Monthly Archives: June 2011

SPRUNG blurb #5

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I’m delighted to receive another blurb for my full-length collection of poetry, SPRUNG, forthcoming from SFBP this year. Cheryl Dobinson is the wonderful editor of Canadian publication The Fence who has published my poetry, essays, and short stories for years. Here’s Cheryl:

Laura Madeline Wiseman’s collection, Sprung, delves into an intimate and uncertain world that is by turns visceral, domestic, succulent, and uncomfortable. Poems that are striking on their own together weave a masterful and playful narrative of a highly unusual relationship. In asking whether we can count on or even control the imaginary, Sprung completely bypasses any distinction between the real and the unreal and makes for a compelling and engaging read.

Thanks, Cheryl!

news

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In brief news, I have two Matilda Fletcher poems in Generations of Poetry, the Lincoln Journal Stars lists UNL graduates of May 2011 (it’s a long list, as one might imagine, you can search *control F* for grads by name, though), there’s a couple of great reviews of the anthology Knocking on the Door that I have a poem in, the forthcoming anthology Dispatches from the Classroom which includes an essay of mine and is set to release around turkey day this year now has it’s own page on the Continuum Press website, there are a few more amazon reviews of BRANDING GIRLS up, and I’m working on getting the “look inside” tool set up on amazon.com, as well as a kindle version available for purchase. As a quick side note, while traveling to Russia and spending so much time in airports and on airplanes, I could not even count how many kindles or other digital book readers I saw people reading. Buckets and buckets of them! But really, wouldn’t such a device be perfect for traveling?

And finally, a last clip from my reading at Indigo Bridge Books last month, this one, with a brief recitation of an Anne Sexton poem.

 

course adoption

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I was thrilled when Carole Levin adopted BRANDING GIRLS for her class on saints, witches, and madwomen she taught this summer at UNL. After flying back from Russia on one of those 36-hour days due to timezone changes, I arrived in town early in the morning Friday June 3rd to give a reading to Carole’s class a few hours later. Here’s another clip.

And BRANDING GIRLS is at the Union bookstore. Yeah!

Indigo Bridge Books Reading

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Mid-May, I gave a reading at Indigo Bridge Books here in Lincoln from BRANDING GIRLS. There was a great turn out and I was so pleased to see friends and colleagues in the fantastic local bookstore/coffee shop. And, new for me, I gave the reading with a powerpoint to allow me to couple the poems to the images to which the poems respond. I’ve posted some of the reading to youtube and I’ll post a few here. The image in this first poem responds to work by Lauren Greenfield.