The Poetry Salon at City Lit Books
Schedule
Wed, 19 Feb, 2025 at 06:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647-2655, United States | Chicago, IL
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Join us for the February installment of The Poetry Salon at City Lit Books in the heart of Logan Square. The open mic is open to all poets and sign-up begins at 6:15 and readings begin at 6:30. The feature poets this month are Rebecca Lehmann and Ruben Quesada. Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections The Sweating Sickness, Ringer, and Between the Crackups. Her writing has been featured in The American Poetry Review, NPR's The Slowdown, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day and other venues. She lives in northern Indiana, where she teaches creative writing at Saint Mary's College.
Ruben Quesada is a poet, translator, and editor. He edited the award-winning anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry. His writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Believer, Harvard Review, Kirkus Reviews and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Santa Fe Art Institute, City of Chicago, the Jentel Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He teaches in the low residency MFA in programs at Antioch University-Los Angeles and Cedar Crest College. His new collection of poetry Brutal Companion won the Barrow Street Editors Prize in Poetry.
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2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647-2655, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
