Dancing Girl press presents an evening of poetryWednesday, January 18th, 7:00 PMFREE
 
Join us for readings by three authors published in the dancing girl press chapbook series. w/ brief signing afterwards. Featuring:
 
Carol V. Davis\’ poems have won awards and appeared in journals and anthologies in many countries, including Ireland, Israel, Australia and Sweden. Her poetry has been featured on NPR and on Radio Russia. She is the author of two books of poetry: Letters From Prague and It\’s Time to Talk About. A Fulbright scholar in St. Petersburg in 1996 and 2005, she teaches at Santa Monica College, CA.
 
Marissa Spalding is an MFA in Poetry at Columbia College.
 
K.R. Copeland is a frequently published Chicago poet/digital photographer. Her written work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Stirring, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Sidereality, Cranky, Triplopia, Wicked Alice and Swivel. Her photos have made it into Lily, Rock Salt Plum, LitPot, and Ken*Again. K.R. is also one of two judges for the ongoing Beginnings Magazine poetry competitions.
 
For info about dancing girl press:
www.angelfire.com/poetry/dancinggirlpress

Signing for 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style by Matt Madden
Saturday, December 3rd, 7 PM
FREE
Matt Madden?s Exercises in Style is a series of engrossing one-page comics that tell the same story in a variety of ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau?s 1947 work of the same title, a mainstay of creative writing courses that The New York Times Book Review called ?truly original? upon its initial publication, Madden?s project demonstrates the expansive range of possibilities available to all storytellers. The project developed a cult following from its inception in 1998, and in early 2004, Madden launched www.EXERCISESINSTYLE.com, a site showcasing the project, finding a broad audience and immediate critical attention and praise. The website was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
 
99 WAYS TO TELL A STORY is a collection of the complete ?Exercises in Style? project, illustrating all 99 different graphic approaches to telling the same story. Readers are taken on an enlightening tour?sometimes surprising, always amusing?through the world of the story.
 
For the event Matt Madden will be signing 99 Ways to Tell a Story.
 
Matt Madden started self-publishing minicomics in the early 1990s. He published his first graphic novel, Black Candy in 1998, and in 2001 published Odds Off. Madden lives in Brooklyn with his wife, author and cartoonist Jessica Abel. He works in comics and illustration, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University. His latest works appear in A Fine Mess, his bi-annual series published by Alternative Comics.
 
Check out:
www.mattmadden.com
www.exercisesinstyle.com
 

Friday November 18th 7PM
Kevin Coval Book Release, reading, signing for the book of poems, Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica, published by EM Press (www.em-press.com)
 
KEVIN COVAL has performed on four continents in seven countries at universities, high schools, and conferences, including; The Parliament of the World?s Religions in Capetown, South Africa, The African Hip-Hop Festival: Battle Cry, Poetry Society of London, Yale, Stanford, St. Xavier?s in Bombay, India and four seasons of Russell Simmons HBO Def Poetry Jam, for which he also serves as an artistic consultant.
 
Coval?s writing has appeared in The Spoken Word Revolution (Source Books), Awakening The Spirit (Skylight Paths), XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reporter, Cross Currents, Crab Orchard Review, Garland Court Review, The Daily Herald, The Courier News, Fly Paper, seen on C-Span and can be heard regularly on WBEZ?s 848 on Chicago Public Radio.
 
Co-founder of The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival: Louder Than A Bomb, Coval is the Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors and a Co-Producer of The Hip-Hop Theater Festival- Chicago.