Write On Celebrates National Poetry Month

Albert DeGenova. Submitted.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with the launch of Human Nature, Albert DeGenova’s latest collection.

DeGenova will read alongside multi-genre writers Mauricio Kilwein Guevara and Tori Grant Welhouse on April 7, 2 pm, at Write On. Light refreshments will be served.

In addition to serving as Write On’s executive director, DeGenova is an award-winning poet, publisher and teacher. He is the author of five books of poetry and two chapbooks, the founder of After Hours Press and editor of After Hours magazine, a journal of Chicago writing and art that launched in 2000.

Guevara was born in Boyacá, Colombia, and raised in Pittsburgh. He was the first Latino to be elected president of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, where he was instrumental in diversifying the organization’s membership and programming. His most recent collection of poetry, POEMA, received an International Latino Book Award.

Welhouse is a poet and novelist from Green Bay with an award-winning poetry chapbook, Vaginas Need Air, and a prize-winning young adult novel, The Fergus. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals and publications, most recently in Half Mystic, The Woolf and Bone Bouquet.

Write On is located at 4210 Juddville Road in Juddville.

More Write On Events

Robin Sauerwein and Lori Young-Williams will lead participants through engaging prompts to help them write their life stories on April 9, 12-4 pm. The class fee is $80.

Dipika Mukherjee will lead a two-part generative workshop on creating vivid writing on April 10 and 17, 7-8:30 pm. The fee for the online class is $60.

Art/Speaks, a creative lab that guides participants to write in response to visual art, will take place April 12, 11 am – 12 pm.

Led by local poets Carrie and Peter Sherrill, the free event will be held at Margaret Lockwood Gallery, 7 S. 2nd Ave. in Sturgeon Bay.