North Stage
Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm

Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate, interdisciplinary artist avery r. young [he, him, his] is an inaugural Walder Foundation Platform awardee, and recipient of the American Poet Laureate Fellowship. A co-director of The Floating Museum, his poetry, performance and composition have been featured and/or commissioned in several journals, exhibitions and operas. He is the composer and librettist for a new commissioned work from the Lyric Opera of Chicago titled safronia. His full length recording tubman. is the soundtrack to his collection of poetry, neckbone: visual verses.