Loyola University: 2008: Opera Bufa

 

As per other Happenings Fifteen Years Time Ago: on July 6, 2007, I read with a bunch of Chicago poets at Kate the Great's bookstore in Andersonville, Chi-Town. We wound up doing three Philly Free School readings at Kate the Great's; the final one, in the summer of '08, capped off a trip on which I lectured at Loyola behind Opera Bufa. Illustrated here is a Loyola (Prof. Laura Goldstein) syllabus featuring the book: 

this, also, is a term paper written on the book for the class by Stacy Blair:

But, back to the main: I forgot to mention: Philadelphia and Chicago do share many key issues. Chicago's image problem is a hinge to Philadelphia's: that to make Chi-Town simple is a fool's game. Down to rich Chicago suburbs appearing in 80s movies with which we learned our moves as kids (Bueller? Bueller?). And here's another big Aughts Chicago push for Opera Bufa.