Wisconsin poet Susan Elbe has issued the following invitation:
Please join me and 11 other Wisconsin poets for the Bridge Poetry Reading Series at the Chazen Museum of Art on Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 p.m. We’ll be reading poems written in response to the Smithsonian exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists:
These are amazing paintings commissioned by the Federal government. It was the first time the government provided financial support for the arts. The poetry by these fine poets promises to be amazing as well: Oliver Bendorf, Kimberly Blaeser, Kara Candito, Susan Elbe, David Graham, Karla Huston, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Mark Kraushaar, Shoshauna Shy, Danez Smith, Angela Trudell Vasquez, and Timothy Walsh.