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SEPTEMBER 2011
ANNOUNCING
An offshoot of the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf
initiative, this award was designed to help other Wisconsin poets implement a project or program that brings poetry
into the eye of the general public in an unconventional manner. Proposals are now being accepted for 2012.
An award
of $500.00 will be given to help an individual or a group implement a project or program. In addition,
an award of $400.00 will be given to a finalist for the same purpose. A panel of judges will make the selections.
See past Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf
projects and the winning proposals of past awards for examples of the kinds of ideas for which the panel will be looking.
Winners must initiate projects by September 2012. No entry fee. Multiple entries from same poet welcome. Please
note: A Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Initiative of $300.00 may be awarded to a runner-up.
Download application form:
WoodrowHallJumpstartAward.pdf
and send with a SASE to:
Woodrow Hall Editions
PO Box 260026
Madison, WI 53726 |
(Please
contact Shoshauna Shy immediately prior to submitting application as PO box address may change. See email address below.)
ENTRY DEADLINE IS LEAP YEAR - FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Notifications in March
Questions?
shoshaunashy@yahoo.com
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March 2011
POETRY
JUMPS OFF THE SHELF
and
VERSE WISCONSIN
PRESENTED
the Jawbreaker
Poetry Project
“Luck
of the Draw” was
the theme, and poems were sought that touched, in some way,
on good fortune, misfortune, opportunities gone awry, flukes,
coincidence or second chances.
Selected
poems were packed into capsules with jawbreakers and other candies,
and made available—along with the possibility of winning a
year's subscription to Verse Wisconsin—from a dispenser
coined the Verse-O-Matic. This dispenser is being transported
to various Wisconsin venues statewide, and traveling with the
Verse Wisconsin editors to
events, conferences and festivals throughout 2011. The poems
were also published in the summer 2011 online issue of Verse
Wisconsin.
The
schedule of the Verse-O-Matic so far:
April Fool's Day, 7:00 PM at Avol's Bookstore
in Madison
April
28th, 7:00 PM reading at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee
May
10th, 7:00 PM reading at The Windhover Center for the Arts
in Fond du Lac
In residence for the summer
at Orange Tree Imports on Monroe Street in Madison
The
Verse-O-Matic will put in an appearance October 28-30th
at the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets conference at the Holiday
Inn Convention Center in Stevens Point.
For more info:
versewisconsin.org/events.html
Questions?
shoshaunashy@yahoo.com
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