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Arts + Lit Lab | Prof. Nelson Poetry Reading!

April 16, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join the Arts and Literature Laboratory in celebrating National Poetry Month with this free, in-person reading on Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 7pm CST. We’ll be featuring poets K. Iver, Jennifer Nelson, and Austin Segrest. The reading is followed by a brief Q&A.

K. Iver poet

K. Iver is a trans nonbinary poet born in Mississippi. Their work has appeared in Boston ReviewGulf CoastPuerto del SolSalt HillTriQuarterly, and elsewhere. They are the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow for the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University.

Austin Segrest poet

Originally from Birmingham, AL, Austin Segrest teaches poetry at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. Door to Remain, his first poetry collection, won the 2021 Vassar Miller Prize.

Jennifer Nelson poet, woman looking at camera with blue water behind her

Jennifer Nelson is the author most recently of Harm Eden (Ugly Duckling Presse), as well as of Civilization Makes Me Lonely (Ahsahta) and Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife (UDP). She is also an art historian teaching at UW-Madison and the author of Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors (Penn State UP).

Details

Date:
April 16, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Website:
https://artlitlab.org/events/april-watershed-reading-0

Venue

Arts + Literature Laboratory
111 S. Livingston St. #100
Madison, WI 53703 United States
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Phone:
608.556.7415
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