The Dollhouse Reading Series

07/22/2016

Hope to see you tomorrow for a non-Dollhouse event at The Dollhouse w/some familiar faces! BYOB, free, and bring your friends!

06/09/2016

Our final reader on Saturday is The Dollhouse's own King of Cardigans, Tyler Cain Lacy! Please join us for a fantastic evening! BYOB, free!

Our final reader at The Dollhouse #50 is a personal DH fav, Tyler Cain Lacy! Tyler lives in Chicago. He is the author of the chapbook Reus (Press Board Press, 2014) and is a Luminarts Creative Writing...

06/08/2016

Abigail Zimmer is bringing her gorgeous poems to The Dollhouse this Saturday, and we're super psyched to celebrate her forthcoming collection, GIRLS THEIR TONGUES.

Abigail Zimmer will be gracing us with her poems this Saturday at The Dollhouse #50! Abigail is the author of girls their tongues, forthcoming from Orange Monkey Publishing, and two chapbooks:...

06/07/2016

The wonderful Davy Knittle is joining us at the second to last Dollhouse this Saturday! Get yourself there for Davy's fantastic poems!

Davy Knittle is making the trip from Philadelphia to join us at The Dollhouse this Saturday! Davy Knittle’s second chapbook, empathy for cars / force of july, was released by Horse Less Press in...

06/07/2016

Come hear Tomas Q. Morin read at the SECOND TO LAST Dollhouse this Saturday, folks! BYOB, free. Bring your friends!

PS you can check out Tomas's work prior to Saturday at his website: http://www.tomasqmorin.com/Poems

Tomás Q. Morín is reading at The Dollhouse #50 this Saturday! Tomás is the author of the poetry collections A Larger Country and Patient Zero (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2017). He is the...

05/19/2016

Shout out to Newcity Magazine for writing up a little ditty in which DH co-curators Dolly and Holly reflect on the five years, fifty readings, and fun times of Dollhouse history.

Cramming into a private living room to listen at the feet of poets is a strangely intimate, absorbing experience. The poems are not filtered by distance or microphone. Sitting on the floor with you…

05/13/2016

Tomorrow! In addition to Jacob Victorine, francine j. harris, and Ryan Collins, Emily Jungmin Yoon will also be reading at #49.

Her poems and translations have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Volta, POETRY, The Collagist, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the 2015 winner of Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest, AWP's WC&C Scholarship Competition, and the AAWW Fellowship to The Home School in Miami. She serves the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

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05/12/2016

Jacob Victorine will also be reading at #49!

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Jacob is the winner of the 15th Annual Elixir Press Editor's Award for Poetry and the author of Flammable Matter (Elixir Press, 2016). He earned his MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches a class on performance poetry. His poems appear in places such as Columbia Poetry Review, Vinyl Poetry, Phantom Books, and PANK, which nominated him for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. He currently lives in Chicago with his girlfriend and their cats, Gilgamesh and Sita. Visit him at jacobvictorine.com.

05/11/2016

Also reading at #49:

Ryan Collins is the author of A New American Field Guide & Song Book (H_NGM_N Books, 2015), and several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine; Diagram; Forklift, Ohio; Handsome; Ninth Letter; PEN Poetry Series; Verse Daily; and elsewhere. He hosts the SPECTRA Poetry Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.

See him, along with francine j. harris, Emily Jungmin Yoon, and Jacob Victorine, this Saturday!

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05/10/2016

This Saturday, Chicago! We've got a stacked lineup of readers for #49, one of whom will be francine j. harris.

harris is a 2015 NEA fellow whose second book, play dead, has received early praise on such noted lists as Publishers Weekly and in American Poets. Her first collection, allegiance, was a finalist for the 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery and PEN Open Book Award and recent work has appeared in Literary Hub and Academy of of American Poets. Originally from Detroit, she is a Cave Canem fellow and Writer in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis.

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