Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet

About Me

I read poetry in bars. Here's my bio:Elizabeth Harper is a poet living in Chicago and walking on air with her head in the clouds when she is not rolling around on the ground with her mind in the gutter. She is the author of two books of poetry, Love Songs from Psychopaths and Fairy Tales Gone Awry. She is the newest member of Polyrhythmicâ€”A Chicago Arts Collectiveâ€”which hosts an open mic night at Trace, 3714 N Clark, on Tuesday nights. She has read at many venues around town including Phyllisâ€™ Musical Inn, Trace, Mercury CafÃ©, The Spot, Monarte Gallery, Silvieâ€™s, The Spare Room, The Heartland CafÃ©, Black Rock Bar, Jaks Tap, and Weeds. She participated in The Chicago Calling Festival in 2006 and 2007, and more recently she participated in the Poetry Bomb as a poetry bomber standing out by the Water Tower screaming poetry at confused pedestrians.Books are available from Quimby's in Chicago and Amazon.com.Hear my performances on richexperience.net. I'm in the friends section. http://www.richexperience.net/
You are a Rocker Girl!
If you don't have musical talent, you've got a talent for picking out great CD's.
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You are Arthur Rimbaud - a vital, cannon-changing poet with a flare for tantrums. You tend to write in a fever, and have a liking for the disordered mind. Do't expect people to understand you, for you are ahead of your time.
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My Interests

poetry, philosophy, literature, children, art, dancing, music, food, booze, dolls, sex...

I'd like to meet:

Someone from my home planet.

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Music:

Weezer, Ben Folds, Aimee Mann, Joni Mitchell, Cracklin Moth, Elton John, Donovan, Louis Jordan, Ben Kweller, Wilco, Hank Williams, The Monkees, Frank Zappa, Rickie Lee Jones, Sly and the Family Stone, Todd Rundgren... Randy Newman; Harry Nilsson; Them Damn Kids; Rich Experience; The Left Banke; The Dresden Dolls; Andru Bemis; John Hasbrouck...Hoyne; Nick Bognar; Pete Yorn, David Singer; The Metapuffs; Recent Photo; The Great Perhaps; The Dirty Rooks; The Quiet Company; Voltaire; Walter Meego; The Changes; Colourmusic; The World Blanket; Electric Light Orchestra; Terminal Bliss; Summer Darling; Steely Dan; David Bowie; T Rex; Roy Harper; Robert Johnson; Radiohead; Death Cab for Cutie; Johnny Cash; Bile Greene; Anchors, Balloons; The Babys; Alexander Sands; The Rascals; The Hollies; Kunek; Great Lakes Myth Society; Feist; James Blunt; Paolo Nutini; Liz Phair; Jellyfish; Nice Peter; Small Faces; Foo Fighters; Alice Cooper; TallDarkStranger; Frank Tribes; in miniature; Harry Chapin; Fountains of Wayne; Fiona Apple; The Feeling; Twang Bang; Julie Jurgens; Chet Baker; Lost State of Franklin; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Prince; The Guess Who; Simon and Garfunkel; The Beatles; Dean Martin; Kate Bush; Northpilot...Dan Hubbard; Thollem McDonas; Teddy Thompson

Movies:

Harold and Maude; Office Space; Kingpin; Hello Dolly!; Small Time Crooks; Smoke Signals; Earth Girls are Easy; Liquid Sky; Beetlejuice; The South Park Movie; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; White Palace; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies; anything with James Spader... Employee of the Month; Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle; White Chicks...Godspell

Television:

The Monkees; H. R. Puffnstuf; The Bugaloos; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; The Muppet Show...House; Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Boston Legal; Monk; Psych...

Books:

Blood and Guts in High School (Kathy Acker); SCUM Manifesto (Valerie Solanas); The Will to Power (Friedrich Nietzsche); Red Emma Speaks (Emma Goldman; ed. Alix Kates Shulman); The Uses of Disorder (Richard Sennett); Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault); The Political Philosophy of Post-Structuralist Anarchism (Todd May); Community, Anarchy, Liberty (Michael Taylor); Poems for the Millennium (ed. Rothenberg and Joris); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey); A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess); Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard Sale (William Kotzwinkle); The Fan Man (Willliam Kotzwinkle); Memoir of a Hawk (James Tate); Coldness and Cruelty (Gilles Deleuze); Crash (J.G. Ballard); The Tunnel (Russell Edson); Paris Spleen (Baudelaire); Yikes! A Smart Girl's Guide to Surviving Tricky, Sticky, Icky Situations (Bonnie Timmons); The Phantom Tollbooth (Norman Justor); The Little Engine That Could (Watty Piper); Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business (Esphyr Slobodkina)...

Heroes:

Emma Goldman, Kathy Acker, Stevie Smith...

My Blog

Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival @ Mess Hall 10-12-08

Come see me get messy at Mess Hall: www.messhall.org. I will be performing my collaboration with Fluffy Singler (part manifesto/ part long poem) accompanied by Myrrick from the band Earthorn on guita...
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:05:00 PST

I’m reading at Jaks Tap Monday night, 10-6-08

Waiting 4 The BusMonday, Oct 6, 2008an open mic 7:30-10pmwith features Larry Janowski & Elizabeth Harper.Jaks Tap901 W. JacksonCHICAGOLove,Elizabeth
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:29:00 PST

Tuesday at Trace! Tara Hardy is our feature!

Tuesday, September 23rd, 10pm at Trace- 3714 N Clark St.PolyRhythmic presents Safe Smiles$3, open mic and featured artist TARA HARDY myspace. com/tarahardygetsbentTara Hardy is the working-class queer...
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:13:00 PST

September 19 I perform at New Spirit Church in Oak Park

Please notice the address because I had it wrong originally. I thought it was at the center itself but it's at New Spirit Church.From the Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Association website calendar fo...
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:38:00 PST

Tom Budday at Trace 8-26-08!

"I'm so excited and I just can't hide itI'm about to lose control and I think I like it"Tom Budday from Detroit is going to be our feature this week at Trace.Rather than go on and on singing his prais...
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:09:00 PST

August 29 at Mercury Cafe

Hey all,I have a gig coming up next week. I'm going to be one of the featured poets at Mercury Cafe at 1505 W Chicago in Chicago on Friday, August 29. The show starts at 7 pm and goes until 9 pm. It's...
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:19:00 PST

TUESDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so every Tuesday night we have an open mic night. It's totally fun. We get poets, musicians, and stand-up comedians. It's really diverse in a good way. Often we have happy surprises. I'm there...
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:47:00 PST

Julie Jurgens features at Trace 7-15-08

PolyRhythmic presents "Safe Smiles"Tuesday 7-15-08Trace3714 N ClarkChicago, IL 60613Open mic sign-up @ 10 pmShows starts 10:30 ish4 minutes to do your thing21 and over please$3 donationThis week the f...
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:16:00 PST

Julie Jurgens features at Trace 7-15-08

Check out this event: PolyRhythmic presents "Safe Smiles" Open Mic

Open mic every Tuesday night! 4 minutes to do your thing! Great place for poets, comics, musicians, and miscellaneous arty-performance types to try out new material in front of an audience. And we rea...
Posted by Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:43:00 PST