the Cafe 2010 schedule
open mike every Tuesday night, 8:30 PM UNTIL 11/08/11
November and December 2011 open on Sundays from 3:00 to 5:00 PM
5115 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago
$2 cover (plus a donation for the feature)
(except the first Tuesday in January & the last Tuesday in December)

Below is the current 2011 features schedule at The Café.
If you’d like to feature on one of our unbooked nights, please email us.


To see past features, go to the recorded features link.




During nights with no scheduled feature, we will EITHER have a round robin (with no video),
or open mikers will have 10 minute “mini features”. Because we videotaped so many mini-features,
in all future mini-feature nights only all poets who have not had a mini-feature previously recorded
will get a video recording of their mini-feature.
KEEP IN MIND that if someone with no scheduled feature for the year chccks in with us
beforehand wanting an impromptu feature, we may host a last minute feature as well.

(01/04/11) January 4 there was no show

(01/11/11) January 11 feature: Vittorio (Vito) Carli
,
                                              and Charlie Newman’s poem “Words”
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(01/18/11) January 18 feature: Jeff Helgeson, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(01/25/11) January 25 feature: Maxwell Baumbach, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(02/01/11) February 1: Closed this Tuesday because of the blizzard

(02/08/11) February 8 feature: Ned Haggard, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(02/15/11) February 15 feature: Jackie Wolk, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(02/22/11) February 22 feature: Michael Hoag, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(03/01/11) March 1 feature: Raúl Niño, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(03/08/11) March 8 feature: Buddha309, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(03/15/11) March 15 feature: Dan Cleary, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(03/22/11) March 15 feature: Tom Roby (on his birthday!), and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(03/29/11) March 29 feature: Jenene Ravesloot, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(04/05/11) April 5 feature: Deborah Rosen, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(04/12/11) April 12 feature: Larry O. Dean, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(04/19/11) April 12 feature: GPA (the Poetic Unsub), and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(04/26/11) April 26 feature: Martin Altman, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(05/03/11) May 3 feature: Maureen Flannery, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(05/10/11) May 10 feature: Oz Hardwick, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(05/17/11) May 17, 2 mini-features from Janet Kuypers, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(05/24/11) May 24 feature: Jim Davis, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(05/31/11) May 31 feature: Wayne Allen Jones, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(06/07/11) June 07 feature: Cathleen Schandelmeier, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(06/14/11) June 14 feature: EIGHT mini-features, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(06/21/11) June 21 feature: Zachary Kluckman, Jessica Helen Lopez & Katrina Guarascio,
                                               (traveling book tour poets from New Mexico) and open mike

                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(06/28/11) June 28 feature: Lucia Blinn, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(07/05/11) July 5 feature: Kevin Blanchard, and open mike
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(07/12/11) July 12 feature: SEVEN mini-features, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(07/19/11) July 19, “Astronomy 101” mini feature night, and an open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(07/26/11) July 26 feature: Charlie Newman, and open mike

                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(08/02/11) August 2 feature: Bill Yarrow, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(08/09/11) August 9 feature: Ashley S.C. Walls, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(08/09/11) August 16 feature: Wane Allen Jones from mini feature night, and open mike
                                                Where all open mike poets are welcome to perform a ~10 minute feature live!
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(08/23/11) August 23 feature: Bob Lawrence, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(08/30/11) August 30 feature: Dave Gecic, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(09/06/11) September 6 feature: Four recorded mini-features, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this mini-feature night.

(09/13/11) September 13 feature: Rochelle Holt, and open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this mini-feature night.

the Café is closed September 20th 2011 (09/20/11)

the Café is closed September 27th 2011 (09/27/11)


(10/04/11) October 4: Chicago Calling night at the Café
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.


(10/11/11) October 11: Mini-Feature night at the open mike
with poems read from Down in the Dirt magazine and cc&d magazine
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(10/18/11) October 18 feature: Esteban Colon with Bob Lawrence, and an open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(10/25/11) October 25 feature: Kristin LaTour , and an open mike
on the night with Bob Rashkow and Michael Hoag hosting (with no mike, and no video... so come for this one-time event!)
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org

(11/01/11) November 1 feature: Pamela Miller, and an open mike
                                     ...See the facebook event listing for this feature.

(11/08/11) November 8 feature: Judith Wiker, and an open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

After 11/08/11, the Café is no no longer open
on Tuesday evenings.
The schedule below
for the remainder of the year will be
on Sunday afternoons at the Café at 3 PM.


(11/13/11) November 13 feature: Andrea Witzke Slot, and an open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(11/20/11) November 20 (originally 11/22/11) feature: Janet Kuypers
(with music from John Yotko and the HA!man of South Africa), and an open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(11/27/11) November 27 feature:Tom Roby and Jenene Ravesloot, and an open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.


(12/04/11) December 4 feature: Charlotte Hart, and an open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature.

(12/11/11) December 11 feature: Elizabeth Jacobson, and an open mike
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature




(12/18/11) December
18 FINAL GET-TOGTHER at the Café open mike!
                                                view the feature info at the Chicago poetry calendar [dot] org,
                                                ...or see the facebook event listing for this feature



(12/25/11) December 25, there is no show (Merry Christmas!)



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