Slow Lit Reading

We all know community-supported agriculture has played a vital role in supporting local farmers and providing healthier food in Madison. Now you can support local poets and feed your soul through Slow Lit shares at ALL! Three of our participating poets will read at our Slow Lit share-pickup event.

Each share will include a recent signed book by one of our esteemed local poets, a “Local Poet” t-shirt, and other locally-sourced surprises. The shares cost only $30 each. A Slow Lit share gives you the perfect excuse to unwind with a good book while sporting your “Local Poet” pride. Get your share today!

Note: We'll also have recent books by Robin Smith Chapman, Alison Townsend, and Timothy Yu, in addition to our readers.

Thanks to our generous contributors Cafe Zoma and Manna Cafe!

Sean Bishop

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.

Sarah Sadie

Sarah Sadie is co-editor of Cowfeather Press (www.cowfeatherpress.org) and one of the Poets Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2012-2015), where she lives with her family. Her poems and books have won the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Niedecker and Posner Prizes, as well as a Pushcart. Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanes, her most recent chapbook, was published in 2015 by Five Oaks Press. Sarah teaches online at the Loft, at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival, and occasionally elsewhere. These days you can find her blogging at Dowsing for Divinity on the Patheos Pagan channel, and occasionally posting articles, pictures and notes of interest on her website.

Rebecca Dunham

Rebecca Dunham's most recent collection of poems is Cold Pastoral from Milkweed Editions. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Catherine Jagoe

Catherine Jagoe is a writer and translator based in Madison. Her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Poetry Daily and she is a semi-regular contributor to Wisconsin Public Radio’s Wisconsin Life series. Her previous poetry collections include Bloodroot, News from the North, and Casting Off, as well as three collections of Uruguayan poetry in translation. She is currently completing a memoir in essays. Her new volume of poems about the environment, Praying to the God of Small Things, is due out with Kelsay Books this summer.

Wendy Vardaman

Wendy Vardaman (wendyvardaman.com) is the author of Reliquary of Debt (LitFest Press 2015) and Obstructed View, co-editor of Local Ground(s)--Midwest Poetics and Echolocations, Poets Map Madison, founding co-editor of Cowfeather Press, and one of Madison's two Poets Laureate (2012-2015).

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