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 poems have appeared in such journals as Terrain, Minding Nature, Poet Lore, Phoebe, The Raleigh Review, The Hopper, Midwestern Gothic and Cold Mountain, and in many anthologies. She is the author of the poetry collections A Kinship with Ash (Terrapin), which was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award, and Dandelion (Terrapin). She is also a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the Maud Weinshenk Award, the August Derleth Prize for Poetry, and an honorable mention for the Lorine Niedecker Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in Aeon, Belt, Catapult, Edge Effects, Emergence, ISLE, Minding Nature, and The Learned Pig. Her book Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Penn State Press) won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. A companion book, Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection, will be released in May 2024. She teaches environmental literature and... Read More
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