Open House: Watershed Reading Featuring Nikki Wallschaeger | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Open House: Watershed Reading Featuring Nikki Wallschaeger

On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 7:00 pm, we're thrilled to (finally!) host our first Watershed Reading in the gorgeous new space! We're bringing in one of Wisconsin's most exciting up-and-coming poets Nikki Wallschlaeger with Madison's own talented poet and essayist Ellen Samuels. Both have new books out which are available through our Bookshop affiliate site and in the smALL Press Library. 

This special reading is part of ALL's Open House weekend, which kicks off on Gallery Night with a reception for Jason Yi. Check out our calendar for more events!

Nikki Wallschlaeger

Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured in The Nation, Brick, American Poetry Review, Witness, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press 2015)  and Crawlspace (Bloof 2017) as well as the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (2019) from Bloof Books. She is also the author of an artist book called Operation USA through the Baltimore-based book arts group Container, a project acquired by Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. Her third collection Waterbaby is available from Copper Canyon Press. 

Ellen Samuels

Ellen Samuels

Ellen Samuels is a queer disabled poet and professor in the departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Winner of two Lambda Literary Awards, her most recent creative publications include a verse memoir, Hypermobilities published this year by The Operating System, and poems and prose in Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Brevity, Rogue Agent, and Mid-American Review. Find her on twitter @ehlastigirl.

The Watershed Reading Series is supported in part with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. In addition, we are grateful to Monona Bank and Willy St Co-op for sponsoring our Open House weekend.

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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

Our galleries are open Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday noon to 5pm, and other programs take place throughout the week. Please check the events calendar and education section for details.

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