Book Release for Exploding Chippewas by Mark Turcotte
Guild Complex
Arriving in Chicago in 1993 he rediscovered his love of words and writing and quickly established himself as a unique voice in the city?s thriving poetry community. That summer he won the first Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, and soon thereafter was selected by Ms. Brooks as a Significant Illinois Poet.
Arriving in Chicago in 1993 he rediscovered his love of words and writing and quickly established himself as a unique voice in the city?s thriving poetry community. That summer he won the first Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, and soon thereafter was selected by Ms. Brooks as a Significant Illinois Poet.
Mark Turcotte returns to the Guild Complex for a reading to celebrate the release of this newest poetry collection, Exploding Chippewas (Northwestern University Press, 2002). Turcotte, a recent recipient of a grant from the Lannan Foundation, is author of four other collections, including The Feathered Heart (Michigan State University Press, 1998), and Le Chant de la Route (bilingual, La Vague Verte, Paris, 2001). Now living in Door County, Wisconsin, Mark will be joined on stage by several of his Chicago friends.Performers
Mark Turcotte