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APRIL 2012
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
WINNERS
OF THE
2012 WOODROW HALL JUMPSTART AWARDS
An offshoot of the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf
initiative, the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Awards were 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.
The award
of $500.00 goes to Jim Pollock and the Aspiring Authors of Stevens
Point for a project mounting monthly haikus on the historic Fox Theater marquee
in Stevens Point. Built in 1894 and originally named the Grand Opera House on Main Street, this theater is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places, and at present, descendants of the theater's original owners are working on restoring the building for a cultural center.
The finalist was Nancy Rafal
who received $400.00 for her proposal for the
Baileys Harbor Community Mural Project which will include Lorine Niedecker and part of her poem, "Wintergreen Ridge" on an outside wall of
Nelson's Shopping Center in Baileys Harbor in Door County. This project coincides with Niedecker's work being featured on the Poetry Trail
in Newport State Park, and the 75th anniversary of The Ridges Sanctuary, which was the inspiration for Niedecker's poem.
Katrin Talbot, Susan Elbe, Jesse Lee Kercheval and Sara Parrell have received the Woodrow Hall
Jumpstart Initiative Award of $300.00 for their Bridge Poetry Series, a partnership between statewide poets and the Chazen Museum in Madison.
Questions?
shoshaunashy@yahoo.com
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March 2012
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 was transported
to various Wisconsin venues statewide, and traveled 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 - 2011, 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
The Verse-O-Matic was in residence for summer 2011
at Orange Tree Imports on Monroe Street in Madison, then put in an appearance at the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets conference at the Holiday
Inn Convention Center in Stevens Point in October. It took up residences at Nita Moore's healthful living facility
in Iron Ridge, then at the Harmony Cafe and Lawrence University, both in Appleton, for the winter of 2011-2012.
For more info:
versewisconsin.org/events.html
Questions?
shoshaunashy@yahoo.com
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