Fiction:

• Jennifer Weiner, Then Came You
• Ann Patchett, State of Wonder & Bel Canto
  
• Rachel Simon, The Story of Beautiful Girl
• Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
• Suzanne Collins, the Mockingjay trilogy & and the Gregor the Overlander series 
• Louis Sachar, Holes
• Scott Westerfeld, Uglies & Pretties

Poetry:

• Leah Browning, Making Love to the Same Man for Fifteen Years
• Julia Cohen, Samaritan & The History of a Lake Never Drowns
• Jane Kenyon, Otherwise
• Sandra Kohler, The Ceremonies Of Longing
• Andrena Zawinski, Something About
• Ryn Williams, Adonis Garage

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

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!

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!

I was a small intimate gathering, as regional academic conferences sometimes are, but a warm space where I even sold a chapbook. Yeah! I think though, other than a delicious dinner at Zio’s, the readings itself, and placing BRANDING GIRLS in someones hands, the highlight of the trip was at the beginning of the panel when the panel organizer introduced me as “Dr. Madeline Wiseman.” I know I just graduated PhD school in May, and this was the first academic anything I’ve really done since then, but it was totally weird and totally cool at the same time. I am a PhD, I thought to myself. Wow. When did that happen?

The English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is posting its recent news of publications, awards, and achievements. As a lecturer, I’m on their website, too.

I have poems in the current issues of Mixed Fruit, The Adroit Journal, SN Review, and in the anthology Science Poetry (McAlister, Neil Harding, 2011).

In past publications, Colere has digitized some of its earlier issues including my essay “The Possible Length of Touch.” Forthcoming, I have poems in Feminist Studies, Spittoon, and an essay in Dispatches from the Classroom.

No Name Readings Series is now available on iTunes, including my readings in November and March last year. 

Finishing Line Press has posted my upcoming readings.

Wonderful poet and editor Cati Porter posted a self-interview of her recent doings, including blurb writing for my forthcoming book SPRUNG.

Zomobo linked to my broadside collaboration with Kate Johnson.

Speaking of broadsides, I mentioned in my last post I have four prints left (two of “Posturing” and two of “The Gift“) and after I posted that, I sold two more prints (one of “Bundling” and one of “Promise“). Thankfully. Kate still had both of those in stock. And then I got a surprise email from someone kind of famous who was impressed by my broadsides and all the sales. I’m impressed too! I didn’t know a little series of art and poetry would be so popular. I’m just as tickled. Thank you, by the way, all those who’ve taken a print or two home. If you still want one, let me know, and I’ll get them right to you.

During my six-week writing residency at the Prairie Center of the Arts, I collaborated with artist Kate Johnson to create a limited edition series of broadsides that combine poetry and graphic art. Here’s a brief clip from the collaboration when we were signing the prints.

Kate and I printed 60, plus 7 that were mistakes or imperfect due to color, pixelation, or centering. Kate and I divided the press run in half. All the accidental prints were given away as gifts to very small boys under the age of 6, to friends, to family, and to all those helpful people who gave Kate and I feedback, advice, and critiques. When I was packing up to leave Peoria, I had 30. By the time I left Illinois, I’d sold 5, which left me with 25. On my way home to Nebraska, I passed through Iowa to visit family, friends, and do a little research on family lore in Centerville and Winterset. By the time I left Iowa, I’d sold 5 more, which left me with 20. How cool is that? If you want one, let me know. If you’re local, I’ll deliver it to your door. Really. I will.

There are two more reviews of BRANDING GIRLS on Amazon. Thank you kind and insightful readers!

And – this just in -  my poem “Ten-Speed” will be the poem for July in the 2012 Nebraska Poets Calender by Black Star Press. How exciting is that? I find myself making “calender girl” and “Miss July” jokes when I tell anyone. Silly. Silly. But truly, I think, I’ve always wanted to be in a calender. *sigh* No one ever told me it was possible by writing poems. Here I thought women had to show a little skin to be in a calender. Does my poem, you ask, show skin? No. It’s about bicycling, my favorite mode of transportation, recreation, and way to achieve speed. It looks like BSP is still looking for art. Hey, Nebraska artists, check it out.

After a late night marathon we returned to the lab the next morning a little before 10am and printed continuously until we finished.

During which time, we befriended the PCA cats, Sally, a tabby, and Jack, a black and white cat.

We signed and numbered the series. Our press run total was 60 prints, with 12 of each of the 5 broadsides. We finished almost six hours later at 3:30pm.

Kate and I had a great time collaboration on our broadsides, with lots of great help and feedback from Michele, Joe, Erin Zellefrow, Adam, Wendy, Rachel, the PCA cats! A big thanks to all of you!