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*Every Monday, 10 PM, Weeds, 1555 N. Dayton, presents Chicago's 2nd longest running poetry open mic hosted by Gregorio Gomez, sign up 9:30, adults only.
*Every Tuesday, 8:30 PM, POW-WOW LGBT open mic at The Jeffery Pub, 7041 S Jeffery Blvd, $5
*Every Wednesday, 10 PM, Heartland Cafe, 7000 North Glenwood Ave, presents one of Chicago's hippest poetry open mics, In One Ear, with features, $3, sign up 9:30.
*Every Sunday, 7 PM, Chicago's longest running poetry open mic, The Uptown Poetry Slam at Green Mill, 4802 North Broadway St, with features, $6.
*Fri, May 18, 9 PM, Windy City Story Slam Semi Finals at Chicago Urban Arts Society, 600 W. Cermak. The Windy City Story Slam has collected Chicago’s finest storytellers to compete in the All-City Championships Semi-Finals. The Competitors include Cara Brigandi of Grown Folks Stories, Scott Whitehair of This Much is True Storytelling, Shannon Cason of Moth Chicago, Deb Lewis of 2nd Story, Luis Perez of Vocalo FM’s Stories and Music, Jacob Knabb of Another Chicago Magazine, Jesse Jordan of RUI, Jeff Kerr of Criminal Class Press, and several more. Out of the 15 semi-finalists only 5 will advance to the All-City Championships where they will share the stage with new Chicagoan Irvine Welsh author of Trainspotting and Skagboys at the Viaduct Theatre May 26th. The audience will decide who advances to the big stage.
*Fri, May 18, 7:30 PM, Dollhouse Reading Series features Nathan Breitling, Laura Goldstein, Virginia Konchan and Catherine Wagner at whatever is at1850 West Belle Plaine Avenue #3
*Fri, May 18, 10 PM, Real Talk Live's Extra Dirty Late Night Edition, at Elastic, 2830 MIlwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, $7
*Sat, May 19, 7 PM, Myopic Books, 1564 Milwaukee Ave, featuring Debrah Morkun and Don Share
*Sat, May 19, 7:30 PM, Archer Poetry Series features Johannes Göransson, Joyelle McSweeney and John Wilkinson at whatever is at 3265 S. Archer Ave
*Sat, May 19, 8 PM, Chicago Poetry Bordello, Thalia Hall, 1227 West 18th Street, $5–10
*Sat, May 19, 8 PM, 3rd Saturday Coffeehouse at Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street, Oak Park, presents Billy Lombardo with open mic,, $3–5 donation
Sun, May 20, 3 PM, Fifth Wednesday Journal 10th Issue Launch at Open Books, 213 West Institute Place
*Sun, May 20, 7 PM, Two With Water Issue 2 Release Party, Beauty Bar, 1444 W. Chicago Ave, $5
*Mon, May 21, 7:30 PM, Mental Graffiti presents Grand Slam with Patrick Pressl, Jacob Victorine, Sharrieff Muhammad, Billy Tuggle, Jamila A. Woods, Anthony Michael Cooremans, Stephanie Lane Sutton and Laura Yes-Yes, at Cole's Bar, 2338 N Milwaukee Ave
*Thur, May 24, 6 PM, Virtual Artists Collective features Paul Friedrich, Elizabeth Raby and Steven Schroeder at 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th St.
*Thur, May 24, 7 PM, Revolving Door presents Jessi Lee Gaylord, Jesse Jordan and Laura Swearingen-Steadwell, at seven ultra lounge, 1270 N. Milwaukee Ave
*Fri, May 25, 8 PM, Chicago Slam Works presents Dead or Alive, at Vittum Theatre, 1012 N. Noble St, $14. For years there's been the debate: Can the performance poets of the modern age really stack up against the old, dead wordsmiths of your textbooks? Well, we're about to find out! Kinda! Six of Chicago's finest performance poets will go head-to-head against six actors "reviving" the long dead poets of old in a mock slam to decide once and for all who will really be on the prom court in poetry heaven. Featuring Marty McConnell, Robert Brown, Fatimah Warner, Fiona Chamness, Adam Levin, Laura Yes Yes, with Mary K Fons as TS Eliot , Joe Janes as Walt Whitman, Roger Bonair-Agard as Lucille Clifton, Tim Stafford as Frank O'Hara, Gwen Tulin as Adrienne Rich, and Angela Oliver as Audre Lorde.
