Monstrous Poetry

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February 16, 2011

Poets in Wisconsin are turning monstrous.

The writer-artists behind the Monsters of Poetry reading series in Madison have been busy making self-portraits and collages that depict themselves — and the very idea of poetry — as the beastly, macabre stuff of nightmares. Click here to see more images and here to learn about their non-ghoulish reading series.

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Jill Haberkern

Jill Haberkern has lived in a one-room house made of tombstones and a farmhouse with a walrus head. She currently lives in Berkeley, California, with neither. Her writing has appeared in the Mid-American Review.

One response

gil flagerstaff

February 16, 2011

sweet

i wonder if the 2011 poet laureate will read there. i heard he’s in chicago presently. he’s got some inner demons i think, in his poetry.