We are very pleased to partner with our friends at the University of Missouri Center for the Humanities to offer an online poetry reading given by Ellen Samuels, emeritus professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and award-wining author. Ellen will read from her newest poetry collection, Your Body Should Be a Part of the World.

The event is free to attend, but does require registration. Happily, it’s easy! Just click here.

This poetry collection is a meditation on chronic illness, survival, and community that moves between the intimate space of the sickroom and the messy persistence of nature. Your Body Should Be a Part of the World is the winner of C&R Press’s 2024 Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Prize and also won the 2024 Brain Mill Press/Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Prize.

Samuels is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she taught for many years in the Departments of English and Gender & Women’s Studies. She founded and directed the UW Disability Studies Initiative and was one of the founders of the community-based Madison Disability Pride Festival. She has been active in disability studies, writing, and activism for over two decades.