Redletter is a reading series featuring local and regional poets and writers on the third Friday of each month, and is curated by Chuck Stebelton. The program begins at 7pm with an open mic hosted by Melissa Czarnik, followed by one or two featured readers. The cost is $3, or $2 for open mic readers.

November 20, 2009 - Michael Bernstein, Nick Demske, Jill Wohlgemuth


Michael Bernstein was born and raised in Chicago, IL. He received a BA from Columbia College, and an MFA from Naropa University. His poems have appeared in magazines such as Puppy Flowers, Conundrum, Moria, blazeVOX, and New American Writing. He has taught Creative Writing to at-risks teens though Boulder Attention Homes in Boulder, CO, and as a visiting artist at the University of Tulsa. He has also worked as an editor on two literary journals: Columbia Poetry Review and Pinstripe Fedora. Michael currently lives and writes in Milwaukee, WI.

Nick Demske lives in Racine, Wisconsin, and works there at the Racine Public Library. With Matt Specht, he co-curates the BONK! performance series in Racine. Nick edits the online publicationBoo: a journal of terrific things, which is a magazine of exclusively offensive contributions, and runs a blog atnickipoo.wordpress.com.

Jill Wohlgemuth has a BA in English Writing from Northwestern College and an MFA in Creative Writing-Fiction from the University of Iowa (the Iowa Writer's Workshop). She is currently earning a Master of Library Science from UW-M, working at the reference desk at Golda Meir library, and teaching a few college composition courses. In 2007, she was a semi-finalist in the Salem College for Women Writer's National Literary Awards. This summer she is working on her third novel.