BRANDING GIRL
(FINISHING LINE PRESS, 2011)

BRANDING GIRLS delves into consumerism, brands, and advertising while using the ekphrasis to respond to contemporary women artists and their work, such as American artists Melanie Pullen’s High Fashion Crime Scene, Lauren Greenfield’s Girl Culture, Japanese artist Miwa Yanagi’s series on elevator girls, White Casket, and French artist Camille Solyagua’s Collection: 92-06.

GHOST GIRL
(PUDDING HOUSE, 2010)

GHOST GIRL (PUDDING HOUSE, 2010), explores memory loss and recovery after relocation. While many of the poems are traditional in form (villanelle, ekphrasis, prose, found), GHOST GIRL reclaims the heroic journey as a female one. “Break taboos,” GHOST GIRL states, because “there will always be those who wanted to have killed you.”

MY IMAGINARY
(DANCING GIRL PRESS, 2010)

A finalist in four national contests, my chapbook, MY IMAGINARY (DANCING GIRL PRESS, 2010), claims humor as the site for inquiry into the erotic body

“In her brilliant MY IMAGINARY, sass and success, drag and heft come packaged in words that sway and tease, lift and laugh for our pleasure and sometimes pain. Who’s in charge here? we might wonder but the answer is always Laura Madeline Wiseman in her remarkable chapbook. Perfect.” Hilda Raz, author of TRANS and ALL ODD AND SPLENDID

“We might assume an imaginary cock would prove provocative, but who knew it could be so funny? Spunky and heady, Laura Madeline Wiseman’s MY IMAGINARY will excite you with a “slow touch of bliss.” Within poems and across the collection, Wiseman bounces between mind and body, stimulating us with playful rhythms and surprising twists of stereotype. MY IMAGINARY is a great ride. And a fantastic read.” Christine Stewart-Nuñez, author of POSTCARD ON PARCHMENT

Women Write Resistance: Poets Fight Gender Violence
(edited with Christine Stewart-Nunez)

WOMEN WRITE RESISTANCE: POETS FIGHT GENDER VIOLENCE is a forthcoming poetry anthology of contemporary emerging and established American women poets. It is designed with the belief in poetry as a transformative art. By deploying techniques to challenge narratives about violence and making alternatives to that violence visible, the poets in WOMEN WRITE RESISTANCE intervene in the ways violence is perceived in American culture. A poem from a victim’s perspective, for example, might use explicit imagery but also show the emotional consequences often obscured when newspapers, videogames, films, and television programs depict violence in superficial or sexualized ways. A poet might also critique dominant narratives, such as calling into question the perception that certain women deserved to be raped. The anthology includes a critical introduction, approximately one hundred poems, and a brief conclusion.

In Our Own Words – A Generation Defining Itself – Volume 8
(MW Enterprises, 2010)

A collection of texts from writers, born from 1960 through 1982, that helps the reader better understand this generation’s unique identity. A diverse collection of prose, poetry, song lyrics and essays from journalists, novelists, academics, poets and songwriters. Representing many different cultures and countries.

MW Enterprises

Lavandería – A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Word
(San Diego City Works Press, 2009)

Anthology of written/spoken word and photography. It highlights the universal ritual and common interaction of people, places, and things found between loads of laundry. Celebrating the task often deemed “women’s work,” this unique collection of voices honors the unsung history of washer women, touching on everything from labor strikes and scrub boards to present day love affairs rinsed away in the automatic double loader.

San Diego City Works Press

you say. say.
(Uphook Press, 2009)

Twenty-nine poets—from San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Dagsboro, Portlands Maine and Oregon, elsewhere, and New York—write the gamut from Starbucks to whale walkers, chalk outlines to honeymooning, cranky operettas to the ping of a microwave signaling the end.

Uphook Press

Eating Her Wedding Dress
(Ragged Sky Press, 2009)

100 contemporary poets-local stars and literary luminaries such as Kim Addonizio, Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Elaine Equi, Jorie Graham, Maxine Kumin, Paul Muldoon, and Charles Simic-join together in this anthology to celebrate clothing in its many forms and functions: as desire, as ghost, as body, as poetry, as talisman, as transformer of the soul.

Ragged Sky Press

My Little Red Book
(Twelve, 2009)

My Little Red Book is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. Authors include Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar.

www.mylittleredbook.net