Furrow has worked hard all semester to put together a beautiful new issue of Furrow Magazine, and they’re just about to send it to the presses.

Furrow received over 250 submissions this year and are proud to feature truly outstanding fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art from dozens of talented undergraduates.

Please join us at Art Bar on May 11, 5-7 pm to pick up a copy of Furrow and celebrate with drinks, short readings, raffle drawings, awards, and more.

If you’d like a preview, check out the new and improved furrowmag.org!

Help us celebrate the last glorious days of National Poetry Month at our Eat Local::Read Local Madison reading!

Through our program, UWM bridges the gap between local restaurants and local writers in order to connect with more of the community through poetry.

If you haven’t heard, we distribute printed poems to local restaurants who then pass them out to diners throughout April (National Poetry Month). Hopefully, you’ve already seen them at one of your favorite establishments this month (we’ve distributed to 60 restaurants this year!).

To wrap up National Poetry Month, join us at our annual event in Madison. If you’re interested in carpooling or in being a driver, please contact us!

Tuesday, April 26 – 7:00pm 
Next Door Brewing Company (2439 N. Atwood Ave., Madison)
Readers: Rebecca Dunham, Angela Voras-Hills
Kimberly Blaeser, our current Wisconsin Poet Laureate,
along with other past contributors

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Servers will be available to take dinner/snack/drink orders throughout the entirety of the event. So come hungry, thirsty, and early!

The English department was well represented at the 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being at UW-Madison on April 15th and 16th. Here are the names and titles of presentations of people from our department:

“What Should Anna Duggar Do? A Discourse Analysis of the Quiverfull Movement”
Sara Doan, Graduate Student, English, UW-Milwaukee

“The Queer Rhetorical Agency of Preferred Names and Gender Pronouns”
Molly Ubbesen, Graduate Student, English – Rhetoric & Composition, UW-Milwaukee

“Creative Materiality in the Classroom: A Feminist and Queer Pedagogical Approach”
Frankie Mastrangelo, Graduate Student, English Department;
Casey O’Brien, Lecturer, Women’s and Gender Studies;
Krista Grensavitch, PhD Student, Department of History, MA, Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Presenters:
Carter Reitman, Andrew Ludwig, Storm Pilloff, Yasmine Lamloum, Chelsea Dolan, and Hal Hinderliter

This forum will explore critical pedagogy as it applies to issues of student and teacher resistance, complemented by strategies for empowerment. Discussions will address instructor authority within informed critical resistance; issues of accessibility and inclusivity; leveraging the interplay of enjoyment and motivation; instructor resistance to student voices; and the political underpinnings to our disengagement with grammar. We’ll invite your discussions as we propose actionable ideas applicable to the writing classroom.

Friday, April 15 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Curtin 368