Join DePaul professor and Poetry East editor Richard Jones for the Fifth Wednesday Journal release party at the Book Cellar on Thursday, November 20, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
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As the kids on South Park used to say, “You know, I learned something today.” On November 13 and 14, 2014, freelancers and publishers gathered for Content Connections Chicago at Columbia College Film Row. Also present: a few DePaul student volunteers who were able to attend the conference for free, thanks to Professor Rebecca Johns-Trissler. I only made it to Thursday’s programs but came away feeling energized and excited. Chicago’s a teeming hub of conferences and professional organizations, and I’ll definitely be on the lookout for them in the future. My Top Three Takeaways from ConCon 2014 1) As… Read Article →
Call for Proposals and Participation Metaphors We Teach By NIU’s 51st Allerton English Articulation Conference April 15 –16, 2015 Allerton Park and Retreat Center Monticello, Illinois Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2015 Applicants email a title and one-paragraph abstract of their panel or individual presentation proposal to AllertonConference@niu.edu. Those accepted will be notified by March 1. See Northern Illinois University’s 51st annual Allerton English Articulation Conference website for more information.
Join Native American poet Mark Turcotte, a visiting assistant professor in DePaul’s English department since 2009, for his upcoming in-state readings on November 13 and November 20. The November 13 reading takes place at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Can’t make the trek to our illustrious state capital? The November 20 reading will be closer to home, at Loyola University. See the fliers below for more information.
Write what you know, the old adage goes. But what about writing what you don’t know? How can writers expand their knowledge? The basics Who: Ami Polonsky and Crystal Chan What: Writing the “Tween-age Other” When: Tuesday, November 11, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Where: Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, 60201 RSVP: Email Crystal (chancm16@gmail.com). Event details Grayson Sender, the protagonist of Ami Polonsky’s middle-grade novel Gracefully Grayson, has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: “he” is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender’s body. In Crystal Chan’s novel Bird, 12-year-old Jewel comes from the only mixed-race family… Read Article →
Join Emily Gray Tedrowe—a visiting assistant professor in DePaul’s English department—at Sunday Salon Chicago on Sunday, November 23, at 7 p.m. The free literary reading series takes place at Riverview Tavern (1958 West Roscoe Street). Suzanne Clores, James Finn Garner, and Sharon Solwitz will also be reading at this month’s installment of Sunday Salon Chicago.
Tuesday, November 18, 7 p.m. Poetry Foundation61 West Superior Street Free Admission The Poetry Foundation‘s Open Door reading series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each one-hour event features readings by two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. November’s Open Door Reading features Lewis University’s Simone Muench and her student C. Russell Price, along with Northwestern University’s Reginald Gibbons and his student Christine Pacyk.
A Live-Lit How-To: Breaking Into Live Lit in Chicago (And Doing it Well!) The Chicago Writers Conference workshop meets Thursday, November 6, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at 826CHI. Buy tickets for the workshop here. About the Instructor Mare Swallow is the founder of the Chicago Writers Conference and a nonfiction writer. She has hosted, curated, and performed at readings all over Chicago, including Write Club, Story Club, Story Lab, This Much is True, Tuesday Funk, First Time, Pecha-Kucha, and Is This a Thing. Mare is also a public speaking coach, and uses… Read Article →
Join Georgetown’s Daniel Shore for “Prosthetic Formalism in the Digital Archive,” a lecture and workshop on digital methods for historical literary analysis. Professor Shore studies the literature of the Renaissance, with a special focus on the works of John Milton. He is the author of Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Shore is currently at work on a second book project, Cyberformalism (under contract with Johns Hopkins), which explores how searchable digital archives like Google Books, EEBO, and ECCO allow us to study the history of linguistic forms.
The Chicago Humanities Festival, in partnership with the Baskes Family and the History of Science Society, is offering a graduate student seminar with Peter Galison on Sunday, November 9. Professor Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics and Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University. Graduate students interested in participating in the seminar should email the following to Ian Blechschmidt at ian@chicagohumanities.org by Monday, November 3: Name School and Department Area(s) of research Question/topic they would like to discuss with Professor Galison during the seminar For more information, see the Baskes Lecture flyer.
The Word’s Worth Committee at Illinois State University seeks paper proposals from graduate students for the ISU Word’s Worth Conference. The 2015 conference theme is transgressions. The conference will take place on Friday, April 17, 2015. Students may submit their proposals through this online form by Thursday, January 15, 2015. For more information, check out the official call for proposals.