This coming week at AWP 2012 in Chicago, Omnidawn will be at tables D1 and D1 in the bookfair. All books are half price, accompanied by free gourmet chocolates from around the world!
Also, on Saturday, March 3rd, 1-2pm:
these poets will be signing their Omnidawn books at our tables:
Gillian Conoley, Forrest Gander, Christine Hume, Alice Jones, Paul Legault, Kelli Anne Noftle, Elizabeth Robinson, Zach Savich, Michelle Taransky, Tyrone Williams
Plus, a special AWP Event:
Lyn Hejinian will be an AWP Featured Presenter
Saturday, March 3rd, 8:30-10pm
Grand Ballroom, Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor:
The Academy of American Poets presents an event featuring two prestigious poets, Nikky Finney and Lyn Hejinian, who will be reading their own work.
And many of Omnidawn’s authors will be on panels & in readings at AWP. Click the “read more” link below for a full list.
Panels, listed in order by date/time:
(for more info: http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2012sched.php)
*Bin Ramke & Srikanth Reddy will be on
Chicago as Literary Birthplace
(Srikanth Reddy, Bin Ramke, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Ed Roberson, Lisa Fishman)
Wiliford A, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor
Thurs, March 1st, 10:30-11:45am
*Tyrone Williams will be on
Purloining the Letter: Using the Correspondence of Others
in Our Prose and Fiction
(Diane Simmons, Rachel Hall, Louise Steinman, Tyrone Williams, Douglas Dechow)
Lake Ontario, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor
Thurs, March 1st, 10:30-11:45am
*Gillian Conoley & Elizabeth Robinson will be on
The Vital Writing of Loss: Personal, Societal, Ecological
(Rusty Morrison, Gillian Conoley, Melissa Kwasny, Elizabeth Robinson, Brian Teare)
Empire Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, Lobby Level
Fri, March 2nd, 12-1:15pm
*Forrest Gander will be on
Poets House Presents Bei Dao
(Bei Dao, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright)
International Ballroom North, Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor
Fri, March 2nd, 1:30-2pm
*Elizabeth Robinson will be at
Quo Anima: Women, Spirit, and Poetic Innovation
(Jennifer Phelps, Laynie Browne, Andrew Schelling, Dan Beachy-Quick, Rusty Morrison)
Boulevard Room A,B,C, Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor
Fri, March 2nd, 9-10:15am
*Tyrone Williams will be on
Lorenzo Thomas’s Extraordinary Poetics
(Carla Harryman, Tyrone Williams, Aldon Nielson, Grant Jenkins)
Private Dining Room 2, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor
Sat, March 3rd, 9-10:15am
*Forrest Gander & Elizabeth Robinson will be on
The Unfolding Legacy of Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
(Elizabeth Robinson, Cole Swensen, Sasha Steensen, Forrest Gander, James Belflower)
Marquette, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor
Sat, March 3rd, 10:30-11:45am
*Forrest Gander will be at
Poets Honor W.S. Merwin’s Recent Work with Essay Collection–Launch Party
with Mark Irwin, Matthew Zapruder, and Others. A Reception Hosted by WordFarm
Private Dining Room 3, Hilton Chicago Hotel 3rd Floor
Sat, March 3rd, 7-8:15pm
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Readings, listed in order by date/time:
* Michelle Taransky will be in a reading
Time: Thursday, March 1st, 6-9pm
Place: The Empty Bottle 1035 N. Western Ave.Chicago, IL
*Christine Hume & Bin Ramke will be in a reading
Time: Friday, March 2nd, 7-9 p.m.
Place: The book lab, Sharpe 216, entrance at 37 South Wabash.
*Zach Savich will be in a reading
Time: Friday, March 2nd, 7-9pm
Place: Villain’s Bar and Grill, 649 S. Clark Avenue.
*Kelli Anne Noftle will be in a reading
Time: Friday, March 2nd, 10pm
Place: (rsvp for exact location by emailing: awpsbestreading@gmail.com)
*Paul Legault will be in a reading
Time: Saturday, March 3rd, 6-8pm
Place:
Upstairs at Buddy Guy’s Legends (just behind the conference hotel)
*Zach Savich will be in a reading
Time: Saturday, March 3rd, 6-8pm
Place: Columbia College Bld, 618 S. Michigan
*Michelle Taransky will be in a reading
Time: Saturday, March 3rd, 7:30-11:30pm
Place: OUTER SPACE Studio, 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642