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March news

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I’m up on the department’s newsletter for March 1. I have poems in The Meadowland Review and in UNL Womanhouse: The House That Feminism Built. My essay “Bicycle Face” appears in Ginger Piglet.

I have five poems forthcoming in the spring issue of Feminist Studies. My poem “Aubade” is forthcoming in Paddlefish and my poem “Our Move, My Climb” is forthcoming in The Delinquent. Later this week to promote my forthcoming chapbook, SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER, I have three poems from that collection, “Guilt Dream: Doing This to Myself,” “A Contemplation of Murder (or Desert Blood),” and “Mummy Treatment,” in Extract(s).

I read in the wonderful Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2011 reading at Parallax Space in Lincoln last weekend. My collaborative broadside project has been in the show “Belles Lettres” during the month of March at the Altered Esthetic Art Gallery in Minneapolis.

Finally, SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER is set to release in June from Dancing Girl Press. There will be a chapbook launch in Chicago. So if you’re in the area, stop by for the launch. I keep giggling about the word “launch” in relation to chapbooks and books. Where exactly is the book going to be launched to? Who is doing the launching? Is it a cannon? A slingshot? A rocket? Is it, it can’t be, I think it is….Pigs in Space…..Chapbooks in Space (cue the muppet’s voice over).

LFF & Womanhouse reading

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Sunday, I read with a wonderful line up of readers at the Parallax Space that is currently hosting the show UNL Womanhouse: The House That Feminism Built.

The gallery included an actual house sewn from women’s garments that provoked, for me at least, questions about what it means to be female in today’s culture.

There couldn’t have been a better space to celebrate Sally Deskins’ fantastic book Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2011 and blog. Victoria Hoyt introduced and described the project of Womanhouse and Sally offered the background on the necessity of LFF and the response it has received since it’s beginning, early in 2011. Poets and readers included current contributors to her book and blog, and likely, future ones as well, from the Omaha and Lincoln Area, such as Natasha Kessler who co-edits Strange Machine and lincolnites like Lucy Adkins and Marjorie Saiser. Check out Rex Walton’s additional photos for some of the other fantastic featured readers.

I read “The Purse” featured in LFF, “The Widow” and “This Could Be You: Tee-shirt” included in the Womanhouse book, and two poems from my forthcoming chapbook SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER.

What a great way to spend a Sunday!

She Who Loves Her Father also loves Minneapolis

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Earlier this month, I was able to attend the opening of Belles Lettres at Altered Esthetic, a gallery exhibition opening that featured my broadside collaboration with Kate Renee.


I read from the broadsides, from my current chapbooks, and luckily, I was able to read two poems from my forthcoming chapbook SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER.

It was such a great space! And a wonderful turn out for the opening!

Speaking of my little chapbook, check out the great cover art from Elayne Safir at http://emptyminute.com.

The collection isn’t to be released until a little later this year, but because I’ve got everything ready to go, I started a little giveaway on Goodreads. Anyone can enter. It’s free.

 

Goodreads Book Giveaway

She Who Loves Her Father by Laura Madeline Wiseman

She Who Loves Her Father

by Laura Madeline Wiseman

Giveaway ends October 01, 2012.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

And speaking of Goodreads giveaways, a big thanks to all 569 people (wow) who entered my BRANDING GIRLS giveaway. My five winners can expect to receive their winning copy soon.

 

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Branding Girls by Laura Madeline Wiseman

Branding Girls

by Laura Madeline Wiseman

Giveaway ends March 11, 2012.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

 

new chapbook blurb

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I’ve just received a blurb for my forthcoming chapbook SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). I met James Cihlar when he visited and gave a local reading of his book Undoing a couple of years ago. Because I was a grad student, he was offering manuscript advice and I met with him individually to discuss poetry and creative nonfiction. I really appreciated his comments and his sharp eye. I taught his book that semester in my poetry class and I’ve taught his poem series “What My ____ Used” from Undoing in subsequent poetry classes. I’m a big fan of the craft and voice in Undoing. I’ve just ordered his chapbook Metaphysical Bailout (Pudding House Publications, 2010). I can’t wait to read it. He’s such a smart poet.

Here’s Jim:

She Who Loves Her Father is poetic archaeology, a careful search for “that thing // so unheard of, the source of the Nile / or the answer the sphinx longs for.” Laura Madeline Wiseman’s poems find Eve (without Adam) making tea in a kitchen, Isis in the shape of a housecat, and sphinxes “nestled among the trees” who “lope toward homes made of rock.” Wiseman’s poems are cryptic in the etymological sense of crypts—they are odes to both containers and the things contained: family and daughter, stomach and food, womb and fetus. In the operation of these poems, sutures both bind and burst, bandages protect and consume. Screams turn into whispers and a dead language comes back to life in this book of riddles, where opposites swap places: “I want it to be yesterday. Then, I can mourn properly, twist it inside my mind to see how it was to me now. But I’ve got to get gone first.”

Thanks, Jim!

She Who Loves Her Father blurb #2

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Way back in 2006 and 2007 when I was a newbie doctoral student, I attended several of the Clean-Part Reading Series poetry readings that were, at that time, held in the auditorium of the Sheldon Art Museum. It was there that I first heard Julia Cohen read. The Sheldon was a wonderful place to hear poetry-good ambiance, cushy seats, ambient lighting, and art displayed in the gallery and hall just outside the auditorium. I’ve just finished The History of a Lake Never Drowns (Dancing Girl Press, 2009) and her co-authored collection Samaritan (Dancing Girl Press, 2011). Her stuff is cool and the cover art she chooses is delightful. She’s written me a lovely, little blurb for my new collection SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press next year. Here’s Julia:

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!

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.

new chapbook blurb

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Yay! I just received my first blurb for my new chapbook, SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER, forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press.

Leah Browning is the editor of Apple Valley Review. Way back in 2006, she published my poem now collected in the chapbook. AVR was one of the first places I published my work online because she’s such a smart editor. I just finished reading her chapbook MAKING LOVE TO THE SAME MAN FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. What a lovely collection, especially poems like “Skating,” “On the Drive Back…,” and “Learning to Play….” They have so much hope and joy. I think I’m smitten. Other poems focused on Tucson, where I also lived for four years. It was nice to read that landscape in her work. I just ordered her most recent collection, PICKING CHERRIES IN THE ESPANOLA VALLEY, published in Dancing Girl Press’s line up in 2010 with my little chapbook. I’m so excited to read more of Leah’s delightful poems.

Here’s Leah:

At the heart of Laura Madeline Wiseman’s She Who Loves Her Father is the desire for human connection in all its forms—mental, emotional, sexual, physical. Nowhere is this longing more evident than in the poignant “An Email from the Living,” in which a parent writes to a child: “you didn’t respond so/ I must have the wrong address.” It is this need, often unmet, that drives the narrators of Wiseman’s poems in this winding, often wistful collection. ~Leah Browning, author of Picking Cherries in the Española Valley and Making Love to the Same Man for Fifteen Years