by
Kevin Shelton
What better way to greet
an old friend than with a welcome back party. Get ready as Laura Madeline
Wiseman, Sarah Henning, Cat Dixon, Amy Ash, and Callista Buchen come together to
read at the 2015 Steel Pen Welcome Back Event. This will be the second annual
conference Indiana Writers’ Consortium is hosting. The off-site event will be
on October 9 starting at 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and will be taking place at
Purdue University Calumet in the Center for Innovation through Visualization
and Simulation (CIVS). This won’t be a simulation, though, as these
exhilarating authors spill forth words into a seamless stream of poetry that
will take you on a ride through darkness in the body and how pain can
restructure and redeem a woman. Below is what each author is bringing:
Laura Madeline Wiseman has a Ph.D. from the
University of Nebraska- Lincoln in English and a M.A. from the University of
Arizona in women’s studies. She is the author of several books that include Drink
(BlazeVOX, 2015), Wake (Aldrich Press, 2015), and The
Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2015). She is also the editor of the
anthology Women Write Resistance (Hyacinth
Girl Press, 2013). The poems she will be reading from Drink “explore
the unmaking of a girl’s body via the pain of spatial destruction.”
Sara Henning is the author of A
Sweeter Water (Lavender Ink,
2013), Garden Effigies (Dancing
Girl Press, 2015), and To Speak to Dahlias (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Sara
Henning has also appeared in Women Write Resistance with her poem “The
Art of Exes.”
Cat Dixon’s full length poetry book Too
Heavy to Carry was published in 2014 by Stephen F. Austin University Press. She also has a chapbook
called Our End has Brought the Spring (Finishing Line Press, 2015). Dixon teaches creative
writing at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. She will be reading from Too
Heavy to Carry and wants “to give hope to others who may
be caught in a web of lies and pain” through her poetry.
Amy Ash has a Ph.D from the
University of Kansas. She is the author of The Open Mouth of the Vase
that won the 2013 Cider Press Review Book Award. Her individual work can
be found in Mid-American Review, Harpur Palate, Cimarron
Review, and others. Amy Ash and Callista Buchen will be reading from their
collaborative chapbook Echo, Unravel.
Callista Buchen is the author of The
Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence
Press, October 2015) and Double-Mouthed (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming winter 2016). She is the winner
of DIAGRAM’s essay contest for her prose piece “Belly Sea.” Her work
appears in Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Whiskey Island
Review, and others.
Come on by the CIVS room
in the Powers building room 123 as the event will start at 5:30 p.m. and end at
7:30 p.m. with a five minute Q&A after each reader. After everyone has
read, there will be time left for a book signing. You won’t want to miss these
poets reading as “there are few things finer than attending a reading, to spend
an hour or more in a room filled with the sounds of words” as Wiseman perfectly
describes it, and I can’t agree more.
For more information on
the 2015 Steel Pen Conference, please visit: http://www.indianawritersconsortium.org/IWC-creative-writing-conference.asp
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