rec room home
ultra magnetic
wednesday, september 20, 2006
black rock bar
damen and addison
chicago
8:00 pm |
ultra magnetic
curated by Rone Shavers
What is it that draws up to one another but can also push us away? Why
is possessing charm and charisma a blessing for some, anathema for
others? Please join us for an evening of performances exploring the
ultra magnetic: the state of attraction, repulsion, and everything in between.
Erica Bernheim was born in New Jersey and grew up in Ohio and Italy,
and educated at Miami University, Selwyn College, Cambridge, and the
Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently earning a Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois at Chicago. Her poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, the Canary,
Black Warrior Review, and she is the author of the chapbook, "Between
the Room and the City."
Krista Franklin is a poet, visual artist and educator who hails from
Dayton, OH, and currently works and resides in Chicago, IL. Her poems
and art have appeared in/on several literary journals and websites,
including Nexus Literary and Art Journal, Warpland, Obsidian III,
nocturnes 2: (re)view of the literary arts, semantikon.com,
milkmag.org, ambulant.org, and errataandcontradiction.org. She has also
been published in the anthologies The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
and Bum Rush The Page, and is a Cave Canem alum.
Nancy Ferguson is a native Chicagoan, and recent graduate of
Northwestern University's MA in Creative Writing. Her fiction has
appeared in Blithe House Quarterly and other journals.
Tracie D. Hall began her tour of duty in south Los Angeles and was
stationed in Seattle and New Haven before docking in Chicago. Though
she has received several awards and fellowships for her poetry, among
her most urgent goals are acquiring a small farm and being cast as
the "Miss November" pin-up in the Hot Librarians of North America
calendar. She also hopes to be invited to catalog Lil Wayne's CD
collection. Hall dedicates tonight's reading to Night Train, Doolie,
Heynow, Mr. Allen and Pops n'em from 103rd street, and confides that
some memories don't rinse out.
John Keene is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New
Directions), and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of the art-text
dialogue SEISMOSIS (forthcoming from 1913 Press). He has published his
fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and translations in a wide variety of
periodicals and anthologies, including African American Review,
Aufgabe, Blithe House Quarterly, Encyclopedia, Hambone, Indiana Review,
Kenyon Review, New American Poetry, Ploughshares, and the Washington
Post Book Review. Among his honors are fellowships in fiction from the
Massachusetts Artists Council and in poetry from the New Jersey State
Council on the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and the New York Times
Foundation; AGNI's John Cheever Short Fiction Prize; the Solo Press
Poetry Prize; and five Pushcart Press Prize nominations. He has served
as a guest editor for Blithe House Quarterly, and is an advisory editor
for the Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly. He has taught at Brown
and New York Universities, as well as at the Indiana Writers Conference
and Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and is
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at
Northwestern University.
Toni Asante Lightfoot is a writer, teacher, and activist living in
Chicago, Illinois. A native of Washington, DC, Lightfoot started her
poetry career performing in its cafes and jazz clubs. Along with the
other members of The Modern Urban Griots, she co-wrote, directed, and
starred in Everything I Never Told You Became a Poem and Jazz, Wine,
and Poetry: An Almost Love Story. Alone as well as along with several
groups, Lightfoot has performed all over the US, Canada, and Trinidad &
Tobago, She has been published in several anthologies such as: Role
Call (Third World Press), Beyond the Frontier (Black Classics Press)
and is the co-editor of Dream of a Word (Tia Chucha Press). Her voice
and poetry appears on numerous CDs. For more information, check her at
out at www.myspace.com/toniasantelightfoot .
Rone Shavers is a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine, where he was
associate editor of the three-volume anthology Speak Art; Speak
Fiction; and Speak Theater: The Best of Bomb Magazine's Interviews. His
essays, reviews, and short stories have appeared in ACM: Another
Chicago Magazine, Africana.com, Black Issues Book Review, BOMB
Magazine, Electronic Book Review, the Los Angeles Reader, milkmag.org,
Mosaic Literary Magazine, and Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature
and Ideas. He received his MFA from the New School in New York, and was
a 2003-05 Fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops. Shavers'
most recent publication is the co-edited academic collection titled,
Paper Empire: Essays on the Art of William Gaddis, forthcoming from the
University of Alabama Press.
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