Friday, July 22nd at 5:30 pm
Red Rover Reading Series
{readings that play with reading]
Experiment #125:
Our Autonomy, Our Choice / A Walking Poem
outdoor reading in Humboldt Park
**rain or shine event**
Event starts at Space Oddities
1007 N. California Ave
Featuring:
Noa Michaela Fields
Sky Goodman
Nathanael Jones
Jose-Luis Moctezuma
Daniela Olszewska
Surprise Guests:
YOU + YOU + YOU
your participation is welcome
bring 1 poem to share
(3 minutes or less)
We're also fundraising for the Chicago Abortion Fund:
bring some extra $$$ or donate online.
https://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/
The Chicago Abortion Fund provides financial, logistical, and emotional support to people seeking abortion care in Chicago, in Illinois, and the Midwest.
This event is in collaboration with Sarah Luczko of Space Oddities. Equal parts bookstore and gallery, it has featured work by local artists and artisans since 2013. Space Oddities was founded with the intent to bring books, art, local goods, and magical items for sale under one roof - the more one of a kind and handmade, the better.
Author Bios:
NOA MICHAELA FIELDS is a trans poet with hearing aids. By day, she is the events and accessibility coordinator at the Poetry Foundation. By night, she is a priestess of tarot and techno and everything hypervivid.
SKY GOODMAN is a multimedia artist, poet, and educator living in Chicago, IL. Sky’s formal training is in poetry (MFA from Columbia College) with a background of teaching creative writing and literature to high school and college students. Currently they work full time as an artist, creating music videos for bands and working with virtual reality and 3D software, crafting dream-scapes. Sky regularly collaborates with other artists, musicians and dancers. They are the author of three published poetry books: Starfish, Deep Dream and Universal Texture. Their work has been exhibited internationally and in the metaverse.
NATHANAEL JONES is a Canadian writer and artist born in Montreal and currently based in Chicago. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
JOSE-LUIS MOCTEZUMA is a xicano poet. He is the author of two poetry books, Place-Discipline (Omnidawn, 2018) and Black Box Syndrome (forthcoming from Omnidawn, 2023). His poetry and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Postmodern Culture, Fence, Jacket2, Chicago Review, Modernism/modernity, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Chicago.
DANIELA OLSZEWSKA is the author of several books of poetry and short prose. She does not want to sound like an advertisement, but she really loves the bikini-wearing Capricorn prayer candle she purchased from Space Oddities last year.
Red Rover Series is curated by Laaura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. Founded in 2005, the over one hundred events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.
Red Rover Reading Series
{readings that play with reading]
Experiment #125:
Our Autonomy, Our Choice / A Walking Poem
outdoor reading in Humboldt Park
**rain or shine event**
Event starts at Space Oddities
1007 N. California Ave
Featuring:
Noa Michaela Fields
Sky Goodman
Nathanael Jones
Jose-Luis Moctezuma
Daniela Olszewska
Surprise Guests:
YOU + YOU + YOU
your participation is welcome
bring 1 poem to share
(3 minutes or less)
We're also fundraising for the Chicago Abortion Fund:
bring some extra $$$ or donate online.
https://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/
The Chicago Abortion Fund provides financial, logistical, and emotional support to people seeking abortion care in Chicago, in Illinois, and the Midwest.
This event is in collaboration with Sarah Luczko of Space Oddities. Equal parts bookstore and gallery, it has featured work by local artists and artisans since 2013. Space Oddities was founded with the intent to bring books, art, local goods, and magical items for sale under one roof - the more one of a kind and handmade, the better.
Author Bios:
NOA MICHAELA FIELDS is a trans poet with hearing aids. By day, she is the events and accessibility coordinator at the Poetry Foundation. By night, she is a priestess of tarot and techno and everything hypervivid.
SKY GOODMAN is a multimedia artist, poet, and educator living in Chicago, IL. Sky’s formal training is in poetry (MFA from Columbia College) with a background of teaching creative writing and literature to high school and college students. Currently they work full time as an artist, creating music videos for bands and working with virtual reality and 3D software, crafting dream-scapes. Sky regularly collaborates with other artists, musicians and dancers. They are the author of three published poetry books: Starfish, Deep Dream and Universal Texture. Their work has been exhibited internationally and in the metaverse.
NATHANAEL JONES is a Canadian writer and artist born in Montreal and currently based in Chicago. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
JOSE-LUIS MOCTEZUMA is a xicano poet. He is the author of two poetry books, Place-Discipline (Omnidawn, 2018) and Black Box Syndrome (forthcoming from Omnidawn, 2023). His poetry and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Postmodern Culture, Fence, Jacket2, Chicago Review, Modernism/modernity, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Chicago.
DANIELA OLSZEWSKA is the author of several books of poetry and short prose. She does not want to sound like an advertisement, but she really loves the bikini-wearing Capricorn prayer candle she purchased from Space Oddities last year.
