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Working Poets Unite!
About This Event
We are united as working writers. We labor at writing, often without pay, and many of us labor at other jobs. This poetry reading focuses on labor and labor organizing—organizing that is inclusive of issues such as race, gender, and national origin in the workplace and larger community—which is necessary for winning the pay and conditions that would allow us to creatively thrive. The poems explore oppression in workplaces such as higher ed and factories as well as the solidarity of collective resistance.
Featured Author
Jennifer Karmin
Jennifer Karmin has published, performed, exhibited, taught, and experimented with language across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe. As a founding curator of the Red Rover Series, she has often led ensembles of poets improvising together at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets. Widely published in anthologies, journals and handmade editions, her books include the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice and The Sexual Organs of the IRS a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer. Since 2000 she has worked with immigrants and refugees at Truman College, using creative writing to support literacy in Chicago. She is a union steward and co- established a housing cooperative in Humboldt Park.
About the Venue
Pilsen Community Books
Pilsen Community Books is a worker owned and operated independent bookstore that specializes in new and used literary fiction, radical history and politics, and literature in translation. The staff's goal is to unite their bookselling experience with their belief that labor is entitled to all it produces.
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