(note exception – this is a THIRD Sunday)
COME AND TRY OUT YOUR NEW WORK ON US!
Evanston Public Library
Church & Orrington
1:30-4:30 — Room 108
Past leaders and readers and all poets welcome. Drop in, have poems critiqued, and participate in an ongoing discussion of poetry and poetics. Sessions are free* and no registration is required.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a non-profit dedicated to the publication of literary work in hybrid genres. Her first collection, Oneiromance (an epithalamion) won the 2007 Gatewood Prize from feminist publisher Switchback Books, and her collaborative collection That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (co-written with Elisa Gabbert) was published by Otoliths in 2008. Also with Gabbert, she is the co-author of the chapbooks Something Really Wonderful (Dancing Girl Press, 2007) and Don’t ever stay the same; keep changing (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2009). Her latest chapbook, After Robinson Has Gone, has just been released by Greying Ghost Press. She blogs at www.kathleenrooney.com and teaches at DePaul University.
Topic: The Fantastic Mongrel: Experiments in Prose Poetry
Prose poetry is far more than just verse without line breaks. Borrowing from a variety of forms and genres, including questionnaires, how to books, converÂsations, dream narratives, and art installations like those of Joseph Cornell, these little blocks, patches, scraps, chunks, fragments—whatever you want to call them—are tiny boxes that can contain big things. We will consider various strategies for composing prose poetry, as well as the ways in which experimentation with the prose poem form can bring innovation to writing of all lengths and genres.
Bring 18 – 20 copies of a poem (2 page limit) you want critiqued.*$5 – $10 donation appreciated.
This project has been partially supported by grants from Poets & Writers and the Illinois Arts Council.
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