Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60654
United States
Free and open to the public. Registration requested via Eventbrite.
Join the Poetry Foundation for a reading with John James, winner of a Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, and Bagley Wright Fellow Dorothea Lasky. James is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole as winner of the 2018 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, and Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. Lasky has published five collections of poetry, most recently Milk and ROME, as well as several chapbooks. She was awarded a Bagley Wright Fellowship in 2013 and is an associate professor of poetry at Columbia University.
At 30 minutes before event start, guests with Eventbrite tickets will have priority entry to the performance space on a first-come, first-served basis. At 15 minutes prior to event start, the performance space is open to all guests. Seating capacity is limited. Eventbrite reservations do not guarantee entry or reserved seating. There will be an ASL interpreter at this event.
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John James
John James is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole as winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley.
This winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss.