CEGU

part 1 — introductions, terrains

part 2 – Cuyahoga, deindustrialization, ley lines

part 3 – readings, questions

a talk recorded on March 3rd, 2025 for the launch of julie ezelle patton: Arkitext, an issue of Chicago Review devoted to patton’s writing and work toward the artist-housing and land conservation project (Let it Bee) in Cleveland.

julie ezelle patton is a New York City and Cleveland-based poet and visual artist, and the founder of an eco-arts housing and land conservation project. patton is the author of Using Blue To Get Black, Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake and an edited selection of concrete, visual, textual, and eco-poetics from the 1970s to the near present forthcoming from Nightboat Books. patton’s performance work emphasizes improvisation, collaboration, and other worldy chora-graphs. Womb Room Tomb, an installation honoring artist Virgie Ezelle Patton, was featured in The FRONT International Triennial in 2018. patton is a recipient of awards from the Acadia Arts Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and the Lannan Foundation, who has taught at Cooper Union, Naropa University, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and the Schule fur Dichtung.

hosted by the Environmental Arts + Humanities Lab, Chicago Review, English, Creative Writing, Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization