Permaculturist, Poet, Performer, Visual Artist, Julie Ezelle Patton is the author of Using Blue To Get Black, Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake, and A Garden Per Verse (or What Else Do You Expect from Dirt?). Patton operates the Let it Bee Ark Hive (LIB), a living, breathing residential dwelling. The Glenville dwelling has served as a housing cooperative dating back to 1949, a literary aerie, and a community green space.