Is This Real
julie ezelle patton
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Poet, performer and visual artist, julie ezelle patton is the author of several publications, including Using Blue To Get Black (Tender Buttons, 2015) and Writing with Crooked Ink (Belladonna, 2015). Her most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024). A special issue of Chicago Review (Vol. 67, 2024), ARKiTEXT, focuses on patton’s “poetic conceits” and her role in the creation of Let it Bee (LIB) Arkhive. A recipient of an Acker Award, Doan Brook Watershed Hero Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Art Poetry Award, she divides her time between Harlem and the North Coast.
Founded in 2020, Three Fold is
an independent quarterly based in Detroit that presents exploratory points of view on arts, culture, and society in addition to original works in various media, including visual art,
literature, film and the performing arts. We solicit and commission contributions from artists, writers, and activists around the world. Three Fold is a publication of Trinosophes Projects, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in the historic Eastern Market neighborhood in downtown Detroit. Click here to check out Three Fold’s events page and view a schedule of the publication’s on-site activities.
Three Fold recognizes, supports, and advocates for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally-recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. We operate on occupied territories called Waawiiyaataanong, named by the Anishinaabeg and including the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), and Bodewatomi (Potawatomi) peoples. We hold to commit to Indigenous communities in Waawiiyaataanong, their elders, both past and present, and future generations.
