Reading at Ipsento Coffee May 12

Three artists who have been published in the Logan Square Literary Review (http://loganliteraryonline.blogspot.com/) will be reading:

Larry O. Dean 7:15-7:35

Lara Levitan 7:35-7:55

Kristiana Colon 7:55-8:15

At Ipsento Coffee off of the Western Blue Line stop: http://www.ipsento.com/

The first artist - Larry O. Dear is with Zenith Beast: http://zenithbeast.com/index.php

which is a publisher in San Francisco.

The third artist - Kristiana Colon (http://www.kristianacolon.com/#) is one of Chicago's Def Poets.

At first I was the only audience at the reading, which was somewhat hilarious. We started late, and it was really funny to see the poets awkwardly meet each other and figure out who was going to read first etc. Besides the poets there was the host of the event and the people from the Logan Square Literary Review, then eventually three girls and a guy came in.

Larry read first. He was wearing a white tshirt with a green octopus on it. I didn't really enjoy the way that he read but I enjoyed his poetry in that it was entertaining, however it didn't really leave any deep, lasting impacts on me. Lara read second. She read a short story which really captivated me while she read it, but when thinking about it later it was kinda creepy. The last poet was Kristiana who definitely had an attitude in the way she spoke, and she went to get water after her first poem and left us all awkwardly waiting for a minute. Her poetry was interesting and full of metaphors which made it a little hard to understand, I did enjoy her in the end though.

It was a nice reading to go to because the space and crowd was so small and intimate. I wish I had gotten to talk with the poets because it was definitely the place to.