NEWS: Bridge Participates in Chicago Poetry Month at Harold Washington Library

Written By Michael Workman

NEWS

Bridge Participates in Chicago Poetry Month Celebration at Harold Washington Library

Join Bridge and the Chicago Public Library in a daylong celebration of poetry. Bridge will be tabling with the other poetry publishers. The schedule of events is as follows:

Poetry Fest Events

Saturday, April 29th - Harold Washington Library

9:30am - Poetry Vendors Area Opens:

James Gordan - Independent Publisher

Bridge Art NFP

After Hours Press

Free Spirit Media

Columbia College

Poetry Center

10am - Poems While You Wait (Lobby Activity)

10am - Haiku Fest with Regina Harris

10am - Song of Myself Poetry Display

11am - Business of Poetry Panel with Mariah Scott, Eros The Prince of Poetry & Jennifer Brown-Banks

11am - Writing the Everyday with Mina Kahn

11:30 - Poetry Book Tasting with Jeff

12pm - Gwendolyn Brooks' "Blacks" Workshop with Tara Betts

12pm - After Hours Press Reading

1pm - Poetry and Social Justice Panel with David Masciotra, avery r. young, H. Melt & Janine Harrison

1pm - 40 Love Poems Workshop

1pm - Rengay Poetry Workshop with Poets and Patrons

2pm - Chicago Poet Laureate Keynote Address

3pm - 24th Annual Poetry Fest Open Mic with Caroline Watson

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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