Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with this free, in-person reading on Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 7pm CST. We'll be featuring poets K. Iver, Jennifer Nelson, and Austin Segrest. The reading is followed by a brief Q&A.
April Watershed Reading
K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. Iver is the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Fellow for Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University.
Originally from Birmingham, AL, Austin Segrest teaches poetry at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. Door to Remain, his first poetry collection, won the 2021 Vassar Miller Prize.
Jennifer Nelson is the author most recently of Harm Eden (Ugly Duckling Presse), as well as of Civilization Makes Me Lonely (Ahsahta) and Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife (UDP). She is also an art historian teaching at UW-Madison and the author of Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein's Ambassadors (Penn State UP).
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