Join us for a reading and conversation with Ed Roberson, author of Asked What Has Changed (Wesleyan University Press, 2021), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize; Matthew Goulish, author of Kingfisher (Both Are Worse, 2024); and Patrick Morrissey, author of Light Box (Verge Books, 2023).

Ed Roberson is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Aquarium Works (Nion Editions, 2022), MPH and Other Road Poems (Verge Books, 2021), and Asked What Has Changed (Wesleyan University Press, 2021). His varied career has included work in Pittsburgh steel mills, in an advertising graphics agency, as a limnologist’s assistant, and as a Rutgers University administrator. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the recipient of many honors, Roberson lives in Chicago, where he has taught at Northwestern University, Columbia College, and the University of Chicago.

Matthew Goulish co-founded Every house has a door in 2008 with director Lin Hixson. He is dramaturg and performer for the company. His books include 39 microlectures—in proximity of performance (Routledge, 2001), The Brightest Thing in the World—3 Lectures from the Institute of Failure (Green Lantern Press, 2012), and Pitch and Revelation—Reconfigurations of Reading, Poetry, and Philosophy through the Work of Jay Wright, co-authored with Will Daddario (Punctum Books, 2022). He teaches in the Writing Program of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Patrick Morrissey’s most recent publications are the pamphlet Makeshift (Ben Tinterstices Editions, 2024) and the book Light Box (Verge Books, 2023). His essays have appeared in Annulet, Chicago Review, Common Place, and elsewhere. In 2024, the Friends of Lorine Niedecker hosted his talk “Niedecker's Binoculars.” He teaches at the University of Chicago.

Reading and Conversation: Ed Roberson, Matthew Goulish, and Patrick Morrissey