Dorothy Chan and Angie Trudell Vasquez
If you weren’t able to join us for the 2022 Nadine St. Louis Memorial Poetry Conversation event or are interested in watching it again, click below to watch the recording.
This event is being presented in person and is the Nadine St. Louis Memorial Poetry Conversation 2022.
A Poetry Exchange: poems and conversation with national award-winning poet Dorothy Chan (BABE, Revenge of the Asian Woman, Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold) and the City of Madison Poet Laureate Angie Trudell Vasquez.
-Moderated by former Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Max Garland
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DOROTHY CHAN (she/they) is the author of BABE, Revenge of the Asian Woman, Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold, and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets. They were a 2020 and 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Their work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary, a literary arts organization built by women of color.
Learn more about Dorothy Chan at dorothypoetry.com.
ANGIE TRUDELL VASQUEZ is a poet, writer, editor, publisher, and activist. She is the current City of Madison Poet Laureate (2020-2024) and the first Latina to hold the position. Angie received her MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2017. Recently, her poems have appeared in The Slow Down, Yellow Medicine Review, Poem-a-Day, About Place Journal and in several anthologies. She was a Ruth Lilly Fellow while at Drake University. In 2018 she was a finalist for the New Women’s Voices series and her book, In Light, Always Light, her third collection of poetry, was published by Finishing Line Press in May 2019. She guest edited the Spring 2019 edition of the Yellow Medicine Review with Millissa Kingbird. She co-edited a collection of poetry with Margaret Rozga, then 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, entitled Through This Door, that was released in late 2020 through her small press Art Night Books. Finishing Line Press published her fourth collection of poetry, My People Redux, in January 2022. Active nationally too, she has read poems, been a panelist, and presented at Split This Rock and AWP. In the summer of 2021 she became a Macondo Fellow or a Macondista.
Learn more about Angie Trudell Vasquez at angietrudellvasquez.com.
