Where I Want to Live Reading

The poems in the chapbook anthology Where I Want to Live: Poems for Fair & Affordable Housing envision the community we need: the inclusive neighborhoods and healthy environment where potential is realized and lives flourish. The poets are black, brown, and white, younger and older, gay and straight. They write in many styles including free verse, rhyme, rhythmic refrains, and rap. The chapbook thus serves a metaphor for where we want to live. Come to join in this celebration of the community we need.

Copies of the chapbook will be available for sale.

Jennifer Morales

Jennifer Morales is a poet, fiction writer, and performance artist living in rural Wisconsin. Meet Me Halfway, her collection of short stories about race relations in Milwaukee (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015), was selected by the Wisconsin Center for the Book as 2016 Book of the Year, among other honors. Recent publications include poetry in MAYDAY Magazine, Glass Poetry Journal, Kenning Journal, Stoneboat, and I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin, and fiction in The Long Story and Temenos.

Margaret Rozga

Margaret Rozga, 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, initiated the project that grew into this anthology in workshops throughout Wisconsin and served as co-editor in bringing Through This Door to publication. Her fifth book of poems, Holding My Selves Together, is scheduled for publication in May 2021 by Cornerstone Press.

Sheryl Slocum

Sheryl Slocum lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she teaches English as a second language at Alverno College. Her poems have appeared in numerous small press publications, including Blueline, The Anglican Theological Review, and The Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar. Her poetry can also be found in several anthologies, including No, Achilles (WaterWood Press, 2015-2016) and Masquerades & Misdemeanors (Pebblebrook Press, 2013). A Pushcart nominee, Sheryl is a mother of three and contentedly belongs to a cat. She is a member of the Hartford Avenue Poets and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.

Harvey Taylor

Harvey Taylor is a founding member of the 30+ year Earth Poets & Musicians performance ensemble (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), devoted peace activist, avid gardener, poet, songwriter, composer, CD/video producer, and photographer, who particularly enjoys performing with his partner, Susie Krause in Susie & Harvey’s Adventures In Song.

Terimarie Degree

Terimarie Degree grew up with both parents serving in the US Navy and has lived everywhere from California to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Her work has been published in literary journals and anthologies including Where I Want to Live (2018), Secret Words Volume 4 (2019), On Environment (2019) and Reflections (2020).

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