The Café chicago poetry readings The Café hosts an open mic and a regular feature show at 5115 North Lincoln Ave. (just south of Foster) in Chicago, IL.

Below is a listing of all performers we have recording of from the Café (listed in order from most recent to oldest recordings).

(Also note that if audio tracks are available in these links, they are most likely mp3 audio links. If other audio files are listed as available, all Macintosh .aif files, Linux .au files and Windows .wav files are low resolution versions of all of the poetry readings available. The only CD quality versions of these audio recordings are in the available mp3 files.)

the 03/09/10 Dan Clery feature

(plus 03/09/10 open mic readings from Yuyutsu R. D. Sharma of Nepal)

the 03/02/10 Tom Curry feature

the 02/23/10 Larry Janowski feature

the 02/16/10 Al DeGenova feature

the 02/09/10 Kate Cullan feature

the 02/02/10 Luis Valadez feature

the 01/19/10 John Goode feature

the 01/12/10 Vittorio Carli feature

12/15/09 readings from C Ra McGuirt
(of Penny Dreadful Press)

the 06/19/07 Cathleen Schandelmeier feature

the 09/19/06 Jared Smith feature

the 04/12/05 Danny Boy (Daniel McKeever) Feature

the 5/18/04 Kate Cullan Feature

the 04/27/04 Maureen Flannery Feature

the 04/13/04 Nina Corwin Feature

Janet Kuypers recordings & shows


the Café


There is also a 3 CD set of performances from J. Kuypers at the Café, collected into this release. This 3 CD set of live poerformances are included in Live at the Café includes not only recordings from 2003, 2004 and 2005, but it also contains recordings of two performance art shows — A Night of Firsts from 06/22/04, and Stripped from 06/07/05. Bonus tracks in this 3 CD set even include live recordings from Coffee Chicago, Molly Malone’s, and even recordings from the Chicago Poetry Fest on both years, 2004 and 2005! You can order a copy of this all original music and poetry for only $12.95 by sending an e-mail to Scars Publications.

Real Music Guide
Rolling Stone
Napster
JB Hi-Fi
Live at the Café - 3 disc set


We have found that quicktime can view these basic and free movies, and you can get quicktime for free off of the Internet.

You can also download Media Player, for Macintosh or for Windows to see some video files.

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The following is a list of media players, their native playback media type, and where they can be downloaded.

  • Quicktime Player
    Plays compressed and uncompressed Quicktime v1, v2, and v3 files. (.mov)
    Visit Apple’s Quicktime site to download.
  • Windows Media Player
    Natively plays basic audio(.au), .mid, and .wav. In some cases, installation of the
    Windows Media Player will take over playback of media types without notification.
    To get the Player, visit Microsoft's free download site.
  • WinAmp
    Plays MP2, MP3, MOD, CD, .wav and other formats.
    Visit the Winamp site to download the Winamp Player.
  • Vivo Player
    Plays Vivo files natively.
    Download the Vivo Player from http://www.vivo.com.
  • Crescendo
    Plays Midi(.mid) files natively.
    Download the Crescendo player from http://www.liveupdate.com.