John Tipton was the founder of the Chicago Poetry Project reading series in 2001. His first full-length collection, Surfaces, was published by Flood Editions in 2004; in 2008 Flood brought out his translation of the Ajax of Sophocles. Michael O’Leary is the co-editor of Flood Editions and founding editor of LVNG. He has published poems in magazines here and there. He lives with his family in Chicago and works as a structural engineer. He just got back from a Smiths … Read more

Join us for a celebration of the centenary of John Cage’s birth, where we will listen to sounds and be people, centered within ourselves where we actually are. The program features sound performances by Stephen Germana, Keven Kalay, Troy Schafer, The Speers, Ira Murfin and Emmy Bean. Devin King will deliver a Cage lecture, and Elizabeth Metzger Sampson and Eric VanDemark will debut their remote performance piece “Imaginary Thoughts of a Dedicatory Nature: A Mycological Consideration from the Woods to … Read more

Whit Griffin is the author of Pentateuch: The First Five Books (Skysill Press, 2010) and The Sixth Great Extinction (Skysill 2012).  Along with Andrew Hughes he co-edits the journal Bright Pink Mosquito.  He currently resides in western Tennessee.   Chuck Stebelton is author of The Platformist (The Cultural Society, 2012) and Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Recent print objects and chapbooks include Asterisk (Number 13, Fewer & Further Press), ‘Tis (John Riepenhoff Experience), A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press). He works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center, … Read more

(Nathaniel Tarn, owl) Nathaniel Tarn is a poet, translator (Neruda, Segalen, etc), essayist, editor (Cape Editions, Cape Goliard, etc) and anthropologist (Highland Maya; sociology of Buddhist Institutions, etc.) whose travels on seven continents and in every state of this Union have strongly influenced his poetry. He has some thirty five publications in these disciplines, among the most recent: Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (New Directions, 2008); Selected Poems:1950-2000 (Wesleyan, 2002); Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans & … Read more

Born in 1970, Devin Johnston spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is Traveler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); and two books of prose, including Creaturely and Other Essays (Turtle Point, 2009), reflections on the natural world. He works for Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri. William Fuller’s most recent book is Hallucination, published last year by Flood Editions. … Read more

THE FAUSTUS GROUP is a nomadic rec-center, currently based out of Los Angeles, CA. By offering a wide variety of discursive products (including but not limited to publications, lectures, public conversations, viewing and listening experiences, hot and cold lunches), an attempt is made to continue the transdisciplinary research into the poetics of ontological practice as initiated by the original Dr. Faustus, whose research was famously and tragically cut short by a dramatic act of Satanic martyrdom. SPECTRUMASSEMBLY is a presentation … Read more

In partnership with Art21 as part of its Access ’12 initiative, we’re presenting a sneak preview in advance of the premiere of the sixth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only prime time national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art: Episode 4: Balance Through sculpture, paintings, and installations, the artists in this hour grapple with equilibrium and disequilibrium as they create highly structured works that challenge conventional notions of perception and representation. Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold, and … Read more

Typically, Movie Night celebrates the best of the worst, and, sometimes, the worst of the best. But on occasion we’ll actually show something good, too. “Ransom Movies of the 1960s and 70s” is one of those times. Join us on March 23rd for a double feature featuring two of the finest ransom films ever made. As always, there will be viewing guides, trivia games, raffles and popcorn on hand. Bring your friends! Absolutely zero rubber-suited monsters in this month’s edition.

Join us for an evening of artist talks from artist Irina Botea and writer Marianne Apostolides. Over the past ten years Irina Botea has been engaged in an art practice that uses multiple media— digital video, film, video installation, performance, photography— to inspect the present socio-political dynamics and the possibility of their transformation. Her work combines reenactment strategies with auditions and elements of direct cinema and cinema verite to look into the role trauma, history, language, and music play in … Read more

Notice early start time. The event will begin at 5:30 Alberto Toscano teaches in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Fanaticism (2010) and The Theatre of Production (2006). He edits the Italian Series for Seagull Press and sits on the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism. His talk this evening will be entitled “Desiring Abstraction: The Place of Capital in post ’68 French Thought.” Presented by Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental … Read more