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Arts + Lit Lab | Winter Festival of Poetry: Week 1
January 22 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Winter Festival of Poetry: Week 1
Join the Arts + Literature Laboratory as we kick off the 2023 Winter Festival of Poetry on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 2 PM. The Winter Festival of Poetry, a program of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, is Wisconsin’s longest continuously running poetry program of its size. Hosted by poet James Roberts, this 8-week series features six poets each week, reading for roughly 10-12 minutes each. The series runs from January 22 to March 12. The theme this year is cheese.
Free admission, but donations help us pay poets and run great programs.
This week’s readers are:
- Madeleine Bohn
- Angela Trudell-Vasquez
- Rusty Russell
- Cristin Jacque
- Ron Czerwien
- Rachel Werner
- Olga Trubetskoy
Each week a different variety of cheese will be featured and fun facts about cheese presented.
The Winter Festival of Poetry is supported by is supported by Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc, charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
Additional support provided by Oscar Mireles, Bryan Thao Worra, Fran and Louis Rall, A Place to Be, Cafe Coda, Gillian Nevers, Lynn Patrick Smith, Robin Chapman, Marilyn L. Taylor, Katrin Talbot, Anon Y. Mouse, Tim Walsh, and Bent Paddle Press, American Family Insurance/Colleen Frentzel, Avol’s Bookstore, Fromagination, Hummingbird Press, White Hawk Press, and Mystery To Me.