Join us in celebrating new releases by three of Madison's favorite poets, Matt Guenette, Cherene Sherrard, and Guy Thorvaldsen.
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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 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 is a first generation Norwegian-American carpenter who grew up extremely curious about how the world is put together. His carpentry has appeared in in a myriad of different places. His second act was teaching community college English for 20 years, exploring how human beings understand themselves, learn how to communicate, bridge cultural gaps, and build community. The third act is tinkering and thinking in his workshop and at his desk, building poems, furniture, community and stories.
Guy’s poetry has appeared in Alligator Juniper, Forge, Gulfstream, Magma 69, Zone 3, Poet Lore, Sports Literate, Isthmus, and Verse Wisconsin. His poem “Sweeping” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and his first full-length book of poetry, Going to Miss Myself When I’m Gone came out in October 2017 through Aldrich Press.
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