(Click on links to poems, essays & reviews below.)
Editors' Note
Poems Selected from the 2013 Wisconsin Poets' Calendar
Poems from Magic and Metamorphosis: An Evening of Poetry at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Marilyn Annucci
Margaret Benbow
F.J. Bergmann
Sarah Busse
Lisa Cihlar
Nancy Jesse
Richard MerelmanNorma Gay Prewett
Eve Robillard
Richard Roe
Shoshauna Shy
Jeanie Tomasko
Wendy Vardaman
Essays & Interviews
- Community—Shorter reflections by contributors to the 2013 Calendar
- Poetry and Photographs as Family Memoir, by Linda Aschbrenner
- Spreading Poetry Seeds, by Jan Bosman
- Interview with Brenda Cárdenas & Five Poems
- Somos Latinas-Nuestras Voces, by Centro Hispano Youth Group (Madison)
- Kundiman: a Zuihitsu, by Ching-In Chen
- Poet’s Corner [L’Angolo del Poeta], by Barbara Collignon
- What a Poet Carries: Observations on Working with Elementary School Writers, by CX Dillhunt
- Water Inspirations at Woodland Dunes, by Kathryn Gahl
- At the Kitchen Table: Shoshauna Shy Interviews Douglas Goetsch about "The Ripple in Your Day"
- Saag Paneer Sutra–or–How One Indian Entrée Nourished Seven Poets, by Judith Harway
- James Hazard, 1936-2012: Poems, Music, & One Poet Remembers, by John Walser
- The Dickinson Series: Building a Community of Poets in Door County, by Estella Lauter
- The Vision and the Word 5, by Sandra Lindow
- Fireweed Press, by Jeri McCormick
- Threaded Metaphors: Connecting to Community, by CJ Muchhala
- Magic and Metamorphosis: An Evening of Poetry at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, by Gillian Nevers
- Home is Where the Art Is: Writing as Community, by Bianca Spriggs
- After Your Book is Published, Then What? Getting Your Work Out There, by Sandy Stark
- poetical economy/exchange: kitchens, coffee shops, cluttered tables, communities, by Wendy Vardaman
- 100,000 Poets for Change in Wisconsin, & Interviews with Co-founders Michael Rothenberg & Terri Carrion, by Lisa Vihos
- Fond du Lac’s Foot of the Lake Poetry Collective, by Mary Wehner
More of Wisconsin’s Poetry Communities—in previous issues of VW
- The Hibiscus Collective
- Writers in Prisons
- Borderland Project [The Lake Effect Poets]
- Black Earth Institute
- First Wave at UW-Madison
Each issue's "Wisconsin Poetry News" is also devoted to brief stories about agroups that promote communities of poets and poetry in their communities. Please send us your group's story.
Wisconsin Poetry News
- 2012 Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Awards
- Haiku Marquee Project
- Cheap Reads Poetry Series
- Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook & Muse Awards
- Wisconsin's Poetry Out Loud 2012 Winner Competes at Nationals
Review-Essay
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Three Shots at the Impossible: Landrum, Lehr and O’Shaughnessy, by Sarah Busse
Book Reviews
- Mary Alexandra Agner, The Scientific Method, Parallel Press, 2011, by Judith Barisonzi
- Georgia Ann Banks-Martin, Rhapsody for Lessons Learned or Remembered, Plain View Press, 2010, by Moira Richards
- Mark Belair, Walk With Me, Parallel Press, 2012, Two Reviews: by Timothy P. McLafferty and by Lisa Vihos
- Robin Chapman, The Eelgrass Meadow, Tebot Bach, 2011, by Judith Barisonzi
- Maryann Corbett, Breath Control, David Robert Books, 2012, by Judy Swann
- Tom C. Hunley, The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse, McFarland & Co, 2012, by Carmen Germain
- Rebecca Lehmann, Between the Crackups, Salt Publishing, 2011, by Morgan Harlow
- Keith O’Shaughnessy, Incommunicado, Grolier Book Shop, 2011, by Claire Hughes
- Aline Soules, Meditation on Woman, Anaphora Literary Press, 2012, by Carol Smallwood
- Jeanine Stevens, Sailing on Milkweed, Cherry Grove Collections, 2012, by Timothy P. McLafferty
- Jeanie Tomasko, Tricks of Light, Parallel Press, 2011, by Hope McLeod
