411: On The Ice

On January 23, Ice Box Press holds a reading and book signing at Quimby’s in Wicker Park, in celebration of a chapbook release, “Say To These Bones, LIve!” by Ryan Pendell.  Also in attendance will be poets Tara Walker and Erin Messer, previewing their upcoming chapbooks.  “My book of poems, “Say To These Bones, LIve!,” captures a lot of the joy and humor I find in language while keeping a kind of hopeful melancholy about the world,” Pendell says of his book.  “As the title suggests, my work speaks to the yearning for repair and resurrection inside the human heart.”  He’s also quite excited to be reading with the other poets, he claims.  “I think our styles create a rich dialogue together, a playful experimental poetry that has become a trademark of our generation of poets.”