POETRY ALUMNI:SEND NEWS

The English Department at Columbia College Chicago is preparing its annual newsletter, Ampersand, and we want to brag about you!

If you’d like to be included in the alumni section of the newsletter, please send updates featuring publications, awards, professional pursuits, continuing education, exhibits, or anything you would like the Columbia College community and its affiliates to know about you. Also, be sure to include your current mailing address and we’ll send you a copy of the completed newsletter.

Updates should be sent to Nicole Wilson at nwilson@colum.edu.

The deadline for entries is Monday, February 15^th. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to include any entries received after February 15^th, but you can always post your latest news on this blog.

Thanks!

FOLDED & MIRRENED

Congratulations to Kristen Orser (MFA '08) & Andrew Terhune (MFA '09) who have new chapbooks out from Greying Ghost Press.

You'll be delighted by what you find in these two books. Order them, read them, pass them to friends, ask for them back, and read them again!

Better yet, tell your friends to buy their own copies.


Go here to read a review written by Adam Fieled of Kristen's chapbook.


Write on!

MAD CONGRATS!

DOLLY LEMKE's poem "I never went to that movie at 12:45" was selected for publication in Best American Poetry 2010 by Amy Gerstler. The poem was originally published in Columbia Poetry Review 22.


CONGRATULATIONS DOLLY!!!!



(Check out more of Dolly's work in the fall 2009 issue of Wicked Alice.)

The winter issue of Arsenic Lobster has arrived:
http://arseniclobster.mager.com/

With new poetry from CCC grad Kenyatta Rogers!
And many more...

Go read some poetry!
Susan Yount, Editor & Publisher
Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal

ROCKBOX POETRY JAM
Poetry's Once Monthly Late Night Home

Featured Readers include: John-Franklin Dandridge, Matt Anderson, and a mystery third!

Open Mic to follow

Monday, December 7th, 2009
2624 N Lincoln Avenue
9:30 PM - 4 AM
$3 Drafts, $4 Jameson shots

The Rockbox Poetry Jam is the brainchild of Subterranean's Narciso Lobo and Columbia College's Joe Bly. This reading series and open mic were designed to incorporate the poetry of past and present in an informal conversational setting. We ask our features and open mic poets to indulge us in their own work along with the works that give them inspiration. This "return to sender" style of reading keeps us grounded in the resounding enjoyment of all poetry and enlightens us with the forthcoming work of our peers. Please join us for drinks, music, and convivial discussion!

Love,

Joe and The Rockbox

Mad Girls' Love Songs

If you have access to Project Muse, you can read the article on Sylvia Plath and teenage girls -- "Mad Girls’ Love Songs: Two Women Poets—a Professor and Graduate Student—Discuss Sylvia Plath, Angst, and the Poetics of Female Adolescence" -- that (Poetry faculty member) Arielle Greenberg and I (MFA '07) wrote.

If you don't have access and want to read it, email me! beccavista[at]yahoo[dot]com

Here's the abstract:

The legacy of Sylvia Plath’s poetry and the received notion of the teenage girl writer wallowing in self-pity are discussed in terms of their significance to adolescent female readers and their ramifications for girlhood culture at large. Plath’s legacy endures in part because of the recognition that a fluctuation in moods and personas is often the experience of young women, of writers, of those who struggle with depression or anxiety (and the overlap between these populations), and also because of Plath’s ability to craft the fever of her emotions into poems that rely on bold and rich figurative language. This essay uses memoir, a survey of Plath’s popular and critical reception, and a close reading of Plath poems that take on more adolescent concerns and themes, then concludes by looking at contemporary women poets whose aesthetics, attitudes and themes are relevant to contemporary teenage girl readers.

Columbia College Chicago

brings you a special event
in conjunction w/

Elbowing off the Stage:

A Reading Featuring

Columbia College Chicago

POETRY FACULTY:

Jenny Boully, Sandra Lim, James Shea,

Tony Trigilio & David Trinidad

*Thank you to MFA Poetry Students Hafizah Geter

& Dolly Lemke for curating this reading!*

Monday, October 12th 7:00 p.m.
Three Peas Art Lounge

75 E 16th St.

(312) 624-9414

A Few Blocks away from the Roosevelt Orange/Green/Red CTA Lines

SAVE THE DATE: Monday, November 16th, 7p.m., Elbowing off the Stage returns to Manhattan's!