City of Madison - File #: 42654

• File #: 42654
• Version: 1
• Name: Presentation: Poetry Recitation by Rita Mae Reese, "On the Problems of Empathy".
• Type: Presentation
• Status: Accepted
• File created: 6/8/2016
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• On agenda: 6/21/2016
• Final action: 6/21/2016
• Enactment date: 6/23/2016
• Title: Presentation: Poetry Recitation by Rita Mae Reese, "On the Problems of Empathy". Introduced by Madison's Poet Laureate, Oscar Mireles

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/21/2016	1	COMMON COUNCIL	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO GRANT UNDER SUSPENSION OF MGO 2.055 - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
6/8/2016	1	Council Office	Refer

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Presentation: Poetry Recitation by Rita Mae Reese, "On the Problems of Empathy".  Introduced by Madison's Poet Laureate, Oscar Mireles

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Rita Mae Reese is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner fellowship in fiction, a “Discovery”/The Nation award, and a Pamaunok Poetry Prize, among other awards. Her second book, The Book of Hulga, was selected by Denise Duhamel for the Felix Pollak Prize in 2016. She is a co-director of literary arts at the Arts & Literature Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. Visit her at www.ritamaereese.com