*Sat, May 26, 1:30 to 4:40 PM, HELD ON SATURDAY THIS MONTH. Rhino Poetry Forum Workshop, Evanston Public Library at Church & Orrington, Room 108, with workshop leader Andrea Witzke Slot on the topic Organizing and Editing a Collection, no registration required. Bring 17 or more copies (2 page limit) of a poem you want critiqued. *$5 - $10 donation appreciated.
*Sat, May 26, 1 PM until 4 PM, Dwell in possibility at Lutheran School of Theology, 1100 East 55th Street, a free reading and conversation open to all, with Daniel Bowman, Jr., David Breeden, Nina Corwin, Albert DeGenova, Larry Janowski, Katia Mitova, Charlie Newman, Elizabeth Raby, Deborah Rosen, Steven Schroeder and Judith Valente
*Sun, May 27, 11 AM to 1 PM, Nature Writing Group at North Park Village Nature Center.
*Fri, June 1, 7 PM, Book Launch Party for Shanny Jean Maney's book of poetry, I Love Science, at Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Ave
 *Sun, June 3, 7 PM, join Luis Humberto Valadez and help send him off to the Peace Corps at A Night of Poetry and Music for Chicago HOPES, where he will commemorate the release of his new poetry book / music and poetry project, "Valid Lush" being release by Plumberries Press. The event will also be a Chicago HOPES fundraiser, serving to help the organization grow and thrive in providing after-school and summer programs to children living in homeless shelters. The event will be held at Beauty Bar Chicago, 1444 W. Chicago Ave. A $5 suggested donation and a portion of book sales will go to Chicago HOPES. 21+, presented by Curbside Splendor Publishing. Also featuring Quraysh Ali Lansana, Krista Franklin, Victor David Giron, Edwin R. Perry, and Cristina Correa. Click here for more.
*Fri, June 8, 7 PM, Guild Complex presents a tribute to Gil Scott Heron at Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone, click on the poster to the right (and then click on the image again) to view a larger image of it.
*June 9 and 10, Printer's Row Literary Festival
*Mon, June 18, 7 PM, Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award contest at Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, sponsored by Guild Complex.
*Fri, July 13, 7 PM, Braid Tales: Kuumba Lynx 15th Anniversary Alumni Gala / Book Release at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), 37 S. Wabash. A culminating exhibit of hip-hop's elements through the woven strands of 15 rewarding years. Join us as we celebrate our blessing at the Grand ballroom in The School of the Art Institute
*Fri, July 22 thru Sun, July 22:. Those who wish to learn how to write and publish haiku or perfect their skills may attend The Cradle of American Haiku Festival, at The Foundry Books, 105 Commerce St., Mineral Point, WI. Sponsored by some Midwest members of The Haiku Society of America, the event is open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Haiku is short, meditative poetry that originated in Japan in the 1600s. It is gaining popularity worldwide in many languages. Often three lines, it has 17 syllables or less, and it captures the moment with usually a reference to nature or seasons. The weekend will feature haiku readings, workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and Japanese art instruction in sumi-e, ink brush painting. There will also be opportunity to network during a reception, picnic, and Ginko nature walk to inspire the writing of haiku. Among lectures and workshops will be “Black Haiku: The Uses of Haiku by African-American Poets;” “Polish Your Haiku for Publication;” “Teaching Haiku In and Out of the Classroom;” haiku critique sessions of work written by participants; haibun writing (prose combined with haiku); and gendai, non-traditional haiku. The festival will commemorate the founding of “American Haiku Journal,” in 1963 in Platteville, WI. It was the first publication devoted exclusively to English haiku. Don Eulert, one of its founders, will be among honorees and presenters. For more information and pre-registration, contact Gayle Bull, 608-987-4363, or by email, info@foundrybooks.com
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Sakura Publishing eXposed: Vanity Publishing Rears Its Ugly Head In Chicago
Posted by : cj on Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 07:23 PM
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Dear Chicago Poetry Scene,
Recently, it came to my attention that a new poetry publisher -- Sakura Publishing -- is in town offering contracts to commission books. They seem to have come out of nowhere, and they even had a table at this year's poetry fest, where they passed out bookmarks. I was surprised to learn that they even offered at least one local poet / friend of mine a publishing contract, based solely on the few minutes of poetry she read during the open mic at the fest.
