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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 general public arena. Calls for submissions are
conducted largely via cyberspace.
Jumpstart Award Winners
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Paula Sergi of the Foot of the Lake Poetry Collective in Fond du Lac won the 2010 Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award for her
Poetry at the Market proposal which involved collaborations with the Fond du Lac Arts Council, the
Fond du Lac Public Library, Park Ridge Organics, the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) office, and the Association of Commerce to bring
poetry to farmers' markets, the library, the Windhover Center for the Arts and two harvest festivals in the Fond du Lac area. |
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Phil Hansotia of Ellison Bay won the 2010 Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award as a finalist
for his Poetry Trails proposal which involved collaborations between the Wallace, Unabridged and
Word Women poetry groups of Door County, and Newport State Park, Newport Wilderness Society, Sevastapol High School, Gibraltar High
School and Southern Door High School. Poetry in display cases were installed along two trails in Newport State Park. |
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