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The 2012 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 16-18 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Author Biography
Poet and playwright Margaret (Peggy) Rozga is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Waukesha. As a member of the 1967-68 Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council, she participated in the 200 nights of marching that helped secure passage of federal and local fair housing legislation in April 1968. Later she married civil rights leader Father James Groppi. They have three children.
Her play about the Milwaukee fair housing marches, March On Milwaukee, has seen three full productions and three concert readings since its debut at UW Waukesha in 2007. Her book Two Hundred Nights and One Day was awarded a bronze medal in poetry in the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Awards and named an outstanding achievement in poetry for 2009 by the Wisconsin Library Association. Her new collection of poems, Though I Haven’t Been to Baghdad, reflects on her experience as the mother of an Army Reservist deployed first to Iraq and then to Afghanistan. It is scheduled for release in 2011.
Additional Information
This program will feature a reading and discussion of two books by poet and playwright Margaret Rozga. Her collection of poems, Two Hundred Nights and One Day, tells the story of the dramatic campaign for fair housing legislation in Milwaukee in the voices of several young fair housing activists. She will also read from her forthcoming book, Though I Haven’t Been to Baghdad.
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