join David McCann , poet, transla - politics in the literary landscape today. Suji Kwock Kim is a plores the connections between poetry and music. She is joined studied at Naropa with poets , Anne an influential advocate for civil rights, Sanchez has received Lucille Clifto n’s poems ,” observed the judges in awarding Four award-winning poet-translators— Patrizia Cavalli , tor, and one of the foremost experts on the form, for an ex - Korean-American whose first collection, Notes from the Divided by Valzhyna Mort , winner of Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Waldman, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger, among others. many accolades for her literature and activism, among them her the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Clifton once told an Geoffrey Brock , Clare Cavanagh , and Adam Zagajewski — ploration of traditional Korean sijo and the growing body of interviewer that “writing is a way of continuing to hope… Country , won the Walt Whitman Award. Li-Young Lee is the Prize and the author of Factory of Tears and Collected Body , as Sigo’s poetry draws on personal experience and a host of the Langston Hughes Award, the Robert Frost Medal, and son of Chinese political exiles and has published four volumes will gather for readings and discussion of current approaches sijo in English. McCann teaches at Harvard and is the author a way of remembering I am not alone.” Poets Michael S. Glaser , cultural material, which is then culled into sculpted lyrical the Peace and Freedom Award. She was recently named of poetry and a memoir, The Winged Seed . Poet and translator, to translating Polish and Italian poetry into English, and well as Vera Pavlova , whose first poetry collection in English, of four books of poetry, including Urban Temple: Sijo Twisted Li-Young Lee , Elise Paschen , Kevin Young , and other special Poetry on Stage Poetry Day collages. In the past decade, Sigo has collaborated with many Philadelphia’s first Poet Laureate. Khaled Mattawa was born in Libya and came this country in translating English poetry into Italian. If There Is Something to Desire , was a bestselling title in 2010. and Straight , published in Korean by Ch’angbi guests offer tributes and read favorite works to celebrate visual artists and writers. A reception will follow. 1979. His latest book is Tocqueville . Alice Quinn , executive Publishers in Seoul this year. A reception will follow. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton . A reception will follow. director of the Poetry Society of America, will moderate. Co-sponsored with the HARRIET MONROE & Co-sponsored with the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute as part SEAM US HEANEY Co-sponsored with PianoForte Foundation and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance Co-sponsored with BOA Editions Co-sponsored with the Poetry Society of America of the International Poets in Conversation consortium tour Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute Co-sponsored with the Sejong Cultural Society THE MODERNIS TS rubloff auditorium Art Institute of Chicago FR IDA Y, SEPTEMBER 14 SATURDA Y, SEPTEMBER 22, 7 PM THURSDA Y, OCTOBER 4 poetry foundation SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 9 AM –5PM Enter only at Modern Wing, 159 East Monroe FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13 61 West Superior Street SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 9 AM –5PM Free admission, tickets required 6:30 PM SUNDA Y, SEPTEMBER 23,3 PM 7 PM Free admission, tickets required Tickets available beginning October 1 only at http://seamusheaney.eventbrite.com 7 PM 11: 3 0 AM 6 PM Tickets at http://monroeandmodernists.eventbrite.com/ or by calling or by calling Poetry Foundation (312) 787-7070. Limit 2 tickets per reservation. Harriet Reading Series Poetry & Music Poetry Presents Poetry Foundation (312) 787-7070. Limit 2 tickets per reservation. Poetry off the Shelf Poetry off the Shelf Poetry & Dance OPEN HOUSE Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney will give the 2012 “I trust that you may be interested in this project for the relief of Poetry Day reading. Born in 1939 at his family’s farm in Northern “WORD OUTLEAPS JOANNE KY GER AND THE THE OPEN DOOR the muse. It will be a great pleasure and honor if you are willing CHICAGO Ireland, Heaney published his first collection of poetry, Death MAKE MAGAZINE: CRAZY BRAVE: RELEASE PARTY to testify to that interest by sending us a poem or a group of of a Naturalist , in 1966, and the book won the Geoffrey Faber THE WORL D”: poems for early publication. Indeed, I can think of no contribu - poetry foundation Prize and the Gregory Award. Heaney has gone on to issue CROSTHWAITE, ENRIGUE, THE LIFE & POETRY poetry foundation POET SA NG & CENTENNIAL RIVERA-GARZA & OF JOY HAR JO READINGS & DANCE 61 West Superior Street tion which would delight me more.” So wrote Harriet Monroe 61 West Superior Street more than a dozen collections of verse, most recently District poetry foundation CELEBRATION to W. B. Yeats in August, 1912 in hopes that she might persuade Free admission and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010). The Nobel judges VAQUERA-VÁSQUEZ fullerton hall Free admission poetry foundation 61 West Superior Street poetry foundation the famous writer to send work