About:
The Chicago Poetry Project was founded in 2001 by poet John Tipton in hopes of creating a reading series focused on literary poetry in the city that was not affiliated with one of the universities, to be held at a time and place easily accessible to its potential audience. The first reading, held in September 2001, featured William Fuller and Devin Johnston, and took place in the Chicago Authors Room at the Harold Washington Library. Since then, the Chicago Poetry Project has sponsored three-to-four readings each season, inviting over two dozen poets to give readings, taking place on Saturday afternoons at the Harold Washington Library.
Currently, a new series is being held at the Green Lantern Gallery on the third Tuesday of every month.
Contact:
Boardmembers of CPP are: John Tipton, John Beer, Jen Scappettone, & Peter O’Leary.
E-mail: main@chicagopoetryproject.org
Website: http://www.chicagopoetryproject.org
Location: Chicago, IL
Hi
I am a New York City poet and a founding editor of uphhokpfess .
Our focus is to establish a community of poets accross the country who enjoy
Reading and performing their poetry both on stage as well as it surviving the page.
Our latest collection stretches across ones imagination.
Taking you on an emotional journey both with images
Pleasing and ones you’ll have a hard time forgetting..
Still you’ll laugh cry wake up with words that will keep the poem alive in your thoughts..
Please check out our website, it will give a dates of our tour.
We are looking to bring some of our contributors to Chicago.
And I am hoping you’ll think about letting us do a reading
With the poetry project
I also can be reached at 917-6179949
Thanks
Look forward to hearing from
Best
Ice
Tour Guides debuted at the Viaduct Theater July 18-20, 2008.
Now with continued support from The Woods Fund of Chicago, the Incubator is set to reconvene. Full production of Tour Guides, with new cast and new Chicago stories, December 2010 at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts.
For tickets / info. go to:
…guildcomplex.org
Tour Guides asks the question, “What is Chicago?” The variety of answers includes landmark neighborhood locations like Harold’s Chicken and Moo & Oink. (It’s about so much more than the Sears Tower and the John Hancock for Chicago natives.) The poets will take you on the CTA, on tours of their neighborhoods, through the tastes and smells of Chicago food – this is an eating town – and into the heart of how those of us who live here nestle next to and grate against those around us.
The Poetry Performance Incubator is a pilot project of the Guild Complex that has been percolating for the last five years. Though Chicago has a strong tradition of performance poetry, few poets have the developed sense of stage craft that actors have. Even fewer have worked in an ensemble setting. The Incubator pushes at the intersection of poetry and theater with the aim of creating a truly hybrid form. Poets and actors auditioned for the Incubator with the criteria of learning the theater or developing their writing, whichever was the less familiar for them, which included writing work for others as well as themselves and staging the work through an ensemble process.
It should be noted that Tour Guides is performed by the group of poets who collaboratively wrote the piece. Jon Cofield,Kimberly Dixon, Steven Evans, Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez, Sage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard,Carron Little, and Sandra Posadas(La PiXie) have developed their hybrid craft under the guidance of award-winning director Dr. Coya Paz.
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