Name: Chicago Poetry Center's Blue Hour w/Maggie Queeney & Brittany Rogers
Start: 2023-08-16T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-08-16T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Haymarket House

Chicago Poetry Center's Blue Hour w/Maggie Queeney & Brittany Rogers

Chicago Poetry Center

Chicago Poetry Center presents the Blue Hour reading series featuring Maggie Queeney & Brittany Rogers -- plus the open mic!

Haymarket House

The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop. Our August featured readers are Maggie Queeney and Brittany Rogers.Each event takes place at <a href="https://www.haymarkethouse.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Haymarket House </a>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: Maggie Queeney is a writer, artist, and educator. She lives and works in Chicago, where she was born. She is the author of In Kind, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, forthcoming in 2023, and settler (Tupelo Press). She is recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Ruth Stone Scholarship, and two IAP Grants from the City of Chicago. Her poems, stories, and hybrid works have been published widely. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Brittany Rogers is a poet, mother, educator, and native Detroiter. She has work published or forthcoming in Mississippi Review, The Metro Times, The Offing, Obsidian: Literature &amp; Arts in the African Diaspora, and Oprah Daily. Her work has been anthologized in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic and Best of the Net. Brittany is a fellow of VONA, The Watering Hole, Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door Writing Retreat. She is Editor-in-Chief for Muzzle Magazine and co-host of Poetry Foundation’s VS Podcast.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 <a href="https://www.poetrycenter.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.poetrycenter.org</a>. 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 curator@poetrycenter.org to coordinate use of the ramp. PARKING: Limited free and paid street parking is available near Haymarket House. The parking lot at <a href="https://www.parkme.com/lot/119834/walt-disney-magnet-school-chicago-il" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Disney Magnet School</a> is relatively close and is a paid lot; there are also locations nearby available through SpotHero.NOTE!!! There is a Cubs home game on August 16, so please check traffic and allow for extra travel time.

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