Bridge & the Readings Archive Announces Next Installment in the Open Readings Series Produced in Partnership with Open Books Pilsen

Mark your calendars! The next edition of the new Bridge Open Readings series and Open Mic will take place at the Open Books Pilsen @openbookspilsen store, 905 W. 19th St. on Saturday, May 27th from 2-4pm. We are grateful to welcome an incredible lineup of readers including novelist, poet and University of Chicago Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts Rachel DeWoskin @racheldewoskin; SAIC Visual and Critical Studies Emeritus, novelist, and Guggenheim fellow Maud Lavin @lavinmaud, and artist, writer, curator, and educator Natasha Mijares @natmija. Hosted by Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman @michaelworkman1.

Readings from 2-3pm; walk-in readers welcome from 3-4pm. Readings and open mics will be recorded and archived at bridge-chicago.org.

Rachel DeWoskin is the author of absolute animal: poems (The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2023); Two Menus: Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 2020); Banshee (Dottir Press, 2019); Someday We Will Fly (Penguin, 2019); Blind (Penguin, 2014); Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011); Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press, 2009); and Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005). She is on the core Creative Writing Faculty at the University of Chicago, and affiliated faculty in the Centers for East Asian Studies and Jewish Studies. 

A Pushcart nominee, Maud Lavin has published recently in JAKE, Heimat Review, Red Ogre Review, and Roi Faineant, and earlier in the Nation, Harper's Bazaar, and elsewhere. One of her books, CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE, was named a New York Times Notable Book. A Guggenheim Fellow, she lives in Chicago where she edits, writes, and runs the READINGS series at Printers Row Wine.

Natasha Mijares is an artist, writer, curator, and educator. She received her MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at MECA International Art Fair in Puerto Rico, The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, TCC Chicago, and Locust Projects. She has been published in Container, Vinyl Poetry, The Gravity of the Thing, and Hypertext Magazine.

Hosted by Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman. Readings start at 2, and the open mic after. For the open mic portion, please plan on reading no more than 10-15 minutes, max. All readings will be archived and available for streaming at the Bridge website in the readings archive.

Readings from 2-3pm; walk-in readers welcome from 3-4pm