Join us on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM for our June Watershed Reading: The Places We Make Home. This special event was curated by Team 1 of ALL's LAB4 Community Curators. Readers are Rodlyn-mae Banting, Iqra Khan, and Jonny Teklit.
June Watershed Reading
Rodlyn-mae Banting is a Filipino American poet, journalist, and cultural critic writing about race, gender, family, and empire. A former staff writer at Jezebel, their prose can additionally be found in Bitch Media, Sojourners, Electric Lit, and elsewhere. Their poetry is featured in AAWW's The Margins, No, Dear, and Apogee. They received a master's in Gender & Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and work for the Wisconsin Book Festival.
Iqra Khan is a poet from Bhopal, India currently pursuing her fascination with four distinct seasons in Wisconsin. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, activist, and lawyer. She is a winner of the 2024 Disquiet Prize in poetry and the Frontier Global Poetry Prize 2022. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, Adroit Journal, Swamp Pink, and The Common among others. Her work aspires to exact the maternal and the sacred upon the page and the world, and contends with her community's burden of becoming.
Jonny Teklit is an award-winning poet who has had work appear in The Academy of American Poets, The New Yorker, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized in Poemhood: Our Black Revival and The Gift of Animals: Poems on Love, Loss, and Connection. He earned his MFA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is currently working on his debut collection.
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Update: Our galleries will be closed on Saturday, June 7, 2025. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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