Featured artwork in this issue by Russell Gardner, photos by Katrin Talbot. View & read more about Gardner's Picket Fence Edition of Echolocations (2013): Slow Art of Seven Madison Poets. (Click on links to poems, art, essays & reviews below.)
Editors' Notes
(di)Verse Wisconsin: Community & Diversity, by Sarah Busse & Wendy Vardaman
B. J. Best, More than 25 Million Poems about the Midwest
Guest Curators
Kara Candito & Adam Fell—Monsters of Poetry
- Carrie Lorig
- Caryl Pagel
- Hannah Gamble
- Matt Hart
- Daniel Khalastchi & K. Salem
- Virginia Konchan
- Kiki Petrosino
- Jane Lewty
- Ryan Walsh
- Shane McCrae
- Tyler Mills
- Kyle McCord
Ching-In Chen—"midwest (milwaukee) monster remix"
- found input
- Carina Gia Farrero
- Soham Patel
- Chelsea Wait
- Dawn Tefft
- Nikki Wallschlaeger
- Cassie Nicholson
- Freesia McKee
- Jessica Vega Gonzalez
- Kelsey Gray
- Brent Mitchell
- Jenie Gao
- Nick Ramsey
- The Barrow Band
- Jerrold Belland
- Katarzyna Rygasiewicz
- The November Criminals
- Naomi Marie
- The Nielsen Brothers
- Marco Jaimez /Mexico City is Sinking
Keith Gaustad—Burdock Magazine & Radio
- Jim Chapson
- Tyler Farrell
- Susan Firer & Jim Hazard
- Keith Gaustad
- Rick Hokans
- Tim Kloss
- David Press
- Mario Willis
Lane Hall—Overpass Light Brigade
- Callen Harty
- Brenda Cárdenas
- Dan S. Wang
- Dawn Tefft
- Greg Gordon
- Dusan Harminc and Matt Mullins
- Joe Brusky
- Kelly Hayes
- Maaganiit Noodin
- Margaret (Peggy) Rozga
- Roberto Harrison
- Lane Hall
Dasha Kelly—Still Waters Collective
Oscar Mireles—I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin
Beyond the Water's Edge: Poems & Photography in Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission
Introduction, Map & Photographs
Artist Statements
Exquisite Poems and Parlor Games: Poems in Response to Real/Surreal at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Introduction by Gillian Nevers
Art & Prose Features
- From Echolocations, Poets Map Madison (2013): Slow Art of Seven Madison Poets, Picket Fence Edition by Russell Gardner, photos by Katrin Talbot, poems by Robin Chapman, CX Dillhunt, Fabu, Ronnie Hess, Michael Penn II, Richard Roe, Jo Scheder
- Verse Wisconsin's (de)compos(t)ing station
- Echolocations, Poets Map Madison, Launch Video & Map
- Recollections of a Wisconsin Small Press Editor and Publisher, by Gary Busha
- Free Verse—the First Issue, ed. by Linda Aschbrenner
- Notes from the Midwest Small Press Festival 2013 & Other Poemshares, by Wendy Vardaman
Wisconsin Poetry News
Book Reviews
- Heather Corbally Bryant, Lottery Ticket, Parallel Press, 2013, by Caroline Collins
- Robin Chapman, Dappled Things, Illustrated by Peter Miller, Revue K, 2013, by Estella Lauter
- Robin Chapman, Dappled Things, Illustrated by Peter Miller, Revue K, 2013, by John Olski
- Barbara Crooker, Gold, Cascade Books, 2013, by Margaret Rozga
- Dallas Crow, Small, Imperfect Paradise, Parallel Press, 2013 by David O’Connell
- Ann Curran, Me First, Lummox Press, 2013, by Nancy Scott
- Abbot Cutler, Say Dance, Say Night, Slate Roof Press, 2013, by David Gross
- Philip Dacey, Gimme Five, Blue Light Press, 2013, by Lisa Vihos
- Sherri Felt Dratfield, The City, Finishing Line Press, 2013, by Kathrine Yets
- Anna M. Evans, Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer’s, Bare Foot Muse Press, 2013, by Lisa Marie Brodsky
- John Gosslee, Blitzkrieg, Rain Mountain Press, 2013, by Noel Sloboda
- Grace Marie Grafton, Jester, Hip Pocket Press, 2013, by Cherise Wyneken
- Jessica Greenbaum, The Two Yvonnes: Poems, Princeton U Press, 2012, by Zara Raab
- Robert Haight, Feeding Wild Birds, Mayapple Press, 2013, by David Gross
- Estella Lauter, Transfiguration: Re-imagining Remedios Varo, Finishing Line Press, 2013, by John Olski
- Janet Leahy, Not My Mother’s Classroom, Poetry People Press, 2012, by Richard Swanson
- James P. Lenfestey, Earth in Anger, Red Dragonfly Press, 2013, by Estella Lauter
- Emelie Lindemann, Queen of the Milky Way, Dancing Girl Press, 2013, by Lisa Vihos
- Liu Xiaobo, June Fourth Elegies (trans. Jeffrey Young), Graywolf Press, 2012, by Margaret Rozga
- Kathy Nelson, Cattails, Main Street Rag, 2013, by Estella Lauter
- Cristina M.R. Norcross, The Lava Storyteller, Red Mare 7, 2013, by Kathrine Yets
- James Pollock, Sailing to Babylon, Able Muse Press, 2012, by Richard Merelman
- Zara Raab, Fracas & Asylum, David Robert Books, 2013, by Kathrine Yets
- Liz Rhodebeck, Here the Water is Deep: Poems of a Middle-Aged Bride, Orange Hat Publishing, 2014, by Anjie Kokan
- Jeannie E. Roberts, Nature of It All, Finishing Line Press, 2013, by Estella Lauter
- Jane Satterfield, Her Familiars, Elixir Press, 2013, by Adrianne Kalfopoulou
- Penelope Scambly Schott, Lillie Was a Goddess, Lillie Was a Whore, Mayapple Press, 2013, by Sherry Chandler
- Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, The Porcupine of Mind, Broadstone Books, 2012, by Lucia Cherciu
- Moisés Villavicencio Barras, Luz de Todos los Tiempos / Light of All Times, Cowfeather Press, 2013, by Judith Barisonzi
- Frank X Walker, Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, The University of Georgia Press, 2013, by Margaret Rozga
- Ed Werstein, Who Are We Then? Partisan Press, 2013, by Richard Swanson
- Marianne Worthington, Larger Bodies Than Mine, Finishing Line Press, 2006, by David Gross
