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Lynn Patrick Smith has a full-length book of poetry, These Little Scenes, published by Fireweed Press. $12; available at Avol's Bookstore.

Richard Swanson's new full-length poetry, Men in the Nude in Socks, was published by Fireweed Press in October 2006 and is available at Avol's Bookstore, 315 W. Gorham, for $13.

Steve Timm has a full-length book of poetry, Disparity, available in print or as a FREE pdf! from BlazeVOX books: http://www.blazevox.org/mim.htm.

Ron Wallace has a chapbook, Now You See It, from Parallel Press: http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/.

Jesse Lee Kercheval has a chapbook, Chartreuse, from Hollyridge Press: http://members.aol.com/hollyridgepress/.

Darryl Dishaw has self-published his first book of poetry, Alien Demons, Swords and Magic.  These poems are inflicted with darkness, sex, and violence.  Cherished or reviled, either way his words produce a reaction in the reader.  Available from Lulu.com: www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=198794.

Tom Rohe has recently published a book of poetry, Rebel, through Goblin Fern Press in Madison.  Endorsed by Ron Wallace and Ellen Kort, it can be ordered through goblinfernpress.com or Amazon.com for $10, or from Goblin Fern Press, Inc.,  3809 Mineral Point Road, Madison, WI 53705.

Anne-Marie Cusac's manuscript, Silkie, is the winner of the Many Mountains Moving 2006 Poetry Book Contest.

Andrea Potos was an International Publication Prize winner in the 2006 Atlanta Review Poetry Competition.

Mick Joyce's book Bent, published by Goblin Fern Press, has just gone into a second printing. Content: 53 pages of powerful poetry. Cost: $12.75 plus $.45 state tax and $.50 postage (no tax if you live outside of Wisconsin). Purchase directly from the author by check:

Mick Joyce
4 North Allen St.
Madison, WI 53705

Also available at Avol's and A Room of One's Own bookstores just off State St. E-mail Mick at ezgo.joyce@tds.net

Jesse Lee Kercheval's manuscript, Film History as Train Wreck, won the 2006 Center for Book Arts Letterpress chapbook competition.

Susan Elbe's peace poem was chosen to be one of 13 in The Making of Peace Broadside Series out of 400 entries, at http://www.agodon.com/themakingofpeace.

Susan Elbe's chapbook manuscript, The Shades of Chicago, was a finalist in The Comstock Review's 2005 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest.

POETS FOR RED CROSS COMMEMORATE 9/11 FIVE YEARS ON

http://www.nthposition.com/babylonburning911.php

Nearly 90 poets from around the world, including local poet Ray Hsu, have contributed to Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on, an anthology on the Twin Towers atrocity and its consequences. The anthology will be free, but there will be a request to donate to the Red Cross.

In Memoriam
Madison poet Carl Thayler (see www.possibilityx.com/ct/main.htm) was found dead of natural causes Sunday November 6th in his small apartment a few blocks off Park Street. He was 72 and leaves family in California, several books of sometimes polyvocal, sometimes lyrical poetry and an unfulfilled desire to buy a candy-apple red Harley. His poetry was published in several books and small press journals. He taught poetry, survived poverty and poetry critics, race car driving, an acting career in which he was touted as the ”next James Dean” (a friend of his), dates with movie and television star, Loretta Young, heart bypass surgery and a liver transplant.

Of Carl's poetry, Marcia Wolf, his former wife, said: ”He wrote 12 hours a day, short stories, essays, poetry, he wrote the way other people breath. Among a certain set of poets, he was well-known and respected.” A selection of Carl's poems and reviews of some of his books appear on jacketmagazine.com. Howard McCord, who was a very close friend of Carl's, was the one who alerted police that something might be wrong on Sunday when Carl didn't answer his phone after he had been trying to call him for a couple of days. Howard said most of the poetry Carl really wanted out was published in SHAKE HANDS (Pavement Saw Press, 2001) and in the two volumes of NALTSUS BICHIDIN (Skanky Possum Press, 1999, and 2004) Volume 2 runs 331 pages. His novel, WEST, is being published in 2006.

—David Baratier

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Awards & Publications

Robin Chapman's ms. Abundance was a finalist for the 2004 Cider Press Review Book Award.

Andrea Potos was an International Publication Prize winner in the 2005 Atlanta Review Poetry Competition.

Alison Townsend and F.J. Bergmann were finalists in the St. Louis Poetry Center Poem Contest.

Ray Hsu's first book, Anthropy, published by Nightwood Editions as Junction books, is a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, which recognizes the best first book of poetry by a Canadian. Ray is a Ph.D. student at UW—Madison.

Alison Townsend of Stoughton, was a finalist in the Nineteenth New Millennnium Writing Awards for poetry.

Amaud Jamaul Johnson of Madison won the 2005 Dorset Prize and $10,000 from Tupelo Press for his manuscript Red Summer.

Laura Sims of Madison won the 2005 Alberta Prize and $5,000 from Fence Books for her manuscript Practice, Restraint.

Ray Hsu's first book, Anthropy, is a finalist for the Trillium Book Award in poetry. This award, for Ontario authors, pays $10,000, plus $2,000 for promotion. Ray is a Ph.D. student at UW—Madison.

Rusty Russell won the Writer's Magazine poetry contest and $1,000; F.J. Bergmann got third place and $200. Both poems appear in the summer 2005 issue of Rosebud.

Alice D'Alessio of Madison won the 2005 Posner Poetry Award and $500 from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for her book A Blessing of Trees (Cross+Roads Press) at the CWW April 30 Awards Banquet. Honorable mentions went to Marilyn Taylor of Milwaukee for Subject to Change (David Robert Books) and Harriet Brown of Madison for The Promised Land (Parallel Press). Karl Elder, Howards Grove, won the $500 Lorine Niedecker Award for 2005 from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for a group of 5 poems. Honorable mentions were given to Kathryn Gahl of Two Rivers and Susan Elbe of Madison. Awards were made at the April 30 banquet.

Timothy Walsh received second place in the 2005 James Hearst Poetry Prize, judged by Billy Collins, from the North American Review for his poem "Blue Lace Colander."

Poetry Books

New books: Shorts, 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise, John Lehman, Zelda Wilde Publishing, $12, 110 pages. White Horses on Sale for a Song, Shoshauna Shy, Parallel Press, $10, 31 pages.

Local poet and writer James P. Roberts has published a new book: DARKLING I LISTEN, AND FOR MANY A TIME … AND OTHER IMAGINATIONS. Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Short Stories. $20 Trade Paperback; $30 Hardcover
Order through: James P. Roberts, White Hawk Press, 324 Kedzie St. #30, Madison, WI 53704, JRob52162@aol.com.

Robin Chapman & Julien Clinton Sprott, Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2005. A book of Robin's chaos poems and Clint's chaos art is described and can be ordered at http://www.worldscibooks.com/chaos/5882.html.

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