In the spring, the ice on the lakes cracks and yells. We-d like to join in. Poets Richard Wehrenberg, Jr. and Matthew Whispers will be breezing through town as part of their Midwest poetry tour. They-ll be joined by poetry friends James Payne, James Schiller, and Chris Taylor.

Richard Wehrenberg, Jr. is the co-founder of the cooperatively run publishing house, Monster House Press as well as the co-author of two chapbooks of poetry, think tank for human beings in general and Assuming Size. http://simperingfool.blogspot.com/ He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Matt Whispers is a writer living in Chicago. He publishes the zine, Effigy. http://puttinghotsauceoneverything.wordpress.com/

James Payne is an artist, musician, and writer living in Chicago, Illinois. www.banalization.blogspot.com. He is the author of the newest release from Monster House Press, Austerity Pleasures.

James Schiller lives in Milwaukee and writes poems. He would like to meet you and push you down and then pick you back up so later you can have an interesting story about how you became friends. http://under-speech.blogspot.com/

Chris Taylor is a Madison native, an organizer and performer for Madison-s chapter of Naked Girls Reading, a collaborator with online letter-poem project AntelopeEnvelope, and she tries to write a poem every day in the months of April and November. http://whatulysses.tumblr.com/. Her work has been published or is upcoming in Praxilla, decomP, elimae, New Wave Vomit, Verse Wisconsin, and others.