(Click on links to poems, essays & reviews below.)
Editors' Note
"Mask & Monologue" Poems
Verse / Drama
- The Museum of Unnatural History—a drama in verse, by Carol Dorf & Autumn Stephens
- Dear Cruel World—a ten-minute play, by Kevin Drzakowski
- Guarding Lincoln—A Verse Play in Five Acts [excerpt],by Amit Majmudar
- The Gardener’s Wife—a play in free verse [excerpt], by Charlotte Mandel
- Melvilliana—a dramatic monologue [excerpt], by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
- Four Riffs for a Sailor—Calypso [excerpt], by Monica Raymond
- Schnauzer—a play in one act [excerpt], by David Yezzi
Online Features
- Susan Firer—2 Dance Collaborations
- First Wave at the UW-Madison: Learning, Giving Back, Drawing Crowds, by Amanda Mae Brzenk
- The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker, by Doug Reed
- The Latina Monologues, by Angela Trudell Vásquez
- Dramatic Poetry & Fermat’s Last Theorem, by Amit Majmudar
- Our Expanding Dramaverse, by Wendy Vardaman & Greer DuBois
Wisconsin Poetry News
- Spoken Word Artist Apollo Poetry Tops WFOP Conference Lineup
- Poetry Out Loud State Finals
- City Poets Laureate, Madison
- Council for Wisconsin Writers Poetry Awards
Book Reviews
- Bruce Dethlefsen, Unexpected Shiny Things, Cowfeather Press, 2011, by Julie L. Moore
- Moira Egan and Clarinda Harriss, Eds., Hot Sonnets, Entasis Press, 2011, by Moira Richards
- Dave Etter, Dandelions, Red Dragonfly Press, 2010, by Lou Roach
- Jean Feraca, I Hear Voices, A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio, Terrace Books (UW Press), 2011, by Linda Aschbrenner
- Jessica Goodfellow, The Insomniac’s Weather Report, Three Candles Press, 2011, by Athena Kildegaard
- Sarah Gorham, Bad Daughter, Four Way Books, 2011, by Charles Byrne
- Steve Healey, 10 Mississippi, Coffee House Press, 2010, by Melissa J. Lindstrum
- Scott King, Ed., Perfect Dragonfly, A Commonplace Book of Poems Celebrating a Decade & a Half of Printing & Publishing at Red Dragonfly Press, Red Dragonfly Press, 2011, by Linda Aschbrenner
- Amit Majmudar, Heaven and Earth, Story Line Press, 2011, by Zara Raab
- Linda Back McKay, The Next Best Thing, Nodin Press, 2011, by Lou Roach
- Kim Nelson, Woman’s Evolution, Finishing Line Press, 2011, by Zara Raab
- Margot Peters, Lorine Niedecker, A Poet’s Life, UW Press, 2011, by Linda Aschbrenner
- Zara Raab, Swimming the Eel, David Robert Books, 2011, by Athena Kildegaard
- Edwin Romond, Alone with Love Songs, Grayson Books, 2011, by Caroline Collins
- Margaret Rozga, Though I Haven’t Been to Baghdad, Benu Press, 2012, Chloe Yelena Miller
- Emily Scudder, Feeding Time, Pecan Grove Press, 2011, by Moira Richards
- Bianca Spriggs, How Swallowtails Become Dragons, Accents Publishing, 2011, by Margaret Rozga
- Sarah Stern, Another Word for Love, Finishing Line Press, 2011, by Ellen Miller-Mack
- Jeanine Stevens, Caught in Clouds, Finishing Line Press, 2011, by Zara Raab
- Matthew Stolte, D10J11Po (Visual Poetry), eMTeVisPub #5 & Don’t Cut, WI ProTestPO, eMTeVisPub #6, 2011, by Lisa Vihos
- Elizabeth Tornes, Snowbound, 2011, by Elmae Passineau
- Tony Trigilio, Historic Diary, BlazeVOX [books], 2011, by Margaret Rozga
- Lisa Vihos, A Brief History of Mail, Pebblebrook Press, 2011, by Richard Swanson
- Cary Waterman, Book of Fire, Nodin Press, 2011, by Kathleen Serley
- Mishka Zakharin, The Spleen of Fiery Dragons, Infinity Publishing, 2010, by Jamie Lynn Morris
