THIS WEEK’S IMAGE UNION FEATURE: “Poetry 9-5” (Oct. 27-Nov. 2)

Written By Michael Workman

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Poetry 9-5

Description
“Poetry 9-5” by Jim Ferguson. Color video. A short documentary that features Elaine Equi, who discusses her personal relationship to poetry and her commitment to enlarge the audience for poetry. Also features Jerome Sala.

Runtime: 11 minutes, 9 seconds
Best Viewed: Any Screen, Cinema Presentation

Credits & Specifications
Director: Jim Ferguson

Appeared as Part of Image Union, Episode 0335
Air Date: 1981-05-04

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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