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 News & Reviews Submit local poetry news, reviews you've written of stuff you liked or hated, other strong opinions, gossip whether relevant or scandalous to: arachne@madpoetry.org News July 1, 2010: W.S. Merwin is named Poet Laureate of the United States.
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The Other: Local theatre group is looking for personal stories, prose and poems, from people who feel like they don't fit with their social labels or who question what it means to be "The Other." We are looking for material from all races, classes, and abilities that specifically challenge the idea of "The Other" as source material for dramatic presentation. Submissions are anonymous. If you would not mind being contacted for further follow-up feel free to list contact information. Please submit material for consideration by August 15th, 2010 to:
Or by e-mail at: jthomas3@wisc.edu. Adult Madison Poets! Awards & Publications 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.
Poetry Books Kenneth Haynes' new book of poems, The People in 10-F, is now available here.
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July
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.
On the Other Side of the Eye Once one has read several hundred poetry collections over the course of a handful of years, it takes an especially powerful and unique voice to separate itself from the vortex of black ink spilled on white paper. Often these voices come from outside the American experience, yet uses itself to translate that experience with fresh insights. Bryan Thao Worra's first collection, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EYE, clearly distinguishes itself as apart yet mixed, full of strange devices and exquisitely memorable constructs that leaves the reader immersed in wonder. A Laotian-American writer, he is replete with the memory of his native country, "The Kingdom of a Million Elephants", and uses their traditions of oral story-telling and song in his poetry. Yet his reactions to being displaced cannot be denied or withheld, as evidenced in the poem "Aliens": "As I run down my strange streets/an accidental alien without/ a ray gun." An ardent Lovecraftian scholar, Bryan Thao Worra pays oblique tribute to HPL in "The Deep Ones" adroitly mixing images of things rising from the sea with the ambitions of his native Laos after civil war and despot rule. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EYE is rife with pop culture references, yet underlying all is a universal truth: that poetry speaks of the human experience and all that it contains. Review
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