By Broken Starship Media
We Are Cosplay FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2015 at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
Posted on June 29, 2015
Local Book Notes: The Unforgettable Patients Of The Cook County ICU
Plus: The University Of Chicago Press Book That Caught The NSA’s Attention
Eagerly awaiting Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases, by Cory Franklin.
From Chicago Review Press:
An inside look at one of the nation’s most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin.
Readers will be riveted by stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from his 30-year career in medicine that spanned the 1970s through the 1990s, including some major moments in medical history like the AIDS epidemic and the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995.
Posted on June 26, 2015
Honoring The Courage And Heritage Of A Union Soldier
By The Pritzker Military Museum & Library
“The Pritzker Military Museum & Library will host a free public reception on Wednesday to officially launch its newest original work and to unveil an accompanying exhibit on the life and times of Civil War veteran and Valparaiso, Indiana, native Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath,” the museum says.
Good. Let’s start celebrating the glory, heritage and courage of the Union. Fuck the Confederacy. It’s time the North engaged the PR war.
Here’s more:
Posted on June 22, 2015
Discovering Katherine Mansfield
Newberry Library Cache Found
“Nearly 30 unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield have been discovered in a U.S. library, giving fresh insight into the writer’s most painful and difficult period, the evidence for which she had later destroyed,” the Guardian reports.
“Gerri Kimber, senior lecturer in English at the University of Northampton and chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society, made the discovery at Chicago’s Newberry Library in May this year. The collection’s significance had remained undetected until now because it was marked with a name similar to the New Zealand-born writer’s previously published poems.”
Posted on June 11, 2015
Please Welcome The Poet Laureate Of Los Angeles
By The Guild Literary Complex
The Guild Complex is honored to host author, publisher and activist Luis J. Rodriquez for a reading in Chicago on Saturday from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. at the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, 4048 W Armitage Ave. The event is open to the public, and an open mic will be part of the program. Admission is a $5 suggested donation.
Luis J. Rodriguez is a co-founder (in 1989) of the Guild Complex and was active in Chicago with poetry, gangs, prisons, the homeless and migrant communities for 15 years.
He now lives in Los Angeles where in 2014 Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed him the official Poet Laureate of the city.
Posted on June 9, 2015
The Young People’s Poet Laureate
By The Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation is honored to announce that Jacqueline Woodson has been named the Young People’s Poet Laureate.
Awarded every two years, the $25,000 laureate title is given to a living writer in recognition of a career devoted to writing exceptional poetry for young readers.
The laureate advises the Poetry Foundation on matters relating to young people’s literature and may engage in a variety of projects to help instill a lifelong love of poetry among the nation’s developing readers.
This laureateship aims to promote poetry to children and their families, teachers, and librarians over the course of its two-year tenure.
Posted on June 8, 2015