About this Event
Join us to celebrate the publication of poet Cass Eddington's book The Fold! This event will feature readings & music from a stellar lineup -- Rachel Franklin Wood, Caroline Rayner, Luke Leavitt, and Cass Eddington. Doors will open at 4pm with optional interactive art-making available to participants. Poetry will begin at 4:30pm with a musical intermission of ambient jazz.
We encourage everyone to prepurchase their books before the event as we cannot guarantee book availability without prepurchase.
Masks will be provided & are optional. There will be some projection during one of the readings, no flashing lights.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Cass Eddington's debut collection of poems, The Fold, explores what it means to become a speaking subject as a trans ex-Mormon poet. This isn’t a story of a new Zion, but a story of how Zion entraps you, how escape hatches can be formed through affinities with Outside. A durational performance resulting from a year-and-a-half-long itinerancy and lack of risk aversion, the fold occupies the edge of risk and play to interrupt attachments to scarcity and survival narratives, instead discovering desire and its forms.
Through the fold's serial work, Eddington seeks to envision conditions for self-sovereignty and interdependence, to experience this physically as a precarious body with other precarious bodies, to co-create new economies. Like pollinators moving from flower to flower, touching surfaces create folds, new forms of belonging, the social and the sensuous becoming the plane of ethical action.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cass Eddington is an artist, educator, and ecological landscaper originally from Utah. Author of chapbooks Vernal Hurt (Magnificent Field) and TRANSIT (Spiral Editions), and The Fold (Beautiful Days), they hold a PhD in English and Literary Arts from University of Denver and are the creator of Vocational Poetics. Through Re/Visionary Gardens, they co-create gardens in so-called "Denver" where they live with their dog Jupiter, mad and disarmed by the tall grasses.
EVENT SCHEDULE
4:00pm Doors open, audience members encouraged to participate with available art-making materials
4:30pm Poetry Reading & Music
5:45(ish)pm Book signing and informal conversation
ACCESSIBILITY
Parking: Metered street parking is available (parallel parking) on Market St. Paid lots are available within a few blocks. The closest one is on 21st and Market St.
Entrance Access: Our front door is at street level and manually operated, accessible for wheelchairs and mobility aids. The rest of the block has sidewalks raised by five steps; however, the bike lane offers a step-free route down the block with minimal car traffic.
Restrooms: All-gender restrooms. Just like at home.
Communication: All staff on site speak English. There will be one Spanish speaking staff member. We welcome communication via translation apps (Google Translate is available). While we do not use ASL, we’re happy to communicate through apps or other tools that work for you.
Alcohol Policy: No alcohol will be served or permitted at this event.
Questions or Requests: Please contact us at [email protected] with any accessibility needs or questions.
We encourage everyone to prepurchase their books before the event as we cannot guarantee book availability without prepurchase.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Shop at MATTER, 2114 Market Street, Denver, United States
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