Archive(s) of Style
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, February 27th, from 6PM - 7PM
Hybrid
A poetry reading featuring Cheryl Clarke, Harmony Holiday, Natalia Molebatsi, and Nikki Patin.
In honor of Audre Lorde’s birthday (February 18) and Black History Month, celebrate an intergenerational lineage of “glocal” (global + local) Black queer feminist poets. Cheryl Clarke visits Chicago with a retrospective collection Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems and reads alongside Harmony Holiday, Natalia Molebatsi, and Nikki Patin. Through memory and across time, these four poets render dynamic and radical archives of desire, music, lineage, and style.
Power lines from the poets:
“I’ve been written out of so many stories… I had to write my own.”
–Nikki Patin, Working on Me: A Memoir
“in your arms
of imagi-
nation
and you blow-
ing some old
song: yeah yeah”
–Cheryl Clarke, Forsaken Elegies
“Power with all the wars in it ain’t shit in a flawed system besides self-destruction may all our enemies become powerful and empty in the west”
–Harmony Holiday, Sex Tape or Future and Audre Lorde fall in love
This event is presented in partnership with Northwestern University’s Performance Studies and Black Arts Consortium as part of the Poetry Foundation’s spring 2025 season, Power Lines.
Additional Information
All Poetry Foundation events are completely free of charge and open to the public.
Advanced registration is encouraged.
The performance space is ADA-compliant and wheelchair-accessible.
The program will feature CART captioning and ASL interpretation.
For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation, please visit our Accessibility Guide.
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