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Pygmalion: Donald Platt, Agie Patton, and Isabella Escamilla
Gallery Art Bar
119 W Main St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
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Presented in partnership with Department of English’s Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois and City of Urbana.
Donald Platt is the author of nine books of poetry, including Tender Voyeur forthcoming from Grid Books in the fall of 2025, Swansdown, winner of the 2022 Off the Grid Poetry Prize, One Illuminated Letter of Being (Red Mountain Press, 2020), Man Praying (Free Verse Editions / Parlor Press, 2017), and Tornadoesque (Cavankerry Press, 2016). His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The Nation, Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Tin House, Iowa Review, Southern Review, New Criterion, and Paris Review, as well as in Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, 2015 and 2025. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three Pushcart Prizes. He teaches in Purdue University’s English Department.
Angie Patton is an award-winning writer and published poet. Her book, Peachy was published in 2024. Angie’s professional career has centered around communications in all forms. Early in her career, she worked as a journalist and editor, when she didn’t know any better. Angie worked for the University of Illinois for over a decade as a communications professional. She currently serves as a chief of staff to an elected official in Champaign County. You won’t find her on a 40 Under 40 list, but she causes good trouble wherever she goes. Angie lives in Illinois with her 3 very cute but badly behaved dogs.
Isabella Piedad Escamilla was born and raised in Salinas, California, before moving to the Midwest to study plants and poetry.