{"id":941,"date":"2023-06-05T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegreenat320southcanal.com\/event\/poetry-readings-open-mic-4\/2023-05-15\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:26:42","slug":"poetry-readings-open-mic-4","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/thegreenat320southcanal.com\/event\/poetry-readings-open-mic-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Readings & Open Mic"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The Chicago Poetry Center <\/a><\/span>and The<\/span> Green at 320 are proud to reintroduce this free, weekly reading and open mic series co-curated by Chicago Poetry Center’s Poets in Residence Tarnynon Onumonu and Timothy David Rey.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Join us on certain<\/span> Monday nights in June at 6:00 p.m. in this beautiful setting to hear outstanding featured poets perform their work in this partnership between Chicago Poetry Center<\/a> and ºÚÁÏÉç at 320 S. Canal. After every poetry performance, there will be an open mic for any individual that would like to share poetry of their own!<\/p>\r\n

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June 12: Nile Lansana<\/strong>\u00a0is an interdisciplinary artist from the South Side of Chicago. An acclaimed writer, poet, performer, and filmmaker, his work is centered around revealing radical truths and amplifying marginalized voices and narratives through a lens of Black imagination and visionary intention. He was a nominee for the inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate position. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with degrees in Journalism and English \u2013 Creative Writing, he won the 2021 Ronald Wallace Poetry Thesis Prize and 2020 George B. Hill Poetry Prize. His work is published in\u00a0American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop,<\/em>\u00a0& elsewhere. He holds fellowships from the Rebuild Foundation and Obsidian Foundation. He has performed across the country, including Lollapalooza and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He recently starred in the play \u201cNo Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks\u201d produced by Manual Cinema. He is a proud uncle and the oldest of four Black boys. You can follow him on Instagram at @nilesupasuit.<\/p>\r\n

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ABOUT THE CO-CURATORS: <\/strong>
Tarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu<\/strong> is an artist and licensed Paraprofessional born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago and is extremely proud of and humbled by her SouthSide citizenship and West African lineage. In 2017, she took second place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards and represented Chicago on the Lethal Poetry Team at the 2018 National Poetry Slam. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center since January of 2019 and has been featured in Newcity Magazine and South Side Weekly. Her \u201cDarker Girl Manifesto\u201d Broadside was on exhibition with the Center for Book Arts in the summer of 2021 and in April of 2022, she was commissioned by the environmental justice organization, the NRDC for National Poetry Month 2022. Her EP, \u201cBrown Liquor on a Slow Sip\u201d is available and streaming on all platforms as she compiles her first poetry collection.<\/p>\r\n

Timothy David Rey<\/strong> is a writer\/performer who works in poetry, plays, and monologue (both fictional and autobiographical). He teaches creative writing and performance throughout the city of Chicago and its suburbs. He is a 2015 Semi-Finalist for the Guild Literary Complex\u2019s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, and one of the winners of Project Exploration (The Poetry Center of Chicago 2004). He is the co-founder of the LBGT Solo Performance Showcase, Solo Homo (2002-2011). Timothy\u2019s plays and performance pieces have been seen and heard at venues throughout Chicago as well as out of state and in Panama. Timothy\u2019s writing has appeared in magazines and journals including \u201960 Inches From Center,\u2019 and \u2018After Hours: The Chicago Journal of Writing & Art.\u2019 \u2018His book of poetry and performance, Little Victories, was published in 2012 by NewTown Writers Press. Timothy has performed at Steppenwolf Theater (Lookout Series), New York City\u2019s International Fringe Festival as well as The Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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