Poetry Reading with Dawn Tefft and Freesia McKee
Schedule
Sat May 16 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1008 Main Street, Stevens Point, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54481 | Stevens Point, WI
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RESCHEDULED TO MAY 16THChicago poet, organizer, and activist Dawn Tefft is coming to the bookstore for her newest book, Once Upon a Riot. She will be joined by local poet extraordinaire, Freesia McKee.
Copies are available for pre-order here - https://boundtohappenbooks.com/item/I6DYbVQyh7e9Llk3DjHHsQ
Once Upon a Riot insists upon the necessity of resisting forms of oppression such as fascism and economic exploitation, while exploring both the challenges and the moments of beauty in raising a young child in our current political moment. Children and movements are both birthed, and the poet is always attuned to the music of the experience: lyrical, prosaic, experimental, narrative. The book traverses street protests often pejoratively labeled as riots by commercial media, labor strikes, playing at the beach, decorating apartments, LED light displays on bridges, James Baldwin, Taylor Swift, the Wisconsin Uprising, the film Poor Things, scraped knees, the French revolution, immigrant rights, a mother’s circumstances raising a child in the present, a mother’s own childhood, and global happenings. All is context. All is fodder for shaping what is and what is to come.
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