Saretta Morgan, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, and Ed Roberson celebrate ALT-NATURE
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, March 9th, at 6PM
We’re excited to welcome Saretta Morgan, Imani Elzabeth Jackson, and Ed Roberson to the store for an event in celebration of Saretta’s new collection Alt-Nature.
To foil the context was to outrun the authority’s imagination. And to refuse all explanations of why what we felt was not real.
To disarm the wolf every time at every gate. Unthread its learnedness and don the lonely pelt.
The poems of Alt-Nature move in desert dreams and riverbeds. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling and connection in the American Southwest. Being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation, globalized/ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love.
Saretta Morgan was born in Appalachia and raised on military installations. She’s interested in the ecologies and intimacies that materialize in the shadows of U.S. militarization. She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative and organizes with the grassroots humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths, and with About Face: Veterans Against the War.
Imani Elizabeth Jackson makes poetic texts, textiles, and experiences. Her writings include the chapbooks saltsitting (g l o s s, 2021) and Context for arboreal exchanges (Belladonna*, 2023) as well as one collection, Flag (forthcoming from Futurepoem, 2024).
Ed Roberson’s work is foundational to the landscape of contemporary ecopoetics. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently, Aquarium Works (2022), Asked What has Changed (2022), MPH + Other Road Poems (2021), and To See the Earth Before the End of the World (2010), which was a runner up for the Los Angeles Times Poetry Award. He is a Chancellor of the Academy for American Poets and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Jackson Poetry Prize and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Chicago, where he has taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College, and Northwestern University.
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