to her fledgling journal, Poetry . cited Heaney “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, Art Institute of Chicago which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.” He is also poetry foundation 61 West Superior Street 111 South Michigan Avenue A central influence among the Beats, and later the New York Free admission 61 West Superior Street Yeats sent work, as did such unknown writers as Ezra Pound , The Poetry Foundation will once again take part in the Chicago the author of essays and versions of Sophocles, Pushkin, and 61 West Superior Street $10/5 for students and teachers with I.D. Tickets go on sale Free with museum admission School and Language poets, Joanne Kyger has authored more Free admission Edna St. Vincent Millay , T. S. Eliot , Marianne Moore , Architecture Foundatio n’ s Open House Chicago, a free public to Chicago Humanities Festival members on Tuesday, others. His 1999 translation of Beowulf was a bestseller. Heaney Free admission than 20 books of poetry and prose, including As Ever: Selected This program features poems by William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Please call (312) 787-7070 or email [email protected] Robert Frost, H.D. , Wallace Stevens , Carl Sandburg , and event that offers behind-the–scenes access to more than 200 September 4 and to the general public on Monday, “Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: if you plan to attend. has taught at Queen’s University, Harvard, and Oxford. He September 17. 312.494.9509 or www.chicagohumanities.org. The word outleaps the world, and light is all.” Poems, Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960- Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, William Butler Yeats, Anne countless others. Using a script prepared by Second City buildings across the city and suburbs. Visitors to the building first appeared in Poetry magazine in February 1972. Join us for a bilingual reading in Spanish and English from — Theodore Roethke. Sexton, and Violetta Parra set to music by The Crooked Mouth Theater co-founder Bernard Sahlins , well-known Chicago will have an opportunity to explore the space over the weekend 1964 , and most recentl y, About Now: Collected Poems , for which To celebrate Poetry ’s 100th birthday, editors Christian Wiman For more than 30 years, poet Joy Harjo , of Muskogee Nation and Don Share have assembled a unique anthology, The Open Mexican and Mexican-American authors Luis Humberto In a salute to the Art Institute of Chicago’s new galleries she was awarded the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles and others. Purveyors of original music with roots in vaudeville, actors celebrate Poetry ’s 100th birthday by going behind the as well as get a rare glimpse into the making of Poetry magazine, heritage, has evoked the landscape of the Southwest with Door: One Hundred Poems , One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine . Inaugurated by Robert Frost in 1955 , Poetry Day is one of the oldest Crosthwaite , Álvaro Enrigue , Cristina Rivera-Garza , and of ancient art, well known local actors read passages from National Literary Award for Poetry. A reception will follow. and harmonizing on themes of loss and forebearance, The scenes at the magazine to read the sometimes scandalous, always celebrating its centennial in 2012. language steeped in American native cultures and visionary Contributors to the magazine’s “View From Here” section, and most distinguished reading series in the country. Past readers Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez . These award winning writers such authors as Homer, Plotinus, Sophocles, Seneca and Crooked Mouth is: Beau O’Reilly (lead vocals and good cheer), lively correspondence between Harriet Monroe and her successors lyricism. Harjo’s many-faceted artistic life includes the including Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune reporter have included T. S. Elio t, Marianne Moor e, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth will read original poems and stories, as well as the work of Virgil, while Hubbard Street dancers interpret images Jenny Magnus (drums and vocals), Troy Martin (guitar, ukulele and contributing poets who have since entered the canon of poetry collections She Who Had Horse and the and ideas to measure the impact of this great Mary Schmich , Museum of Contemporary Art curator Bishop, W. H. Auden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hass, poets who have inspired them. A reception will follow. and vocals), Matt Test (banjo, accordion, piano and vocals), Naomi Beckwith , and St. Paul’s United Church of poetry in English. Romance, rivalries, supersized egos, financial American Book–award winning In Mad Love and literature in our own time. and Derek Walcott. War , as well as her new memoir Crazy Brave . and Vicki Walden (bass and vocals). Christ Senior Minister Matt Fitzgerald . difficulties, and sublime kindness will be on display, along with Co-sponsored with MAKE Literary Productions magazine Co-sponsored with Hubbard Street Dance & Co-sponsored by the Press some of the greatest hits from the magazine’s pages. Co-sponsored with the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Iowa’s MFA in Spanish Creative Writing Co-sponsored with the Chicago Humanities Festival the Art Institute of Chicago