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VW 107 Available Online & In Print
Verse Wisconsin 107 includes "Earthworks" Poems, prose about ecopoetry from Patricia Monaghan, Jeff Poniewaz, Laura-Gray Street & Ann Fisher-Wirth, as well as an interview with Kimberly Blaeser, a selection of poems from Bruce Dethlefsen's Unexpected Shiny Things, book reviews, audio & news about Wisconsin poetry.
Verse Wisconsin is available as a print and an online magazine with compatible but different contents. Read, view, & listen to the online edition now. Subscribe to our print magazine for more poetry and prose! 
Our Summer online issue will be a special joint project with the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets' 2013 Calendar. The reading period for this project has closed. Watch for the next online call for work in early April.
From September-May we accept print submissions of any style, subject and voice. We also welcome reviews (see books received) and queries for essays about poetry, including those about writing groups, interesting or innovative poetry programs, and the intersection of poetry and daily life; we invite you to send photos of readings and poetry events to consider posting on the website, as well as notices about Wisconsin poetry news.
Our Main Street Wisconsin issue, "Poems About Wisconsin Protests," is now closed. The editors of Verse Wisconsin invite you to continue to send poems about the protests, as well as other well-crafted political poetry, to our regular issues of VW. See the Submissions page for details, and watch for future Main Street Wisconsin calls. Please download a pdf of "14 Broadsides" selected from these poems in March, 2011. Broadsides were distributed at VW events through the spring, and you can print, copy, cut & pass these out at upcoming community & political events. Thanks for helping to put poems about the Wisconsin protests out into the world!
Please join us at an upcoming event, send us a link, and support Verse Wisconsin!
Jawbreaker Project Launch, Avol's Bookstore, April 1, 2011
Marilyn Annucci & the Verse-O-Matic poetry dispenser at the joint Verse Wisconsin/ Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf launch. Jawbreaker poems appeared in VW106. Interested in having the Verse-O-Matic travel to your library/school/business/community center? Contact sarah(at)versewisconsin(dot)org.
World Watching, by Matthew Stolte
"World Watching" is part of the Main Street Wisconsin "Poems About Wisconsin Protests" special issue.
Upcoming Deadlines
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Annual Poetry Contests
- February 1: Chapbook Contest, Muse Prize, Student Contest
- August 1: Triad Contest
Council for Wisconsin Writers 2011 Awards, January 31
Newer Wisconsin Poetry Publishers
- N.E.W. Voices, A Literary Platform for North-East Wisconsin, c/o Caravaggio Press, P.O. Box 41, Ellison Bay, WI 54210, or email Nancy Rafal, mrsticket(at)gmail(dot)com
- Redzine, a literary magazine publishing poetry and fiction.
- Stoneboat, a literary journal based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Poetry, short prose, and black-and-white art.
- Rescue Press, publishes work by activists, artists, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, list-makers, philosophers, poets, scientists, writers, and creative thinkers of all kinds.
- Devil's Lake, an online journal published twice a year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Poetry and fiction.
- Otherwise, A Young Writers' Poetry Journal, a non-profit project launched by a Milwaukee school teacher/poet. Accepts submissions from young writers ages 5-17.
Verse Wisconsin in the News
- Wisconsin People & Ideas, "5Q-Cowfeather Press," Fall 2011
- Wisconsin People & Ideas, "Verse-O-Matic Delivers Bite Size Poetry (and Candy)," Summer 2011
- Harriet the Blog: The Poetry Foundation, 5/11
- WORT Radio Literature, 4/21-11, interview with Wendy Vardaman on sonnets & VW105 Forms issue
- Madison Magazine Liberal-Arts Blog, 3/11
- VW 104 interview with John Koethe at Poetry Daily, 3/11
- Duotrope Digest, 8/10, Interview
- Isthmus, 8/12/10
- WORT Radio Literature, 7/22/10, 7:30 pm, with Sarah Busse
- VW 102 interview with Matthea Harvey at Poetry Daily, 7/10
- Madison Magazine Liberal-Arts Blog, 3/10
- Coffee Spew (Blog of Cambridge Book Review), 3/10
- Poetry Dispatch, 3/10
- Square 77 (Wisconsin State Journal), 3/10
- Wisonsin People & Ideas, 1/10
- Madison Magazine, 11/09
- WORT Radio Literature, 10/15/09, 7:30 pm
Listen to an excerpt of Sarah Busse's interview with WORT
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