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is a program launched in 2004 by Shoshauna Shy in Madison, Wisconsin, with the mission of bringing poetry out of the libraries, bookstores and classrooms into the public arena. Calls for submissions are always nationwide and conducted via cyber word-of-mouth.

*NEW*
POSTCARDS RELEASED

October 2009

Woodrow Hall Editions announces the release of the latest project, "Lines in the Sand," featuring poems that reach across territorial, cultural and interpersonal boundaries. Paired with the abstract art of Sarah Spencer and produced on postcards, they made their debut at the first Lorine Niedecker Poetry Festival in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and at the Harambee–South Madison Health & Family Center in Madison, Wisconsin on October 3rd.

Look for them throughout summer 2010 at the following locations: The Wired Cyber Cafe in Taos, New Mexico; the Sedona Public Library in Sedona, Arizona; Scott's Pastry Shoppe, Middleton, Wisconsin; Willy Street Co-op, Regent Market Co-op, Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, Goodman Community Center, the Alicia Ashman Branch Library, Southside Branch Library, Madison Central Library, Avol's Bookstore and EVP Coffee in Madison, Wisconsin; at InnerGate Therapeautics in Evanston, Illinois; at the Seattle Public Library and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington; the Get Lit! Spokane Literature Festival in Spokane, Washington; the Skagit Poetry Festival in La Conner, Washington; Centrum Writers Conference in Port Townsend, Washington; on the Penn State campus in York, Pennsylvania; and at Carmichael's Books in Louisville, Kentucky. All postcards are available to distributors and offered to the public free of charge.

Woodrow Hall Editions
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PO Box 260026
Madison, WI 53726

Questions? shoshaunashy@yahoo.com

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Shoshauna Shy is a Midwestern poet, a member of the Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet, the founder of Woodrow Hall Editions and creator of BookThatPoet.com.