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Wed June 5th - CJ Laity is back, hosting his first big poetry extravaganza of 2013. Tonight Laity celebrates the release of Journal of Modern Poetry Volume 15. Dozens of diverse poets featured in JOMP 15 will read their selected work.  Prepare yourself for what promises to be one of the most exciting poetry event of 2013.

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06/05/2013 - 06/05/2013

7p - 1030p


Wed June 5th - CJ Laity is back, hosting his first big poetry extravaganza of 2013. Over the past two decades, Laity has hosted huge Chicago poetry showcases for the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair, the Chicago Public Library, the Bucktown Arts Fest, the Printers Ball as well as for countless other events and venues.


Tonight Laity celebrates the release of Journal of Modern Poetry Volume 15. Dozens of diverse poets featured in JOMP 15 will read their selected work on Chopin's main stage, and the first 50 audience members will receive a FREE copy of the publication. Prepare yourself for what promises to be one of the most exciting poetry event of 2013.


In addition to celebrating the release of the publication JOMP 15, tonight the winners of the Contemporary American Poetry Prizes will be announced and the first ever "Poet Laureate of Rhyme" will be crowned. There will also be a reading by Jennifer Dotson, the author of Clever Gretel, the first Journal of Modern Poetry Book Award Selection.

 

PRAISE FOR CLEVER GRETEL

 

"Clever Gretel explores life's loves, losses, anxieties and joys in a voice sagacious yet candid enough to discuss acne over a latte. Even Dotson's forays into the worlds of mythology and superheroes stay grounded in the contemporary problems of junk mail and low-carb diets.  In one poem the speaker says of the Muse, 'I don't remember what she looks like'-- but you will certainly find her here in this refreshing debut.

 

Tania Runyan, author of Delicious Air (Finishing Line Press).

 

"In Clever Gretel, Jennifer Dotson’s poems transform the straw of everyday womanhood to that which glows with the luminosity of simple truth.  Utilizing a playful sense of the magically real,  she sleuths for meaning-- in misplaced glasses, in the chipped veneer of Art Deco dressers, in the empty jar of celery salt, in her nightmare “plummet into space.”  As a reader I peered through the window of Jennifer's words into the grace of family life and her 'fortune shone on me.'"

 

Maureen Tolman Flannery, author of Ancestors in the Landscape

Director
C J Laity

Performers
Adam Gottlieb, Allen Vaysberg, Amanda Layman, Annie Grizzle, Barbara Kreader Skalinder, Beatriz Badikian-Gartler, Brandon Alley, Carla Eisenberg, Carmen Nguyen, Carol Muehleman, Charlotte Hart, Charu Gandhi, Chris Reid, Cordell Miles, Curt Vevang, Dan Weinberg, Dave Marcus, David Nekimken, Diana Smith, Diann Martin, Donna Pecore, Ellen Savage, Erin Mills, Gail Goepfert, GeeGee Anton, Irfanulla Shariff, Itala Langmar, James Aguilar, Jarrett Steffen, Jasminum McMullen, Jennifer Dotson, Jesus Randall, Joseph Kuhn Carey, Joseph Kuhn Carey, Katie Koten, Marcia Pradzinski, Margaret Dubay Mikus, Marianne Schaefer, Michael Schwartz, Nancy Heggem, Pam Borovich, Pam Larson, Rebecca Mullen, Rev. Rodney Reinhart, Roy Henry, Sharon F. Warner, Sheila A. Donovan, Stella Radulescu, T. W. Fuller, Tamara Tabel, Terri M. O'Hara, Tinamaria Penn, Tobin Fraley and more

Tags: Literary, American, 2013