The UWL visiting writers series welcomes poets and editors Paula Cisewski and William Waltz, who will read from their recent books and discuss their work as editors of Conduit, a leading publication of contemporary poetry and fiction.
- Paula Cisewski's fourth poetry collection, Quitter, won the Diode Editions Book Prize. She is also the author of The Threatened Everything (Burnside Review Books), Ghost Fargo (Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright), Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), and several chapbooks, including the lyric prose Misplaced Sinister. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Oberholtzer Foundation, and the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. Cisewski lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches, collaborates with fellow artists and activists, and serves on the editorial staff of Conduit.
- William Waltz is the author of Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), Confluence of Mysterious Origins (Factory Hollow Press) and Zoo Music (Slope Editions). He is the founder and editor of Conduit. Waltz lives with his family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, near the Mississippi River and its fossil strewn bluffs.
Wednesday, September 26
5:30 PM
Wimberly Hall 102