Poetry
Literary Event: *Footnote
Event Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026 | 2–4 p.m.
Location: 1332 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607
Curated by WMG’s Literary Events Curator, Jae Green, Footnote breaks from traditional short-form structures, haiku, epigrams, limericks, and sestinas that emphasize strict form and brevity. This in-person event features long-form and experimental work: pieces that may incorporate visual aids, soundtracks, and unconventional approaches, and that reveal their meaning through layered nuance and a step-back perspective.
Featuring: Chriskira Caillouet, Katherine Chronis, Naoko Fujimoto, Adrienne Nadeau and Cynthia Oka.
*Footnote-a note of reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page.
Archived Literary Events
ArtSpeaks: Finding My Way Home
ArtSpeaks: Finding My Way Home was a special collaboration presented by Woman Made Gallery and VibrantCast on Sunday, October 26, 2025 (2–4 p.m.) at Woman Made Gallery, 1332 S. Halsted St., Chicago.
ArtSpeaks, an ongoing VibrantCast series, brought writers and visual artists together through creative dialogue. Chicagoland writers performed original pieces inspired by the exhibition Finding My Way, reflecting on the many meanings of “home”—as comfort or challenge, memory or imagination.
Featured contributors: Le’Trice Buckingham, Lydia Burris, Lor Clincy, Devon Foster, KRO, Iris Orprecio-Price, and Myron L. Stokes.
WMG’s Literary Events Curator
Jae Green
WMG Literary Events Curator
Jae Green has been connected to Woman Made Gallery since its earliest years at the Ravenswood Manor location on Chicago’s northwest side. She is a visual artist, writer, and published poet who joined the WMG Board of Directors in 2020 and also serves on the Program Committee. In 2022, Jae co-juried Generations, Woman Made Gallery’s 30th Anniversary exhibition, in collaboration with Marisa Miles, WMG’s current Board President.
WMG’s Former Literary Team
Nina Corwin
Nina is a published poet, Founding Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and psychotherapist and advocate for victims of sexual assault.
She is the author of two books of poetry, The Uncertainty of Maps and Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints. Her work has appeared in ACM, Forklift OH, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, Verse and has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. Corwin is an Advisory Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and co-edited Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art By Women.
Nina has read and performed her work across the country, at times set with musical or choreographic compositions. Much gratitude goes to Nina Corwin and her years of service as WMG’s Literary Events Curator until Covid prevented us from planning any public events.
Jennifer Steele
Jennifer is a published poet and educator and serves as Partnerships Coordinator for Teen Services at Chicago Public Library. She served as co-founder and co-curator of the Revolving Door Reading Series.
Her work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Callaloo Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Warpland Journal, So To Speak, and others, and is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow.
Jennifer has taught creative writing and digital media arts across Chicago since 2008 and has collaborated with numerous youth organizations and cultural institutions, designing innovative arts programming.
Thank you Jennifer Steele for your service as WMG Literary Events Outreach Coordinator for several years.
Kurt Eric Heintz
Kurt once taught computer graphics programming at Columbia College, and worked as an independent web developer. He’s since become the lead video director at Britannica.
Kurt is known for his poetry videos, begun in the early 1990’s. He also video-conferenced his colleagues’ poetry in the late 1990’s — years before Skype and the iPhone. He was a technical advisor to the Electronic Literature Organization in its earliest years, and is the video content editor for Another Chicago Magazine.
We are grateful to Kurt Eric Heintz who served as WMG’s Literary Events Audio Recordist through 2019.
Angela Narciso Torres
Angela Narciso Torres is the author of What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books 2021) Blood Orange, winner of the 2013 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry, and the chapbook, To the Bone (Sundress Publications 2020).
A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. She received First Prize in the Yeats Poetry Prize (W.B. Yeats Society of New York). New City magazine named her one of Chicago’s Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she currently resides in San Diego. She serves as a senior and reviews editor for RHINO Poetry.
Thank you Angela Narciso Torres, for your wonderful work and support for WMG and our past Literary Program!
Woman Made Gallery is supported in part by grants from The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Illinois Arts Council Agency; the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council Agency; the Puffin Foundation; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.