Winter Festival of Poetry
Arts + Literature Laboratory 111 S. Livingston St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
University of Wisconsin Press
Alison Townsend
What kind of lure do you need to get Wisconsinites out of the house in the dead of winter to hear a poetry reading? Cheese, apparently. This year the Winter Festival of Poetry series has adopted “The Big Cheese” as its theme, with each session of the eight-week series featuring a different cheese. Still, it's all about the poets. The final week features readings by F. J. Bergmann, Sharon Rook Daly, Rose Heflin, Kristian Iliev, Freesia McKee and Alison Townsend.
press release: The 2023 Winter Festival of Poetry, a weekly series of poetry readings, will take place on Sunday afternoons, beginning at 2:00 p.m. and ending around 3:30 p.m. It will again be held at the Arts & Literature Lab, 111. S. Livingston Street in Madison, Wisconsin. Admission is free. The theme this year is uniquely Wisconsin: The Big Cheese. Each week a different variety of cheese will be featured and fun facts about cheese presented! For more information, contact James P. Roberts at JRob52162@aol.com or call 608-242-7340.
JANUARY 22 -- Swiss: Madeleine Bohn, Angela Trudell-Vasquez, Rusty Russell, Cristin Jacque, Ron Czerwien, Olga Trubetskoy, Rachel Werner
JANUARY 29 -- Gouda: Shahayra Majumder, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff, Tom Boswell, Christopher Chambers, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Mindy Shah
FEBRUARY 5 -- Parmesan: Andrea Potos, Lynn Patrick Smith, Joe Lutz, Chessy Normile, Jodi Vander Molen, Araceli Esparza
FEBRUARY 12 -- Brie: Donna Carnes, Kimberly Blanchette, Tim Walsh, Rosie Rey, Guy Thorvaldsen, Sara Parrell
FEBRUARY 19 -- Gruyere: Marilyn L. Taylor, B. D. Vess, Beth Ann Workmaster, Martha Kaplan, Charles Payne, Gillian Nevers
FEBRUARY 26 -- Cheddar: Angela Voras-Hills, Dana Maya, Richard Vargas, J. Zachary Rothstein, Katrin Talbot, Marnie Dresser
MARCH 5 -- Mozzarella: Andrea Musher, Lisa Marie Brodsky, Diego Alegria, Jo Scheder, Chuck Cantrell, Sue Blaustein
MARCH 12 -- Roquefort: Alison Townsend, Freesia McKee, Rose Heflin, F. J. Bergmann, Kristian Iliev, Sharon Rook Daly