Red Rover Series is curated by Laaura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. Founded in 2005, the over one hundred events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.
Past Events
Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
Poets and Writers From Not-Chicago Come to Chicago To Read
The Logan Theater
2646 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
Doors at 8 pm
Some fine young men have ventured forth to see this land tis of thee and they are not happy about the results. BUT, their next stop is Chicago. And they're going to read here. Let's show up and argue with them about pizza or some other dumb shit that doesn't matter.
Performers include:
peterbd
Andrew Worthington
Sebastian Castillo
Timothy Leonido
Daniela Olszewska
Rachel Hyman
Archie Pelago
Thursday, August 15th, 2019
The Humboldt Hump Reading Series
Summer 2019: Ariel and Alligators
Space Oddities
1007 N. California Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Doors at 7:30 pm
Come hear the mermaids singing, each to each. We will sing and/or read to you if you join us at Space Oddities to celebrate the start of the end of the summer.
………
Jessica Baer received their MFA from Brown University in 2017. They have a chapbook called Holodeck One (Magic Helicopter Press, 2017), and their work has been featured in journals such as Pinwheel, Prelude Mag, and Bone Bouquet. They live in Chicago and they love horses.
Daniela Olszewksa is the author of several books of poetry and short fictions. She was born in Poland and received her MFA in Alabama, but she self-identifies as a Chicagoan.
Eddy Ozoma is a Nigerian-American from Alaska living in Chicago. He received an MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and now he's a bookseller paying off his student loans. He misses the mountains and the stars, but loves the city. He writes.
Becky Wills is a member of the Poems While You Wait collective. She edits for DiningOutmagazine, a Chicago-food journal. Her writing has appeared in Gigantic Sequins and While You Were Waiting.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
Writers for Migrant Justice--Chicago: Reading and Fundraiser
The Nightingale
1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
7-10 pm
The Chicago Flagship reading/fundraiser for "Writers for Migrant Justice" takes place on September 4, 2019 at 7pm at the The Nightingale.
"Writers for Migrant Justice" was launched in order to support the groundwork being done by Immigrant Families Together. Online, we want to raise $5K by Wednesday, September 4th in order to support detained/formerly detained migrants. Visit the page: https://bit.ly/2O3BkJa
So far, there are flagship readings in more than 40 cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. This direct action is being led by Undocupoets/organizers Christopher Soto, Javier Zamora, Anni Liu, and Jan-Henry Gray. The Chicago reading will be hosted by Nabil Vega and Xandria Phillips.
Poets and Writers From Not-Chicago Come to Chicago To Read
The Logan Theater
2646 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
Doors at 8 pm
Some fine young men have ventured forth to see this land tis of thee and they are not happy about the results. BUT, their next stop is Chicago. And they're going to read here. Let's show up and argue with them about pizza or some other dumb shit that doesn't matter.
Performers include:
peterbd
Andrew Worthington
Sebastian Castillo
Timothy Leonido
Daniela Olszewska
Rachel Hyman
Archie Pelago
Thursday, August 15th, 2019
The Humboldt Hump Reading Series
Summer 2019: Ariel and Alligators
Space Oddities
1007 N. California Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Doors at 7:30 pm
Come hear the mermaids singing, each to each. We will sing and/or read to you if you join us at Space Oddities to celebrate the start of the end of the summer.
………
Jessica Baer received their MFA from Brown University in 2017. They have a chapbook called Holodeck One (Magic Helicopter Press, 2017), and their work has been featured in journals such as Pinwheel, Prelude Mag, and Bone Bouquet. They live in Chicago and they love horses.
Daniela Olszewksa is the author of several books of poetry and short fictions. She was born in Poland and received her MFA in Alabama, but she self-identifies as a Chicagoan.
Eddy Ozoma is a Nigerian-American from Alaska living in Chicago. He received an MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and now he's a bookseller paying off his student loans. He misses the mountains and the stars, but loves the city. He writes.
Becky Wills is a member of the Poems While You Wait collective. She edits for DiningOutmagazine, a Chicago-food journal. Her writing has appeared in Gigantic Sequins and While You Were Waiting.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
Writers for Migrant Justice--Chicago: Reading and Fundraiser
The Nightingale
1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
7-10 pm
The Chicago Flagship reading/fundraiser for "Writers for Migrant Justice" takes place on September 4, 2019 at 7pm at the The Nightingale.
"Writers for Migrant Justice" was launched in order to support the groundwork being done by Immigrant Families Together. Online, we want to raise $5K by Wednesday, September 4th in order to support detained/formerly detained migrants. Visit the page: https://bit.ly/2O3BkJa
So far, there are flagship readings in more than 40 cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. This direct action is being led by Undocupoets/organizers Christopher Soto, Javier Zamora, Anni Liu, and Jan-Henry Gray. The Chicago reading will be hosted by Nabil Vega and Xandria Phillips.
