CANCELED: Watershed Reading Series

A message from ALL:  Our board and staff has made the difficult decision that the best way Arts + Literature Laboratory can help contribute to community efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 is to postpone or cancel our upcoming public programs and events through April 10, including the Write-In (3/24), Watershed Reading (3/28), Nat Baldwin concert (4/5), and Community Poetry Workshop (4/7). We’re exploring options to move some programs online to avoid as much disruption as possible in the event that it becomes necessary to suspend additional programs. 

We know how essential community and art are during difficult times, and we encourage each of you to take care of yourselves, each other, and your creative practices. Please consider ways you can support artists, writers, musicians, and performers as more cultural events are postponed or canceled throughout our community. Check out Patreon sites; buy books, music and art; support local businesses, including buying gift cards if you can’t visit in person; and donate to the nonprofits that are important to you.

We are currently planning to resume public programs mid-April. Please watch for updates.

press release: Join ALL to hear three poets Callista Buchen, Keetje Kuipers, and Nancy Reddy read from new work! This reading takes place at the beautiful Maiahaus Project Space, located at 402 East Mifflin St.

Callista Buchen is the author of Look Look Look (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), and the chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, 2016). Her work appears in Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, and many other journals, and she is the winner of DIAGRAM's essay contest. She teaches at Franklin College, where she directs the creative writing program and the visiting writers' reading series.

Keetje Kuipers is the author of three books of poems: Beautiful in the Mouth, The Keys to the Jail, and, most recently, All Its Charms, which includes poems honored by publication in both The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Narrative, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and over a hundred other magazines. Her poems have also been featured as part of the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series and read on NPR. Keetje has been a Stegner Fellow, a Bread Loaf fellow, and PEN Northwest’s Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. She lives with her wife and children on an island in the Salish Sea, a short ferry ride away from Seattle where she teaches at Hugo House and serves as Senior Editor at Poetry Northwest.

Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series, and Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, Blackbird, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, she teaches writing at Stockton University in New Jersey.