Join us on Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 7:00pm for our February Watershed Reading. Readers are Alison C. Rollins, Daniel Lurie, and I.S. Jones.
February Watershed Reading
Alison C. Rollins was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. Rollins is the author of Black Bell, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee, and Library of Small Catastrophes, which was a Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daniel Lurie is a Jewish, rural writer, from eastern Montana. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Idaho. Daniel is co-editor of Outskirts Literary Journal and a Poetry Reader for Chestnut Review. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Pleiades, North American Review, Reed, and others. He was recently a finalist for Hole in the Head Review’s Charles Simic Poetry Prize, long-listed for Palette Poetry’s Micro Chapbook Prize, and serves as the 2025-2026 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I.S. Jones is a poet and editor. She is a senior editor for Poetry Northwest where she runs her column, The Legacy Suite, a three-part interview documenting the journey of writers publishing their debut poetry collections. Her debut collection of poems, Bloodmercy, chosen by Nicole Sealey is the 2025 winner of the APR / Honickman First Book Prize.
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