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Events Wed Dec 01 2010
Vanessa Place and Jennifer Karmin @ Green Lantern Gallery
The Pilot Light reading series at Green Lantern Gallery brings together writers at varying stages of their career, each reading from their own work, then engaging in discussion. Tomorrow night's reading features Vanessa Place and Jennifer Karmin.
Vanessa Place is a writer, a lawyer who works with sex offenders, and co-director of
Les Figues Press. Place is the author of several books, including The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law. Kirkus Reviews says "...in richly allusive, frequently witty prose, [The Guilt Project] asks important questions about what it is exactly we want from our criminal laws. A sophisticated, brave look at a topic that too often provokes merely panic, prejudice and posturing." Poet Kenneth Goldsmith has called Statement of Facts, Place's book of conceptual poetry, "arguably the most challenging, complex and controversial literature being written today."
Jennifer Karmin co-curates the Red Rover Reading Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. She is the author of Aaaaaaaaaaalice, a book of poetry.
Green Lantern Gallery, 2542 Chicago Ave., Thursday, December 2 at 7:30pm.
