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The Fare box: Attention all riders

Warning:

The First Friday Show may , Occasionally be on the second Friday.

Don't be confused, just check back here for updates

Friday, March 12
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
Donation Requested


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Charlie Newman
Nina Corwin
Erika Mikkalo
Donna Vorreyer
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Brent Mesick
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What is Waiting 4 the Bus?

Waiting 4 the Bus is a poetry collective.  It's a workshop. It's writers talking to writers about writing. It's the creator and publisher of the journal "Exact Change Only" (coming soon)

What is a poetry collective?
A poetry collective is a collaboration of like-minded poets. This collaboration may not actually exist for the creation of poetic art (this can be done by members separately or together.) In my head the collective exists for the distribution, marketing, performance, and execution of the poetic art form. It's a loose structure, a community of equals.

What is the purpose of this site?
We are about Poetry.  Aside from the shameless self-promotion,  this site is about Poetry in Chicago.  Of course will keep you up to date on all things W4tB but we'll also have some book reviews and interviews.  We will also keep you up to date on the progress of our journal "Exact Change Only".  We are new to all this stuff, so be patient with us.  We have big dreams and big goals.  We have chosen to share those with all of you.  We like poetry and hopefully, if you're looking at this, you like poetry too.  If your looking for a place to perform your work, or slam, or just listen, perhaps we can point you in the right direction.  We like our show at W4tB, but we aren't greedy.  We are all Chicago Poetry.

The innovators who Dreamed up W4tB

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.
Jackson from 7:30-10pm..  He, with Matt Barton and Esteban Colon, formed the loose poetry collective called Waiting 4 the Bus.  Most recently, David launched Exact Change Press and released the poetry journal called Exact Change Only.

 

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 Show
some 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.

Esteban Colon’s Edgar Avenue is a gloriously intense magnification of the so-often layered complexities of human relationships. His carefully chosen spotlight of words paints the outline of characters whose thoughts and observations allow the audience to create its own unique avenue of players.


-- DENA POPE

Edgar Avenue is a multi-voice poem cycle written by one of W4tB's founders.  Esteban Colon explores the depth of interpersonal communication through the exploitation of  the secrets we keep and the things we think but dare not say.




March

15-Laura Dixon

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

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