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

July Watershed Reading

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.

Clinton DeWitt poet Wisconsin

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

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, poet and essayist

Natasha Oladokun is a poet and essayist. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Jackson Center for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Harvard Review Online, Pleiades, Kenyon Review Online, The Adroit Journal, Image, The RS 500, and elsewhere. She is Associate Poetry Editor at Story South, and is the inaugural First Wave Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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