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VRZHU Press interviews Kathleen Rooney and Elisa Gabbert.


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Series A is held at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago at 5020 S.
Cornell (easy to get to from Metra or the #6) at 7:00.

Sarah Rosenthal is the author of three chapbooks: How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000), and not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Bird Dog, Milk, Xcp (Cross Cultural Poetics), can we have our ball back, 14 Hills, Tripwire, Shampoo, Tin Lustre Mobile, Mirage/Period/(ical), Tinfish, and Bombay Gin, and her work has been anthologized in hinge: A BOAS Anthology (Crack Press, 2002), the Faux Press Bay Area Anthology (Faux Press, 2005), and The Other Side of the Postcard (City Lights, 2005). Her interviews with Bay Area poets have appeared or are forthcoming in Aufgabe, Jacket, How2, Rain Taxi, and Xantippe.

Kristy Bowen is the author of the fever almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006) as well as several chapbook projects, including...

Photography by Switchback Design Editor Cathy Nieciecki will be on display at the WithInsight Spring 2008 show! 

Chicago Photography Center, 3301 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL. The show opens Sunday, May 18th, 12-4 PM, and will run through August 2008.

Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson
The Widow Party
Links Hall
Friday & Saturday, May 9 & 10, 8pm
Sunday, May 11, 7pm
$12 ($10 students)

The Widow Party is collaboratively written and performed melodrama, Wild West show, political thriller, pageant, and farce. With song, dance, projections, sound effects, and mimicry of preposterous acts, visions and revisions of characters, media, genres and events will change, interrupt, and harmonize with each other. 

Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson are the co-founders and co-editors of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web-quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. They are both published authors. 

Collaborators: Patrick Durgin teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the editor of two collections by the performance and proto-language poet Hannah Weiner. Jennifer Karmin co-curates the Red Rover Series and is a founder of the public art group Anti...