Virtual Poetry Reading Offered via Zoom on February 18: Poems Come Through in the Pandemic

(Dwight Foster Library and Friends submission) On Thursday, February 18 at 7 p.m. the Dwight Foster Library and Friends of Lorine Niedecker will host a reading by some of the poets featured in “Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems.” This reading will be broadcast live on Zoom and Facebook Live. To register for Zoom access go to https://www.fortlibrary.org/wisconsinpoems/

“Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems,” is a new anthology edited by Margaret Rozga and Angela C. Trudell Vasquez. It includes work by a wide range of Wisconsin poets, including the eight people who have been Wisconsin poet laureate: the incumbent Rozga and predecessors Karla Huston, Kimberly Blaeser, Denise Sweet, Marilyn L. Taylor, Bruce Dethlefsen, Max Garland and the late Ellen Kort.

Individuals who will read at this event include:

Lisa Vihos

Chuck Stebelton

Destinny Fletcher

Brenda Cardenas

Beatrice Szymkowiak

Cristina Norcross

Dasha Kelly

Nathan Reid

This program sponsored by the Dwight Foster Public Library and the Friends of Lorine Niedecker.

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