Join us on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM for our April Watershed Reading featuring Austin Segrest, Andrew Chi Keong Yim, and Lily Someson. Followed by a short Q&A, the authors will be signing and selling their books.
April Watershed Reading
Austin Segrest is the author of the poetry collections Groom (Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and Door to Remain, winner of the 2021 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award. Originally from Alabama, he lives in Appleton, Wisconsin and teaches at Lawrence University.
Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He was awarded the 2024 New Voices Award in Poetry from Washington Square Review, selected by Terrance Hayes, and is a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Adroit Journal, Frozen Sea, Shō Poetry Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, and other publications. Andrew has taught with the Wisconsin Prison Humanities Project and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was the Martha Meir Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellow in poetry and received the August Derleth Prize for fiction. His debut poetry collection, The Ninth Island, is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press in Spring 2027. Andrew lives in Queens and is a public school teacher in New York City.
Lily Someson (she/they) is a poet from Gary, Indiana. She is the author of Mistaken for Loud Comets, winner of the Host Publications Spring 2021 chapbook prize, and has been published in the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Daily, Underblong, and Court Green among others. She graduated with her MFA in Poetry from Vanderbilt University and is now the co-owner of Baldwin's Books & Records, a radical bookstore pop-up in Madison, WI.
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