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VW 103 (Summer) available online & in print
VW103 includes a newly discovered poem from Lorine Niedecker and an interview with Martín Espada. Read & listen to the online edition, with poems about "work," articles about poetry in prison, the first United Poets Laureate Conference, and Twitter poetry, Wisconsin Poetry News, book reviews, audio, & more!
Reading September 1-November 1 for VW Online (Winter 2011)—Poems in Forms: Inspired by Michael Kriesel’s encyclopedia of forms & formalists in Wisconsin (forthcoming in VWOnline late September) we’re calling for “poems in forms." We’re interested in everything from sonnets and villanelles to abecedariums and nonce forms (the kind you make up for a particular poem). And we’re interested in everyone, from the die-hard old-school formalist to the newbie who’s intrigued to try something different. Play! Send us your formal poems… AND a brief (or not-so-brief) prose statement about the writing of the poem. How and why did you choose this particular form? Did you run into difficulties? Surprises? How did the use of form affect the writing process for you? Remember: “formal” doesn’t mean old-fashioned or archaic! We’ll be looking for conversational and/or cutting edge.
We also welcome reviews (see books received) and queries for essays about poetry, including those about writing groups, interesting or innovative poetry programs, and the intersection of poetry and daily life; we invite you to send photos of readings and poetry events to consider posting on the website.
Verse Wisconsin is available as a print and an online magazine with compatible but different contents. We accept year-round print submissions of any style, subject and voice.
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Upcoming Deadlines
November 30, The Jawbreaker Poetry Project,
a collaboration between Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf and Verse Wisconsin
"Luck of the Draw" is the theme, and poems are sought that touch, in some way, on good fortune, misfortune, opportunities gone awry, flukes, coincidence or second chances. Selected poems will be packed into jawbreaker capsules with candy, gum or toys, and available—along with the possibility of winning a year's subscription to Verse Wisconsin—from a dispenser coined the Verse-O-Matic. This dispenser will be transported to various Wisconsin venues statewide in April during National Poetry Month, then travel with VW editors to events, conferences and festivals nationwide throughout 2011. The poems will also be published in the summer 2011 online issue of VW. Full guidelines and more details are at the PJOS website. Make submissions to Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf only.
Verse Wisconsin in the News
Duotrope Digest, 8/10, Interview
WORT Radio Literature, 7/22/10, 7:30 pm, with Sarah Busse
VW 102 interview with Matthea Harvey at Poetry Daily, 7/10
Madison Magazine Liberal-Arts Blog, 3/10
Coffee Spew (Blog of Cambridge Book Review), 3/10
Square 77 (Wisconsin State Journal), 3/10
WORT Radio Literature, 10/15/09, 7:30 pm
Listen to an excerpt of Sarah Busse's interview with WORT
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