Christopher Burns composes chamber and electroacoustic music and, as a performer, improvises with a laptop computer. Steve Nelson-Raney composes and performs actively in the realms of jazz, contemporary music and free improvisation on soprano saxophone and piano. Hal Rammel designs and builds amplified musical instruments and improvises and composes with these in a wide variety of contexts.

Timothy Yu is the author of Journey to the West and Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965. His poems and prose have appeared in SHAMPOO, Chicago Review, and Another Chicago Magazine. For more information, please visit the website linked above.

Meet Eileen Myles, author of The Importance of Being Iceland and other travel essays. For more information, please visit the website linked above.

Investigate the many ways scientific inquiry serves as raw material for writing poems and explore how scientific ideas can lend a language for discussing poetic structure. How is a poem a living organism? How is it a black hole? A membrane? Widen and shift your poetic vocabulary and perception of the phenomena around you through writing exercises and looking at works by writers working from science. Cost is $30, or $25 for members. To register, please call 263.5001or visit the website linked above.

Redletter reading with Nick Demske, Michael Bernstein, Jill Wohlgemuth and an open mic night.