Pencil This In
By Staff in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 22, 2011 5:20PM
Here are some things happening around town tonight and in the upcoming days if you can't make it to Maria's for some cold drinks and hot buttered soul.
Music
The Kickback plays Schubas tonight Listen to their song "Violently Carsick" here for a taste of their music. (9 p.m.; 18+; $10)
Beer
Finch's, Lagunitas, Metropolitan, Stone, Three Floyds and Two Brothers are among the breweries participating in tonight's NobleFest, a beer tasting and education event at Muchin College Prep (1 N. State St.; 6-9 p.m.). Take a series of beerology classes with Chicago's own Master Cicerone Dave Kahle, and Certified Cicerone Wesley Phillips. Purchase tickets here.
Poetry Readings
The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce that Raúl Zurita, one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial poets, will read as part of the organization’s Poetry Off the Shelf series. Zurita's reading will take place 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27 at the Poetry Foundation's brand new headquarters at 61 E. Superior.
Zurita was awarded the Chilean National Prize for Literature and a scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation, and he has held poetry readings at numerous American universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley. His books in English translation include Anteparadise, Purgatory, INRI, and Song for His Disappeared Love.
After Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 US-supported military coup that ousted Salvador Allende’s democratically elected government, Zurita’s poetry sought to register the violence and atrocities committed against the Chilean people and the corruption of the Spanish language. During the dictatorship that lasted from 1973 to 1990, Zurita published a Dantean trilogy of books (Purgatory, Anteparadise, and The New Life), wrote poems in the sky above New York City, bulldozed poems in the Chilean desert, and helped to form the art collective “Colectivo de Accion de Arte” that used performance as an act of political resistance.
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