You see, I like to believe I'm up on just about everything Chicago poetry, so I was a little miffed. Why had I not heard of Sakura? After a little snooping, I became even more baffled. Their Facebook page only gives a "Hermitage, PA" post office box as its address. So how did Sakura get a table at the poetry fest, I wondered, knowing how strict the fest is about only showcasing local publishers.
 After stumbling upon their poorly designed official website that has the tone of a glee club and flashes a purple logo of a little girl in a short skirt getting blown around by the wind, I couldn't be more perplexed. Sakura didn't seem to be strictly a poetry publisher at all, but instead a publisher of all genres of writing. Check out this link showcasing one of their authors' dieting book. So, again, what were they doing with one of the rare and coveted tables at the poetry fest?
I browsed their site to learn some more about their authors, one of whom is Almney King, who the site describes as "a high school junior." I found a video of Almney reading poetry at Sakura's YouTube channel (which at the time had 3 subscribers), and in all fairness, she's a pretty good poet. On the other hand, one of their two listed Chicago poets, a man named Dan Picone, is hailed by Sakura as "one of the most prolific poets in America today." Here is a video of Dan reading his poetry. The other Chicago poet published by Sakura is Sharday Cage. Here is a video of Sharday delivering what seems to be a slam-worthy performance. I also watched a video of a man named Derek Vasconi, who calls himself the CEO of Sakura Publishing, giving a lecture at PENN State, and he seemed extremely non-threatening. In fact, all those involved with Sakura seemed to be nice people. That makes me feel sad, since I have to expose Sakura for the dishonest vanity publisher that it is, but nevertheless that's exactly what I intend to do.
Note: Click Here to read the entire eXposé.
NOW WITH A FILTHY MOUTHED RESPONSE FROM DEREK.
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Chicago Post Office Dedicates New Poetry Stamps
Posted by : cj on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 02:44 PM
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Postal employees to read work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, e.e.cummings
and other major poets during Chicago Public Library’s Poetry Fest.
There has always been poetry in the mail – love letters, greeting cards, and verses submitted to magazines for publication. Now, there’s poetry on the mail, as the U.S. Postal Service recognizes the enduring work and influence of ten major American poets. The Chicago Post Office will hold a local dedication of the “Twentieth-Century Poets” stamp sheet Sat., April 28 during the Chicago Public Library’s Poetry Fest, at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St., in the Video Theater beginning at 12 noon. The sheet of 45-cent First-Class Forever stamps, which went on sale April 21, honors Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Chicago postal employees – including several with extensive local performing and writing credits – will read selections from the featured poets. Each stamp features a photograph of one of the 10 poets. Text on the back of the stamp sheet includes an excerpt from one poem by each poet
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Poetry Cram Volume 13: The Contemporary American Poetry Prize Winners
Posted by : cj on Monday, April 02, 2012 - 10:38 AM
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THE CAPP AWARDS
Congratulations go out to the Winners of the 2012 Contemporary American Poetry Prize competition. The cash awards are based on percentages of the entry fees collected during the submission process, making this, the inaugural CAPP contest, one of the largest cash prizes for poetry in the Chicago area.
The Grand Prize Winner receives $524, Silver Prize Winner $131, and Bronze Prize Winner $65.50.
In addition, three poets have been selected to receive Honorable Mentions for their outstanding work, and twenty poets have been selected as Runners Up, whose work ChicagoPoetry.com is proud to showcase in a print edition of Poetry Cram 13 that will be given away free at this year's Chicago Public Library Poetry Fest as well as here, in this, the very first online edition of Poetry Cram.
