The Open Door Readings: March
61 West Superior Street
Free Admission
The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. March's Open Door Reading presents University of Illinois at Chicago's Andrea Witzke Slot and her student Eric McClure along with Columbia College's David Trinidad and his student Katherine Goldstein.
Andrea Witzke Slot is author of the poetry collection To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press 2012), and her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as Southeast Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has been a runner-up, honorable mention, and finalist in several writing awards, including Southeast Review’s Gearhart Poetry Prize and Black Lawrence Press’s Hudson Award for her second poetry collection.
Eric McClure was the winner of the Paul Carroll award for outstanding achievement in creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has appeared in Prairie Margins, The Rusty Nail, and Shot Glass Journal. His poems have also been featured on the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry’s blog.
David Trinidad’s most recent books are Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011) and Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (2013), both published by Turtle Point Press. His other books include The Late Show, Plasticville, and By Myself (written with D.A. Powell). He is also the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos. Trinidad currently lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Columbia College.
Katherine Goldstein is a second year MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where she is also an editor of the Columbia Poetry Review and a graduate student instructor of Writing and Rhetoric. Originally from Miami, Florida, she received her BA in Creative Writing from Colorado College in 2013.
The Poetry Foundation Library will be holding special extended hours from 4–7 PM in addition to its regular hours of 11 AM– 4 PM. Please stop by to browse the collection of 30,000 poetry titles, chapbooks, and current literary journals before the reading.