Join us on Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM for our July Watershed Reading. This special event was curated by Team 2 of ALL's LAB4 Community Curators. Readers are Vidhu Aggarwal, Andrew Chi Keong Yim, Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, Patrycja Humienik, A.M. Goodhart, and KC Cullinan.
July Watershed Reading
Vidhu Aggarwal’s poetry and multimedia practices engage with world-building in multiple platforms: visual poetry, video, and graphic media. Her poetry book, The Trouble with Humpadori (2016), imagines a cosmic deformity as an avatar of the racialized global body. In the multiple versions of the book Daughter Isotope, she engages in a “cloud poetics,” as a way of thinking about personal, collective, and digital archives as a collaborative process with comic artists, dancers, and video artists. A Djerassi resident and Kundiman fellow, she is the Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Chair of Literature at Rollins College.
Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He is the Martha Meier Renk Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was awarded the 2024 New Voices Award in Poetry from Washington Square Review, selected by Terrance Hayes. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in AAWW's The Margins, Bat City Review, Washington Square Review, and Best New Poets 2024. He has been a middle school English teacher in Boston and New York City, and currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with the Wisconsin Prison Humanities Project.
Mandy Moe Pwint Tu is a writer and a poet from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work has appeared in Longleaf Review, West Trestle Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Monsoon Daughter (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022) and Unsprung (Newfound, 2022). Find her on Twitter @mandrigall.
Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer, editor, and performance artist. She has developed writing + movement workshops for the Henry Art Gallery, Arts+Literature Laboratory, Northwest Film Forum, in prisons, and elsewhere. An MFA candidate at UW-Madison, she serves as Events Director for The Seventh Wave, where she is also an editor for the Community Anthologies project. Patrycja grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the author of We Contain Landscapes, out from Tin House in March 2025.
A.M. Goodhart is a Madison based writer and textile artist. They have published poems in Epiphany, The Indianapolis Review, Passages North, and Lake Effect. Their collection Neither Kind of Body was a semi-finalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize at BOA Editions and the Pamet River Prize at Yes Yes Books.
KC Cullinan is a writer, facilitator, and editor grown in the Chicago area, currently living in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a trans-masculine puertorriqueño and co-creator of the Queer & Trans Open Mic in Madison. KC is their mother’s rainbow baby turned brown boy, currently studying violence as a common pantry staple and writing about the way gender warps under the force of sexual violence. KC is one of three core faculty members of The Heart of It Writing Retreats and Residencies.
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