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Warning:
The First Friday Show may , Occasionally be on the second Friday.
Don't be confused, just check back here for updates 
7:30-9:30
St Paul’s Cultural Center
2215 W North Avenue
The W4tB Gang Presents
Matt Barton, Brian Norton, Dave Gecic, & Jasmine Neosh
for this show only, you are encouraged to wear your pajamas
2+ blocks west of the Damen Blue Line stop
Street parking available
Beer, wine, soft drinks available @ cool-low prices
Free Admission
Looky what we did!!!!!!
Voted by The Chicago Underground Library as the publication most likely to Save the World
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, 901 W.
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.
Feb. 15th
Tom Roby and the Poetry Wheel
Cafe Ballou
939 N. Western
7:30-10pm
The Return of Waiting 4 the Bus
Hosted by Buddha 309 and a whole slew of Jamokes
THEY’RE BAAAACK!
On March 29th
Cafe Ballou
939 N. Western
7:30-10pm
W4tB presents:The Extra Monday Showsome months have 5 Mondays.
We're only used to 4.
What do you do with an extra Monday?
You come out to the Cafe Ballou to see
The W4tB players in a production of Esteban Colon's Edgar Avenue.
March
15-Laura
April
5-Jenene
Ravesloot
19-Wendy
Brown-Baez
May
3-Dena
Pope
17-Tom
Curry
June
7-Gemini
Love
21-Pamela
Miller
July
5-surprise
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-LaRaie
Zimm
