OCT 12 poetry off the shelf Seamus Heaney Ongoing & Recurring Programs TRANSLATING . 1 g POETR Y: READINGS & 7 r e L 1 I g O 6 , a t . t i D EVENTS CALENDAR o f o s CONVERSATIONS I g o o N a r A t P Friday, October 12, 7 pm c P i i - VISI T P h S m n r C U Poetry Foundation o e N FAL L THE POETR Y poetry off the shelf P SEPT 13 SONIA S ANCHEZ open house chicago FO UNDA TION Thursday, September 13, 7 pm 13, Saturday, October 13, 9 am – 5 pm 201 2 Poetry Foundation Sunday, October 14, 9 am – 5 pm An e vent seas on LIB RARY. 14, Poetry Foundation The Midwest’s only library dedicated exclusively to poetry, harriet reading series 10 0 years the Poetry Foundation Library exists to promote the reading 14 JOANNE K YGER poetry day EVENTS of poetry in the general public, and to support the editorial Friday, September 14, 6:30 pm 18 SEAMUS HEANEY in t he maki ng… needs of all Poetry Foundation programs and staff. Visitors Poetry Foundation Thursday, October 18, 6 pm POETRYFOUNDATION.ORG ON to the library may browse a collection of 30,000 volumes, Rubloff Auditorium …[A]s a modest attempt to change conditions PO ETRY experience audio and video recordings in private listening poetry off the shelf Art Institute of Chicago absolutely destructive to the most necessary and booths, and view exhibits of poetry-related materials. FO UN DAT ION ( 20 LUCILLE CLIFTON universal of the arts, it is proposed to publish a small 31 2) 787 -7070 poetry off the shelf THE NEW LIBRARY HOURS: TRIBUTE & monthly magazine of verse, which shall give the poets Monday – Friday, 11 am –4pm 22 POETRY & PIANO a chance to be heard, as our exhibitions give artists BOOK LAUNCH Monday, October 22, 7 pm Unless otherwise indicated, Poetry Foundation a chance to be seen… HORIZON Poemtime Thursday, September 20, 7 pm Curtiss Hall events are free on a first come, first served basis. Note the new time: Wednesdays at 10 am Poetry Foundation Fine Arts Building When Harriet Monroe wrote those words in Chicago Doors generally open one hour before the program. The Poetry Foundation Library welcomes children ages poetry & music in 1912, poetry was out of fashion in American culture. three to five to a weekly storytime event that introduces poetry off the shelf NATAS HA TR ETHEWEY Few magazines included verse among their pages, and, poetry through fun, interactive readings and games. 22, AND THE POET SANG 26 MAKE MAGAZINE: because few publishers showed interest in the art, books MA RGE P IERCY Admission is granted on a first come, first served basis. Saturday, September 22, 7 pm of poetry were mostly self-published. At a time when 23 , Sunday, September 23, 3 pm ME XIC AN-AME RIC AN artists, architects, and musicians were heralded for their IRA WOOD Field Trips Poetry Foundation WRITERS Parents, please tell your children’s teachers that the Library Friday, October 26, 7 pm innovations, poets were, as Monroe said, shushed “by the JAM IE O’ REIL LY & vast English-speaking world.” Poetry, the magazine she hosts free field trips. To learn more or arrange a visit, poetry off the shelf Poetry Foundation 61 please contact [email protected]. founded, was then a direct response to this neglect. MICHAEL S MITH 27 RED, WHITE & BLUE: harriet reading series Sign up for e-mail alerts about upcoming NOV 1 In publishing Poetry , Monroe sought to give verse its BO DIES OF WORK FESTI VAL POETS ON POLITICS CEDAR S IGO rightful place among the arts. With the hindsight of WEST Chicago events and search thousands of IN THE GALLERY Thursday, September 27, 7 pm Thursday, November 1, 6:30 pm history, it’s clear that she did much more than that. Poetry Foundation Poetry Foundation GALLERY HOURS: The magazine established its reputation early—publishing Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and W. B. Yeats in SUPERIOR Monday – Friday, 11 am – 4 pm poetry presents poetry off the shelf OCT 4 4 its first year—and went on to feature the first important Poet Photos: THE OPEN DOOR JOY HAR JO poems of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace FALL From the Archives of Poetry Magazine RELEASE PARTY Sunday, November 4, 11:30 am Stevens, H.D., Carl Sandburg, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn STREET September 27 – November 29 Poetry Foundation Brooks, and other now-classic authors. In succeeding Sign up for e-mail alerts about upcoming Comprised of snapshots sent in by contributors over the & CENTENNIAL decades it has presented—often for the first time—works 2012 hundred-year history of Poetr y, this exhibition includes CELEBRATION poetry off the shelf Chicago events and search thousands of by virtually every major contemporary poet. Perhaps CHICAG O unseen treasures from the archives of the magazine. Thursday, October 4, 7 pm 15 SI JO POETRY great poems by subject, occasion, or author: the poet A. R. Ammons said it best when he observed, Poetry Foundation “The histories of modern poetry and of Poetry in America EVE NTS Thursday, November 15, 7 pm Snow City Arts: Erasures POETRYFOUNDATION.ORG are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable.” t 4 e Poetry Foundation 5 BUILDING HOURS: e 6 December 4 – January 3 poetry on stage r n t 0 S o 6 Snow City Arts transforms time in the hospital into This October, Monroe’s “small monthly magazine” will i r t 7, poetry & dance s MONDAY – FRIDAY i o HARRIET MONROE a time with the arts for young patients during periods of mark its hundredth birthday. To celebrate, the Foundation i o d r n e n hospitalization. Exhibited here are thirteen works of erasure DEC 13 “WORD OUTLEAPS offers a slate of programs that, as the founding editor i l p & THE MODERNISTS u 8, l I u 11 AM –4PM o poetry by youth, who used the May 2011 issue of Poetry as Sunday, October 7, 3 pm , wished, “shall give poets a chance to be heard.” We hope S F THE WORLD ”: o photo credits: t s y Monday, October 8, 7 pm g Lucille Clifton by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Crooked Mouth by Brave Lux, Li-Young Lee © Cuirt International source material for their own erasure poems while being you will join us this fall to commemorate the first hundred e a READINGS & DANCE r t Festival of Literature, Khaled Mattaw by Amanda Abel, Harriet Monroe and Modernists from the Poetry c Poetry Foundation i e hospitalized at John H. Stroger, Jr, Hospital in Chicago. years of Poetry and to celebrate “the most necessary and W Thursday, December 13, 6 pm archives, Adam Zagajewski by Jerry Bauer, Seamus Heaney © by Jemimah Kuhfeld, Valzhyna Mort by h o 1 Nadia Huggins, Joy Harjo © by Karen Kuehn, Relief of Fallen Warrior from the Shield of the Athena Natasha Trethewey P C This exhibition showcases the extraordinary results. Fullerton Hall universal of the arts.” 6 Parthenos. Roman copy of 5th-century B.C. Greek, original by Phidias. Gift of Alfred E. Hamill. 1928.257 Art Institute of Chicago SEP TEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER THURSDA Y, SEPTEMBER 13 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 TH URSDA Y, SEPTEMBER 27 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 3 PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 7 PM 7 PM 7 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 7 PM 7 PM 6 PM 7 PM 6: 30 PM 7 PM 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 INNA FALIK S, VALZHYNA poetry foundation POETR Y: READINGS & poetry foundation poetry foundation TRIBUTE & & BLUE: POETS MORT & VERA PAVLOVA 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 Allen Ginsberg, 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.