Growing New Roots: Women Writing about Home and Belonging

Home is a concept that has particular associations for women.  Join University of Wisconsin Press authors Alison Townsend and Catherine Jagoe for a discussion of rootlessness, connection, gender, and the natural world in their writing and placemaking. Townsend’s memoir The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home explores the role of motherloss and multiple uprootings before moving to Wisconsin, while Jagoe’s Unbelonging: A Life in Search of Home examines belonging as an immigrant and translator. The conversation will be moderated by Jessica Becker, editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas, and both writers will read short excerpts from their memoirs, followed by the opportunity to ask questions and consider personal memories and experiences of home. 

This Finding Home event is a partnership with the University of Wisconsin Press. 

Middleton Public Library - Archer Meeting Room
7425 Hubbard Ave
Middleton, WI

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This event is part of the Finding Home series, a statewide initiative of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters that invites people across Wisconsin to explore what it means to find home. Public lectures, art exhibitions, workshops, magazine features, and local events bring people together to create shared understanding and common ground.  

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If you'd like to support this series financially, please contact Executive Director, Erika Monroe-Kane.

The Boldt Family Fund, Inc.

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Angela Trudell Vasquez, Madison Poet Laureate 2020-2024