Please click on the poets' names below in order to read the winning poems, and you can also download your own printable copy of Poetry Cram 13 in pdf format (see instructions below).
All work published at ChicagoPoetry.com is copyrighted. Feel free to link to it but please don't republish without permission.
G r a n d P r I z e W I n n e r
Linda Leedy Schneider
S I l v e r P r I z e W I n n e r
Duane R. Christianson
B r o n z e P r I z e W I n n e r
Chris Reid
H o n o r a b l e M e n t I o n s
Sheila A. Donovan
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Deborah Nodler Rosen
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Laurie Blum
R U N N E R S U P
Khadijah Kysia ** Cynthia Pfeiffer Stell ** DeJuan Dunn ** Donna Pecore
Marian Kaplun Shapiro ** John Brooks ** Gail Goepfert ** Liz Paveza
Peg Nichols ** Margaret Dubay Mikus ** George Korolog ** Jasminum McMullen
Pamela Larson ** Patty Dickson Pieczka ** Yoo Chang ** Lynn Veach Sadler
Susanne Donoghue ** Jennifer Santana ** Tinamarie Penn ** Neal Whitman
Download Instructions: In order to download your own print copy of Poetry Cram Volume 13, CLICK HERE to open the pdf file in your browser. Use the disk icon on top of the file to save a copy to your computer so that you can forward it to all your friends. Use the printer icon to print it up (preferably double sided) and then staple it. Wallah!!
Won't work with your old browser? Email me at Publisher@ChicagoPoetry.com and I'll send back a copy.
 Judge. This year's CAPP judge was Charlie Rossiter, host of the audio website PoetryPoetry.com, who is an NEA Fellowship recipient and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is the author of four books of poetry and numerous chapbooks, including The Night We Danced With the Raelettes and All Over America: Road Poems (FootHills Publications, 2009), which is based on 60,000+ miles or road trip experiences throughout U.S. and Canada. He is also the co-author of the book Back Beat, of which Lawrence Ferlinghetti said: "Back Beat beats everything for being beater than the Beats." Rossiter's poetry has also been featured on National Public Radio, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in New Jersey as well as at the Chicago Blues Festival. He has led poetry workshops all over the country. PoetryAward.org is proud to have Mr. Rossiter serve as the judge for the inaugural Contemporary American Poetry Prize.
Sponsor. PoetryAward.org and the Contemporary American Poetry Prize is sponsored by CJ Laity, twelve year veteran publisher of ChicagoPoetry.com, curator of the Poetry Cram Magazine contest and twenty year host of poetry events and festivals for such distinguished venues as the Chicago Public Library, the Poetry Foundation's Printers Ball and the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair.
Check back autumn 2012 for details about the 2013 CAPP Contest.
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It's A Drag: Lee Groban, author of longest poem, 3/20/1947 - 12/9/2011
Posted by : cj on Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 11:52 AM
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 Chicago Poetry is saddened to have to report that poet Lee Groban, 64, died at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 9. Mr. Groban was very ill for the last two months struggling with congestive heart failure and emphysema and recently had a pacemaker installed surgically. On Thursday his kidneys began to fail. He was with friends when his heart stopped; he died quickly without suffering.
Lee held a Bachelors Degree in Russian Language Studies and a Masters Degree in Library Sciences, and much of Lee's work is inspired by his avid interest in ancient ancestries and the cultures which surrounded them. Lee has been an integral part of the Chicago art community for more than three decades. If you have attended art events and street festivals in Chicago, you have seen Lee Groban, who also appeared for ChicagoPoetry.com sponsored events on several occasions (click here to listen to one of his performances). But, of course, Lee Groban is best known for The Cure for Insomnia, a 4,080-page poem that was turned into the 1987 film of the same title that was officially declared the world's longest movie by the Guinness Book of World Records. Running three days and fifteen hours in length, the film consists of Lee reading his poem spliced with occasional clips from heavy metal and pornographic videos. It was first played in its entirety at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, from January 31 to February 3, 1987, in one continuous showing. In addition to his writing career, Lee Groban was also an accomplished visual artist and had been a featured artist in Pulp Magazine, the Chicago Reader, the Globe, and New City.
