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Andrea Potos' full-length collection of poetry, Yaya's Cloth, was recently released by Iris Press. Purchase it at local bookstores or from Amazon.com.
Robin Chapman's new poetry book, The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead, was published by WordTech Editions in February 2007 and is available from her or at http://www.wordtechweb.com/chapman.html.
F.J. Bergmann's new chapbook, Aqua Regia, was published by Parallel Press in February 2007 and is available from her, demiurge@fibitz.com, or at Avol's Bookstore, 315 W. Gorham, for $10. Ron Ellis and Catherine Jagoe also have new chapbooks out from Parallel Press.
Alison Townsend, Stoughton has won the 2006–2007 Flume Press Poetry Chapbook Prize for her manuscript And Still the Music.
Madisonian Jim Gleeson has won the inestimably prestigious 2007 Bulwer-Lytton contest! But we like this one best:
The poetry
teacher's bullet-riddled body lay sprawled on the verandah floor like a
patient etherized upon a table.
Michael D. Bess
Nashville, TN
F.J. Bergmann and Andrea Potos have won International Publication Prizes in the 2007 Atlanta Review contest. For Andrea, this is the 8th year in a row! Marilyn Taylor, former Poet Laureate of Milwaukee also won one, making this state grossly overrepresented, since only 20 prizes are awarded. This is normal, for both Madison and Wisconsin.
Matthew Guenette's manuscript Sudden Anthem won the 2007 American Poetry Journal Book Prize. Dream Horse Press will publish the book in Winter/Spring 2008.
| The 2008 Wisconsin Poets' Calendar is out! Pick one up at Avol's Bookstore, 315 West Gorham St., or at Room of One's Own, Johnson St., or order here. Brought to you by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and edited by almost-Madisonians Richard Roe and F.J. Bergmann. | |
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R. Virgil Ellis has a new multimedia DVD, Mandelbröt Room: The Intermedia Art of R. Virgil Ellis, produced by Woodhenge Productions, 2007, Cambridge, Wisconsin. See ronellis@hughes.net.
Timothy Walsh won the 2007 Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize from North American Review for his story If on Thursday the Crows.
Andrea Potos was a finalist for the 2007 Rita Dove Poetry Award from Salem College for her poem "From the Notebooks of Emily Carr."
2007
Council for Wisconsin Writers Award Winners
Jerry Apps of Madison has received
the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Major Achievement Award of $1000 and a month-long
residency at Edenfred, Madison’s creative arts residence established by the Terry
Family Foundation, for his lifetime writing achievement. The award is made every
other year. Eight additional Wisconsin writers have won $500 each and week-long
residencies from Edenfred in the Council’s 2007 contest. Out-of-state judges
made the selections from submitted work published in 2006.
Richard Swanson of Madison won
the Posner Full-Length Poetry Award for his collection Men in the Nude in
Socks, from Fireweed Press. Robert Siegel of South Berwick, ME, judged.
Susan Elbe of
Madison won the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award for a group of five poems. Harriet
Brown of Madison and Anjie Greene-Martin of Palmyra received honorable mentions
from judge Barbara Crooker of Fogelsville, PA.
Harriet Brown of
Madison won the Kay W. Levin Short Nonfiction Award for her story “One Spoonful
at a Time” in New York Times Magazine. Judge Susan Morehouse of Hornell,
NY, named three honorable mentions: Alison Townsend of Stoughton for
her essay “Praising What Persists: Reflections on the Personal Essay and Memoirs” in Arts
and Letters, Julie Buckles of Washburn for “Cleora on Ice” from Fourth
Genre, and Tom Pamperin of Chippewa Falls for “All Right, Then, I’ll Go
to Hell” from English Journal.
Awards will be presented at the Council’s annual
banquet, 11:00 a.m. May 19 at the Wisconsin Club, 900 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee,
WI. Tickets are $25 and may be reserved online at www.wisconsinwriters.org or
by contacting Lois Blinkhorn at (414) 964-3494 or loisblink@sbcglobal.net.
2007
Wisconsin Arts Board Awards Fellowships in Literary Arts
The recipients are:
Dwight Allen, Madison—Fiction
Robin Chapman, Madison—Poetry
Jim Ferris, Verona—Non-Fiction
Judith Harway, Shorewood—Poetry
Richard Kalinioski, Oshkosh—Playwriting
Allison Townsend, Stoughton—Poetry
Ron Wallace, Madison—Poetry
The following Wisconsin poets were finalists for the North American Review James Hearst Prize: Susan Elbe, Madison, "Some Music"; Paula Goldman, Shorewood, "If Dickinson Had a Husband and Wrote Villanelles"; Michael Kriesel, Aniwa, "Zen Amen."
Charles Cantrell has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, vcca.com, located near Sweet Briar College in rural Virginia. He will be one of 20 fellows focusing on their own creative projects at this working retreat for writers, visual artists, and composers.