The poetry reading is sponsored by the Illinois State Poetry Society and Brewed Awakening in Westmont. You may participate via Zoom or by going to Brewed Awakening (just off Cass Avenue, across the street from the METRA station). The $12 cover charge at Brewed Awakening entitles you to a beverage and snack!

Marianne Tefft is a poet and voiceover reader who daylights as a Montessori teacher on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. Her poems and short stories appear online and in print in anthologies and journals in North America, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. She is the author of the 2022 poetry collections Full Moon Fire: Spoken Songs of Love and Moonchild: Poems for Moon Lovers.

Wilda Morris is past president of both the Illinois State Poetry Society and Poets & Patrons of Chicago. She is the author of three full-length poetry books: Szechwan Shrimp and Fortune Cookies: Poems from a Chinese Restaurant, (mostly written at The China Chef in Westmont), Pequod Poems: Gamming with Moby-Dick (which garnered Wilda readings at Arrowhead where Melville wrote Moby-Dick and at the Athanaeum on Nantucket), and At Goat Hollow and Other Poems (which was published this June by Kelsay Books). This new book is composed mostly of poems about her Uncle Norman, many of which made their public debut at Brewed Awakening.