Appearances
Writing Workshop
Dale will lead a writing workshop at Jules' Poetry Playhouse — part of a series of classes, events, art & publications at the high desert casita retreat from Jules Nyquist & John Roche.
Event is from 10am to 4pm Mountain Time — Dale’s website displays in Central Time.
Meet the Author
Join Dale at Garcia Street Books in Santa Fe, NM for an exclusive “Meet the Author” event on Saturday, April 5, 2025. The bookstore is open from 10am to 5pm Mountain Time — Dale’s website displays in Central Time.
Stay tuned for more specific details on the timing of this afternoon event!
Step Right Up, Ma’am — Stories of Resilience
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Event Summary
What do a formerly enslaved woman running for her freedom, a hidden child during the Holocaust, and Mary Magdalene have in common?
More than you might think. These remarkably strong women are all featured as “characters” in Step Right Up, Ma’am — Stories of Resilience, a new TNW Ensemble Theater production exploring the theme of resilience.
Performances in Overture Center’s Promenade Hall, Madison, Wisconsin:
Friday, June 21st @ 7:30pm CT
Saturday, June 22nd @ 3:00 & 7:30pm CT
Sunday June 23rd @ 3:00pm CT
About the Event
The production includes the writings of poet, Fabu Phillis Carter, Dale M. Kushner, poet and novelist, and TNW’s own co-producing artistic director, playwright Danielle Dresden. Cut paper collage banners, by upstate New York visual artist Milly Charles, highlight the production’s themes and shape the stage environment. Performers are Nedra Bobo-Boyles, Liz Light, and Atlanta-based actor Eileen Koteles. Donna Peckett, TNW’s co-producing artistic director, stages this multi-disciplinary theater production. Lighting design is by Patricia Micetic, and Shane Heim is Stage Manager.
Poet Fabu’s writings, Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud, tell the stories of notable black women in history and their connections to Wisconsin. Dale M. Kushner’s poems, M, dive into the transformative experiences of women in myth and history, from desire through loss and grief to awakening. Dresden’s work, Henny & the Strawberries is based on the real-life experiences of her cousins as hidden Jewish children during World War II in the Netherlands. The play concludes with “characters” from each author coming together to find a way forward.
Tickets are $30 and available through the Overture Center Box Office by phone at (608) 258-4141, by email at tickets@overture.org, or in person at 201 State Street. Click the link below to get tickets online.
Poetry & Beer
Come enjoy some poetry with your beer and some beer with your poetry on Wednesday, May 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM CT when Dale Kushner will do a LIVE in-person reading of her work at the Minocqua Brewing Company.
Hosted by Richard Vargas at the Minocqua Brewing Company, other poets are invited to read one or two of their works (in five-minute slots) through the two-hour session. No advance registration is required.
SOMOS Poetry Month
Join Dale Kushner & Leslie Ullman for a conversation and free poetry reading at SOMOS on Friday, April 5 at 5:30pm Mountain Time — Dale’s website displays in Central Time.
Event Information
SOMOS Salon & Bookshop
108 Civic Plaza Drive
Taos, NM
575-758-0081
SOMOSTaos.org
somos@somostaos.org
Author Bios
DALE M. KUSHNER is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Her debut novel, The Conditions of Love, published by Grand Central, was nominated for the Texas Library Association Award for Outstanding Adult Fiction. Her study of Jungian psychology and dreamwork informs Transcending the Past, her popular monthly online column for Psychology Today. She has been recently honored by the Pushcart Prize 2024 for special mention in poetry. Her short fiction has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kushner’s widely regarded writings on the divine feminine, creativity, and intergenerational trauma are published in anthologies and collected works. Her essays have been published in Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), Jung’s Red Book For Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions, Volume 4 (Chiron Publications, 2020), Jewish Currents, Bark, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her second novel. M is Dale’s new collection of poetry.
LESLIE ULLMAN is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The You That All Along Has Housed You: A Sequence (Nine Mile Press, 2019) and a hybrid collection of craft essays, writing exercises and poems titled Library of Small Happiness (3: A Taos Press, 2017). A new collection based on Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, titled Unruly Tree, will be published in 2024 by University of New Mexico Press. Professor Emerita at U.T.-El Paso where she taught for 27 years, she remains a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts. Her awards include the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEA fellowships and a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for poetry. Leslie is a freelance manuscript consultant and ski instructor at Taos Ski Valley. Her website is www.leslieullman.com
Poetry Night feat. Dale M. Kushner & Carrie Voigt Schonhoff
Replay
You can now listen to the reading Dale did from M, her new book of poems, at Leopold’s on July 11, 2022. Click play below!
