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

March Watershed Reading

Please join us at 7:00pm on Saturday, March 18, 2023 at Arts + Literature Laboratory for an entertaining night of poetry with Robin Chapman, Matt Guenette, and Megan Kim. Robin Chapman's poems have appeared recently in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Hudson Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and online on One Art and Poem-A-Day. Matt Guenette is the author of Doom Scroll (2023), Vasectomania (2017), American Busboy (2011), and Sudden Anthem (2008). Megan Kim serves as an Associate Editor for Palette Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Sycamore Review, and The Adroit Journal.

Poet Megan Kim with shaved head and tan button-up shirt against a grey background

Megan Kim was raised in the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains and is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She serves as an Editor for Frontier Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Sycamore Review, and The Adroit Journal, among others, and she has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. 

 

Matthew Guenette, man in brown glasses and plaid button-down shirt  with colorful painting behind him

Matthew Guenette is the author of Doom Scroll (2023), Vasectomania (2017), American Busboy (2011), and Sudden Anthem (2008). He lives in Madison, WI, with his wife, their two kids, and a twenty-pound cat named Butternut.

Poet Robin Chapman woman with white short hair and glasses with plants in background

Robin Chapman's poems have appeared recently in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Hudson Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and online on One Art and Poem-A-Day. She is author of eleven books of poetry, including Panic Season (Tebot Bach 2022),  Six True Things (Wisconsin Library Association's Outstanding Book of Poetry Award); the eelgrass meadow (honorable mention for the Council of Wisconsin Writers' Edna Meudt Award); The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead (WLA Outstanding Book of Poetry Award); Abundance (Cider Press Editor's Award); Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos (World Scientific, with physicist J.C Sprott's fractals and explanations; recipient of the Posner Poetry Award from CWW); and The Only Home We Know (WLA Outstanding Book of Poetry Award). She is recipient of the Helen Howe Poetry Award from Appalachia and residencies from Vermont Studio Center... Read More

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