Join poets Cherene Sherrard and Heather Swan for an evening filled with recipes and elegies, honeybees and lemon meringue pie, lamentations and exaltations, as they read from their new books Grimoire and A Kinship of Ash. Listen to poems which document newly-inhabited histories and troubled landscapes, navigate the difficulties we face as a nation, but ultimately conjure something sweeter and brighter for all of us.
Join us on the Facebook event page September 19 at 7 PM CST.
Cherene Sherrard was born in Los Angeles. A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, she is the author of the forthcoming Grimoire, to be published by Autumn House Press in September, 2020; Vixen (Autumn House Press); a chapbook entitled Mistress Reclining, winner of New Women’s Voices Award; and a biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, Tidal Basin Review, and Obsidian III. She is the recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant in poetry, a National Endowment for the Humanities Award and Resident fellowship from the Ragdale foundation. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she is a professor in the English department at UW-Madison.
Heather Swan's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, The Raleigh Review, Midwestern Gothic, Basalt, and Cream City Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in Aeon, ISLE, Resilience Journal, About Place, and Edge Effects. Her creative nonfiction book, Where Honeybees Thrive, was published by Penn State Press in 2017 and was awarded the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. She earned her MFA in poetry and Ph.D. in English and Environmental Studies at University of Wisconsin Madison, where she was also the recipient of the August Derleth Award for Poetry and the Martha Meier Renk Fellowship in Poetry.
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