Please join us on Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 7 PM to hear poets Allison Joseph, Philip Matthews, and Amy Gaeta read from their work. Allison Joseph is award-winning poet, teacher, outstanding literary citizen, and the author of 17 books. Philip Matthews (poem "The Giant")—whose work explores spirituality, queer power, ecology, family and home—is the author of Witch (Alice James Books, 2020) and the director of programs at Wormfarm Institute in Reedsburg. Amy Gaeta (poem "Homewreckers Anonymous"), a feminist disability activist and scholar, poet, punk, and PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose work explores mental illness, desire, and the impossibility of being human.
July Watershed Reading
Allison Joseph currently lives, teaches, and writes in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University. Her most recent collections of poems are Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books, 2022), Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2021), Professional Happiness (Backbone Press, 2021), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist in the poetry category for the 2019 NAACP Image Award. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. She is the widow of poet and editor Jon Tribble.
Philip Matthews is a poet and Tarot reader from eastern North Carolina whose work explores spirituality, queer power, ecology, family and home. He is the author of Witch (Alice James Books, 2020) and Wig Heavier Than A Boot (Kris Graves Projects, 2019), a collaboration with photographer David Johnson. Philip has received residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Hemera Foundation. He currently lives in Reedsburg, WI where he is the director of programs at Wormfarm Institute, a non-profit dedicated to “building a sustainable future for agriculture and the arts by fostering vital links between people and the land.”
Photo credit: Adam Carr
Amy Gaeta is not utopian; she is a student of understanding how we survive a world that is killing us on a dying planet, a feminist disability activist and scholar, poet, punk, and PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her academic work specializes in the psychological aspects of human-technology relations under the surveillance state. In poetry, she explores mental illness, desire, and the impossibility of being human. Her first chapbook The Andy Poems was published by Red Mare Press in 2021, and her second book, Prosthetics & Other Organs is forthcoming on Dancing Girl Press. Her poetry has been published in various outlets such as Crazyhorse, South Carolina Review, Soundings East, Crab Fat Magazine, Streetlight Press, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. She divides her time between Boston, MA and Madison, WI.
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