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Monsters of Poetry returns Saturday 10/11/25 with Rebecca Lehmann, Julia Anna Morrison, Hannah Bonner, and Amie Whittemore. 7pm. 402 E. Mifflin St, Madison, WI. BYOB $3 suggested donation at the door gets you a raffle ticket for cool/dumb literary prizes.The Readers are:
Julia Anna Morrison is a writer and filmmaker with an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her first book of poems, Long Exposure, won the Moon City Poetry Prize and was published in 2023. Anna's poems, films, and nonfiction deal with themes of motherhood and the intersection of film and poetry and have been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and have recently appeared in Best American Poetry and Narrative. Anna teaches at the University of Iowa and she has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell. She has poems forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Bennington Review, and Brink.
Hannah Bonner is a writer, film programmer, and educator. She was a 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and the 2024-2025 CLAS Visiting Writer in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. Currently, she serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Brink as well as the Film Editor for TriQuarterly, and her writing has been supported by the Breadloaf Environmental Writers' Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, among others. Additionally, she received The Robert B. Heilman Award for her review of Heather Lewis's Notice in the 2024 issue of The Sewanee Review. Another Woman (EastOver Press 2024) is her first book. She lives in Philadelphia.
Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of four poetry collections, most recently the chapbook Hesitation Waltz (Midwest Writing Center). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her writing has appeared in Blackbird, Colorado Review, Terrain.org, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University.
Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections The Sweating Sickness (one of Ms. Magazine's Best Poetry Books of 2024/2025), Ringer and Between the Crackups. Her debut novel, The Beheading Game (a resurrection tale about Anne Boleyn), will be published by Crown in 2026. Her writing has been featured in The American Poetry Review, NPR's The Slowdown, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and other venues. She lives in Indiana.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
402 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703-2804, United States
