Chitlin Circuit Pop-Up
featuring
Indiana Poet Laureate Curtis Crisler, Chris Dean, and Makai Brown

Date: Saturday, August 15
Time: 2:00-5:00pm EST
Location: Athenaeum Foundation – Registration Required
Cost: Free and by donation

Curtis Crisler, Indiana Poet Laureate, created the Chitlin Circuit. The term “chitlin circuit” refers to a historical, segregation-era network of safe performance venues for Black musicians, comedians, and entertainers during the Jim Crow era. It is a current, dynamic, modern literary event.

The program is organic and no one really knows what is going to happen.

• The first set is 20 minutes, where three poets feed off what the first poet reads.
• The second set, each poet reads ten minutes of their own poetry.
• The third set the poets read each line of a poem until the last line, which all read together.

There will be two intermissions between sets and food and music are included.