Filiz Cicek and Bronislava Volkova at HART Rock Poetry Series and Open-mic's National Poetry Month Celebration

POETRY CELEBRATION with Filiz Cicek  and Bronislava Volkova APRIL 22ND , 2011 at 7:00 pm CELEBRATING NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

Filiz Cicek is a Turkish-Georgian-born American visual and performance artist and scholar-journalist. Her work has been exhibited in major galleries and museums in Istanbul, New York, California, Chicago, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. She serves as a regional coordinator for The Feminist Art Project based in New York City. She teaches a Gender Sexuality and Popular Culture course at IU. Cicek’s poetic aesthetics are informed and influenced by Rumi, Yunus Emre, Pir Sultan Abdal, Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Plath among others, as well as the singer song writers, ballads, story tellers and poets within her family. Cicek uses poetry as a creative outlet at times to celebrate the joys and perils of life.

Bronislava Volková (Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures and former Director of the Czech Program at IU) is an exile poet and scholar from Czechoslovakia residing currently in Bloomington, IN. She has published ten books of existential and metaphysical poetry in Czech and English, two books on linguistic and literary semiotics, and most recently Up The Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry (with Clarice Cloutier, 2008) and And Drink We Will from Delectable Wells… (2011, with its Czech version preceding in 2010). Her poetry has been widely reviewed and translated into various languages. She has also written on a wide variety of topics, such as Czech poetry, Czech popular culture, issues of exile, gender, race, nationalism, prejudice and emotive signs. Since 2000, she is also active as a visual artist and a director of multimedia performances of poetry. In 2009, she has received an “award for significant contribution to culture and scholarship” from the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in Prague. More information is available at bronislavavolkova.com

She will read today from her two latest books.

Followed by a community open-mic

Share your favorite poems and poetic stories and songs during the open-mic or come to listen. Open-mic presenters have three minutes.

co-hosted and produced by

Patricia C. Coleman and Margaret Squires

Open-mic readers have up to three minutes to share poems, short stories, prose pieces, music or song.

Send questions to poetry@hartrock.net or bloomingtonpoetry@gmail.com

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Next month HART Rock presents readers from Women Writing for a Change in conjunction with 

a city-wide celebration of our elders.

Rachael's Cafe is located at 300 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, IN
(812) 330-1882

Food and drinks available for purchase.