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laura madeline wiseman — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:01:53 +0000

For most of June, I’ve been working on organizing my book manuscript and dissertation SPEECH MAKING: FROM THE AMERICAN PLATFORM OF MATILDA FLETCHER. I put all the poems in the book, then took some out, then added a few back in, then took others out. I think, though, it’s finally perfect (for now). I’ve been researching Matilda for a little over a year and a half (wow!). I’m thrilled Matilda poems have been accepted by the editors of The Broad River Review, West Branch Times, The Queen City Review, and Naugatuck River Review. There will also be Matilda poems in the forthcoming anthologies Knocking at the Door (edited by Lisa Sisler and Lea C. Deschenes), A Face to Meet the Faces (edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz), and Multi Culti Mixerations (edited by Richard H. McNab).

In other news, there’s a mini-review of my poem “Dead Girl Brand II” in Big Muddy. The forthcoming anthology of poems on violence that I’m co-editing (with Christine Stewart-Nunez), WOMEN WRITE RESISTANCE: POETS FIGHT GENDER VIOLENCE, was awarded a grant from the South Dakota Humanities Council to cover some of the costs of permissions. I’m super excited about our anthology! It’s something Christine and I have been putting together since the fall of 2007. Finally, my chapbook GHOST GIRL just came out from Pudding House…more on that soon.

my little red book – new york times best sellers list

laura madeline wiseman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:14:37 +0000

enuf said. read more here. but if need another reason to buy the book, watch the period dance.

Or see the best vagina related media ever: the film Teeth. Here’s the teeth trailer.

my little red book: update

laura madeline wiseman — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:55:26 +0000

A. and I were looking online for an audio kid book to read last night. Over winter break we worked ourselves through Stephenie Meyer‘s Twilight series. Last month we finished her young adult novel, The Host. Of course, as they came out, we read, or rather, listened to Jim Dale‘s reading of the Harry Potter series. So, now what to read? Half of what makes an audio book good is the actors or authors who read it. But then, A. and I got distracted.

A. noticed my little read book was number 25 on Amazon.com‘s bestseller list and number 12 on its hot new releases. Wow! As I mentioned in a previous post, I am one of the many, many contributes from around the world whose first period story apears in this collection. I say wow because it’s an anthology of creative non-fiction on first period stories. Wow! Here’s a review from The New York Times by Abigail Zuger, MD:

The book’s great beauty is that these themes are left unexplored. No one draws a moral (see, everyone thinks she’s different!), or offers up the poet’s lament that all life’s landmarks spell a step to death. The reader is left alone to absorb it all in privacy.

Another review:

I started reading MLRB last night and could not put it down!

And another:

And while the stories themselves are compelling, I think it is that openness that is the book’s greatest strength. Because it invites and encourages women and girls to share their stories with each other, and most especially celebrates talk between mothers and daughters. It has the potential to open up a dialogue that might have seemed a bit uncomfortable or even daunting, and to ease the way into even more difficult conversations that will need to come later.

And one more:

The engaging and humorous anecdotes effortlessly connect the reader and authors on a very personal level; more importantly, the theme of the book creates a strong message that transcends age, culture, ethnicity, religion, or any background.

a mini-review

laura madeline wiseman — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:52:33 +0000

Writer Sima Rabinowitz has a review of Santa Fe LIterary Journal on newpages and mentions my short story:

Many of this issues poems and stories are equally memorable, and I was happy for the opportunity to get to know the work of writers Id not encountered before, in particular poetry by Anne Valley-Fox Christien Gholson, and Mary McGinnis, and prose by Laura Madeline Wiseman. Wisemans…

You can read the whole thing here.