Juneau Park Friends and Woodland Pattern Book Center will welcome an eclectic mix of local poets to the park for an absorbing evening of prose and spoken word beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 14. This month’s lineup will feature readings by Matt Cook, Milwaukee’s poet laureate from 2015-2017, whose witty and insightful musings have been published in five full-length books and multiple anthologies; current UW-Milwaukee creative writing doctoral student Su Cho, whose lyrical and imaginative poems have appeared in Thrush Poetry Journal, Day One and elsewhere; Chicago-based poet Mikey Swanberg, the author of numerous works of poetry, including the recent chapbook Zen and the Art of Bicycle Delivery; and UWM professor and esteemed poet Rebecca Dunham, whose passionate poetry touches on issues from feminism to ecological concerns. Guests are invited to bring children, pets, blankets and snacks to fully enjoy the August installment of Poetry in the Park.
