Brenda Cardenas, Nickole Brown, Catherine Jagoe, Heather Swan

A quadruple poetic threat will concentrate on human connection with the natural world. Nickole Brown comes to A+LL via Zoom from Asheville, North Carolina, where she is involved in a number of poetry initiatives. Her most recent collection is The Donkey Elegies; she is also co-author of Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire. Brenda Cárdenas is the former poet laureate of Milwaukee and most recently author of Trace, which won the 2023 Society of Midland Authors Poetry Award. Rounding out the bill are two outstanding chroniclers of the natural world from Madison: Catherine Jagoe and Heather Swan (curator of a related art exhibition, “Art of Insects and Interconnection,” on display through June 22).