Sure it's COLD, but all the more reason to spend some time in a cozy bookstore rubbing elbows with poets and ... books. Saturday, January 23 : Roger Bonaire-Agard & Kevin Coval Sunday, January 24 : Nick Demske & Michael Bernstein ...

Are poets synesthesiacs? I do know that “To taste the wine of speech” (as one poet put it) helps to describe our world in a way that illustrates the gray areas of experience—a memory is often collage. It’s a rinse cycle in the mind of every...

The poem does not lie to us. We lie under its law, alive in the glamour of this hour —John Wieners Do roses skipping in the Glass make great gifts, I mic Their contours, wipe innocence From the window, these milk Mansions. Arizona fuzz...

I had an opportunity to discuss new Chicago poetry at a recent conference with Garin Cycholl and Ray Bianchi as part of Bill Allegrezza's Series A poetry reading series at the Hyde Park Art Center. Click here to access the sound file. Frank O'Hara's...

Don’t Miss This Special Event at Columbia College, Chicago: Poetry and Music, a creATive TaLK Since Kenneth Rexroth first collaborated with jazz musicians (but then Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have collaborated with authors, as well) poetry and...