Barbara Henning: Reading in Chicago

Professor Barbara Henning will be reading with Tara Betts, Philip Sorenson, and Aurora Tabar in the Red Rover Series at Outer Space Studio in Chicago.

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Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4

TARA BETTS is the author of Break the Habit and Arc & Hue. She is also one of the co-editors of The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives About Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century and co-editor of a critical edition of Philippa Duke Schuyler's long out-of-print memoir Adventures in Black and None. Her work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Essence, Nylon, and numerous anthologies. She has taught at Rutgers University, University of Illinois-Chicago, and as part of the MFA faculty at Chicago State University.

BARBARA HENNING is the author of three novels and several collections of poetry, her most recent A Day Like Today (Negative Capability Press), A Swift Passage (Quale Press) and a collection of object-sonnets, My Autobiography (United Artists). A new novel was just recently released, Just Like That (Spuyten Duyvil). She is the editor of Looking Up Harryette Mullen and The Collected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Born in Detroit, she presently lives in Brooklyn. She has taught for Naropa University, as well as Long Island University. See http://barbarahenning.com/ . 

PHILIP SORENSON is the author of two full-length collections, Of Embodies (Rescue Press, 2012) and Solar Trauma (Rescue Press, 2018), and a forthcoming shorter work, New Recordings (Another New Calligraphy, 2018). He is the co-editor, with Olivia Cronk, of The Journal Petra.

AURORA TABAR is a Chicago-based performing artist and occupational therapist. Her professional and creative practices examine the process of healing and the potential for transformation. Her most recent performance work, Life/Guard, was presented last April at the 2017 Battles:SS3 Post-Butoh Festival (Chicago, IL). Aurora received a Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist grant for her current project, The Existential Coat Check. She works at Esperanza Community Services where she supports young people with developmental disabilities to become as independent as possible. She lives on the west side of Chicago with her partner, Kevin, and their two cats. See http://existentialcoatcheck.com/ .

Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. Founded in 2005, the over one hundred events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.