Winter Festival of Poetry

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Charles Payne, storytelling at The Moth Madison.

This ongoing Sunday series of poetry boasts many of Madison’s big names in verse, here for this year’s festive theme of “Under the Big Top.” The sub-theme for March 3 is “Lady on a Horse,” with readers Donna Carnes, Christin Jacque, Cristina Norcross, Charles Edward Payne (an Isthmus contributor), Tim Walsh and Beth Ann Workmaster. The final reading will be March 10; find more information at artlitlab.org.

media release: The theme for this year is UNDER THE BIG TOP, celebrating the history of the circus! Each week will feature a different aspect of the circus, from clowns to trapeze artists, calliope music to dancing bears, lion tamers to magicians! I have also arranged for some magical entertainment by the Truly Remarkable Loon, who will perform before the reading on Sunday, January 21st. Admission is free.

JANUARY 21 -- Taming The Lions: Truly Remarkable Loon, Maliha Nu'Man, Richard Vargas, Araceli Esparza, Jess L. Parker, Lynn Patrick Smith, Andrea Potos

JANUARY 28 -- Flying Through The Air: Christina Kubasta, Sarah Sadie, Rachel Werner, Jenelle Clausen, Kristian Iliev, Nathan J. Reid

FEBRUARY 4 -- Waltzing With Bears: Kara Candito, Matt Guenette, Mark Kraushaar, Michelle Seaman, Catherine Jagoe, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff

FEBRUARY 11 -- Just Clowning Around: Amanda Reavey, Heather Swan, Rusty Russell, B. D. Vess, Katrin Talbot, Sara Parrell

FEBRUARY 18 -- Music In The Air: Roman Montemorano, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Shoshauna Shy, Ronnie Hess, R.B. Simon, Alison Townsend

FEBRUARY 25 -- Riding The Elephant: Joe Lutz, Christin Jacque, F. J. Bergmann, Brenda Lempp, Kimberly A. Blanchette, J. Zachary Rothstein

MARCH 3 -- Lady On A Horse: Charles Edward Payne, Cristina Norcross, Donna Carnes, Beth Ann Workmaster, Olga Trubetskoy, Tim Walsh

MARCH 10 -- Magic Tricks: Sujash Purna, Christine Reding, Fabu, Andrea Musher, Diego Alegria, Paul Baker, Alfonso Doucette