2010 Old stuff, perhaps in ascending order of chronology.
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Mark Kraushaar of Lake Mills has won the 2010 Anthony Hecht Prize of $3,000 and publication for The Uncertainty Principle, judged by James Fenton: http://waywiser-press.com/hechtprize.html.

July 1, 2010: W.S. Merwin is named Poet Laureate of the United States.

Marilyn Taylor of Milwaukee is the Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2008-2010.

2010 APPEARANCES
November 11 - Presentation and reading, Fond du Lac Roundtable, Fond du Lac.

cold read 2010A COLD READ
by FJ BERGMANN AND TJ FERRELLA
Sunday, June 27th, 12-4 pm: Performance with typewriter and polaroids for WORDPLAY. At the KOHLER ARTS CENTER, 608 New York Avenue Sheboygan, WI 53081. (920) 458-6144; (608) 334-7275. Show runs through June 27th; closing reception.

Performance Poetry for Much Higher Stakes: latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-gulf-poetry-of-protest,0,2336850.story

A Racquetball Poetry Chapbook Tournament in Racine, WI, April 10, followed by a reading at BONK! for the participants. F.J. Bergmann competed enthusiastically and unsuccessfully. This was a blast, and they plan to make it an annual event!

Robin Chapman and F.J. Bergmann received International Publication Prizes in the Atlanta Review's 2010 poetry contest.

Charles Cantrell's poem "Marilyn Monroe to Arthur Rimbaud" was an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards and will be published in the Fall issue of The Paterson Literary Review.

jumpstart awardJuly 11, 2010: ANNOUNCING WINNERS OF THE 2010 WOODROW HALL JUMPSTART AWARD. Paula Sergi of the Foot of the Lake Poetry Collective in Fond du Lac won first place and $500.00 to collaborate with the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) office, the Association of Commerce, the Fond du Lac Public Library, the Fond du Lac Arts Council, and Park Ridge Organics to bring poetry to the farmers’ markets, the library, the Windhover Center for the Arts and two harvest festivals in the Fond du Lac area. The finalist was Phil Hansotia of Ellison Bay who received $250.00 to create “poetry trails” (poems in display cases mounted on posts) in Newport State Park, a partnership between the Wallace, Unabridged and Word Women poetry groups with the Newport Wilderness Society, Newport State Park, and Sevastapol, Gibraltar and Southern Door high schools.

Shoshauna Shy of Woodrow Hall Editions based in Madison created the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award, an offshoot of the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf initiative, designed to help other Wisconsin poets implement a project that brings poetry into the eye of the general public in an unconventional manner. Learn more about this award and the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program at PoetryJumpsOfftheShelf.com.

Sarah Busse's new poetry chapbook Given These Magics is now for sale and listed on the website at Finishing Line Press, here. Wisconsin Poet Laureate Marilyn Taylor's generous praise:

This gathering of twenty graceful poems might conjure, at first, the leafy serenity of a quiet neighborhood in summer. But it doesn’t take long before the reader becomes aware of the subtle glints of subversion that haunt these back porches and gardens, transporting us in poem after poem from dappled streetscape to the realm of the darkly profound. We are presented, for example, with window-screen as armored fortification, cucumber pickle as life lesson, house as fleeting moment-in-time. Magics indeed—the kind that demonstrate, with singular insight and musicality, “How the insistent world loves us / perched on sorrow’s harrow.”

Sarah Busse’s is a rare new voice, and Given These Magics a gathering of poems that will reverberate in the minds of her readers long after the first encounter.