Friday, September 10: Monsters of Poetry

September 10, 7:30 PM
The Project Lodge, 817 E. Johnson

Tonight at the Project Lodge, Monsters of Poetry presents:

KEETJE KUIPERS earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, and Soapstone, as well as awards from Atlanta Review and Nimrod. Her book, Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, was published in March 2010 by BOA Editions. She teaches writing at the University of Montana and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

MATTHEW GUENETTE’s first book Sudden Anthem won the 2007 American Poetry Journal Prize from Dream Horse Press. His second book, American Busboy, an editor’s choice in the 2010 Akron Press Poetry Contest, will be published in 2011. He lives and plays in Madison.

JAMES CREWS is from St. Louis, Missouri and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His manuscript The Book of What Stays was recently awarded the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and will be published in 2011 by University of Nebraska Press. He is the author of the chapbook, What Has Not Yet Left, which won the 2009 Copperdome Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press and two other chapbooks —Bending the Knot (Gertrude Press Chapbook Prize, 2008) and One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes: A Poem After the Life and Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Parallel Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2006 and 2009, basalt, Columbia, Prairie Schooner, Court Green, Crab Orchard Review and several other journals. In December, he will be a writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City. You can find his work at www.jameshcrews.com.

C.E. PERRY graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1992 and Dartmouth Medical School in 1999. She has worked as a waitress, construction worker, nursing assistant, poetry instructor, and a physician for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Her work has been published in Southeast Review, Harpur Palate, Margie, Pool, and Ploughshares. Sarabande Books published her first book of poetry, Night Work in 2009. She is a family medicine physician in Madison, Wisconsin where she lives an a 107 year old house with her family.

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Farewell Friends

Hey Y'all,

It's been an excellent year for readings--sometimes yielding an embarrassment of riches--, but another semester is over so it's time to pack it in. Don't be sad. Remember Wallace Stevens, who says "The world is larger in summer."

In the fall, the readings coordinator job expands, as well. Alyssa Knickerbocker and Vanessa Merina, both UW-Madison MFA candidates in fiction, will dazzle you next year as the Program in Creative Writing's readings coordinators! That's right coordinators, plural!

Have a great summer, and check back periodically to see what the program's up to. You know that once September rolls around, you won't want to miss out on anything. Thanks for visiting this blog, and--more importantly--for coming to our many readings and contributing to the vibrant literary community here in Madison.

Be well,
Ryan

Thursday, May 7: An Evening of Fiction & Poetry

Emma Straub reads fiction and Traci Brimhall reads poetry. You won't want to miss this.

Thursday, May 7th
7pm - 8pm
Helen C. White Hall
Room 6191

Two Great Readings Next Thursday, April 30

It's the first annual English 695 fiction and poetry reading, where undergraduate creative writing students read work from their thesis projects. This reading is hosted by the Madison Review.

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Also on April 30: you're invited to join distinguished poet Martin Espada -- a UW-Madison alum known as "the" Latino poet of his generation, and "the" Pablo Neruda of North America --
for a poetry performance you will find at once illuminating, humorous, moving, and interdisciplinary.

The main event takes place at Pyle Center, on Thursday, 30 April at 7pm:
POETRY OF THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION:
A READING BY MARTIN ESPADA

There will also be two brownbag lectures by Espada: "The Redemption of Pablo Neruda," at noon on Thursday the 30th of April, and "Colonialism and the Poetry of Rebellion" in Puerto Rico, at noon on Friday the 1st of May. The brownbags will be in 5233 Mosse Humanities Bldng.

Espada's poetry breaks down conventional knowledge boundaries. It unites powerfully literature and history, political and social analysis, ethnic studies and area studies. It puts forth an "Americas" vision that encompasses New York and Puerto Rico, Wisconsin and Chile. It produces an experience that is at once edgy and humane, funny and dramatic. Espada's thirty honors include two Paterson Awards for Sustained Literary Achievement, citation as Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and most recently, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award.

These events are co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Office of MultiCultural Arts Initiatives, the Department of History, LACIS (Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies), the Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History, the Comparative US Cultures Cluster, and Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies.

Tonight @ Avol's Bookstore:

Jennifer Militello & Ryan Walsh
Thursday, April 23, 7:00pm @ Avol's Bookstore

JENNIFER MILITELLO's first collection of poetry, Flinch of Song, was awarded the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Prize and will be published in Fall of 2009. She is the author of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and has had poems published in The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets 2008, among others. www.jennifermilitello.com

RYAN WALSH is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Ecotone, FIELD, Green Mountains Review, and Solo. He co-edits the literary journal Rivendell and is the editor & publisher of Pocket Press.

Two Great Readings Next Thursday, April 30

It's the first annual English 695 fiction and poetry reading, where undergraduate creative writing students read work from their thesis projects. This reading is hosted by the Madison Review.

* * * *

Also on April 30: you're invited to join distinguished poet Martin Espada -- a UW-Madison alum known as "the" Latino poet of his generation, and "the" Pablo Neruda of North America --
for a poetry performance you will find at once illuminating, humorous, moving, and interdisciplinary.

The main event takes place at Pyle Center, on Thursday, 30 April at 7pm:
POETRY OF THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION:
A READING BY MARTIN ESPADA

There will also be two brownbag lectures by Espada: "The Redemption of Pablo Neruda," at noon on Thursday the 30th of April, and "Colonialism and the Poetry of Rebellion" in Puerto Rico, at noon on Friday the 1st of May. The brownbags will be in 5233 Mosse Humanities Bldng.

Espada's poetry breaks down conventional knowledge boundaries. It unites powerfully literature and history, political and social analysis, ethnic studies and area studies. It puts forth an "Americas" vision that encompasses New York and Puerto Rico, Wisconsin and Chile. It produces an experience that is at once edgy and humane, funny and dramatic. Espada's thirty honors include two Paterson Awards for Sustained Literary Achievement, citation as Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and most recently, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award.

These events are co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Office of MultiCultural Arts Initiatives, the Department of History, LACIS (Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies), the Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History, the Comparative US Cultures Cluster, and Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies.