Dawn Tefft, Brenda Cárdenas, and Roberto Harrison at Sulzer Regional Library

Come celebrate Dawn Tefft's full-length debut Once Upon a Riot (Match Factory Editions, 2025) with special guests Brenda Cárdenas and Roberto Harrison! The three poets' reading will be followed by a Q & A with the attendees. The event is free and open to the public.

Once Upon a Riot is a poetry collection that argues for the necessity of resisting forms of oppression such as fascism and economic exploitation, while exploring both the challenges and the moments of beauty in raising a young child in our current political moment. ( https://matchfactoryeditions.com/books/Once-Upon-a-Riot-p727302577)

Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas is the author of two full-length books: Trace (Red Hen Press, 2023) and Boomerang (Bilingual Press, 2009) and several chapbooks. ( https://wisconsinpoetlaureate.org/profile/brenda-c%C3%A1rdenas)

Roberto Harrison is the author of Os (subpress, 2006), Counter Daemons (Litmus Press, 2006), bicycle (Noemi Press, 2015), culebra (Green Lantern Press, 2016), Bridge of the World (Litmus Press, 2017), Yaviza (Atelos, 2017), as well as many chapbooks. ( https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/roberto-harrison)

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