Northwest Cultural Council hosts artist’s reception and poetry reading
Submitted by Northwest Cultural Council
Northwest Cultural Council invites the public to attend a reception for Chris Dombrowski, poet from Missoula, Mont., and Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Arlington Green Executive Centre, 2101 S. Arlington Heights Road in Arlington Heights. Dombrowski will read his poetry from his newly published Chapbook, “Earth Again.”
Admission is free, and refreshments will be served.
The second full-length collection from award-winning poet Chris Dombrowski, “Earth Again” transports readers to an imaginative world where identity is explored and expanded. With a mixture of long poems and shorter pieces, Dombrowski probes birth, death, sex, memory and our blessed but treacherous engagement with the natural world. While he writes from a number of points of view and employs both male and female speakers, much of the collection’s singular insight centers around masculine identity and being a husband and a father.
Chris Dombrowski is the author of “By Cold Water,” Wayne State University Press, 2009, (which was noted as a contemporary poetry best-seller by the Poetry Foundation in 2009), a finalist for Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year, and two chapbooks, Fragments with “Dusk in Them” and “September Miniatures with Blood and Mars.” His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Making Poems, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry.
Work by Northwest Cultural Council’s Corporate Gallery Artist, oil painter Gary Drake, will also be on display.
Drake lives in the Arlington Heights area. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa in drawing and sculpture and an master’s degree from Northern Illinois University in sculpture. He also studied children’s’ book illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. For thirty-five years he taught art in the schools of Northwest Suburban High School District 214.
For additional information regarding the exhibition and reception, call the council at (847) 991-7966.
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