Join us to celebrate the publication of Sheltering with Poems, a gathering of Wisconsin poets building durable rooms of meaning and hope. In his foreword to the anthology, former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Max Garland “modestly” proposes “adding poets and artists to the list of essential workers.” While not as vital or heroic as nurses, doctors, teachers and “those among us doing what needs to be done day after day,” Garland says poetry can relate the “ongoing news of what happens in the hearts and minds of ordinary people facing extraordinary peril. News from the front lines of feeling.”

The poets in this anthology are nurses and lawyers, teachers and scientists, artists, students, booksellers and business owners. Their poems speak to all of us going through this pandemic together.

“If there is shelter in poetry, or art itself, it’s a movable shelter,” Garland writes, “an ancient antigen, shelter that preserves, but also reinvigorates; comforts, but also reawakens our latent capacity for healing.”

This event will be livestreamed on Facebook and on our YouTube channel.

Featured Poets:
ANGELA VORAS-HILLS
RON CZERWIEN
LORA KELLER
SCOTT LOWERY
AE HEE LEE
KATRIN TALBOT
ANGIE TRUDELL VASQUEZ
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL
LEE KATHRYN HODGE
SUSAN FIRER

The Watershed Reading Series is supported in part 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.

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