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| Featured Poets: | Jim Ferris, Leroy F. Moore, Barry Silesky |
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May 18, 2013, 6 p.m.
Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL
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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, the founding editor of Another Chicago Magazine, and an instructor at the School of the Art Institute and Loyola University. |
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| Sponsored by Poetry Foundation |
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| Info: |
312-799-8065
kgecan@poetryfoundation.org
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/programs/event/2003 |
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