CANCELLED: Open Door Series: Nathan Hoks & Tara Betts
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free admission, register in advance here
At 30 minutes before event start, guests with Eventbrite tickets will have priority entry to the performance space on a first-come, first-served basis. At 15 minutes prior to event start, the performance space is open to all guests. Seating capacity is limited. Eventbrite reservations do not guarantee entry or reserved seating.
The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. March's Open Door reading series features Nathan Hoks and student Jake Weiss, and Tara Betts and student Ciara Darnise Miller.
Nathan Hoks is the author of two books of poetry, Reveilles, which was awarded Salt Publishing’s Crashaw Prize, and The Narrow Circle, which was a winner of the National Poetry Series. His chapbook Moony Days of Being won the Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and in 2018 he was a poet-in-residence at the Tomaž Šalamun Poetry Center in Ljubljana. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hoks works as an editor and letterpress printer for Convulsive Editions, teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago, and serves as a faculty mentor in the MFA in Writing program at the School of the Art Institute.
An undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Jake Weiss hails from New York, NY. He likes walking underneath the cold Williamsburg Bridge at night.
Ciara Darnise Miller holds both an MFA and MA in Poetry and African American/African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University where she founded the city’s popular Bloomington Poetry Slam Series. She also received her BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, a school known for its rigorous writing curriculum. She has published poems and academic essays in such collections and periodicals as Black Girl Magic, The Whiskey of Our Discontent, Break Beat Poets, Mosaic, Fjords Review, African American Review, Callaloo, Muzzle, Alice Walker: Critical Insights, Chorus, and many more.