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Watershed Reading Series Celebrates New Books

Join us in celebrating new releases by three of Madison's favorite poets, Matt Guenette, Cherene Sherrard, and Guy Thorvaldsen. 

Cherene Sherrard Wisconsin poet

Cherene Sherrard was born in Los Angeles.  A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, she is the author of the forthcoming Grimoire, to be published by Autumn House Press in September, 2020; Vixen (Autumn House Press); a chapbook entitled Mistress Reclining, winner of New Women’s Voices Award; and a biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, Tidal Basin Review, and Obsidian III. She is the recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant in poetry, a National Endowment for the Humanities Award and Resident fellowship from the Ragdale foundation.  She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she is a professor in the English department at UW-Madison. 

Matthew Guenette, man in brown glasses and plaid button-down shirt  with colorful painting behind him

Matthew Guenette is the author of Doom Scroll (2023), Vasectomania (2017), American Busboy (2011), and Sudden Anthem (2008). He lives in Madison, WI, with his wife, their two kids, and a twenty-pound cat named Butternut.

Guy Thorvaldsen Wisconsin Poet

Guy's poetry has appeared in Alembic, Alligator Juniper, Forge, Gulfstream, Zone 3, Poet Lore, and Verse Wisconsin.  His first book of poetry, Going to Miss Myself When I’m Gone, comes out in October 2017 from Aldrich Press.  Guy teaches  writing at Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin, and is also a journeyman carpenter, husband, father, and contributing poet/essayist for public radio.

 

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