4833 rph — Event Calendar for September 2006

TalkingPoint continues!

Join us for our continuing conversation planned by artists for artists. This month’s discussion features Jeff Carter, sculptor and DePaul Professor. His work deals with the effects of globalization, but more specifically with regards to the present day travel experience, the exotic, and communicating across language barriers. Come down for the conversation!

series A continues with Raymond Bianchi and Jimmy Wynn Ensemble.

Raymond L Bianchi lived for most of the 1990’s in Latin America in Brazil and Bolivia. A native of suburban Chicago and the child of Italian Immigrants, he worked in international publishing since 1996. His poetry has appeared or is upcoming in Antennae, Near South, Tin Lustre Mobile, 26, Moria, Red River Review, Sentence, Bird Dog, Literatura e Cultura and his essays have appeared in the Economist and the Financial Times. He is the section editor of the fall 2006 issue of Aufgabe, which includes a translation section of contemporary Brazilian poetry that he translated. His book book Circular Descent was published by Blaze Vox Press in 2004, and a chapbook, The American Master, was published by Moria Books in 2006. He is the publisher of Cracked Slab Books in Chicago and edits the website chicagopostmodernpoetry.com.