Devin Johnston reads John Chamberlain with Ken Vandermark

Devin Johnston reads John Chamberlain with Ken Vandermark
Saturday, April 20, 2:00 PM

Please join Corbett vs. Dempsey in welcoming poet and publisher Devin Johnston, who will read a selection of works from the exhibition John Chamberlain: Black Mountain Poems 1955, as well as some of his own poems. Based in St. Louis, Johnston is the author of seven books of poetry, including Dragons (2023), Mosses and Lichens (2019), Far-Fetched (2015), Sources (2008, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Aversions (2004), and Telepathy (2001). His prose writing includes the critical study Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (2002) and Creaturely and Other Essays (2009). A former poetry editor for the Chicago Review from 1995-2000, Johnston co-founded and co-edits Flood Editions with Michael O’Leary. For this special reading, Johnston will be joined by saxophonist and clarinetist, Ken Vandermark, who will perform interludes between groupings of poems. Well-known to CvsD audiences, as a 1999 MacArthur Fellow and brilliant composer and bandleader, Vandermark's discography is vast, but recent entries include a 7-CD box set of duets with drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, Japan 2019 (2024), the debut CD of his quartet Edition Redux, Better a Rook than a Pawn (2023), and an LP of duets with drummer Hamid Drake, Eternal River (2022), released on CvsD.