Red Rover Reading Series

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading]

Experiment #126:
El Camino Poético / A Walking Poem
celebrating Latinx Heritage + Indigenous Peoples

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8th at 4pm
outdoor reading in Pilsen
**rain or shine event**

4pm event starts at Pilsen Community Books
meet at 1102 West 18th Street, mask inside please
4:30pm we'll read poems outside while walking

Featuring:
Flor Flores
Stevie Cisneros Hanley
Natasha Mijares
Aleah Vega
& guest curator Marcy Rae Henry

Surprise Guests:
YOU + YOU + YOU
your participation is welcome
bring 1 poem to share
(3 minutes or less)

FLOR FLORES, a transdisciplinary artist, and poet, delves into q***r belongings through their works. Themes include flowers as self (Flores), a q***r monarch butterfly named Kiki, and a poem about the letter "X". Recently exhibited at Everybody & Good Naked Gallery, they look forward to publishing "Kiki: A Sky of Changing Lights" this Fall. https://www.flor-ale.com/

STEVIE CISNEROS HANLEY has been anchored in Chicago for 11yrs where they work as an artist, curator, educator, and member of the Bargaining Committee of the newly unionized School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have exhibited extensively, nationally and globally, by producing and distributing cultural exchange in unexpected ways and places, from s*x clubs to churches. As a multiracial person of Mexican (Zacatecas), Irish, indigenous Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli), and Punjabi ancestry, they have learned that a part can still be whole. Hanley is Co-Chair of the 2023 Terrain Biennial and are currently exhibiting in NO BIOS, for Visual AIDS in New York City.

NATASHA MIJARES is an artist, writer, curator, and educator. She received her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at various international and national galleries. Her work has appeared in Gravity of the Thing, Hypertext Review, Calamity, Vinyl Poetry, and more.

ALEAH VEGA is a Northwestern University student from Southside Chicago. Aleah is 21 years old and currently studying creative writing and videography. She loves plants, scary movies, her city, y mariscos. In her free time, Aleah enjoys singing, dancing, and spending time with her loved ones, especially her cat, Whitesox. As a writer, Aleah is inspired by authors like Bell Hooks, Daisy Hernandez and Audre Lorde. Through her writing, Aleah aims for the destigmatization of many topics, including trauma healing, addiction and disability, and also enjoys exploring her latinidad and the ways in which it affects her way of life.

MARCY RAE HENRY has had motorcycle accidents in Colorado, Nepal and just outside Istanbul. She is: Latina/x/e, L+GBT and a fan of OMD. Her writing has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nomination, first prize in Suburbia’s 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest and it will be included in the Best New Poets of 2023 anthology. Other writing and visual art appear in The Columbia Review, carte blanche, PANK, The Southern Review, William and Mary Review and The Brooklyn Review, among others. DoubleCross Press just published her chapbook We Are Primary Colors.
marcyraehenry.com

Upcoming Event
*Sunday, November 5th:
Matthew Klane, Warren Longmire, S. Yarberry + more
6pm at Tritriangle, 1550 N. Milwaukee Avenue

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 SERIES
{readings that play with reading}

FALL 2023
Chicago, IL

*SEPTEMBER 24:
Virtual Book Launch for 100 Thousand Poets for Change
"10+ Years of Poetic Activism: A Collective Memory"

Event will be live streamed 1-3pm:
https://www.facebook.com/events/202968835886462
https://www.youtube.com/

A new anthology with a Red Rover collaboration:
Nicole Bond, Joel Craig, Cean Gamalinda, Noa Michaela Fields, Laaura Goldstein, Marcy Rae Henry, Nathan Hoks, Jennifer Karmin, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Tarnynon Onumonu, Timothy David Rey & Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

*OCTOBER 8:
Walking Poem in Pilsen
4pm event starts at Pilsen Community Books
Meet at 1102 W. 18th Street for outdoor reading
With guest curator Marcy Rae Henry
Your participation is welcome so bring 1 poem to share!

*NOVEMBER 5:
Matthew Klane, Warren Longmire, S. Yarberry + more
6pm at Tritriangle, 1550 N. Milwaukee Avenue

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.

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This Tuesday evening, join Chicago Poetry Center for @ The Green at 320, an inaugural partnership between the Chicago Poetry Center and The Park at 320 S. Canal, featuring and Red Rover Reading Series curator Jennifer Karmin followed by an open mic!

Jennifer Karmin’s multidisciplinary work has transpired at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe. Widely published, her books include the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice and The Sexual Organs of the IRS co-authored with Bernadette Mayer. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and has been a Visiting Writer at Naropa University, Oberlin College, California Institute of the Arts, plus a myriad of sites. Since 2005, she has curated the Red Rover Series and led ensembles of poets improvising together. She is a proud union steward and founder of a housing cooperative.