No Love For Love!

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The Poetry Center of Chicago presents

No Love for Love

The Anti-Valentine's Day Show

February 12, 2007

Monday at 8pm

Tickets: $50 for VIP seating/$20 all others

All proceeds benefit The Poetry Center of Chicago.

This American Life creator Ira Glass headlines a bill featuring some of the hippest, most cutting-edge prose, poetry and spoken word writers in Chicago in “No Love for Love: The Poetry Center of Chicago’s Anti-Valentine’s Day Show”

The event will feature Glass, along with writers Joel Chmara, Joe Meno, Jonathan Messenger, Christopher Piatt, Diana Slickman, Megan Stielstra and Scott Woldman discussing love or their lack of it. The event will be hosted by slam poet extraordinaire Mary Fons. Twisted torch songs will be provided by pianist Justin Hayford.

“We’re tired of all the hearts and flowers,” says Poetry Center Executive Director Lisa Buscani. “We’re sick of greeting card love. We want to hear from the other end of the love spectrum.”

The Poetry Center will also sponsor a silent auction featuring items that “celebrate singleness.” Items include dinner and the movies for one, internet dating consulting, customized love poems that bidders can send to themselves.“It promises to be an evening of bitterness, bile and fun,” Buscani says."

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