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Join Poetry Foundation president Robert Polito for a gallery talk and conversation with painter Trevor Winkfield as we approach the closing of his current show, Trevor Winkfield's Pageant. This intimate event is free and open to the public with RSVP to torsvp@poetryfoundation.org. Refreshments will be served.
Ian Spencer Bell writes and choreographs simultaneously, often relying on the music of his poetry to locate an emotional force and guide the rhythm of his movement. In this program, Bell dances Geography Solos and a new work, not yet titled, based on memories of his childhood home in rural Virginia.
Over the past five decades, Robert Adamson has produced 20 books of poetry and three books of prose. Adamson has won all the major Australian poetry awards, including the Christopher Brennan Prize for lifetime achievement, the Patrick White Award, and The Age Book of the Year Award for The Goldfinches of Baghdad. His most recent book is Net Needle (Flood Editions, 2015).
The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. March's Open Door Reading presents University of Illinois at Chicago's Andrea Witzke Slot and her student Eric McClure along with Columbia College's David Trinidad and his student Katherine Goldstein.
Although best known for his “Century Cycle” of plays detailing the African American experience in each decade of the last century, Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson began his writing career as a poet, creating pieces of uncommon beauty and energy. As part of Goodman Theatre’s six-week celebration of his life and career, the Poetry Foundation is pleased to present a special program of Wilson’s poetic writings.
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 February 26: Michael Miles: From Senegal to Seeger
7:00 PM: Michael J. Miles's acclaimed one-man show features the musical and written works of Pete Seeger, Carl Sandburg, Woody Guthrie, Walt Whitman, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mark Twain, and others. Protest, passion, politics, poetry—the banjo is the voice of the people.
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