This Friday at St. John’s Renaissance Theater (637 East Market Street) Erin Keane will be reading along with Adam Day. Plus there will be music by Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue and The Big Time Band. The event, which costs $5 is a National Poetry Month event sponsored by Thousand Poets.

Posted by Marci Johnson on April 03, 2008
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WordFarm author Luci Shaw will be the featured guest on the March 9 broadcast of Grace Matters, a radio program of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, where she will be interviewed on "The Crime of Living Cautiously."

Shaw is a poet who understands life to be full of adventure and risk. She joins the program to help distinguish faith from fear, and both from fanaticism.

Grace Matters is currently heard on 175 radio stations in the United States, on the American Forces Network and in several other countries. Podcast and streaming audio versions of the program can be downloaded at www.gracematters.org one day after the airdate.

Posted by Beth Newberry on March 06, 2008
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Li-Young Lee, author of the critically acclaimed Book of My Nights, will be reading in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library Center on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 6pm (Chicago, IL). Admission is free. More information is available at the Poetry Foundation website.

Posted by Andrew Craft on January 17, 2008
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The Poetry Foundation and the Art Institute of Chicago are hosting a reading by four notable Latino poets in Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 6pm (Chicago, IL). Poets include: Francisco Aragon, author of Puerta del Sol; Brenda Cardenas, author of From the Tongues of Brick and Stone; Blas Falconer, author of A Question of Gravity; and Gina Franco, author of The Keepsake Storm. Admission is free. More information is available at the Poetry Foundation website.

Posted by Andrew Craft on January 17, 2008
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In no particular order:

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
Averno, Louise Gluck
A Girl Named Zippy, Haven Kimmel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born, Tina Cassidy
Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, J.K. Rowling

Posted by Marci Johnson on January 05, 2008
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Take a moment to check out Ruminate magazine, a (relatively) new literary magazine focusing on "faith in literature and art." They are currently holding two writing contests, one for poetry and one for short stories. You can subscribe to Ruminate, enter a contest or learn more about the magazine at their website.

Posted by Andrew Craft on December 31, 2007
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The University of Illinois at Chicago has announced several new courses for Spring 2008 in their Writers Series program. The upcoming courses include

Creative Nonfiction
Short Forms
Characters and Settings and Point of View
Proposal Writing

These four are traditional classroom courses, and they meet on the UIC campus just west of the Chicago Loop.

Visit the Writers Series website to read course descriptions, check schedules and prices, get on the email list for future course notifications (some courses may be offered online in the future!) and read the Chicago Tribune article about two of the instructors.

For any of you who have a New Year's resolution to get serious about your writing this year, taking a university-level course might be a great way to start!

Posted by Sally Sampson Craft on December 30, 2007
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