The Open Door Readings: February
61 West Superior Street
Free Admission
The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. February's Open Door Reading presents School of the Art Institute's Rosellen Brown and her student Judith Valente along with Columbia College's Joshua Young and his student Harlee Logan Kelly.
Rosellen Brown is the author of five novels including 1992's Before and After and three collections of poetry, Some Deaths in the Delta, Cora Fry, and Cora Fry’s Pillow Book. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Award-winning poet and essayist Judith Valente earns her living as a journalist. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of the 2009 poetry collection, Discovering Moons and the poetry chapbook Inventing An Alphabet.
Joshua Young is the author of four collections, most recently THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE. His work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Fugue, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, Salt Hill, Night Block, Alice Blue, RHINO, and others. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Lettered Streets Press, and Associate Director of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches in the MFA and BA programs.
Harlee Logan Kelly was raised in Portland, Oregon. She is currently an MFA student at Columbia College Chicago in Illinois where she lives and writes poems.