Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is "Onement Won," out from Wave Books. She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College.

Self-proclaimed “Curator of Trash (found words, sounds, objects and space)," julie ezelle patton’s recent work includes the hand embellished "Flower Poem" (Tender Buttons Press, 2024), the forthcoming "J Walking thru the Alphabet" featuring “summa” their concrete, visual and textual poetics from the late 70s onward (Nightboat Books, 2025), and "ARKiTEXT" (Chicago Review: Vol. 67,  2024), which highlights a live-in readymade and green space holding space for creative output of Theresa Ramey, Cliff Clay, Albert Wagner, Russell Atkins, the "Womb Room Tomb" installation which opened in the 2018 Front International Triennial to much acclaim, and the Bookies, a tribe of performing cats. Ezelle-Patton, recipient of an Acker, NYFA, Doan Brook Watershed Hero, Foundation for Contemporary Art  awards, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Core Resident Fellowship and Denniston Hill Residency, enjoys in the moment collaborations with instrumentalists Nasheet Waits, Janice Lowe, Drew Gardner, Andrew Levy, and Abou Farman’s "Ad Hoc Collective for Improvising Mourning Technologies for Future Grief "along with Sholegh Asgary.  

Please join us in the Community Foundation Theater, located in Gund Gallery, on Thursday, April 9, at 5 p.m.

Sponsored by the Robert P. Hubbard Professorship with the Department of English.

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