Friday, September 13th, 2019
Monthly Poetry Show
Intersect Coffee
1727 W. 18th (near Damen and 18th)
Chicago, IL 60608
6-8 pm
featured readers Adrianne Beer, Daniela Olszewska, Peter Pero, and Kao Ra Zen
Monthly Poetry Show
Intersect Coffee
1727 W. 18th (near Damen and 18th)
Chicago, IL 60608
6-8 pm
featured readers Adrianne Beer, Daniela Olszewska, Peter Pero, and Kao Ra Zen
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
Meekling TALKS hosted by Meekling Press
Lecture: "Water Bears, Ancient Aliens, and Monogamy"
The Martin
2515 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
7-9 pm
Meekling TALKS hosted by Meekling Press
Lecture: "Water Bears, Ancient Aliens, and Monogamy"
The Martin
2515 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
7-9 pm
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Poems While You Wait hosed by the Democratic Socialists of America Happy Hour in Solidarity with Striking CPS Workers and Fundraiser for Bread4Ed Solidarity Fund The Hideout 1354 West Wabansia Chicago, IL 60642 5-7 pm |
Saturday, October 12th, 2019
Poems While You Wait
International Museum of Surgical Science Family Festival
1524 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60610
12-4 pm
Poems While You Wait
International Museum of Surgical Science Family Festival
1524 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60610
12-4 pm
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
Humboldt Hump Reading Series
Fall 2019: Vampires, Villanelles, and Vapors
Space Oddities
1007 N. California Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Doors at 7:00 pm
Adrianne Beer, Andrew Cantrell, Christine Kanownik, Maya Marshall, and Daniela Olszewska (host)
Adrianne Beer is a graduate of Bowling Green State University, where she received a BFA in creative writing and BA in communication. Her work can be found in Moon City Review, Chicago Reader, Entropy, and elsewhere. She currently works at a community health organization.
Andrew Cantrell is a poet, first-generation (former) academic, labor activist, and working-class southerner living in Chicago. He is the author of the chapbooks PHANTOM EQUATOR (above/ground press) and STRATIGRAPHY (Finishing Line Press), and his work has appeared in many places, including Posit, Lana Turner, Black Sun Lit, and Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology. He is a Pushcart nominee, and was a finalist for the Hillary Gravendyk Book Prize. As Local Projects, he has performed at venues including the Logan Center for the Arts and the MCA. He is a founding member of the Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Illinois, and served for 10 years on the Executive Board of the Chicago News Guild. As a union organizer, he has organized hospital, industrial, and educational workers across the Great Lakes region and in southern California, including most recently support staff at the City Colleges of Chicago - where he helped organize a victorious strike on May Day - and teaching artists at the Old Town School of Folk Music, whom he is helping negotiate their first union contract.
Christine Kanownik is the author of HEAD (Trembling Pillow Press, 2019) and KING OF PAIN (Monk Books 2016). Her poetry is can be found at FENCE, Diagram, Cosmonaut Avenue, jubilat, among others. Her chapbook We Are Now Beginning to Act Wildly was published in 2012 by Diez Press.
Maya Marshall is a writer and an editor. She is co-founder of underbellymag.com, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Marshall has earned fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, Cave Canem, and the Community of Writers. She works as a manuscript editor for Haymarket Books and serves as a senior editor for [PANK]. Her poems have appeared in RHINO, Potomac Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere.
Humboldt Hump Reading Series
Fall 2019: Vampires, Villanelles, and Vapors
Space Oddities
1007 N. California Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Doors at 7:00 pm
Adrianne Beer, Andrew Cantrell, Christine Kanownik, Maya Marshall, and Daniela Olszewska (host)
Adrianne Beer is a graduate of Bowling Green State University, where she received a BFA in creative writing and BA in communication. Her work can be found in Moon City Review, Chicago Reader, Entropy, and elsewhere. She currently works at a community health organization.
Andrew Cantrell is a poet, first-generation (former) academic, labor activist, and working-class southerner living in Chicago. He is the author of the chapbooks PHANTOM EQUATOR (above/ground press) and STRATIGRAPHY (Finishing Line Press), and his work has appeared in many places, including Posit, Lana Turner, Black Sun Lit, and Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology. He is a Pushcart nominee, and was a finalist for the Hillary Gravendyk Book Prize. As Local Projects, he has performed at venues including the Logan Center for the Arts and the MCA. He is a founding member of the Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Illinois, and served for 10 years on the Executive Board of the Chicago News Guild. As a union organizer, he has organized hospital, industrial, and educational workers across the Great Lakes region and in southern California, including most recently support staff at the City Colleges of Chicago - where he helped organize a victorious strike on May Day - and teaching artists at the Old Town School of Folk Music, whom he is helping negotiate their first union contract.
