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Devin Johnston - "Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026"
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Featured Book
Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026
Bright Thorn, which distills Devin Johnston’s work across a quarter century and seven books, offers an alternative to our frenzied moment through poems diffused with Johnston’s characteristic calm measured feeling and striking formal intelligence. Historical, philosophical, closely observational, and rooted evenly in the deep poetic past and the daily rhythms of American life, these poems open the world to imaginative scrutiny. Johnston is a chronicler in a Yeatsian sense, whose eye, cast discerningly over the landscape, is affectionate yet icily clear.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
Devin Johnston will discuss Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026. A Q&A and signing will follow after the reading.
At the Co-op.
Featured Author
Devin Johnston
Devin Johnston was born in 1970 and spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of eight books books of poetry, including Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026. He works for Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University, in Missouri, where he lives.
About the Venue
Seminary Co-Op Bookstore
For over 60 years, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores has served as a cultural anchor in and beyond Chicago; as the first not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling, their stores, which include 57th Street Books, celebrate the power of the browsing experience to inspire curiosity, discovery, and delight.
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