After nearly fifty years in Iowa, France, Vermont and New York City, and deep into the global pandemic, Joanne Jacobson returned to southeast Evanston—the neighborhood where she grew up. Jacobson has published three memoirs set in Evanston: Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (2007); Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses (2020); and In the Photic Zone (2026). She has taught courses in American literature and culture and in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Angers, Middlebury College, and Yeshiva University. Since retiring and returning home in 2021, she has taught courses on writing about the body in the medical humanities programs at Northwestern and University of Illinois-Chicago.
About Ann Hudson
Ann Hudson is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Subtraction Isn’t Always Less (Next Page Press, 2024). She has received residencies from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Midwest Writing Center, and was the finalist for a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize. Ann is a senior editor for the poetry journal Rhino and a teaching artist and Director of Education for Hive Center for the Book Arts in Evanston, Illinois.
Partner Event: Writing About Home: A Writing Workshop
Sunday April 19 1-2pm At Hive Center for the Book Arts, 840 Custer Ave., Evanston
How can we use language to find our way back to places we consider “home”? Join Evanston writer Joanne Jacobson to learn about how we can start putting our own stories to paper. All experience levels welcome and encouraged. $5 off the $25 workshop cost for anyone who attends the April 12 event. Use promo code: EHC when registering. Info and register here.
*This in-person event will also be available on Facebook Live for those who cannot attend in person.
Through our community's generosity, we can offer these free programs! Please consider donating $10 to support our ongoing free public programming.
Please click the blue "Going" button below to RSVP. A confirmation email will be sent to the email you registered with.
If you don't receive a confirmation email, please email Erin Hughes at ehughes@evanstonhistorycenter.org.
URL:https://evanstonhistorycenter.org/event/talksehc-writing-re-writing-home-evanston-in-memoir/
LOCATION:Evanston History Center\, 225 Greenwood Street\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks@EHC,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:RHINO Reads at Home: Poetry Readings on Home and Belonging
DESCRIPTION:RHINO Reads at Home: Poetry Readings on Home and Belonging
Thursday, April 30 6:30pm
Free & Open to all. Scroll down to RSVP
In-person event
At the Evanston History Center
225 Greenwood Evanston, IL
Join the History Center and RHINO Poetry to close out National Poetry Month 2026 with a special evening of poetry readings inside the Dawes House. Featured poets from RHINO–all have a connection to Evanston via their work–will read selections curated around the theme of HOME. Home: both a contained dwelling and an expansive emotional concept providing belonging, safety, and comfort.
With Participating Poets
Kimberly Dixon-Mays, Richard Hamilton, Gail Goepfert, Jacob Saenz, Marcy Rae Henry, John McCarthy, and Chris Solis Green
About RHINO Poetry
The Poetry Forum/RHINO Poetry is a non-profit literary organization, primarily devoted to the publication of RHINO Poetry, an annual high-quality print journal featuring well-crafted, diverse poetry, flash fiction, and translations. RHINO Poetry occupies a niche somewhere between academia and the emerging poetry scene – devoted to creative work that tells stories, provokes thought, and pushes the boundaries in form and feeling – while connecting with our readers and audience. RHINO Poetry is the leader of the local poetry scene in Evanston-The Evanston Public Library was home to RHINO’s origins as a free community poetry workshop from the 1970s to 2020- and also a leader in the Chicago area, the Midwest region, nationally, and internationally.
Part of Home: Evanston, an exploration of what it means to make a home, and feel at home, in Evanston.
Through our community's generosity, we can offer these free programs! Please consider donating $10 to support our ongoing free public programming.
Please click the blue "Going" button below to RSVP. A confirmation email will be sent to the email you registered with.
If you don't receive a confirmation email, please email Erin Hughes at ehughes@evanstonhistorycenter.org.
URL:https://evanstonhistorycenter.org/event/rhino-reads-at-home-poetry-readings-on-home-and-belonging/
LOCATION:Evanston History Center\, 225 Greenwood Street\, Evanston\, IL\, 60201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks@EHC,Upcoming Events
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