About the Event
Join us for a book signing, poetry reading, and meet & greet with local poets Carrie Voigt Schonhoff and Dale M. Kushner on July 11, 2022 (4pm Pacific, 6pm Central, 7pm Eastern).
Both poets will have books of poetry available for sale. Come connect with the local poetry community!
About the Poets
CARRIE VOIGT SCHONHOFF, poet and author of The Liminal Space, has released her second published book of poems, The End of the Beginning. Schonhoff once again captures the spirit of her native Wisconsin while encapsulating the growth of her life’s journey and exciting next chapter. This work will resonate deeply with readers from the Midwest and pull at the heartstrings of those that continue to face challenges but never stop dreaming. Her second book of poems addresses the importance of healing, moving on, and being ready to face a new beginning. Schonhoff’s newest work is a continuation of beliefs that we can heal by connecting and understanding one another on a deeper level through poetry.
DALE M KUSHNER is a novelist, poet, and essayist driven to understand what makes us human. What are the raw and tender stories that shape our lives? Her work wrestles with the “twin spectaculars” of love and loss. Her work draws on the writings of Carl Jung, myths, fairy tales, Buddhist practice, neuroscience, epigenetics, the hidden life of plants and animals, mystery and magic. Her book of poetry, “M”, testifies to the heroic dimensions of women’s lives. The urgent voices in these poems, including Mary Magdalene, Eve, the Virgin Mary, and women experiencing violence across centuries and continents, are bearers of the sacred into the profane world of history—of men and war.
Dale Kushner in conversation with Mare Chapman
Replay Video
You can watch a replay video of the event via the Crowdcast livestream! Register for the Crowdcast livestream below and Mystery to Me will send you a link to a replay video of the event.
About the Event
Poet, author, and essayist Dale M. Kushner introduces her new collection, M, in conversation with writer and Buddhist teacher, Mare Chapman. This free event will be live and in-person at Mystery to Me Bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin at 4pm Pacific, 6pm Central, 7pm Eastern.
Space for the in-person bookstore event is limited. Reserve a spot at the bookstore below.
Leslie Ullman & Dale M. Kushner reading and conversation – Video now available!
Video Replay
Watch video of the event below. Dale’s reading starts at 2:55
About the Event
Part of the KAKTUS reading series, this special night features poets Leslie Ullman and Dale M. Kushner. Join us LIVE on Tuesday, March 29th (6pm Pacific, 7pm Mountain. 8pm Central, 9pm Eastern) for a reading and conversation, followed by an open mic.
The Author + The Marketer: Working Together To Connect to Readers
Video Replay
You can now view this entire event on video. Press play on the video below.
About the Event
Novelist/poet/columnist Dale M. Kushner, and the marketing veteran she has worked with for eight years, WMG member Bridget Marmion, share the process, tasks, benefits and challenges of connecting a writer with readers today.
Free virtual event for WMG members and non-members but requires registration in advance.
(Re)connecting to Art
Video Replay
This event is past but you can still watch it on the Art Lit Lab YouTube channel below. As you watch, enjoy their FREE (Re)connecting to Arts Resources PDF.
About the Event
Have you struggled to continue your artistic practice recently, or considering starting a new one? How do we stay engaged and reimagine a better world? Join us for a cross-disciplinary discussion as we take time to explore how artistic work and creative expression can be supportive of transformation during times of upheaval. Panelists will reflect on how the arts help us reconnect, build resilience, and help us navigate a chaotic world undergoing dramatic change. We will embrace questions around what is it that allows you to make art and how do you get to it in a world—and with a mind—filled with obstacles?
Panelists include: Madison author Dale M. Kushner, jazz pianist and teacher Wilder Deitz, and spoken word artist Charles Payne. Facilitated by Catherine Stephens, music instructor and community arts advocate.
Event includes a workshop activity and an opportunity for audience questions.