Madtown Poetry Open Mic w/ Featured Reader: Franklin K.R. Cline

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, March 1, 2019
8:00 pm

Featured reader: Franklin K.R. Cline is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, a Distinguished Dissertation Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a member of Woodland Pattern Book Center’s Board of Directors. His first book, So What, was published in 2017 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.

Sign up for the open mic starts at 7:30. The reading starts at 8 with the featured reader.

Hosted by Kelli Miner

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