Live From Mars ā Programs and Event Documentation
Mars Gallery, Chicago ā March 22, 2003 and July 12, 2003
Poetry Center of Chicago
These materials document two installments of the Live From Mars reading series held at Mars Gallery in Chicago in 2003.
The white Poetry Center letterhead sheet served as the public program for the March 22, 2003 Live From Mars IV event and was used by KC Clarke while emceeing the event. Handwritten notes reflect live sequencing and coordination during the performance.
The yellow program (front and back) is for Live From Mars V, held July 12, 2003. This marked the first installment of the series to use a formally designed printed program.
These events brought the Poetry Centerās programming into gallery space, presenting poets and performers outside its primary institutional venues at the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute ballroom. The poetry dance component of these evenings is referenced in contemporaneous correspondence between KC Clarke and Lawrence Ferlinghetti preserved elsewhere in this archive.