Madtown Poetry Open Mic / Featured Reader: Bethany Kanter

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Friday, February 5, 2016
8:00 pm

Bethany Kanter is a poet and artist from Fort Atkinson. She recently graduated from Carthage college with a degree in English literature, creative writing, and studio art. She works with the Friends of Lorine Niedecker documenting Lorine's marginalia and promoting Lorine Niedecker's work.

Sign-up 7pm to 8:30pm. Open Mic starts 8pm with featured reader, followed by Open Mic. Read up to 3 poems for a total of 5 minutes.

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