Tuesday, April 14, 2015

POETRY EVENTS - CHICAGO


 
PERFORMANCE

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Wednesday, April 15, 7:00PM
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free Admission
Honoring the poets World War I produced and those whose lives it snuffed out, Northwestern University theater students, led by Linda Gates, present the work of familiar writers, such as Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, and Isaac Rosenberg, along with those less well-known, including Eleanor Farjeon, Muriel Stuart, and the nearly forgotten African American poets who served and died in the war.
 
 
PERFORMANCE

The Breakbeat Poets

Thursday, April 16, 7:00PM
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free Admission
Join editors Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, and Quraysh Ali Lansana to celebrate the release of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, the first anthology of its kind.

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