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F.J. Bergmann is now the poetry editor for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. See mobiusmagazine.com for guidelines.

NEW MADISON POET LAUREATE!
Fabu Carter-Brisco has been named Madison's third Poet Laureate. Richard Roe's poem in Fabu's honor is here.

James Roberts is the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets South Central (includes Madison) regional vice-president. You can reach him at: 324 Kedzie St. #30, Madison, WI 53704, (608) 242-7340, JRob52162@aol.com.

Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards $4500 and Edenfred Artists’ Residencies
The Council for Wisconsin Writers has named winners of its awards for work published in 2007. Fourteen Wisconsin writers selected by out-of-state judges will be honored at its luncheon banquet 11 a.m. Saturday, May 10, at the Wisconsin Club, 900 W Wisconsin Ave in Milwaukee. Reservation forms may be found on its website, www.wisconsinwriters.org. The Council’s Christopher Latham Sholes Award of $500, for outstanding support and encouragement of Wisconsin writers, will go to Linda Aschbrenner of Marshfield, WI, editor and publisher of Free Verse and Marsh River Editions. Winners in each of the awards categories receive $500 and a one week residency at Edenfred, the Madison creative artists residency program dedicated to supporting new creative work, part of the Terry Family Foundation.

Paul Zimmer, Soldiers Grove, won the Posner Award for Book-Length Poetry for Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems (The University of Georgia Press). Susan Elbe of Madison received an honorable mention for her collection Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press). Bruce Bennett of Aurora, N.Y., judged.

David Krump of LaCrosse won the Niedecker Award for Five Poems for work published in various journals. Debra Bruce of Chicago, Ill., judged.

The Council for Wisconsin Writers is a non-profit organization of volunteers established in 1964 to promote awareness of Wisconsin’s literary heritage. Edenfred, established in 2004, is a part of the Terry Family Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization.

Tim Walsh of Madison, WI, was a finalist in the 2008 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award contest for his manuscript My Career in the Secret Mission Service.

Andrea Potos has won the 2007 Sow's Ear Poetry Review Prize, for her poem "Bread," judged by Marge Piercy.