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A Brand Spanking New Website and…

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…something FREE for you. Yay! Happy New Year 2012! To celebrate the new year, I’ve been working on getting set up, organizing, and customizing (plus a lot of other verbs that only my webdesigner knows) a whole new website. Will you check it out and tell me what you think? I love it! Check out all the youtube videos connected to the table of contents in Branding Girls and with my two recent projects. I adore the new home page and the lightbox for images and videos!

So how do you get something FREE? Contact me through my website and I’ll send to the first five people which one of the following chapbooks or broadsides (that I have in stock) that you want:

All you have to do is contact me via the contact page, tell me you checked out my new website, list your mailing address, and what you want, and I’ll get it in the mail.  This is just a big thank you for 2011 and a hello to 2012! Who else will give you something FREE today to celebrate the new year?

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

 

November News

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I have a poem forthcoming in Penwood Review, a Martian poem forthcoming in Issue 12 of Silver Blade, three poems on Matilda Fletcher forthcoming in Miller’s Pond, one poem on Matilda Fletcher and two poems on a new series I started during the Master Poetry class with Alicia Ostriker on Lucile Wiseman forthcoming in the brand new Sole Lit Journal. Finally, a friend suggested I submit to The Reprint, a online publication that publishes previously published work that appeared in print only. They accepted the poem “First Kisses,” also forthcoming in SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER from Dancing Girl Press next year.

I just sent back the proofs for my poems “Toxic Drift” and “Photographs of a Scrapbook” to the anthology of poems in response to Japan by Pirene’s Fountain. Other contributors include J.P. Dancing Bear, Jane Hirshfield, Dorianne Laux, and Lyn Lifshin. This is going to be a great book!

Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy, an anthology that includes an essay I originally wrote for my comps, will be released December 5. At MMLA, I presented with Karen Gentry, Joe Rein, Michael Clark, and Anthony Sams. Smart, smart teachers. I can’t wait to read all the essays and then try out their teaching methods in my own classes.

In other news, I’ve been accepted as a writer in residence at the Prairie Center of the Arts for May 14 -July 4, 2012. My interview for Lit Undressed was listed on tumblr and Omahype lists the event in its news and events. Finally, I’m listed in Poets & Writers directory of writers that includes 9,000+ contemporary authors. Talk about great company.

“our final panelist will be Dr…”

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I posted a couple of videos on YouTube of the reading in Omaha where I read from BRANDING GIRLS.

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?

September News

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Given the start of the new school year, I thought I’d offer some news.

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.

news

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In brief news, I have two Matilda Fletcher poems in Generations of Poetry, the Lincoln Journal Stars lists UNL graduates of May 2011 (it’s a long list, as one might imagine, you can search *control F* for grads by name, though), there’s a couple of great reviews of the anthology Knocking on the Door that I have a poem in, the forthcoming anthology Dispatches from the Classroom which includes an essay of mine and is set to release around turkey day this year now has it’s own page on the Continuum Press website, there are a few more amazon reviews of BRANDING GIRLS up, and I’m working on getting the “look inside” tool set up on amazon.com, as well as a kindle version available for purchase. As a quick side note, while traveling to Russia and spending so much time in airports and on airplanes, I could not even count how many kindles or other digital book readers I saw people reading. Buckets and buckets of them! But really, wouldn’t such a device be perfect for traveling?

And finally, a last clip from my reading at Indigo Bridge Books last month, this one, with a brief recitation of an Anne Sexton poem.

 

news

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I have new poems in the current issues of Poet Lore, Generations of Poetry, and Compass Rose, the latter two are in the Matilda Fletcher series.

I’ve got a mention on the graduate student blog at NDSU, where I presented poems from my dissertation over earlier this spring.

As of today, there are five more wonderful reviews on Amazon of Branding Girls. Yeah! I’ve posted one video (so far) of a reading from Branding Girls on the author Amazon page, but there are several more on YouTube.

Indigo Bridge Books has announced my reading on their events page for Monday May 16th at 7pm. I’m very much looking forward to reading there!