Sometimes I wish I were still out
on the back porch, drinking jet fuel
with the boys, getting louder and louder

[. . .]

Summer. The big sky river rushes overhead,
bearing asteroids and mist, blind fish
and old space suits with skeletons inside.

-Tony Hoagland, “Jet”

Join us for a cool summer reading at Galerie F, Chicago’s first gig poster and street art gallery, located in Logan Square. Browse the print archive, check out the exhibition, and hear poems and stories loosely inspired by SUMMER—and drinking jet fuel on the porch.

Isyemille and Angelique will read poetry, and Mairead will read from her novel. A keg from Chicago’s own Revolution Brewing will be generously provided. Comfy and chill. Join us!

MAIREAD CASE is a writer, editor, and teacher. Currently she is an MFA-W candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Youth Services Assistant at the Poetry Foundation Library, and Editor at Large for Yeti Publishing; previously she worked for Louder Than a Bomb and at the Neighborhood Writing Alliance. Mairead writes regularly for Bookslut, and for MAINTENANCE, her column at Bad at Sports. She is completing a novel.

ISYEMILLE LARA is a bilingual writer and also a duck. Critical of seriousness, she works with sentences in order to create a space of real imagination. Specializing in the short story, her focus on the micro is meant to highlight the flexibility of language and inspire both children and adults to genuinely smile. She is inspired by animals, travel, westerns and road movies, and grammar. Isyemille is completing her degree in bilingual education at Northeastern University.

ANGELIQUE NELSON is a lover of life and a liver of love. Her ardor for writing is primarily inspired by her experiences as a bodyworker, energy healer, and student/teacher of yoga. All of these passions she wields as tools for getting people in conversation with themselves and others. Her writings often find focus on the exploration of relationships we have with our environment, and how the words we use to tell our stories can shift our perspective and change our experience. Find more of Angelique at the soon-to-be blog http://dynamo-of-shakti.blogspot.com/, and also also at every open mic ever in the city of Chicago.