Join us to hear three award-winning poets read from their new books.
Watershed Celebrates New Books
Rebecca Hazelton is an award winning poet and writer. She’s the author of Gloss, from the University of Wisconsin Press, Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012), winner of the 2011 Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry, and Vow, from Cleveland State University Press. She was the 2010-11 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Creative Writing Institute and winner of the “Discovery” / Boston Review 2012 Poetry Contest. A two time Pushcart prize winner, her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry.
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a writer, poet, artist, and translator. Her recent books include the poetry collections I Want To Tell You (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Un pez dorado te sirve para nada/ A Goldfish Buys You Nothing (Editorial Yaugurú, Uruguay). Her translations include Love Poems by Idea Vilariño and The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia. She is the Zona Gale Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Angela (Angie) Trudell Vasquez is a 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican-American writer, editor, publisher, and the former Poet Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2020-2024). She holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Finishing Line Press published her collections, In Light, Always Light, in May 2019, and My People Redux, in January 2022. In 2021, she attended the Macondo Writers Workshop started by Sandra Cisneros, and became a fellow, also known as a Macondista. In 2020 she published and co-edited a poetry anthology of Wisconsin poets, Through This Door, through her small press Art Night Books.
Portrait by Nicole Taylor
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