January Watershed Reading | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

January Watershed Reading

Join us at 7:00pm on Saturday, January 21, 2023 for a riveting night of poetry at Arts + Literature Laboratory. This month's Watershed Reading features Adam Fell, Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, and T.S. Banks. Adam Fell, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and UW-Madison, is the author of Catastrophizer and two poetry books: Dear Corporation and I Am Not a Pioneer. Mandy Moe Pwint Tu is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at UW-Madison and is the author of two poetry chapbooks, titled Monsoon Daughter and Unsprung. T.S. Banks is a Black and QTDisabled, non-binary teaching artist, poet, and playwright, with three chapbooks titled Call Me Ill, Left, and Split.

poet Adam Fell, male with curly light hair

Adam Fell is the author of Catastrophizer, winner of the Sixth Finch 2022 Chapbook Contest, and two books of poetry: Dear Corporation, (Forklift Books 2019) and I Am Not A Pioneer (2011), winner of the 2011 Posner Poetry Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and UW-Madison, and is an Associate Professor of English at Edgewood College in Madison, WI, where he curates the Monsters of Poetry reading series.

Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, women with red framed glasses and black hair. Pink flowers in the background

Mandy Moe Pwint Tu is a writer and a poet from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work has appeared in Longleaf Review, West Trestle Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Monsoon Daughter (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022) and Unsprung (Newfound, 2022). Find her on Twitter @mandrigall.

T. Banks poet and activist, male with dark framed glasses

T. S. Banks (he/him) is a Black & QTDisabled, non-binary teaching artist, poet, and playwright from Madison, WI. He is the Founder of Loud ‘N UnChained Theater Co. His work addresses visioning for Black Liberation, a critique of the medical system, radical care + access, madness, QT Liberation, disability justice, & abolition. T's chapbooks "Call Me ill" , "Left" & "SPLIT" can all be found on his website. 

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