More neat stuff to do

Wednesday, October 8
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
4:00 pm

"The Old New Media of Comics Art: Comics and Graphic Novels in the 21st Century"

Talk by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, curators of the upcoming KAM exhibition Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics

Jazz concerts, film, open mic: oh my!

What's upcoming at Krannert Art Museum...


Thursday, October 2
Tea ceremonies conducted by Kimiko Gunji, director of Japan House, in conjunction with the Kyoko Ibe exhibit
Krannert Art Museum, 5:30-6:30 pm

A Taste of Art Lecture Series
Collecting Art, Locally and Internationally, Ian Wang, associate curator, Spurlock Museum
KAM Auditorium, 6:00 pm

Sudden Sound Concert
MIYUMI Trio, featuring Tatsu Aoki and Hide Yoshihasi: Chicago-based musicians performing unique blends of traditional Japanese music/taiko (drumming), jazz, and improvisation
Contemporary Gallery, 7:30 pm

VOICE MFA student reading
featuring Lillian Bertram, Arley McNeney, Micah Riecker
Link Gallery, 7:30 pm


Saturday, October 4
Kids@Krannert family festival
Krannert Art Museum, 10:00 am-12:00 pm


Thursday, October 9
Dance performance by contact improvisation dancer and assistant professor of Dance Kirstie Simson
Krannert Art Museum, 5:30-6:30 pm

IPRH Film Series
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991), Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, directors
KAM Auditorium, 5:30 pm

SPEAK Cafe
Open-mic for hip-hop and Black Power expression
Palette Cafe, 7:00-9:00 pm


All events @ Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL. FREE and open to the public.

Find out more by visiting KAM's website, signing up for e-news (email kam@illinois.edu), or by joining the museum's facebook group.

VOICE Begins

The first VOICE reading of the semester is on Thursday, Oct. 2.
Time: 7:30 pm.
Location: Krannert Museum of Art - Link Gallery

Featured Readers:

Lillian Bertram
Arley McNeney
Micah Riecker


This event is free and open to the public.

Philip Graham Interviews David Jauss

Check out Philip Graham's interview with author David Jauss on UI's NPR affiliate station WILL. Jauss was visiting our campus as part of our Carr Reading Series and gave a wonderful reading of his fiction later in the day.

Steve Davenport on Verse Daily

Get your daily poetry fix at Verse Daily, today featuring 9L nonfiction editor Steve Davenport and his killer poem "Popular Science" (originally published in The Literary Review).

New American Press Chapbook Contest Opens

Poets and prose writers, gather together 20-30 pages of your most awesome work for New American Press's Fall 2008 Chapbook Contest! Fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction entries are welcome. This year's judge is poet and editor Allison Joseph.

Philip Graham Interview

Listen to 9L Fiction Editor Philip Graham discuss writing in an interview with Shelagh C. Shapiro for "Write the Book," a regular radio show on Burlington, Vermont's WOMM-LP 105.9 FM.

Pygmalion Music Festival and more at Krannert Art Museum

Tuesday, September 16
A Call to Arts: Open Critique with exhibiting artist Kyoko Ibe and assistant professor of Dance Kirstie Simson
Krannert Art Museum, 7:00 pm

Thursday, September 18
Pygmalion Music Festival featuring Oceans, Catfish Haven, Oxford Collapse, Evangelicals, and Murder By Death
KAM Link Gallery, 6:00 pm
(Admission is still free, but you may need a wristband to get in due to capacity limitations. Purchase one here.)

Friday, September 19
Pygmalion Music Festival featuring Casados, Caleb Engstrom, Owen, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, and Santa
KAM Link Gallery, 6:00 pm
(Admission is still free, but you may need a wristband to get in due to capacity limitations. Purchase one here.)

Thursday, September 25
Dance performance by contact improvisation dancer and assistant professor of Dance Kirstie Simson
Krannert Art Museum, 5:30-6:30 pm

The Gown from Mother's Stomach

A brief review of Blake Butler’s story “The Gown from Mother’s Stomach,” from the current issue of 9L, is up at Matt Bell's blog. Bell says Butler's story, “is something you have to read immediately.”

Upcoming at Krannert Art Museum

Thursday, September 4
A Taste of Art Lecture Series
Birds as Art, Ernesto Scott, associate professor of Art + Design
KAM Auditorium, 6:00 pm, wine & cheese following


Thursday, September 11
IPRH Film Series
8 1/2 (1963), Federico Fellini, director
KAM Auditorium, 5:30 pm

SPEAK Cafe
Open-mic for hip-hop and Black Power expression
Palette Cafe, 7:00-9:00 pm


All events @ Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL. FREE and open to the public.

Find out more by visiting KAM's website, signing up for e-news (email kam@illinois.edu), or by joining the museum's facebook group.

Open for business

Ninth Letter is now officially accepting new submissions for the 2008-9 reading period. You can submit via U.S. mail or by going to our submission guidelines page at our website. Please review our submission guidelines before sending work.