…here in Chicago hosted its 74th experiment last night at Outer Space Studios in Wicker Park, co-hosted, as ever, by the inimitable Jen Karmin & Laura Goldstein, seen here kicking off the proceedings with a collaborative reading…
The theme of the night was Intercutting Present with Past, and everyone’s take on that idea was excellent. Sara Tracey read first, both from her book Some Kind of Shelter and then from new work dealing with her family’s complicated history…
…followed by me reading from The Kind of Beauty that Has Nowhere to Go and then from new work about the poet and ad copywriter Margaret Fishback… 
…followed by Carrie Olivia Adams reading from her forthcoming book from Noctuary Press and new work about her family’s ill-fated Christmas tree farm interspersed with the diary of Sophia Tolstoy…
…and last but not least Megan Kaminski, in town all the way from Lawrence, KS, reading from her neo-pastoral manuscript:
Thanks to Jen and Laura for hosting and for providing a welcoming space for new work and old, and to everyone who came out to hear poetry on a windy April night.