Join us on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 7:00 PM for our April Watershed Reading featuring Deshawn McKinney, J.L. Conrad, and Kate Partridge. McKinney, Conrad, and Partridge will be reading poetry.
April Watershed Reading
Deshawn McKinney is a writer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin working in whatever medium is best to tell the story. His work appears in journals such as Lolwe, Ploughshares, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Deshawn has performed around the world, from Kingston, Jamaica to London, England, serves as the Writer in Residence for Madison Writers’ Studio’s Fourth Lake Writing Retreat and is a two time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2016 Truman Scholar, a 2017 Marshall Scholar, and holds a Master in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Master in Creative Writing – Poetry from the University of East Anglia. His debut chapbook, father forgive me, was published by Black Sunflowers Poetry Press in 2021. His first full length collection is slated for release in late 2024.
J.L. Conrad is the author of the full-length poetry collections A World in Which (Terrapin Books) and A Cartography of Birds (Louisiana State University Press), as well as the chapbooks Recovery (winner of the 2022 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize, Texas Review Press) and Not If But When (winner of the third annual Dead Lake Chapbook Contest, Salt Hill). Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sugar House Review, Salamander, Jellyfish, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Kate Partridge is the author of two poetry collections: THINE (Tupelo, 2023) and Ends of the Earth (U of Alaska, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Field, Michigan Quarterly Review, Yale Review, and other journals. She is an assistant professor at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
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