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.

Past Jumpstart Award Winners        Jan Chronister of Maple won the 2009 Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award for her Ojibgewin proposal, which involved teaching a series of poetry classes on the Bad River Reservation in Odanah. Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award Questions? shoshaunashy@yahoo.com