Join us for a reading to celebrate Ae Hee Lee’s ASTERISM (Tupelo Press, 2024)! Ae Hee will be joined by Olatunde Osinaike, Mauricio Kilwein Guevara, and Brenda Cárdenas.

Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee currently lives in Wisconsin. In addition to ASTERISM, she is the author of the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017), Dear bear, (Platypus Press, 2021), and Connotary (Frost Place Chapbook Competition Winner—Bull City Press, 2021). Ae Hee is a Just Buffalo Literary Center Fellow, an Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar, a recipient of the James Olney Award by the Southern Review, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. She has also received scholarships and honors from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, among others.

Originally from the West Side of Chicago, Olatunde Osinaike is a Nigerian–American poet, essayist, and software developer. He is the author of Tender Headed (Akashic Books, 2023), selected by Camille Rankine as winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series. His collection was also runner-up for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for the Alice James Award and CAAPP Book Prize. Other honors include winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize and a Frontier Industry Prize, semifinalist for the 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize, and honorable mention for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award in Poetry. His work has received fellowships and support from Poets & Writers, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University.

Mauricio Kilwein Guevara was born in Boyacá, Colombia, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has published four collections of poetry, and a book of translations was published in Spain. His magical realist comedy, The Last Bridge/El último puente, received a fully staged reading Off-Broadway. He taught fiction writing, poetry, and comedy for many years in the creative writing program at UW–Milwaukee.

Brenda Cárdenas is the author of Trace (Red Hen Press), Boomerang (Bilingual Press), and three chapbooks, including From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press). She also co-edited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Latinx Poetics: The Art of Poetry; TAB: Journal of Poetry and Poetics; Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations; Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment, and Healing; Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Anthology; The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry; and many others. Cárdenas has served as faculty for the CantoMundo writers’ retreat (2021) and as Milwaukee Poet Laureate (2010–12). She currently teaches Creative Writing and U.S. Latinx Literatures at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Poetry Reading & Book Launch: Ae Hee Lee (ASTERISM) with Olatunde Osinaike, Mauricio Kilwein Guevara, and Brenda Cárdenas