Join us for the first Monsters of Poetry reading of the fall. Readings from Cole Lavalais, Angela Woodward, Sean Bishop, and Nancy Reddy. Saturday, September 24th. Doors = 7:30pm, Reading = 8pm.
Monsters of Poetry September 2016
Cole Lavalais' short stories can be found in Obsidian, Apogee, Warpland, Tidal Basin Review, Aquarius Press, and others. She is a fellow of the Kimbilio Center for Black Fiction, VONA and the Callaloo Writing Workshops. She's been awarded writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and The Noepe Center for the Literary Arts. She holds an M.F.A. from Chicago State University, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from University of Illinois at Chicago.
As a born and raised Chicagoan, she believes in encouraging, fostering, and championing writing by writers of color across genres. Cole has taught writing for over ten years and currently teaches community-based writing workshops on the south side of Chicago.
Summer of the Cicadas is her debut novel.
Angela Woodward is the author of the novels End of the Fire Cult, Natural Wonders, and Ink, as well as her just released Afterlife, from Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press. Her short stories, essays and reviews have appeared in many journals including the Kenyon Review, AGNI, Conjunctions, Ninth Letter, Green Mountains Review, and the L.A. Review of Books. Her short fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and been included in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web collection.
Sean Bishop is the author of The Night We're Not Sleeping In (Sarabande, 2014), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and the Council for Wisconsin Writers' Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review, Harvard Review, jubilat, Best New Poets, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He coordinates the MFA and Fellowship programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches poetry writing and creative writing pedagogy.
Nancy Reddy is the author of The Good Mother Myth (St. Martin’s Press, 2025). Her previous books include the poetry collection Pocket Universe and the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, which she co-edited with Emily Pérez. Her essays have appeared in Slate, Poets & Writers, Romper, The Millions, and elsewhere. She writes the newsletter Write More, Be Less Careful. You can find her on Instagram at nancy.o.reddy.
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