[New-Poetry] CHICAGO POETS READ FROM The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century

[editor at eratiopostmodernpoetry.com]

CHICAGO POETS READ FROM The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New 
Century

Cracked Slab Books is pleased to announce a reading by poets of its new 
anthology, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, on October 
20th at 7:00 p.m. at 3617 W Belle Plaine Ave. (Gethsemane Evangelical 
Church—yes, in the church).

The readers will include:

Nick Twemlow – Robyn Schiff – Johanny Vázquez Paz – Joel Felix – Peter 
O'Leary – Garin Cycholl – Chris Glomski – Simone Muench – Cynthia Bond – 
Kristy Odelius – Lina Vitkauskas – Larry Sawyer – William Allegrezza – Jorge 
Sanchez – Tony Trigilio – Jennifer Karmin – Ray Bianchi – Kerri Sonnenberg – 
Eric Elshtain

Admission:  $5 (or $15 dollars if you want a copy of the anthology—its retail 
value is $22.95)

 
For more information, contact editor at crackedslabbooks.com or call 312
-342-7337.   For the book, see crackedslabbooks.com or visit amazon.com.

 
About The City Visible:

Edited by Ray Bianchi and William Allegrezza, this anthology brings together a 
sampling of some of the best poets working in Chicago and the surrounding 
region. From all corners of the city, these poets are crafting a voice for 
Chicago literature in the new century.

The book contains work from the following poets:

Jennifer Scappettone * Suzanne Buffam * Srikanth Reddy * Robyn Schiff * Nick 
Twemlow * John Tipton * Eric Elshtain * David Pavelich * Peter O'Leary * 
William Fuller * Michael O'Leary * Mark Tardi * Erica Bernheim * Michael 
Antonucci * Chris Glomski * Garin Cycholl * Luis Urrea * Kristy Odelius * Lina 
Ramona Vitkauskas * Simone Muench * Lea Graham * Ed Roberson * Arielle 
Greenberg * Tony Trigilio * Shin Yu Pai * Dan Beachy-Quick * Maxine Chernoff 
* Kerri Sonnenberg * Jesse Seldess * Paul Hoover * Michelle Taransky * Robert 
Archambeau * Bill Marsh * Larry Sawyer * Cecilia Pinto * Johanny Vázquez Paz 
* Ela Kotkowska * Jorge Sanchez * Joel Craig * Daniel Borzutzky * Joel Felix * 
Raymond Bianchi * Cynthia Bond * William Allegrezza * Jennifer Karmin * Tim 
Yu * Laura Sims * Roberto Harrison * Brenda Cárdenas * Stacy Szymaszek * 
Chuck Stebelton * Jordan Stempleman.

Praise for the Anthology:

When Carl Sandburg asked in his Chicago Poems, close to a hundred years 
ago, for "a voice to speak to me in the day end, / A hand to touch me in the 
dark room / Breaking the long loneliness," little did he know his city would be 
so fully and livingly answered and so honored. Chicago is again transformed 
by poetry. Here in these myriad acts of imagination, the poets of The City 
Visible give to it again, in Shakespeare's terms, :a local habitation and a 
name."

Peter Gizzi

The most exciting and satisfying anthology I've acquired in the past month is 
The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century . . . It not only is easily 
the best anthology I've ever seen that tried to capture the lively scene of the 
Second City, but it's a worthy companion to Stephanie Young's Bay Poetics, 
which for my money is the gold standard in contemporary poetry anthologies, 
especially ones that offer a regional focus.

Ron Silliman


For Bill Allegrezza, posted by Gregory St. Thomasino