Tandem Book launch: Matthew Goulish and Ken Taylor

December 14, 2024

Saturday, December 14 | 3:00 pm

Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present a tandem book launch event for found poem(s) by Ken Taylor with Ed Roberson and Kingfisher by Matthew Goulish, featuring readings from both books followed by a conversation between all the participants and John Corbett.

These two books approach collaboration from different directions, both of them in essence collaborations with poet Ed Roberson. In found poem(s), published by CvsD, Taylor's evocative color photographs taken around the city of Chicago provide grist for Roberson, who responded to the images with a new suite of poems. Kingfisher started with an existing poem of the same name by Roberson, to which Goulish applies his incredible interpretive insight, meditating on the difficult-to-track process of reading a poem. Both books will be available at the event.

Ed Roberson is a highly celebrated American poet who lives in Chicago. He began publishing in the early 1960s and has produced eight collections of poetry. Roberson was the recipient of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award (1998) and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award (2008).

Ken Taylor is a poet, playwrite, photographer, and publisher based in Chicago. The author of three books of poetry, two chapbooks, three plays, and a collaborative work with twelve artists, Taylor is the founder of selva obscura press and Three Count Pour, both of which he edits with Fred Moten.

Matthew Goulish is a dramaturg, writer, and educator. A co-founder of Every house has a door, a performance ensemble based in Chicago, Goulish is the author of numerous works including Pitch and Revelation: Reconfigurations of Reading, Poetry, and Philosophy Through the Work of Jay Wright, The Brightest Thing in the World: 3 Lectures from the Institute of Failure and 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance.