Perspectives of Place in Poetry

Craft Lecture: Perspectives of Place in Poetry

Wednesday, April 27 from 7 to 9

Arts & Literature Laboratory, 2021 Winnebago St., Madison, WI  53704

Free and opening to the public, but donations are welcome

Arts & Literature Laboratory's April Craft Lecture features poet Josh Kalscheur examining how privilege affects a poet's treatment of "place" in their work. In addition to discussing his experience writing a book about a place that is not his own (Micronesia), he will share poetry by native Oceanic writers in order to explore different approaches to place in poetry.

Bio:

Josh Kalscheur is the author of Tidal (Four Way Books), which was the winner of the 2013 Levis Prize in Poetry and was published in Spring 2015. Individual poems have been published or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Pleiades, The Iowa Review and Slate among others. He is the 2015-16 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.