Open Door Series Online: Suzanne Buffam & CM Burroughs
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Join us for a live virtual reading with Suzanne Buffam and her student Fatima Eldigair, and CM Burroughs and her student Chad Morgan. The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each event features readings by two Chicagoland writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students.
Poetry Foundation's events are completely free of charge and open to the public. This reading will include live captioning. If you require any other accessibility measures, please contact us by emailing [email protected]. To find out more about Zoom’s own built-in accessibility features, please visit https://zoom.us/accessibility.
Fatima Eldigair is a writer, thinker, and student from Chicago. She recently graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Chicago. Her poetry thesis “I Remember Running into the Arms of a Man Who Wasn’t My Daddy” was awarded departmental honors, alongside the Elsie Filippi Memorial Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Apogee Journal, Argot Magazine, and various UChicago publications. Fatima invests in poetry that explores the subterranean complications, and oftentimes contradictions, of race and sexuality.
Chad Morgan’s work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Analecta, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago, where he is competing his MFA in Poetry at Columbia College.
