Lab3 Reading: Poets, Quarks, and Dark Matter | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Lab3 Reading: Poets, Quarks, and Dark Matter

LAB3 is a collaboration between Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) and ALL to bring togther artists, scientists and high school students in collaborative teams. The goal the promotion of conversations among scientists, writers, artists, and students, which will connect scientific thinking and discoveries with artistic research and experimentation. Three poets share work inspired by this project and share their experiences working with scientists and students to create a collaborative project. Visual work created by the teams will also be on display in the galleries during the reading. 

Poet Katrin Talbot with pencils in her hair

Australian-born Katrin Talbot’s collection The Waiting Room for the Imperfect Alibis is forthcoming from Kelsay Books and she has 7 chapbooks*, two Pushcart Prize nominations and quite a few chickens. She also makes noise on the viola in the Madison Symphony Orchestra. 

*Wrong Number is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press and she has six other chapbooks, The Blind Lifeguard and Freeze-Dried Love, from Finishing Line Press, Attached: Poetry of Suffix, The Little Red Poem &  noun’d, verb, from dancing girl press, and St. Cecilia’s Daze, from Parallel Press. 

Photo by Ariana Karp

Guy Thorvaldsen Wisconsin Poet

Guy's poetry has appeared in Alembic, Alligator Juniper, Forge, Gulfstream, Zone 3, Poet Lore, and Verse Wisconsin.  His first book of poetry, Going to Miss Myself When I’m Gone, comes out in October 2017 from Aldrich Press.  Guy teaches  writing at Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin, and is also a journeyman carpenter, husband, father, and contributing poet/essayist for public radio.

 

Angie Trudell Vasquez Madison City Poet Laureate

Angela (Angie) Trudell Vasquez is a 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican-American writer, editor, publisher, and the former Poet Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2020-2024). She holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Finishing Line Press published her collections, In Light, Always Light, in May 2019, and My People Redux, in January 2022. In 2021, she attended the Macondo Writers Workshop started by Sandra Cisneros, and became a fellow, also known as a Macondista. In 2020 she published and co-edited a poetry anthology of Wisconsin poets, Through This Door, through her small press Art Night Books.

Portrait by Nicole Taylor

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