Don't Forget To Spend Some Time During Memorial Day Weekend Watching Poetry At The Dollhouse's YouTube Channel!

5 days ago

Fasten your seat-belts, kids. Here’s Catherine Wagner reading “Regarding the Use-Value And Exchange-Value Of Orgasms, With A List Of Orgasm Analogues”. Simply marvelous! This poem first appeared over at The Claudius App.

6 days ago

The always wonderful Virginia Konchan reads “Zoo” + “Napoleon Contemplates His Destiny in Real-Time.”

One more video from last Friday’s reading coming tomorrow!

1 week ago

Laura Goldstein reads her poem “Five”, excerpted from a longer project, also named “Five”. So delightful! 

More videos on the way, for reals.

1 week ago

Nathan Breitling reads “Flowering Kudzu” and tells The Dollhouse audience about his process and motivations behind the poem series. Also, he really knows how to rock a bow tie!

Check back this week for more videos from last Friday’s reading!

1 week ago

The Dollhouse Presents: Catherine Wagner

Catherine Wagner is the author of four books, most recently Nervous Device (forthcoming from City Lights, 2012). She teaches in the MA program in creative writing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her work has been widely published and anthologized. Her PennSound page can be found here.

It’s quite a privilege to have Ms. Wagner reading for The Dollhouse TODAY! To read about the many definitions of fucking, homelessness, and poetic structures, read Susie DeFord’s interview at BOMBLOG. Oh, and show up tonight!

1 week ago

The Dollhouse Presents: Virginia Konchan

FACT: Virginia Konchan’s poems have been published in Best New Poets 2011, the Believer, The New Republic, and The New Yorker (WHAT?! so tight), among other places. 

FACT: She lives in Chicago, where she co-curates the Wit Rabbit Reading Series.

FACT: She is a PhD candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

FACT: She writes stuff for The Rumpus, folks. She does it all!

FACT: VK will be reading this Friday at The Dollhouse. Check it!

2 weeks ago

The Dollhouse Presents: Laura Goldstein

LAURA GOLDSTEIN’s poetry and essays can be found in American Letters and Commentary, MAKE, jacket2, EAOGH, Requited, Little Red Leaves, and How2. Her chapbook Let Her was released from Dancing Girl Press earlier this year, and her newest chapbook, Inventory, will be released by Sona Books in June. She currently co-curates the Red Rover reading series with Jennifer Karmin and teaches Writing and Literature at Loyola University.

And you can see her read, for free, at The Dollhouse on Friday!

2 weeks ago

The Dollhouse Presents: Nathan Breitling

NATHAN BREITLING is from Chicago and received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. His poems have appeared in Phantom Limb and Columbia Poetry Review. 

For the reading he requested Spotted Cow, a beer that isn’t sold in Chicago. I once saw him eat a brick of head cheese, which is exactly what you think it is.

He’s gonna spit poetry-fire at The Dollhouse this Friday!

2 weeks ago
Yo, good people and great friends. This month’s Dollhouse installment is quickly approaching. Come see Nathan Breitling, Laura Goldstein, Virginia Konchan, and Catherine Wagner. RSVP to the Facebook event page. Damn, hope you all can be there. I’ll be there. Stephen will too. 

Yo, good people and great friends. This month’s Dollhouse installment is quickly approaching. Come see Nathan Breitling, Laura Goldstein, Virginia Konchan, and Catherine Wagner.

RSVP to the Facebook event page. Damn, hope you all can be there. I’ll be there. Stephen will too. 

3 weeks ago