1 WHILE YOU WERE WAITING (Beauty Bar Chicago) Celebrating five years of Poems While You Wait July 21, 7:30pm
2 THE FIRST TIME: FIRST TASTE (Martyrs’) CHIRP Radio’s Live Lit and Music series featuring Mindy Segal, Fran Hoepfner, Terry Gant, Sean White, Dave Toropov, Maggie Kubley, Carly Oishi
3 POETRY: JOHN KOETHE AND DAVID TRINIDAD (Seminary Co-op) John Koethe and David Trinidad read from their latest volumes of poetry, “The Swimmer” and “Notes on a Past Life.” July 21, 6pm
4 WRITER’S STUDIO READING (The Book Cellar) Featuring Bayo Ojikutu and Cecilia Pinto, with student readers Sarah Ashley, Elizabeth Coughlan, Eirill Falck and Sara Johnson July 23, 7pm
5 SUNDAY SALON (Riverview Tavern) Featuring Ladan Osman, Ross Ritchell, Emily Robbins, Martin Seay, Kathy Flann July 31, 7pm
Toni Nealie is the Literary Editor of Newcity and the author of the essay collection “The Miles Between Me.” A Pushcart Prize nominee, her essays have appeared in Guernica Magazine, Rust Belt: Chicago, The Rumpus, The Offing, Essay Daily, Chicago Quarterly Review, Hobart, Entropy and elsewhere. She worked in magazine journalism, politics and PR in her native New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Singapore and now edits, writes and teaches in Chicago. Find her at toninealie.com and on Twitter @tnealie. She can be reached at toni@newcity.com.
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