# Event Details

- **Event Name**: MONSTERS OF POETRY presents: Keetje Kuipers / Alicia Wright / Sara Gilmore / Rickey Fayne
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dear Hearts:

MONSTERS OF POETRY returns on March 14, 2026 with Keetje Kuipers /  Alicia Wright / Sara Gilmore / Rickey Fayne.

***AND FEATURING GUEST MC: ERIKA MEITNER!***

All readings at 7pm, Maiahaus = 402 E. Mifflin, Madison, WI. BYOB. $3 suggested donation gets you a raffle ticket for our awesome/dumb literary raffle. More info on each individual reading coming soon. Stay warm and safe out there!  

The Readers:

Alicia Wright is the author of You’re Called By The Same Sound (Thirdhand Books, 2025) and the essay chapbook A Coin, A Moth, A Literary Journal (DoubleCross Press, 2026). She lives in Iowa City, where she serves as editor of Annulet and Annulet Editions, hosts the reading series Normie Creep in the Sacred Grove, and works as Managing Editor of The Iowa Review.

Keetje Kuipers’ fourth collection of poetry, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, was the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared in BOMB, the New York Times Magazine, and Poetry, and have been honored by publication in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje has been a Stegner Fellow, NEA Literature Fellow in Creative Writing, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. She lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she is Editor of Poetry Northwest.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Sara Gilmore is the author of The Green Lives (Fonograf Editions, October 2025). Her poems and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Ugly Duckling Presse’s Second Factory and 6x6, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City with her young son.

Rickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee whose work has appeared in the New York Times, American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other magazines. He holds an MA in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His writing embodies his Black, Southern, over-churched upbringing in order to reimagine and honor his ancestors' experiences. He has received support for his writing from Tin House, Community of Writers, Kimbillio, Sewanee, Bread Loaf, Yaddo, Willapa Bay, and MacDowell. His first novel, The Devil Three Times, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN Open Book Award and longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/madison/monsters-of-poetry-presents-keetje-kuipers-alicia-wright-sara-gilmore-rickey-fayne/200029731035430
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 45

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Madison
- **state**: WI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 402 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703-2804, United States
- **lat**: 43.0785
- **long**: -89.38143
- **full address**: 402 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703-2804, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is MONSTERS OF POETRY presents: Keetje Kuipers / Alicia Wright / Sara Gilmore / Rickey Fayne being held?
  - **A:** MONSTERS OF POETRY presents: Keetje Kuipers / Alicia Wright / Sara Gilmore / Rickey Fayne takes place on Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 402 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703-2804, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing MONSTERS OF POETRY presents: Keetje Kuipers / Alicia Wright / Sara Gilmore / Rickey Fayne?
  - **A:** MONSTERS OF POETRY presents: Keetje Kuipers / Alicia Wright / Sara Gilmore / Rickey Fayne is organized by Monsters of Poetry.

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