Christine Kanownik is the author of HEAD (Trembling Pillow Press, 2019) and KING OF PAIN (Monk Books 2016). Her poetry is can be found at FENCE, Diagram, Cosmonaut Avenue, jubilat, among others. Her chapbook We Are Now Beginning to Act Wildly was published in 2012 by Diez Press.
Maya Marshall is a writer and an editor. She is co-founder of underbellymag.com, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Marshall has earned fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, Cave Canem, and the Community of Writers. She works as a manuscript editor for Haymarket Books and serves as a senior editor for [PANK]. Her poems have appeared in RHINO, Potomac Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere.
Sunday, December 15th
Humboldt Hump Reading Series
Scrooges, Snowflakes, and Sestinas
Pilsen Edition
Andrew Farkas, Adrienne Dodt, Stefania Gomez, Nate Logan, Daniela Olszewska (host), and Daniel Suárez
Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel: The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), and two short fiction collections: Sunsphere (BlazeVOX [books]) and Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press). He is a fiction editor for The Rupture (the new iteration of The Collagist) and an Assistant Professor of English at Washburn University. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
Adrienne Dodt is a poet and sometimes essayist. Adrienne's chapbook RETURN was published by Damask Press in 2015. Ze also has a poem featured on the X-FILES tribute EP PURITY CONTROL, released in 2015 by What's For Breakfast? Records/We Used To Drink Together Records. From 2013-2016, ze was a regular contributor to the SPOON RIVER POETRY REVIEW blog. Ze was the Poetry Editor for BOMBAY GIN magazine in 2008-2009, and ze edited the Next Objectivists' chapbook COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSNESSES in 2011. Other works have appeared in THE BODY ELECTRIC anthology and FACT-SIMILE, APOTHECARY, MONKEY PUZZLE, and CON/CRESCENT magazines. Most recently, zir play THE WEIRD SISTERS was performed in October 2019. Adrienne teaches English as a Second Language in Chicago.
Stefania Gomez is a queer writer, audio maker, and teaching artist from Chicago's South Side. She received her BA from Brown in 2017, and has work in the Offing, the Missouri Review, and Sinking City Review. She is the author of the chapbook ONCE I LOVED A COWBOY (Ghost City Press, 2019). She works at the Poetry Foundation.
Nate Logan is the author of Inside the Golden Days of Missing You (Magic Helicopter Press, 2019). He's editor and publisher of Spooky Girlfriend Press and teaches at Marian University in Indianapolis
Daniel Suárez is a first generation Cuban American born and raised in Chicago, IL. His poems can be found in The Columbia Poetry Review, RHINO, Eleven Eleven, 5×5, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Third Coast, [PANK] LATINX/Latinidad folio, and other journals.
Humboldt Hump Reading Series
Scrooges, Snowflakes, and Sestinas
Pilsen Edition
Andrew Farkas, Adrienne Dodt, Stefania Gomez, Nate Logan, Daniela Olszewska (host), and Daniel Suárez
Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel: The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), and two short fiction collections: Sunsphere (BlazeVOX [books]) and Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press). He is a fiction editor for The Rupture (the new iteration of The Collagist) and an Assistant Professor of English at Washburn University. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
Adrienne Dodt is a poet and sometimes essayist. Adrienne's chapbook RETURN was published by Damask Press in 2015. Ze also has a poem featured on the X-FILES tribute EP PURITY CONTROL, released in 2015 by What's For Breakfast? Records/We Used To Drink Together Records. From 2013-2016, ze was a regular contributor to the SPOON RIVER POETRY REVIEW blog. Ze was the Poetry Editor for BOMBAY GIN magazine in 2008-2009, and ze edited the Next Objectivists' chapbook COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSNESSES in 2011. Other works have appeared in THE BODY ELECTRIC anthology and FACT-SIMILE, APOTHECARY, MONKEY PUZZLE, and CON/CRESCENT magazines. Most recently, zir play THE WEIRD SISTERS was performed in October 2019. Adrienne teaches English as a Second Language in Chicago.
Stefania Gomez is a queer writer, audio maker, and teaching artist from Chicago's South Side. She received her BA from Brown in 2017, and has work in the Offing, the Missouri Review, and Sinking City Review. She is the author of the chapbook ONCE I LOVED A COWBOY (Ghost City Press, 2019). She works at the Poetry Foundation.
Nate Logan is the author of Inside the Golden Days of Missing You (Magic Helicopter Press, 2019). He's editor and publisher of Spooky Girlfriend Press and teaches at Marian University in Indianapolis
Daniel Suárez is a first generation Cuban American born and raised in Chicago, IL. His poems can be found in The Columbia Poetry Review, RHINO, Eleven Eleven, 5×5, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Third Coast, [PANK] LATINX/Latinidad folio, and other journals.