There will be a Celebration of Lee Groban's Life and Work on Sunday, December 18, 2011 from 1 to 4 at the Packer Schopf Gallery, 942 W. Lake St., Chicago, IL 60607. Friends and family are encouraged to bring their stories about Lee, as well as artistic, written or musical tributes, and to dress in Lee’s style if you wish. If you would like to make a presentation during the event, please email dickolson@comcast.net and cc dgo@esoplaw.com to allocate time. Lee's family asks that donations go to the endowment fund of the Circle Pines Center, 8650 Mullen Road, in Delton, Michigan, 49046.
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Was It Performance Art? Or Disturbing The Peace?
Posted by : cj on Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 02:45 PM
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 On Tuesday, September 27, during a question and answer session following a reading by Chilean poet Raúl Zurita sponsored by the Poetry Foundation at their multi-million dollar River North home, a small group of poets called the Croaton Poetic Cell went into the poetry library and dropped two banners. One of the banners read “What Would Have Happened if Emily Dickinson Had Been Prescribed Prozac?” (referring to the money the Foundation inherited from the Lilly Corporation), and the other banner said “VIVA CADA” (referring to the Chilean Colectivo de Acción de Arte of which Zurita was a founder and leader during the 70s). Click Here for video.
The Poetry Foundation security (which some witnesses describe as wearing CIA outfits), promptly ripped the banners down. The poetry activists then entered the reading room and passed out leaflets explaining that their banners were an attempt to honor "Raúl Zurita and the heroic spirit of CADA". The leaflets protested the arrest of activist Stephanie Dunn, who was charged with "disturbing the peace" for what the Croaton describes as a peaceful protest action during the "Collections and Cocktails" library opening at the Foundation a few weeks before. "To our knowledge, this is the first time that a supposed institution of poetics has pressed charges against a poet for what is essentially a poetic act," the fliers said. The flier continued: "To us, it makes perfect sense that an institution funded by a 100 million dollar grant from Lilly Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of Prozac, would find any behavior beyond polite docility objectionable enough to call the cops." The leaflet then demanded "the Poetry Foundation spend the remainder of its drug money on the creation of two new poetry centers in existent disused buildings: one on the south side and another on the west side, whose mission it would be to support poetry in impoverished communities by any means necessary." If this demand is not met, the leaflet threatened: "These disruptions will continue . . ." The Poetry Foundation secret service men "chased and cornered" the poets in an attempt to physically apprehend them to be arrested for "trespassing" by police who were on their way, but the poets managed to "make a break for it". Click Here for video.
 Poet and former State of Illinois Teacher of the Year, Kent Johnson wrote on the site montevidayo.com: " . . . this multi-million dollar Poetry institution called the cops on the activists for doing nothing but hanging some banners and peacefully passing out the statement [about] the astonishing, outrageous issue . . . that a young poet and performance artist from Chicago, Stephanie Dunn, who carried out a guerilla-poet’s-theater type act . . . is now apparently subject to charges pressed by the Poetry Foundation." Johnson went on to call the Poetry Foundation a "Happy Big-Tent House" that calls "the cops on brash young poets who step beyond the bounds of High Society protocol . . ." "What does it say when this institution attempts to suppress such radical (and in the history of poetry, venerably practiced) spirit by calling on the POLICE to arrest poets and have charges brought against them . . . the Poetry Foundation has put the Po back into Poetry . . ." Johnson continued, "I suspect there will be more actions coming . . ."
However, a well known Irish singing poet who was at the event and witnessed her get arrested claims Dunn was "not arrested for an essentially poetic act but because she was drunk and started provoking the guards by taking off her clothes." Other witnesses reportedly describe her action as disrobing and groping "an unwilling person in a public space." So far my invitation to the Croaton to describe Dunn's actions and explain what they have to do with poetry have not been accepted. Instead, I've been told that I "can read a detailed description of the events leading up to her arrest in the forthcoming issue of Sous Les Pa" (whatever that is).
