Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor
http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html
Curator: Larry Sawyer
THIS SUNDAY AT MYOPIC BOOKS
Sunday, June 7 – James Kennedy, A.D. Jameson & Jeremy Davies
James KENNEDY is the author of THE ORDER OF ODD-FISH (Random House / Delacorte Press 2008), a fantastical YA comedy that was one of the Smithsonian’s Notable Books for Children 2008. Booklist praised ODD-FISH as “hilarious . . . readers with a finely tuned sense of the absurd are going to adore the Technicolor ride” and Time Out Chicago described it as “a work of mischievous imagination and outrageous invention.” He also plays bass in the Chicago art-punk band Brilliant Pebbles, which has been described variously as “melodramatic video game music,” “moon-man opera,” and “gypsy sex metal.” He lives in Humboldt Park in Chicago.
A. D. JAMESON is a writer, performer, and video artist. Over the past four years he’s written two novels and two short story collections, at least one of which will hopefully someday see print. His fiction has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, The Mississippi Review Online, elimae, Lamination Colony, and various other journals. He teaches at DePaul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jeremy DAVIES was born in Brooklyn. He is an editor at Dalkey Archive Press in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. This year, Counterpath Press published his first novel, ROSE ALLEY, about which Harry Mathews said, “you have no excuse not to read this book,” and which has been described as “A hilarious, utterly original, totally self-conscious tale” by Nicholas Birns, and “[F]unny, sexy, and relentlessly brainy,” by THE FRONT TABLE.
UPCOMING
Sunday, June 14 – Judith Goldman & John Beer
Sunday, June 28 – Poet’s Talk: Tim Yu on Race and the Avant-Garde – Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965
Sunday, July 26 – Farrah Field & Jared White
Sunday, August 23 – Carrie Etter & Special Guest
Sunday, October 4 – Chicago Calling w/Dan Godston (additional readers TBA)
http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html
Myopic Books — 17 years of innovative poetry in Chicago!