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Bookmarks Fri Apr 08 2011
Bookmarks
- The finalists for the 2011 National Magazine Awards (the Ellies) have been announced. And Chicago's own Poetry magazine is nominated for General Excellence, Print in Literary, Political and Professional Magazines.
- In other Poetry Foundation news: The Poetry Foundation + HBO = A Child's Garden of Poetry, and Poetry Off the Shelf has poets inspire musicians on April 16.
- Favorite Poem Project at Selected Works Used Books and Sheet Music.
- National Poetry Month Reading at Center on Halsted.
- Poet Nikky Finney at Women and Children First.
- Red Rover Reading Series: A Tribute to Akilah Oliver at Outer Space Studio.
- Literacy Volunteers of Illinois 20th Annual Tutor and Adult Learner Conference at UIC.
- The 21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Conference for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University.
- Amber Benson signs Serpent's Storms at Challengers Comics + Conversation.
- Lawrence P. Jackson presents The Indignant Generation: A Narrative of African-American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 at What The Traveler Saw, at Afri-Ware in Oak Park. and at the Chicago Public Library, Woodson Regional branch.
- Oakton Community College history professor Wendy Sarti discusses Women and Nazis: Perpetrators of Genocide and Other Crimes During Hitler's Regime,1933-1945 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center; free with museum admission.
- Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues) presents I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World at the International House, University of Chicago.