Monthly Archives: December 2011

December News

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I have pieces in the current issues of Spittoon and Silver Blade. My poem “Misnomer” appears in the anthology Science Poetry (McAlister, Neil Harding, 2011).

I’m up on the English Department’s newsletter for December and Amazon now has author URL’s. Here’s mine. I read with the wonderful and friendly poets and writers at Tuesdays with Writers in their holiday read-a-thon.

Twice, I’ve read with the talented poets in the 2012 Nebraska Poets Calender, once at Noyes Gallery and once at Crescent Moon’s Poetry at the Moon reading series.

And, as a sneak peek, I’m working on getting a new design for my website. More on that soon….Happy 2011! It was a very good year!

Fall Reading List

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I thought I’d post what I’ve been reading this term, when I was reading for fun. Though given Goodreads, I think I’ll post this type of info there in the future, given it’s proclivity for other bibliophiles and their yearly Reading Challenge.

Fiction:

Poetry:

Other:

  • the current issues of Blue Collar Review, Poet Lore, The Writer’s Chronicle, Crab Orchard Review, Poets & Writers, and The Journal
  • many, many student papers

The Puppet Wife, blurb #1

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Yay! I’ve just received the first blurb for THE PUPPET WIFE forthcoming from Pudding House Publications. Andrena Zawinski is the author of Something About, published by Blue Light Press. I’ve been reading Andrena’s poems everywhere, including in this summer’s issue of Blue Collar Review. As a sneak peek, she’s one of the contributors for the anthology I’m editing. Here’s Andrena:

Laura Madeline Wiseman’s The Puppet Wife crosses boundaries-the poet is both puppet and puppeteer on the stage “twitching, twisting, and jigging” where memory, identity, resiliency, and hope perform in a theater more than “cardboard and paper,/ with a red velvet curtain that opens/ and closes with a long whiffle.” Inside these poems the reader resides in a theater of loving and living, in a language that is inventive and smart and fresh.

Thanks! Yay!

2012 Nebraska Poets Calendar

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I read Sunday afternoon at the great space of Noyes Gallery, the reading and art show for Black Star Press’s 2012 Nebraska Poets Calender. First the clip of my little poem “Ten-Speed” that I wrote about my hand-me-down orange huffy olympia bicycle that I biked on all through high school and college.

The poets also gave readings of other work. I read “Promise” and “Bundling,” from the broadside collaboration, and now collected in THE PUPPET WIFE, forthcoming from Pudding House.

It was a such an amazing place! And poets are so appreciative of other poets’ work. Yay!

 

broadside & calendar readings

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If you’re up for a little holiday cheer this coming week, I’m reading two poems from my broadside collaboration Tuesday night. I’m number 9 on the list, so if you’re a little late, you’ll probably still catch me. Sunday afternoon, I’m reading with the poets who are featured in the 2012 calender by Black Star Press. I’ll read my July poem, plus a couple others from my recent and forthcoming chapbooks. Here’s the information. I hope to see you there!

Reading (poetry) in Tuesdays with Writers at the South Mill
7 p.m., December 6, 2011
4736 Prescott Avenue (near Union College), Lincoln, Nebraska

 

Reading (poetry) in 2012 Nebraska Poets Calendar reading and art show
2-4 p.m., Sunday, December 11, 2011
Noyes Gallery, 119 South 9th St. Lincoln, Nebraska 68508

 

She Who Loves Her Father blurb #2

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Way back in 2006 and 2007 when I was a newbie doctoral student, I attended several of the Clean-Part Reading Series poetry readings that were, at that time, held in the auditorium of the Sheldon Art Museum. It was there that I first heard Julia Cohen read. The Sheldon was a wonderful place to hear poetry-good ambiance, cushy seats, ambient lighting, and art displayed in the gallery and hall just outside the auditorium. I’ve just finished The History of a Lake Never Drowns (Dancing Girl Press, 2009) and her co-authored collection Samaritan (Dancing Girl Press, 2011). Her stuff is cool and the cover art she chooses is delightful. She’s written me a lovely, little blurb for my new collection SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press next year. Here’s Julia:

To read Wiseman’s collection is to live inside an echo, a series of glances that won’t let you go. Wiseman evokes a landscape of attentive and intimate arrivals. These revealing poems ask us to consider why we drift and how we recognize the anchor in each other.

Thanks, Julia!

I’ve been accepted, again!

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Yay! 2011 is turning out to be a very good year. Pudding House Publications just accepted my little chapbook THE PUPPET WIFE. It will be number seven, a lucky number. I’m so excited!

Earlier versions of the poems in this chapbook have appeared in Arabesques Review, Erosha, Illya’s Honey, Mixed Fruit, Niederngasse, Sketch, Specs, Spittoon, Swans, Tar Wolf Review, two poems,“Promise” and “Bundling,” first appeared in a limited edition series of broadsides with artwork by Kate Johnson, and two are forthcoming in an anthology that features Nebraska Women poets.

Yay!