Join us on Saturday, November 21 at 7 PM for a special reading with local poets Holli Carrell, Cathryn Cofell, Megan O'Gieblyn, 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.
Holli Carrell (she/they) is the author of APOSTASIES, winner of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize in Poetry, the Last Syllable Book Award in Poetry, and a finalist for a Foreword INDIES Book Award in Poetry. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati, where she was a 2024-2025 Taft Research Center Dissertation Fellow. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Fence, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, The Journal, Bennington Review, and Ninth Letter, among others. She currently serves as the Assistant Poetry Editor at Acre Books.
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.
Meghan O'Gieblyn is the author, most recently, of "Will and Attention." Her other books include "God Human Animal Machine" and the essay collection "Interior States." She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and the 2023 Benjamin H. Danks award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She writes for The New Yorker, Harper's, Wired, The New York Review of Books, and other magazines, and her essays have been anthologized in The Best American Essays and The Contemporary American Essay.
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.
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