Julie Ezelle-Patton
Poet

Julie Ezelle-Patton is the author of Notes for (Sum) Nominally Awake (Portable Press, 2007), Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024).  J-Walking thru the Alphabet, an edited selection of Patton’s concrete, visual, and textual poetics is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. A special issue of Chicago Review (Vol. 67), ARKiTEXT,  focuses on Patton’s Let it Bee (LIB) Arkhive,  a "poetic conceit" housing art, stray cats, native trees,  and Womb Room Tomb, a site-specific installation centered around the art of painter/sculptor Virgie Patton, and featured in the 2018 Front International Triennial to much acclaim. A recipient of an Acker Award, Doan Brook Watershed Hero Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Art Poetry Award, Julie divides her time between NYC & the rest of the US. Patton has performed at numerous venues and international festivals Patton's sound and performance work emphasizes collaborative in-the-moment compositions with instrumentalists as diverse as Will Alexander, Uri Caine, Melanie Dyer, Brad Jones, Janice Lowe, Jay Rodriguez, Anita Schmaltz, Nasheet Waits, and others. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Critical Dialogues series.

The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University MFA Program in Creative Writing. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to read from and discuss their work to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. All events are free and open to the public.