The Watershed Reading Series is pleased to present poets DeWitt Clinton, Rebekah Denison Hewitt, and Natasha Oladokun. Drawing inspiration from conflict, motherhood, and jokes, these poets help you see the world anew with depth and humor.
July Watershed Reading
DeWitt Clinton is the author of The Conquistador Dog Texts and The Coyot. Inca Texts (New Rivers Press), At the End of the War (Kelsay Books, 2018), On a Lake by a Moon: Fishing with the Chinese Masters, (Is A Rose Press, 2019), and Hello There (Word Poetry, 2021) and six chapbooks. His poems and essays have appeared in the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, Cultural Studies< => Critical Methodologies, Storytelling Sociology: Narrative as Social Inquiry, Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry (Oxford U Press), and recently in Wise Guys: An Online Magazine, Negative Capability, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Verse-Virtual, Peacock Journal, Ekphrastic Review, Diaphanous Press, Meta/Phor(e)Play, The Arabesques Review, and the Santa Fe Literary Review. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of... Read More
Rebekah Denison Hewitt holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a Martha Meier Renk Graduate Fellow. Her poems and essays have appeared in Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and the Rumpus. She lives in Wisconsin with her family and works as a school librarian.
Natasha Oladokun is a Black, queer poet and essayist from Virginia. She earned a BA in English from the University of Virginia, and an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Jackson Center for Creative Writing, Twelve Literary Arts, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the inaugural First Wave Poetry fellow. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, Image, Harvard Review Online, Kenyon Review Online, Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and is working on her first collection of poems.
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