Monday, December 30, 2013

Susan Trowbridge Adams Featured Reader at Tavern of Fine Arts on Monday, December 30


Susan Trowbridge Adams will be one of three featured readers at the •chance operations• reading at the Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, on Monday, December 30.

Also featured will be Ben Moeller-Gaa and Paul Ortiz-Baca.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; admission is FREE.

Open-mic will follow the featured readers.

Susan Trowbridge Adams moved to Saint Louis two years ago because she’s impulsive when she’s in love, and has been fortunate to meet many socially conscious, creative, and talented people, some of whom have offered her paid work.

She likes rare steak, black dirt, Patti Smith, looking at urban wildlife in the yard, and sleeping with the window open.

Locally, Susan has featured at various venues around St. Louis including Poems, Prose, & Pints, Spiritual Jazz Meets PoJazz, and Jazz & Poetry in the Galleries," at the Missouri History Museum.

She has just finished recording her debut album, Strength, with music direction by her personal dude in the house Ted Moniak, whom she met at a theatrical audition in 1980.

Nativity

The kid is frightened, and so very sad. It makes her
rude when she means to be efficient.
Her Daddy wants everything his own way
and if she doesn't act the way he likes
she can't even hug her baby brothers goodnight.
She loves them so much.

The kid is angry, she's feeling too raw
to be gracious in her Mother's house. She hugs
uncomplicated historyless affection
in a crowd of like-minded strangers;
joins their good work that does not ring in her ears
as choosing sides
or giving in, or giving up,
only giving.

The kid wants to smile but all she's got when she gets in the door
is a self full
of grieving and dilemmas and tired.
She would rather not be horrible.
It's just, she's got all this misery
and she can't help sharing.

The kid loves holidays, she loves traditions,
but right now it's all awkward.
The fierce auntie sleeps in her room,
Mama's not taking any more mess from Daddy
who turned around and won't talk to her oldest little brother;
big sister isn't a girl anymore
which just does not sit with her church,
and no one in this house seems to remember
the words to all the carols this year.

The kid spends her evenings on the phone
with her greek sisters and her mission friends.
The rest of us, we are all smelly
of expectations and conflict and the kind of need
you don't volunteer for:
You just do it. It's family. And the kid
really does not want to. She wants to
feel good about herself, but she's too young yet
to find the lines and walk them.

The kid tries every evening to be okay,
to make no waves, to get along
without getting with the program.
She whispers alone to mother.
She insults her brother.
She holds her oldest friends
and gets Fierce Auntie to share a movie.
Then someone went and made ham for dinner.
The kid does not eat red meat.

The kid has a quiet cloud of all wrong
smothering her heart and the fun of her.
She can't make it rain, she can't make it sun,
she's walking through the joint silent after supper
like a spiritual Pigpen
kicking up her own private dust.
She wants to feel grateful, and she only feels
twisted and needy.

But late, late and alone
she pads down to the living room
and maybe she's raining finally after all;
She orders all the animals awe-filled around the crèche
and in the morning
there is her Baby Jesus
glowing in the center,
with all the love she had left to give.

-- Susan Adams
(April 11 2011. All rights reserved.)

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Ben Moeller-Gaa Featured Reader at Tavern of Fine Arts on Monday, December 30


Ben Moeller-Gaa will be one of three featured readers at the •chance operations• reading at the Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, on Monday, December 30.

Also featured will be Susan Trowbridge Adams and Paul Ortiz-Baca.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; admission is FREE.

Open-mic will follow the featured readers.

Ben Moeller-Gaa is a haiku poet whose work has appeared in over 25 journals worldwide including Modern Haiku, Frogpond, and The Heron's Nest as well as several anthologies including Haiku 21 and the Red Moon Press's annual Best Of English Language Haiku for 2011 and 2012. He has two forthcoming haiku chapbooks, Wasp Shadows (Folded Word Press) and Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (STLProjects).

sudden storm

losing power

in the argument

(Courtesy of  Never Ending Story; originally published in Kernals 1, 2013.)


reunion dinner

saying hello

to old habits

{Courtesy of Tiny Words 13.3, November 2013

 

Friday, November 15, 2013

Henry Goldkamp Featured Reader at the Tavern of Fine Arts on Monday, November 25


Henry Goldkamp will be one of three featured readers at the •chance operations• reading at the Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, on Monday, November 25.

Also featured will be Amy K. Genova and Julia Gordon-Bramer.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; admission is FREE.

Open-mic will follow the featured readers.

