Readings & Lectures

Open Door: Julie Ezelle-Patton, Ed Roberson, Duriel E. Harris, Dawn Joseph

- | 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60654mapMarker
Registration required

The Open Door series spotlights creative relationships and collaborations rooted in the Midwest, inviting two featured writers and their guests to share work that opens up poetry as an expansive art form. Featuring Julie Ezelle-Patton in celebration of a special issue of the Chicago Review, former Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner Ed Roberson as her esteemed guest, and Obsidian editor Duriel Harris in collaboration with artist Dawn M. Joseph. 

Murmurs from the poets: 

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pout nation injure ungun engine bad news bear plain ooze zoo logical curse a mine ore mock rogue ear rack eerie trial of
tears
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— Julie Ezelle Patton from Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake
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speech inhabits a body making and hearing sound its deciding witness: skin, a throat
unwound
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— Duriel Harris, from No Dictionary of a Living Tongue
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out of some music a respiratory breathing a heart out of some tide a call of return out of some ether of astronomy our own aural
calculation
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— Ed Roberson, from Asked What Has Changed

This program is part of the Poetry Foundation’s fall 2024 season, Murmuring Americas. All Poetry Foundation events are completely free of charge and open to the public, though advanced registration is encouraged. The performance space is ADA-compliant and wheelchair-accessible, and the program will feature CART captioning and ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation, please visit our Accessibility Guide.