LEE ANN BROWN
LETS IT B WITH
JULIE EZELLE PATTON
LETS IT B WITH
JULIE EZELLE PATTON
Sunday,
October 25, 2026
3:30pm
Doors
4pm
Event begins
with
Janice Lowe
and Joyce LeeAnn
Limited capacity
October 25, 2026
3:30pm
Doors
4pm
Event begins
with
Janice Lowe
and Joyce LeeAnn
Limited capacity
Bartleby ("I prefer not to")
The house that hack shit built
Fragments
Detritus
Cast offs
Eco oikos logical
Biome
To be or not
B is for balancing act
Be as in art, to come into existence
& behold
So why all this background noise or mulch ado about nothing?
Thinking about it as habit and habitat
B is for breaking
And the bad habit of thinking I'm saving some worlds this way
Writing on the Walls
Suddenly makes sense
When time is about
the essence of freeing
Less about any one
Thing
than a
Thang
Less pronoun
ced
than verb
— julie ezelle patton
The house that hack shit built
Fragments
Detritus
Cast offs
Eco oikos logical
Biome
To be or not
B is for balancing act
Be as in art, to come into existence
& behold
So why all this background noise or mulch ado about nothing?
Thinking about it as habit and habitat
B is for breaking
And the bad habit of thinking I'm saving some worlds this way
Writing on the Walls
Suddenly makes sense
When time is about
the essence of freeing
Less about any one
Thing
than a
Thang
Less pronoun
ced
than verb
— julie ezelle patton
This is a fundraiser for Julie Ezelle Patton’s Let it Bee Ark Hive.
It’s a four-story apartment building at 1387 East Boulevard, in the Glenville neighborhood in Cleveland, built in 1913. The house is a living sculpture. Bedroom closets contain entire art exhibitions, multi-media installations take over staircases, hand-drawn murals cover the walls, and someone glued a row of pennies to the floorboards.
Many have visited the house over the years. One is the poet Lee Ann Brown, who is our host for this event. She begins by sharing some video footage she’s taken from the house in Cleveland. Julie then joins her to perform what she calls a “site-specific improvisation”: a guided tour of the house that takes the form of a performance, or a poem, or a bit of both.
In order to do this, Julie obviously needs to be in the house, in Cleveland, so we watch her performance via a live zoom call.
Watching her, alongside Lee Ann and all of us at 222 Bowery, is the musician Janice Lowe, who accompanies Julie on piano. In Cleveland, Janice is joined by Joyce LeeAnn. While Janice and Joyce both respond to the poet’s tour and tinkerings, Julie narrates her Arkitext—her “house-book” made of architecture and text.
It’s a four-story apartment building at 1387 East Boulevard, in the Glenville neighborhood in Cleveland, built in 1913. The house is a living sculpture. Bedroom closets contain entire art exhibitions, multi-media installations take over staircases, hand-drawn murals cover the walls, and someone glued a row of pennies to the floorboards.
Many have visited the house over the years. One is the poet Lee Ann Brown, who is our host for this event. She begins by sharing some video footage she’s taken from the house in Cleveland. Julie then joins her to perform what she calls a “site-specific improvisation”: a guided tour of the house that takes the form of a performance, or a poem, or a bit of both.
In order to do this, Julie obviously needs to be in the house, in Cleveland, so we watch her performance via a live zoom call.
Watching her, alongside Lee Ann and all of us at 222 Bowery, is the musician Janice Lowe, who accompanies Julie on piano. In Cleveland, Janice is joined by Joyce LeeAnn. While Janice and Joyce both respond to the poet’s tour and tinkerings, Julie narrates her Arkitext—her “house-book” made of architecture and text.
Photo by julie ezelle patton
Lee Ann Brown is a poet and the author of Other Archer (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2015), In the Laurels, Caught (Fence Books, 2013), Crowns of Charlotte (Carolina Wren Press, 2013), The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan, 2003), and Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press, 1999). In 1989, she founded Tender Buttons Press, which is dedicated to publishing experimental women’s poetry. She lives in New York.
julie ezelle patton is a permaculturist, poet, performer, and artist. She is the author of The Flower Poem (2015), Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake (2007), and “Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna (2003). J Walking Through the Alphabet, her much-anticipated collection, comes out in December 2026 from Nightboat. She lives in New York and Cleveland.
julie ezelle patton is a permaculturist, poet, performer, and artist. She is the author of The Flower Poem (2015), Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake (2007), and “Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna (2003). J Walking Through the Alphabet, her much-anticipated collection, comes out in December 2026 from Nightboat. She lives in New York and Cleveland.
Janice Lowe, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and poet leads the poetry and music ensemble NAMAROON and is the author of Leaving CLE poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press.) Lowe was commissioned to compose the multimedia theater piece OLIO: A Syncopated Citizenry of Sun-drenched Sable Soliloquies, a collaboration with poet Tyehimba Jess, based on his Pulitzer Prize-awarded collection.
Joyce LeeAnn is an archivist and an interdisciplinary artist. She has performed at at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, House of Yes, Brooklyn Museum, Shades of Burlesque and Jeezy’s Juke Joint revues, Coney Island USA, Underground Cabaret, Bijou Theater, as well as with Dandy Wellington and his band.
Joyce LeeAnn is an archivist and an interdisciplinary artist. She has performed at at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, House of Yes, Brooklyn Museum, Shades of Burlesque and Jeezy’s Juke Joint revues, Coney Island USA, Underground Cabaret, Bijou Theater, as well as with Dandy Wellington and his band.
