Drury Brennan working on ulteriori ombre at the Poetry Foundation. 

The work is a calligraphic reaction to the libretto “Freedom of Shadow,” in honor of Douglas Kearney, in tribute to Terry Adkins—in conversation with both. The work is in part a reverberation of Adkin’s and Kearney’s first one-on-one conversation about their collaboration, in particular the first note Douglas took, which served as mooring: “behavioral feeling of performed ethnicity.”

See it this evening at The Open Door Reading featuring DePaul University's Chris Green with his student Clare Stuber and Loyola University's Aaron Baker with student Lucy Schoyer

Or tomorrow at Poetry off the Shelf: Ana Castillo, Cristina Correa, & Paul Martínez Pompa

Or Thursday at Graywolf Press 40th Anniversary with Claudia Rankine, Matthea Harvey, and Katie Ford

And you can meet Brennan, Kearney, and Jeanty at the reception for Freedom of Shadow: A Tribute to Terry Adkins.

Photos by Chelsea Avery