The Select a World reading featured Sean Bishop, Alexandria Delacourt, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, and Steel Wagstaff in conversation with "Select a World," a solo exhibition by collaborative duo Simone and Max. Simone and Max’s works investigate the potential of the public screen as a mobilizing force to build empathy, action, and long-term responsibility. From Becher-esque satellite photographs of islands threatened by sea-level rise, to a fictional video game satirizing climate change tourism, the range of media in Select a World reflected the degree to which contemporary knowledge, discourse, and activism are mediated by screens.
Watershed Reading: Select a World
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.
Alexandria Delcourt received her MFA from the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing in 2014. She currently teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and is also a Co-Producer for the Madison Moth StorySLAM.
Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name. She received her MFA from New York University. She was the 2020–2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Her poems have appeared in places like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Drift, and Granta. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and is currently an Assistant Professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University.
Steel Wagstaff is a poet, literary scholar, designer, and education technology consultant. He holds graduate degrees in English and Library and Information Studies and is married to the poet Laurel Bastian.
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