About this Event
The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. Our October featured readers are Kenyatta Rogers and Marcy Rae Henry.
Each event takes place at Haymarket House and includes a brief open mic followed by two featured poets. Pre-registration is free and recommended. The open mic includes five readers drawn lottery-style from a hat that goes out at 7:15. The reading starts promptly at 7:30. Each open mic poet reads one poem or for three minutes, whichever comes first.
ABOUT THE FEATURES:
Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been awarded scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. He has also been nominated multiple times for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. His work has been previously published in Poetry Magazine, Jubilat, Vinyl, Bat City Review, The Volta, PANK, MAKE Magazine among others. Kenyatta is a Lead Teacher for the Poetry Foundations Teacher Institute and Chautauqua Institution’s Young Writer Institute. He is a co-host of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench and is the Creative Writing Department Head at the Chicago High School for the Arts.
Marcy Rae Henry is B.I.P.O.C., L+GBT, lover of OMD and suffers from PTSD. She is a multidisciplinary artista de Mexicana-Americana. Her writing has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nomination and first prize in Suburbia’s 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest. Writing and visual art appear in The Columbia Review, BathHouse Journal, PANK, The Southern Review, The William & Mary Review and The Worcester Review, among others. DoubleCross Press recently published her chapbook We Are Primary Colors. M.R. Henry is an associate editor for RHINO and a digital minimalist with no social media accounts.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: The mission of the Chicago Poetry Center is to connect people with poetry, equitably engage poets with communities, and foster creative literacy in the city and beyond. Learn more about our programs at www.poetrycenter.org.
ACCESSIBLITY: This event includes professional ASL interpretation. 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.
PARKING: Limited free and paid street parking is available near Haymarket House. The parking lot at Disney Magnet School is relatively close and is a paid lot; there are also locations nearby available through SpotHero.
Looking for the Workshop? Register here.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Haymarket House, 800 West Buena Avenue, Chicago, United States
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