Devin Johnston - "Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026"
Schedule
Sat May 16 2026 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637 | Chicago, IL
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Devin Johnston will discuss "Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026." A Q&A and signing will follow after the reading. At the Co-op.
About the book: "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.
About the author: 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.
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