A reading, live music, & visual art presentation

What is the relationship between fleeing and feeling? How can the voices of those who came before – and the stutters that leaven those voices – carry into our present moment, mingling with our own? JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies asks what rites we need now and how poetry, astir in the asters, can help them along.  Extending the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine), Ellis rewrites history, creating a world that blooms backward, reimagining what it means for Black and disabled people to have taken, and to continue to take, their freedom. Greenlight invites you to join us in welcoming JJJJJerome to our event stage where we can gather and heal.

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