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Charlie Newman's
Poetry Word of Mouth
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The Poetry Pentathlon Sept. 3
events:
Villanelle
Rant
Rewrite a very bad poem (provided)
a poetry prompt (provided)
registration deadline is July 31st
Materials will be provided by Aug 10th
All poems for competition should be submitted to judges before the event begins.Click Here
The Omniphonic Challenge
a battle of the poetry bands
if you mix poetry and music together you qualify to compete in the battle of the Poetry Bands called the Omniphonic Challenge.
The Audience decides the winner
This competition in an excuse to explore the art form of nailing poetry and music together.
All interested competitors should contact waiting4bus@gmail.com
registration deadline is Aug 31st
Warning:
The First Friday Show may , Occasionally be on the second Friday.
Don't be confused, just check back here for updates
2+ blocks west of the Damen Blue Line stop
Street parking available
Beer, wine, soft drinks available @ cool-low prices
Free Admission
Voted by The Chicago Underground Library as the publication most likely to Save the World
DEREK ANNIS
STEVE SCHILLING
ZACHARY KLUCKMAN
SARAH CARSON
P.A. LEVY
RICHARD FEIN
KRISTIN LA TOUR
WILLIAM DORESKI
CHARLIE NEWMAN
MIKE BERGER
JOSEPH GOOSEY
REBECCA JAMES
NOEL SLADOBA
CHANGMING YUAN
SID YIDDISH
Buddha309 (aka David Hargarten)
Buddha309 is not a real person at all…he’s a laboratory experiment gone
awry, a crazy quilt of deeply held philosophies, hyperbole, white lies, and
anything recorded at 45 rpm since Chuck Berry. He no longer engages in
conversations that try to figure out the definition of Jazz, Punk, or Poetry.
David Hargarten is a real person and, under the name Buddha 309, hosts an open
mic/reading series called “Waiting 4 the Bus.” W4tB takes place on the
first and third Monday’s of the month at Café Ballou,
Esteban
Colon is a poetry animal. Every moment of everyday feeds his brain with
new and wonderful wordplay, expressions of emotions and skewed views of the
Universe. He is the Creator of the Chicago Poetry Bomb (a random act of
guerilla poetry), and with Buddha 309 and Matt Barton, He is one of the
founders of the Waiting 4 the Bus poetry collective, an organization dedicated
to that gray area where page meets stage and genre is irrelevant.
Currently he is the Content Editor of the Exact Change Only literary journal, a biannual poetry periodical published by
Exact Change Press.
With Waiting 4 the Bus, he co-hosts the Open mic at the Bus Stop and the Classic First Friday Poetry Series. He is also a member of the
Poetry/Music combos Thunder
Rain Infatuation
and the
Bromantics.
Matt
Barton is am a wordy misfit
obsessed with the simple beauty of life’s grand spectacle revealed in the naked
truth of its minutia. In any medium, he strives to reveal that beauty with an
honest, unabashed, no holds barred form of grammar, where images speak for themselves
and are free to express their own precocious, unrestrained notions. ..
He, with David Hargarten and Esteban Colon, formed the loose poetry collective
called Waiting 4 the Bus. Matt also
serves as the Art Director of the Exact
Change Only Poetry Journal.
July
19-Bob
Rashkow
Aug
2-Gregg
Shapiro
16-Bob
Gibbons
Sept
6-no
show
20-Bob
Lawrence
Oct
4-Chicago
Calling
18-
Chris Gallinari
Nov
1-Newman
15-John
Amen
Dec
6-Scott
DeKatch
20-
