Join us on Saturday, November 21 at 7 PM for a special reading with local poets Cathryn Cofell, Kate S. O'Connor, and Melissa Range.
Don't miss a word! We have assistive hearing devices available. If you'd like to reserve one, you can reach out to us in advance at liz@artlitlab.org. Then simply arrive at least 10 minutues early.
Cathryn Cofell is the author of six chapbooks and two full-length collections, including "Stick Figure with Skirt," winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She’s been published over 350 times and earned more than 50 awards, including the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award, the Mill Prize, and the Christopher Latham Sholes award for mentoring other poets. She is the city of Appleton, Wisconsin’s first Poet Laureate, co-coordinator of the Poetry Unlocked reading series, and the Immediate Past President of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.
Kate S. O'Connor is the pen name used by this poet when writing about her journey parenting a transgender child and falling in love with the trans community at a time of heightened transphobia. Her chapbook Transcending was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2026. She has published under this name in Third Wednesday and under her other name in a variety of literary journals. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Melissa Range is the author of Printer’s Fist, winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize (Vanderbilt University Press, 2026), as well as Scriptorium (Beacon Press, 2016) and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). Originally from East Tennessee, she teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.