Come celebrate the next two volumes in the LOTUS Untold Stories chapbook series with readings from Ashley Williams and Pita Daniels!

The LOTUS Untold Stories chapbook series is part of LOTUS Legal Clinic’s therapeutic arts programming that publishes the creative writing of survivors of sexual violence in collaboration with a local small-poetry press. This year LOTUS has partnered with Pitymilk Press to bring out volumes II and III of the series.

LOTUS Legal Clinic is a Milwaukee-based nonprofit dedicated to serving survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking by providing free and comprehensive legal services as well as therapeutic arts programming. LOTUS’ services are trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and dedicated to protecting the integrity, dignity, and human rights of its clients.

Ashley Williams is a writer based in Milwaukee who has published poems in Untold Stories Magazine and Pink Salt Art Collective Zine volumes II and III. Her poetry topics range from gender, the black experience, personal experience, surrealism, and sci-fi. A N*gga Writes Shakesperean (Pitymilk Press) is her first chapbook and the second volume in the LOTUS Untold Stories chapbook series.

Pita Daniels is a writer and artist based in Viroqua, Wisconsin, who has published poems in Untold Stories Magazine and whose poem “The words wrote me into the day,” won the inaugural Adult Creative Power Poetry Award from Arts for All Wisconsin. Blood Lines (Pitymilk Press) is his first chapbook and the third volume in the LOTUS Untold Stories chapbook series.

Poetry Reading: Ashley Williams and Pita Daniels