Join us on Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM for our September Watershed Reading. Readers are Wayne Miller, Mary Margaret Alvarado, and Moisés Villavicencio Barras.
September Watershed Reading
Wayne Miller is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The End of Childhood (Milkweed, 2025). His awards include fellowships from the NEA and the Poetry Foundation, as well as the UNT Rilke Prize, two Colorado Book Awards, two Pushcart Prizes, six awards from the Poetry Society of America, and a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland. He has co-translated two books from Albanian into English—most recently Moikom Zeqo’s Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015), shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation—and he has co-edited three books, most recently Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed, 2016). He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, co-directs the Unsung Masters Series, and edits Copper Nickel.
Mary Margaret Alvarado is the author of American Weather (NewLights Press), a book-length essay on gun violence and disarmament in collaboration with the artist Corie Cole; Chrome of Iris, winner of the 2023 Burnside Review chapbook contest; and Hey Folly (Dos Madres), a book of poems. A teacher, artist, and mother, Mia’s work has been published in The Rumpus, VQR, Outside, Cagibi, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Boston Review, The Point, The Kenyon Review, Image, and elsewhere, and thrice shortlisted in The Best American. Mia received her MFA from the University of Iowa where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and a Provost’s Post-Graduate Writing Fellow. She’s been a writer-in-residence at the Seven Hills School (Ohio), Art Farm (Nebraska), and Power and Light Press (New Mexico) and presently lives in Colorado, where she runs a non-profit, Brave Irene’s.
Moisés Villavicencio Barras, co-founder of Cantera Verde, one of Mexico's most significant literary publications for the last 25 years. His poetry has been published in Mexico and the United States. He has two poetry books published, Mayo entre Voces / May among Voices (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2001.) and Luz de Todos Los Tiempos / Light of All Times, bilingual edition (Madison, Wisconsin, 2013.)
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