Blue Hour Featuring Elizabeth Strauss Friedman & Faisal Mohyuddin
@ Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Wednesday, February 19th, at 7:30PM
The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free monthly in-person reading series and generative writing workshop at Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena. Our February featured readers are Elizabeth Strauss Friedman & Faisal Mohyuddin.
The Blue Hour reading includes a brief open mic followed by two featured poets from Chicago and beyond. 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.
The name comes from a line by Chicago poet Li-Young Lee, from a section of “The City in Which I Love You”: I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page, a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being.
EVENT DETAILS FOR FEBRUARY 19:
Workshop (registration required) begins promptly at 6 p.m., ends at 7 p.m.
Open mic sign-up begins at 7:15.
Reading (registration recommended but not required) begins at 7:30, followed by community gathering time.
Reading registration is free; the workshop is a sliding scale with a suggested donation of $10.
Register for the workshop here.
Get your free ticket for the reading here.
Livestream is available here.
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