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A COLD READ
by FJ BERGMANN AND TJ FERRELLA
Sunday, June 27th, 12-4 pm: Performance with typewriter and polaroids for WORDPLAY. At the KOHLER ARTS CENTER, 608 New York Avenue Sheboygan, WI 53081. (920) 458-6144; (608) 334-7275. Show runs through June 27th; closing reception.

Performance Poetry for Much Higher Stakes: latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-gulf-poetry-of-protest,0,2336850.story

A Racquetball Poetry Chapbook Tournament in Racine, WI, April 10, followed by a reading at BONK! for the participants. F.J. Bergmann competed enthusiastically and unsuccessfully. This was a blast, and they plan to make it an annual event!

Sarah Busse's new poetry chapbook Given These Magics is now for sale and listed on the website at Finishing Line Press, here. Wisconsin Poet Laureate Marilyn Taylor's generous praise:

This gathering of twenty graceful poems might conjure, at first, the leafy serenity of a quiet neighborhood in summer. But it doesn’t take long before the reader becomes aware of the subtle glints of subversion that haunt these back porches and gardens, transporting us in poem after poem from dappled streetscape to the realm of the darkly profound. We are presented, for example, with window-screen as armored fortification, cucumber pickle as life lesson, house as fleeting moment-in-time. Magics indeed—the kind that demonstrate, with singular insight and musicality, “How the insistent world loves us / perched on sorrow’s harrow.”

Sarah Busse’s is a rare new voice, and Given These Magics a gathering of poems that will reverberate in the minds of her readers long after the first encounter.

Fred Bergmann was the translator for German poet Dirk Huelstrunk's poetry book antikoerper/antibodies. Copies are available at Avol's Bookstore.

F.J. Bergmann won the Tapestry of Bronze Ode to the Olympians contest for "Demeter in the Agora."

David Scheler was interviewed on poetry and translation by Peter W. Vakunta for the Cameroon-based journal The Entepreneur; see http://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2009/08/the-pragmatics-of-poetic-translation-interview-with-poettranslator-david-t-scheler.html.