Come join us as five poets and writers wrestle with what it means to be a dangerous woman in our society, a woman with “legs, arms, stomach spilled over and up and out,” giving birth to a swarm of bees, a Lolita with a voice and purpose of her own making, a person who is both “the lady, yelling stop” and “the ape, shot down.”
Dangerous Women Reading
Rebecca Bedell is a first-year MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is working on a poetry thesis. She grew up on the gulf coast of Florida and studied Creative Writing at Princeton University. She hopes to amplify radical queer compassion and fluidity of identities through her poetics and teaching.
Jaimee Hills is the author of How to Avoid Speaking (Waywiser Press) which won of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She has been a featured reader in the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series at the Folger Shakespeare Library and her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, Drunken Boat, Blackbird, and elsewhere.
Kate Phelps is a born and raised Madisonian and long time poet for pleasure. She is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation in Sociology on the subject of girlhood, social media, body image, and sexuality. She works as a lecturer in the Gender and Women's Studies department at UW-Madison, and she is also a Mom. She lives with her wonderful partner and hilarious 14-month-old in Madison. In addition to writing and reading poetry, in her spare time she loves to paddle the Madison lakes, sing karaoke, bike to the Farmer's Market, play ultimate frisbee, and eat copious amounts of cheese.
Ty Phelps is a writer, teacher, and musician. He won The Gravity of the Thing’s 2016 Six Word Story Contest, was a finalist for Gigantic Sequins flash fiction contest, and has published work in Writespace and the 1001 Journal. Ty enjoys loud music, pine trees, decaf coffee, and playing drums of all sorts. He's back in Madison, his hometown, after a decade in Portland, Oregon.
Brandi Reissenweber's fiction has appeared in The Drum, Willow Springs, The Briar Cliff Review, Los Angels Review, and other journals. She was a James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and a writer-in-residence at the Kerouac Project of Orlando.
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