Name: Blue Hour w/ Kush Thompson and Monica Rico
Start: 2024-11-21T19:30:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-21T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Haymarket House

$Blue Hour w\/ Kush Thompson and Monica Rico$

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free, public monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop.
Each event includes a brief lottery-style open mic and two featured readers from Chicago and beyond, preceded by a limited-space generative writing workshop.
EVENT DETAILS FOR NOVEMBER 21:
Workshop (registration required) begins promptly at 6 p.m., ends at 7 p.m.
Doors open and open mic lottery registration starts at 7 p.m. -- the open mic begins promptly at 7:30, followed by our amazing featured readers.
Reading registration is free; the workshop is sliding scale with a suggested donation of $10.
Register for the workshop here (required, and sells out quickly):
https://BHnov2024workshop.eventbrite.com
And RSVP for the reading here (recommended):
https://BHNov2024.eventbrite.com
View the livestream here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBaCxEkr5bVbPLfcmhcQIow
NOVEMBER FEATURES:
Monica Rico is Mexican American and the author of "PINION," winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry selected by Kaveh Akbar. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan’s HZWP and is the Program Manager Bear River Writers’ Conference. She has published poems in The Atlantic, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, The Slowdown, Ecotone, The Nation, Gastronomica, and The Missouri Review. Follow her at www.monicaricopoet.com.
Kush Thompson is the author of "A Church Beneath the Bulldozer" (2014) and creator of the pink-haired Blk Hottie portraiture series. Kush Thompson is a Chicago-born poet, painter, educator, and fellow of Luminarts, Pink Door, and Cave Canem. Voted runner-up Best Local Poet of 2014 by Chicago Reader, she creates archival art; centering often on girlhood and the mechanics of memory. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Chicago Reader, and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015).
Accessibility:
Professional ASL interpretation is provided for the open mic and featured reading portion of the event. Haymarket House is fully ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible. Please let us know if you have any specific accessibility questions; if you use a wheelchair, please contact [email protected] to coordinate use of the ramp.