--CJ Laity
This is a breaking story and is being updated as more information comes to the surface. Check back for updates.
UPDATE 10/03/11: Rebecca Roberts writes at montevidayo.com: "I was at the event where Stephanie Dunn was arrested, and this is what I saw: After the readings were finished, she and another person were partially undressed and making sexual gestures. This went on for a few minutes, then the security guards asked them both to leave. As they were being escorted out the door, I saw Stephanie swing at the security guards. My understanding is that this violent gesture prompted the call to police."
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Point Nemo by CJ Laity Now Available
Posted by : cj on Sunday, January 30, 2011 - 10:29 AM
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What people are saying about Point Nemo.
Read the review by simonovitch.
I REALLY ENJOYED POINT NEMO. I love all the dry humor--plentiful throughout. For instance, a line involving wild roses and children throwing stones made me laugh out loud. The novel is very dream-like and cool and CJ Laity sets himself up with a difficult task-- a story within a story within a story but he handles it all so well and with such clarity there is never any confusion.
--Sue Cargill, Chicago
Point Nemo launches CJ Laity into the company of futuristic writers like HG Wells, Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley and Ernest Callenbach; he also channels Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in his exploration of a rogue island nation. Laity poetically provides readers with a procession of characters and events at once Utopian and dystopian, all prophetically written as parallel narrative to today's tumultuous headlines.
--Carlos Cumpián, author of Armadillo Charm (Tia Chucha Press)
CJ Laity has created a work of speculative fiction that is entertaining, engaging and a perceptive piece of social commentary with a twist of an ending I guarantee you will never guess.
--Charlie Rossiter, co-author of Back Beat
'Point Nemo' by CJ Laity is a sharp and funny satire of the insanity that passes for contemporary American political and media sensibility in all of its collapsing imperial goodness.
--Larry Winfield, author of Banjo Strings
Thoroughly enjoyed Point Nemo, especially the end!!
--Julia Hattory, Houston, Texas
Point Nemo delivers an early twenty-first century dystopian novel, and an apt allegory for our times, with a twist. The artfulness of the narrator-protagonist ensures a cracking pace to the story . . .
--Tara Keogh, Chicago
 Joseph Engel is convicted of treason and strapped to a gurney in the Terre Haute federal death chamber. When the warden asks him if he has any last words, Joe begins talking non-stop, telling the strange tale of how he ended up there, challenging the warden to quote him a law that puts a time limit on a prisoner's final statement. What happens when a populated island called the Sovereign Nation of Aurora is discovered at Point Nemo, the point in the ocean farthest away from any land? What happens when the king of the island, a dreadlocked man named Harmon, hacks into the entire American communications infrastructure with a video stream offering a trade proposal? What happens when an America controlled by an insane government plots to invade the island and turn it into a military base? What happens when a senator's cook named Joe unwittingly finds himself the American Ambassador to the island? Joe is going to tell you what happens, as he stalls his execution as long as possible. Can Joe talk his way out of the death chamber?
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ACM's Chicago Issue Is Finally Here!
Posted by : cj on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 06:17 PM
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Another Chicago Magazine #50 v.1
The Chicago Issue
Left Field Press
Reviewed by CJ Laity
 I first heard the call for submissions for ACM’s Chicago Issue over a year ago. It promised to deliver a “playful jab” at Granta, a journal that was first published in 1889 at Cambridge and that was reinvented in 1979 as a magazine of new writing. Months before the ACM open call, Granta had come out with its own “Chicago issue” that was released locally with a lot of hoopla, hoopla that was quickly drowned out by critics who complained of its “lack of Chicago writers.” Throughout 2010, ACM 50 became less of a playful jab and more of a labor of love for Editor-In-Chief Jacob Knabb and for the other ACM staff, as they set out to create something that showcased the local lit scene as it really exists, not as some publication located in London imagined it exists, so I think it is rather fitting that I picked up my copy of ACM at the recent Indie Lit Road Show, which was sort of a mini-bookfair held at Green Lantern Gallery, where several reps from our lit scene showcased their publications as a blizzard raged outdoors.
Note: Click Here to read the full review.
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