Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
(On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.)
Saturday 9/12 – 4:30pm

Current Wisconsin Poet Laureate and former Milwaukee Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas has authored Trace (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2023 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry and silver winner of Foreword Review’s Indie Poetry Prize; Boomerang (Bilingual Press); and three chapbooks. She also co-edited two anthologies, including Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Her poems have been published in such venues as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Library of America’s Latino Poetry anthology, among many others. Cárdenas is Professor Emerita of English at UW-Milwaukee and serves on Woodland Pattern’s Board of Directors .