Join us on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM for our February Watershed Reading featuring Traci Brimhall, Winniebell Xinyu Zong, and Dana Maya. Followed by a short Q&A, the authors will be signing and selling their books.
February Watershed Reading
Traci Brimhall is a professor of creative writing and narrative medicine at Kansas State University. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Love Prodigal (published November 2024 by Copper Canyon). Her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, the National Parks Service, the Academy of American Poets, and Purdue Library’s Special Collections to study the lost poem drafts of Amelia Earhart. She’s the current poet laureate for the State of Kansas.
Winniebell Xinyu Zong is a Chinese poet and the 2024–2025 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, swamp pink, and the Southern Review, among others. Winner of the Meridians Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award and the Mellon Fellowship for the Urban Justice Lab, Zong taught creative writing as a lecturer at Cornell University, where she received her MFA. You can find them at winniebellxzong.com. Zong believes in a free Palestine in our lifetimes and denounces all forms of imperial occupation and complicity.
Dana Maya is a writer and educator from what Américo Paredes called “Greater Mexico”—a space transcending geopolitical, cultural, linguistic, and creative borders. Her poetry, essays, and multimedia work appear in Feminist Formations, the Volta, So to Speak Journal, Basta: 100+Latinas Against Gender Violence, Listen to Your Mother, Migrations and Home: Elements of Place, the A Line Meant Anthology, museums, memorials, and other public sites. Her research background is in Mexican-American/Chicanx Literature and culture, US immigrant literatures, and queer studies. A collaborator with community organizations and visual artists on projects for social change, she coordinates POEMA [] PINTURA, has been a Writing the Land poet since 2023, and was Artist in Residence for Dane County Arts in 2025.
Dana has collaborated with video artist Aaron Granat on two live video events for the Midwest Video Poetry Fest in 2022 and... Read More
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