Born and raised in Saint Louis, Henry Goldkamp translated his skills as a union sheet metal worker into the medium of sculpture while simultaneously molding his craft as a self-taught poet. The latter led to the development of his poetry project, Fresh Poetry, Ink, in which he fashions poems tailor-made for passersby. His work has led him to collaborations with Contemporary Art Museum, fort gondo, KDHX, The Mayor’s Office of Saint Louis, Clayton Fine Art Gallery, The Masses, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Crystal Bridges, and many others.

Featured on NPR, Time’s art blog, and a multitude of local media, his recent project “What the Hell is Saint Louis Thinking?” spotlights residents’ typewritten stories across the city and her outskirts. The book of the project’s findings is due out 2014.

He is also currently running the Poetree Project, a city-wide participatory poetry project culminating with an installation of poems in Forest Park, Saturday, December 14th.
Mallory Poem
It is just
Me & Her
in a large new warehouse
with high ceilings
surrounded by mediocre portraits.
“It’s been so long
since I’ve felt so strange,” I say.
It echoes back
in the different voice of nonage
so I am unaware of its truth.
The sinews of flesh and synapse of thought
need not recite themselves:
To remember the poem
I need only see her again.
Is she so foolish to believe
a single traipse
of thought of another of another time
I’ll leave her?
I only love her
because of the drive
as I sit in the passenger seat
& the dashboard never informs me
that I am not wearing a seatbelt.
Her heart and snaggletooth
fidget with something harmful,
like a children’s matching game
of felones-de-se and stark bodies.
Each time I think of her
I trace her body with a certain type of chalk.
-- Henry Goldkamp


Amy K. Genova Featured Reader at Tavern of Fine Arts on Monday, November 25



Amy K. Genova will be one of three featured readers at the •chance operations• reading at Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, on Monday, November 25.

Also featured will be Julia Gordon-Bramer and Henry Goldkamp.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; admission is FREE.

Amy K. Genova teaches composition at St. Louis Community College.  She has been published in in the American Poetry Review, REAL, Bad Shoe, Tipton Poetry Journal, Maize, Homestead Review, the Caprock Sun, and many others. This is her third year in St. Louis.  She'd rather be where there are palm trees, but toasted raviolis are good.  
Becoming light
This time I decide not to count laps but swim until tired.It’s hard letting go: 2-4-6 … A gnomon-like shadow
slipsover the outdoor pool. Rings un-number themselves
offmy hands, five fingers squeezed like paddles clapping
water. But, then, that’s counting: tic, tic, tic. Anxietyand sun clock my shoulder rosy. Will I swim enough?Refocus on drain. Its clog of leaves. Cracks. Rust curvingalgae down the pool belly. Lane dividers—red and blue.Perhaps, I’ll just count 400 IMs, neat lengths of 4x4s.Would that be so bad? My sleek heart beat beat beatswithout breath of comma in-betweens, despite symmetry—left breath, no breath, right breath. Three beats. Undermy 90 degree elbow, freestyles the tree-glisten and sky.One perfect hole in the clouds, God’s no-more-counting,flip-turning. Just a good shove off the side into this glass

slipperof warm shallow into cool deep.  A red-hatted
lifeguard, perches above my lane. Does he note my stroke?
Think I need saving?Two swimmers come  &   go.      Am I tired?
             Invisible—
             Invisible—Turning, honeysuckle tickles my nose. A cloud-bit of radioraces after me. A thousand white leaves wade in sun.  My father rises again from water. Glasses, speckledwith splash.
My heart dolphins. Pop-static sings from the radio,

makes me feel like … I’m locked out of heaven. When numbers end:
light, cirrus strands, a boy in red trunks. A Doppler of dad in the pool

when I’m five …  This uncountable swim—
-- Amy K. Genova

Julia Gordon-Bramer Featured Reader at Tavern of Fine Arts on Monday, November 25


Julia Gordon-Bramer will be one of three featured readers at the •chance operations• reading at the Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, on Monday, November 25.

Also featured will be Amy K. Genova and Henry Goldkamp.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; admission is FREE.

Julia Gordon-Bramer is readying her book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath for its release in the spring with Stephen F. Austin State University Press. If you'd like to be on her email list for more information, please flag her down, or write her at wordgirl @ nighttimes.com. When the Plath work slows down she intends to try to publish some more poetry. She was most recently voted St. Louis' Best Local Poet by the Riverfront Times.
Highway Walk
Maybe I was a little bit
high, but it made sense
then: the comforting
smooth slick of glittering
orange-yellow paint beneath
bare feet, the double
lines the width of my stride.
That fat black expanse of lanes
stretching and long         into the dark,     and me,
there, equidistant. Ten p.m.
Cars lit my way from ahead, from behind.
My soles protected from the gravel, glass,
metal bottle caps of the edge,
from the summer sticky heat and burning
blackness of tar, from the dark
reedy grasses breeding bleeding mosquitoes and murderers, unseen.
Horns honked, cars swerved, people said,
“Man, she’s tripped out!” and through
rolled down windows flicked lit cigarette butts.
Fourteen. This was how I walked, looking
down at my dirty toes, looking for somewhere
to go. The night swallowed everything in
asphalt, but my clear direction: not right
not left, not North, South, East or West.
I wasn’t anywhere. I was
just being
safe in the center of it all. 
-- Julia Gordon-Bramer
Note: "Highway Walk" won honorable mention in the St. Louis Writer's Guild 2011 contest.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Catherine Rankovic Featured Reader at Tavern of Fine Arts Monday, September 30


