“The idea is that the city that opens the
same book closes it in greater harmony.”
— Mary McGrory, The Washington Post, March 17, 2002
The Fox Cities Book Festival in partnership with the public libraries of the Fox Cities has come together with the goal of building a larger sense of community to promote literacy. Each year, we select an author and title to promote for Fox Cities Reads and encourage the people in our communities to read, think, talk, listen, and grow together.
Please direct questions about Fox Cities Reads to Joe Bongers at bongers@menashalibrary.org or to your local Fox Cities public library.
Fox Cities Reads 2019 Partners
Fox Cities Reads 2019 examines local and state-wide homelessness through Matthew Desmond’s 2016 New York Time’s Best Seller, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. In tandem with events and readings throughout the Fox
Fox Cities Reads 2019 Announcement
The Fox Cities Reads featured selection for 2019 is Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Evicted has won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN
Ruta Sepetys, SALT TO THE SEA, selected as 2018 Fox Cities Reads
The Fox Cities Book Festival is happy to announce that, Salt to the Sea, by best-selling author Ruta Sepetys has been selected for the 2018 Fox Cities Reads, which is a one book, one community
Mary Oliver leaves behind the gift of her powerful words.
Beloved Poet Mary Oliver, Who Believed Poetry 'Mustn't Be Fancy,' Dies At 83
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Oliver wasn't always appreciated by critics, but she was still one of the country's most popular poets. In 2012, she told NPR, "Poetry, to be understood, must be clear."#WisconsinWednesdays – Sagashus T. Levingston
“Sagashus T. Levingston was born in Chicago and raised in the area now known as Bronzeville, but known before gentrification as the Low End. She holds a bachelor’s in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been attending graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There she earned a master’s in Afro-American Studies and is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of English. Her dissertation is titled INFAMOUS MOTHERS: BAD MOMS DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS.
While her research focuses primarily on literature, it is informed by theory and criticism from rhetoric, motherhood studies and black feminism. Her coffee table book, simply titled INFAMOUS MOTHER, is inspired by this work and so is Infamous Mothers, LLC, a social enterprise where Sagashus offers personal and professional development training meant to empower women who mother from the margins of our society. She also delivers programming to the organizations and professionals that make an impact on these women's lives. Sagashus is a proud button-wearing member of the Doyenne Group, Inc. located in Madison, WI. She also sits on the WWBIC South Central Ambassadorial Advisory Committee. As the proud mother of six children—three boys and three girls, and partner of Tosumba, she and her family lives in Madison, WI.”
INFAMOUS MOTHERS was adapted for stage, produced and directed, and performed at the Bartell Theater in Madison, last fall. The stage production used powerful theatre to weave Levingston’s own remarkable story with the stories of six real-life women from her book, and four fictional women who represented the struggles and triumphs of all marginalized women. The stage production of INFAMOUS MOTHERS sold out performances from October 26 through November 10, 2018.
www.infamousmothers.com/
Wisconsin writers! Annual contest in fiction and poetry opens today for submissions
Writing Contests | wisconsinacademy.org
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FICTION & POETRY CONTESTS OPEN JANUARY 15, 2019Get the recogniton for your writing that you deserve. Submit your short stories and poems to our annual fiction and poetry contests, which are open to all Wisconsin writers age 18 and older. Contest winners in both the fiction and poetry categories rece...