POETRY event - CHICAGO

READING Curbside Splendor Publishing with Erika T. Wurth, W. Todd Kaneko, & Dasha Kelly Tuesday, October 13, 7:00 PM Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street Free admission Curbside Splendor authors Erika T. Wurth (Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend), W. Todd Kaneko (The Dead Wrestler Elegies), and Dasha Kelly (Almost Crimson) read from their works at this program introduced by Jacob S. Knabb, Curbside Splendor Publishing senior editor.   READING Poetry off the Shelf: Paul Muldoon Wednesday, October 14, 7:00 PM Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street Free admission Paul Muldoon’s latest collection is One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015). He is the author of numerous other books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. He is the current poetry editor at the New Yorker.   READING Poetry off the Shelf: Joyce Carol Oates Friday, October 16, 7:00 PM Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street Free admission Joyce Carol Oates visits the Poetry Foundation for the first time to read her poetry. The author of many books, Oates has penned best-selling novels, critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, essays, plays, poetry, the unlikely bestseller On Boxing (1987), and a new memoir about her childhood, The Lost Landscape (2015).     CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION Open House Chicago Saturday & Sunday, October 17 & 18, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street Free admission The Poetry Foundation celebrates Open House Chicago, an annual festival weekend that provides an opportunity for people to explore Chicago’s rich architecture, culture, and history by visiting featured sites and neighborhoods in an open-ended format that encourages self-guided exploration.