LAB3 is a collaboration between Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) and ALL to bring togther artists, scientists and high school students in collaborative teams. The goal the promotion of conversations among scientists, writers, artists, and students, which will connect scientific thinking and discoveries with artistic research and experimentation. Three poets share work inspired by this project and share their experiences working with scientists and students to create a collaborative project. Visual work created by the teams will also be on display in the galleries during the reading.
Lab3 Reading: Poets, Quarks, and Dark Matter
Australian-born Katrin Talbot’s collection The Waiting Room for the Imperfect Alibis is forthcoming from Kelsay Books and she has 7 chapbooks*, two Pushcart Prize nominations and quite a few chickens. She also makes noise on the viola in the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
*Wrong Number is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press and she has six other chapbooks, The Blind Lifeguard and Freeze-Dried Love, from Finishing Line Press, Attached: Poetry of Suffix, The Little Red Poem & noun’d, verb, from dancing girl press, and St. Cecilia’s Daze, from Parallel Press.
Photo by Ariana Karp
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.
Angela (Angie) Trudell Vasquez was the Madison Poet Laureate from 2020 to 2024, and the first Latina to hold the position. She received her MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2017. In Light, Always Light, her third collection of poetry came out in 2019, and her fourth, My People Redux, was published in 2022 both from Finishing Line Press. She started the first Youth Poet Laureate in Wisconsin during her poet laureate term. Angie is also a Macondo Fellow, was a Ruth Lilly Fellow as an undergrad, and the former Chair of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. She is actively seeking a home for her fifth collection of poetry, The Farewell Tour, and in the ninth year of rewilding her yard back to prairie. Her working theory is the land remembers.
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