Join us for an afternoon of fiction and poetry featuring Mauricio Kilwein Guevara and Janet Jennerjohn! The event is free and open to all; no registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.

About the Readers:

Born in Colombia and raised in Pittsburgh, Mauricio Kilwein Guevara is the author of four poetry books, including  Poems of the River Spirit  and  Autobiography of So-and-so ; a volume of translations published in Madrid, Spain; and a comic play that was performed off-Broadway. He is Professor Emeritus of English at UW-Milwaukeed. He will read a short excerpt from his forthcoming novel,  The Thieves of Guevara , forthcoming from Etruscan Press in 2027.

Janet Jennerjohn, an alum of the UW-Milwaukee creative writing graduate program, recently retired after 30+ years of teaching college English. She divides her time between Milwaukee and Door County with her husband, Mauricio, and their dog, Django. She is the author of a bilingual chapbook,  Cara dividida/Divided Face  and the recently published chapbook,  The Moment Before  (Woodland Pattern, 2026). Her poems have appeared in  American Poetry Review ,  SWWIM Every Day ,  Sheltering with Poems , and the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar, among others.