Introducing The J3P ~ Kenyatta Rogers (S1E1)

This is the official launch of The J3P.

This poetry project is brought to you in part by DCASE | CHI

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Watch the videos below to learn more.

Welcome to the J3P ~ Jeff Park Poem Plan Jefferson Park resident & poet Dave Landsberger describes how the J3P will bring poetry programming and events to th...

Kenyatta Rogers reads his poem "Carpet Bomb" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/146429/carpet-bomb Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been aw...

Kenyatta Rogers reads his essay "HAM" Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been awarded multiple scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers' Conferenc...

Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been awarded multiple scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. He has also been nominated multiple times for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. His work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from Jubilat, Vinyl, Bat City Review, The Volta, PANK, MAKE Magazine among others. He is as a co-host of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench, an Associate Editor with RHINO Poetry and currently serves on the Creative Writing Faculty at the Chicago High School for the Arts.

Filmed onsite at Ed Paschke Art Center, Jefferson Park, Chicago. Special thank you to Vesna Stelcer & Lionel Rabb.

For more info on J3P ~ The Jeff Park Poem Plan ~ join the community

xoxo

-dave

Proud to Announce my DCASE Grant

I’m happy to let everyone know that I have received an Individual Artists Program grant from DCASE - Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

You can read the announcement from DCASE here

This was the first time I’ve applied to DCASE, let alone applied for any grant in my entire life!

It was a lot of work to create my prospectus and create a budget, but I’m happy to have done so.

Like all other arts programming facilitators, I’ve had to throw out my original plan since COVID-19 hit. I’m rolling with the punches and trying to keep to my deadlines and original vision as much as I can, while also allowing for experiences that are more accommodating to Chicagoans and our changing lifestyles.

You’ll learn more about my project very soon. It’s a community based poetry project that I’ve been wanting to do ever since I moved into my house. I’m putting down roots in my neck of Chicago, and I want to make sure there’s more poetry there as long as I’m living there.

Special congrats to my friends Anjal Chande and Kathleen Rooney (of Poems While You Wait) for also receiving IAP DCASE grants!