Poetry in the Park: Alexandria Delcourt, Andy Gricevich, Steve Timm, and Anada Werner *IN PERSON*

Bring your blankets and chairs, snacks and drinks, and friends, and join us at the Solomon Juneau statue for this beloved summer reading series, now entering its eleventh year. Poetry in the Park takes place in Juneau Park on the second Tuesday of the summer months (with rain dates on the second Wednesday of the month). This season of outdoor readings are made possible with support from Juneau Park Friends.

In person at Juneau Park, 900 N. Prospect Ave.

(RAIN DATE: WED. SEPT. 10)

Alexandria Delcourt received her MFA from the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing in 2014. She taught English and creative writing at UW-Whitewater for eight years and now works as the Editor for Our Lives Magazine, and runs the Isthmus Writing Workshops in Madison, WI. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine, New American Press, Profane Journal, Cream City Review, Split Rock Review, and many others.

Andy Gricevich is the founder of What Got Gathered, offering foraging education and making food products highlighting wild ingredients. He’s been a mentor with Wild Harvest Nature Connection and an organizer of Oscar Presents, a reading series devoted to exploratory writing and to community as the basis of a thriving art. He edited and published Cannot Exist, the print journal and chapbook series. He lives in Madison with his partner Nora and some great kids.

Steve Timm is the author most recently of Ornithocracy (Stone Corpse Press, 2024) and Rule of Composition: 100 Poems Written to the Cecil Taylor Feel Trio’s 2 Ts for a Lovely T (Bananaquit Press, 2022), some of the poems of which will appear in a forthcoming anthology of writing about Cecil Taylor. Steve is also a sound poet and recently performed in Woodland Pattern's Formations Series for New & Improvised Music. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, Shari Bernstein, and son, Alex (who finds his poems “interesting”).

Anada Werner is a Madison resident, a bookseller, and a freelance conduit to the spirit of the Midwest. Her debut chapbook Punt, was released in the spring of 2024 and marks her second occasion in print, the first having belonged to a single blue-ribbon poem in the third grade.