| Event Type: | Poetry Reading |
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| Event Date and Time: |
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
| Description: | The Bodies of Work Festival presents art and culture that illuminates the disability experience. Taking place in various locations throughout the city and suburbs, the festival features lectures, workshops, visual arts, film, and live performances. The Poetry Foundation hosts a reading by Jim Ferris, Leroy F. Moore,and Barry Silesky. Ferris is the author of Hospital Poems, which received the 2004 Main Street Rag book award, and several influential essays, including “The Enjambed Body.” He chairs the Disability Studies Program at the University of Toledo.Moore is the award-winning founder of Krip-Hop Nation and Sins Invalid. He has received many awards for his advocacy on race and disability matters. Acclaimed biographer of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and John Gardner, Silesky is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, This Disease; founding editor of Another Chicago Magazine; and an instructor at the School of the Art Institute and Loyola University. |
| Venue: (map) [1] |
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street Chicago, IL |
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Kristin Gecan
kgecan@poetryfoundation.org [3]
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http://www.poetryf...programs/event/200 [4]
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