Catherine Rankovic will be one of three featured readers at the debut •chance operations• reading at Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, on Monday, September 30.

Also featured will be Matt Freeman and Eileen G'Sell.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; admission is FREE.

Catherine Rankovic says, 

Formerly a full-time newspaper reporter and magazine editor, I taught creative writing at Washington University from 1989 to 2010, currently teach in the online MFA program at Lindenwood University, and developed a following as an independent book and manuscript editor. 


I've written and published five books, including Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis (PenUltimate, 2010), nominated for a President's Award from the Missouri Writers Guild, and have worked with large and small publishers and Kindle Direct ebook publishing. Awards include the Missouri Biennial Award, an Academy of American Poets award, first place in the 2009 Midwest Writers Center poetry competition and first place in the 2010 St. Louis Poetry Center competition.

I have been honored to be a judge for many literary contests. My poems and essays have appeared in Boulevard,Gulf CoastThe Iowa ReviewThe Missouri ReviewRiver StyxDelmarUCity Review, Umbrella, many newspapers and magazines, and several anthologies including Flood Stage (Walrus Publishing, 2010) and Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak About Health Care in America (PenUltimate, 2008).

You Weren't There


You weren’t there when I killed ’em in Vegas
with my “open the door Richard damn you or kiss
my white booty” routine. You were – I dunno – drinking
Boone’s Farm Strawberry with some easy nonthinking
airhead underage blonde while I was up for
the Grammy for best comedy record of the year,

nineteen-seventy-nine, I believe, and only Richard 
Pryor had released a better album: Was It Something I Said?
In nineteen-eighty I recorded a underground hit 
with Marianne Faithfull; that’s me on the drum kit,
you didn’t know? My mentor Ringo, I call him Rich,
taught me at Apple and told me what a bitch

Paul laying down the drum tracks on Let It Be
had been. I engineered his cover of “Act Naturally”
and produced it, and where were you, dickhead,
when at twenty-three I was already a celebrated
ghostwriter for Norman Mailer, and had a cameo
in a Woody Allen movie; you didn’t see it, I know,

too busy tripping on Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum
with fellow burnouts, dousing your buzzard breath with gum
so your parents wouldn’t kick your pitiful natural rear.
While I was toasted as the Little Richard of literature
and modeling Guess, you, fool, were choking your chick-
en, and when I was in a limo refusing to partner with Mick,

because I was busy buying stocks with MacArthur 
grants, and reviving Keith Richards with a fire extinguisher
every other day in palaces and Learjets,
your TV showed you me, through your haze of pot and Cheezits,
and now through a haze of video games and Internet porn 
you send an E-card with regards and regrets. Get born,
                                                                               jackass.

-- Catherine Rankovic

Eileen G'Sell Featured Reader at Tavern of Fine Arts on Monday, September 30


Eileen G'Sell will be one of three featured readers at the debut •chance operations• reading at Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, on Monday, September 30.


Also featured will be Matt Freeman and Catherine Rankovic.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; admission is FREE.


Open-mic will follow the featured readers.


Eileen G'Sell teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and is cofounder of The Hinge, an art gallery and event space. Recent and forthcoming work can be found in ConduitNinth Letter, and the Boston Review.  She is the winner of the American Literary Review's 2012 prize for poetry, and her chapbook will be available through Dancing Girl Press in spring 2013.

I Love You Like a Good Game of Skee-Ball
First of all, I never said that.
Second, if I drove a stick
I sure didn’t do it for Jesus.

The manuscripts are warm and the salary
depressing. Behind the stars are blue
and bold, hearts we steer toward bluer skies.

No one knows the speed of joy, and no one
speaks of sinking. I lived the way
a sailor lives, and I’ve seen swallows

starve. For I smell of love
and Suavitel, for I love the way
the sailor loves. For every second

past, a silver captain listens. If this
is the gift, and this, the giver,
then this is the sea you were meant

to receive. This is the rain
you were meant to forget,
this, the star that will not forsake you.

My handmade hypotheses are legions
on, yet no one speaks of drowning.
If I have drowned, then let it be

with you, for you, and fallen birds.
First of all, I never said
that it wasn’t something worth saying.

You were the game
I was meant to lose. But the game
was sweet, and soft, my friend,

and my hand still warm from the weight of it.
-- Eileen G'Sell
Thanks to Ink Node.

Matt Freeman Featured Reader at Tavern of Fine Arts, Monday, September 30


Matt Freeman will be one of three featured readers at the debut •chance operations• reading at Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, on Monday, September 30.

Also featured will be Eileen G'Sell and Catherine Rankovic.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; admission is FREE.

Open-mic will follow the featured readers.

Matthew Freeman woke up to find himself a poet while a still lovelorn teenager in Dogtown, St. Louis. After an irregular journey he found himself back at St. Louis University, where he was twice given the Montesi Award for his poems. His fourth collection, The Boulevard of Broken Discourse, was recently published by Coffeetown Press. Matt teaches at Adapt Missouri, and is proud to be in the MFA program at University of Missouri St. Louis.
I Know What Girls Know
I had to become the ugly friend—
I owed that much to the universe—

and I was desperate for the phone to ring,
and I dreamt all night after an accidental
breast grazed against my elbow in the
crowded lobby of Powell Hall.

I was hated by hipsters for wearing
my frumpy SLU shirt; I was ridiculed
by hippies for trying to remain chirpy
when I was freaking out; I was hunted
by hoosiers for recognizing how bored
and unhappy their wives were.

When I met Lesbia she touched me first;
she took my hand off the steering wheel
and put it on her inner thigh; I thought I’d die.
And when she asked about my model friend
I knew I had to bring this ship to shore --
it was easy, I just pretended
I didn’t really like her anymore.
-- Matt Freeman

•chance operations• Moves to Tavern of Fine Arts, Monday, September 30


The debut •chance operations• reading at Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Avenue, will be Monday, September 30. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Featured readers will be Matthew Freeman, Eileen G'Sell, and Catherine Rankovic.

Open-mic will follow the featured readers.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Final Poetry Reading at Duff's on Monday, June 24


Broadside designed and printed by the Firecracker Press.

The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Buzz Spector, Ann Haubrich, Ken Brown, Phil Gounis, douglis beck, Will Kyle, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Susan SpitFire Lively, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, D. Katz, Michael Sullivan, Dwight Bitikofer, and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”
From the West End Word:
Duffy said the •chance operations• poetry event is a perfect way to close the restaurant, since Duff's has been hosting poetry readings since the place opened in 1972.
"That's a fitting end," she said.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Tim Gravlin at April Reading


Tim Gravlin was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."

The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”

Marcel Toussaint at April Reading


Marcel Toussaint was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."

The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”

Debbie Pearce and Nick Turner at April Reading



Debbie Pearce and Nick Turner were two of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."


The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”

Monday, June 17, 2013

Stephanie Marie at April Reading



Stephanie Marie was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."


The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”


Thursday, June 13, 2013

Rae Cailliach at April Reading


Rae Cailliach was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."


The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Will Kyle at April Reading


Will Kyle was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."

The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”

Tony Renner at April Reading


Tony Renner was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."

The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Steven Schroeder at April Reading


Steven Schroeder was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."

The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”

Jennifer Goldring at April Reading


Jennifer Goldring was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."

The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”

Chris Parr at April Reading



Chris Parr was one of twelve readers on April 29th as •chance operations• celebrated our third anniversary, National Poetry Month, and the publication of "Poems For Your Pocket 2013."

The final poetry reading at Duff's will be Monday, June 24. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE.

Confirmed readers include Ken Brown, douglis beck, Richard Newman, Amy Genova, Elly Herget, Erin Wiles, Robert Nazarene, Joseph Sullier, Jim McGowin, Dwight Bitikofer and Marcel Toussaint. More readers to be announced.

Musical guest: Raven Wolf.


Duff's is located at 392 N. Euclid in the Central West End.

"Reflections on Duff’s Restaurant, Scheduled to Shutter at the End of June"  by George Mahe
After 41 years in business, current owners Karen Duffy and Tim Kirby have decided to close the landmark restaurant at 392 N. Euclid, an address that in earlier days, according to longtime customer and SLM dining critic Ann Lemons Pollack, was, besides Balaban's, “the place to be in that part of town.”
From its inception, Duff’s was as involved with being a good community citizen as it was with feeding members of the community. Frequent customer Charlie Downs recalls that “Monday night was poetry night," and in that regard “Duff's was way ahead of its time.”