Join us to hear three award-winning poets read from their new books.
Watershed Celebrates New Books
Rebecca Hazelton is an award winning poet and writer. She’s the author of Gloss, from the University of Wisconsin Press, Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012), winner of the 2011 Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry, and Vow, from Cleveland State University Press. She was the 2010-11 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Creative Writing Institute and winner of the “Discovery” / Boston Review 2012 Poetry Contest. A two time Pushcart prize winner, her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry.
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, visual artist and translator. Her most recent poetry collections are I Want to Tell You (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Un pez dorado no te sirve para nada/ A Goldfish Buys You Nothing (Editorial Yaugurú, Uruguay, 2023). Her translations include Love Poems by Idea Vilariño and The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia (University of Pittsburgh Press). She is the Zona Gale Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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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