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issue 110 www.versewisconsin.org October 2012 Verse WISCONSIN Founded by linda Aschbrenner AS FREE VERSE 1998 POETRY BY ANTLER 7 LINDA ASCHBRENNER 7 PEGGY AYLSWORTH 7 JAN BALL 7 JANE-MARIE BAHR 7 GERALD BEIRNE 7 CHLOE BENJAMIN 7 LINDA BENNINGHOFF 7 MICHAEL BIEHL 7 KIMBERLY BLAESER 7 ROSE MARY BOEHM 7 JEFF BURT 7 THOMAS CANNON 7 ROBIN CHAPMAN 7 CHING-IN CHEN 7 KELLY CHERRY 7 NAOMI COCHRAN 7 BARBARA CROOKER 7 MARY CUNNINGHAM 7 PHILIP DACEY 7 HOLLY DAY 7 SUE DEKELVER 7 DARREN C. DEMAREE 7 BRUCE DETHLEFSEN 7 RICK DINGES 7 JOE FARLEY 7 MAVIS J. FLEGLE 7 CHRISTA GAHLMAN 7 DANIEL GALLIK 7 ABBY GAMBREL 7 HANNE GAULT 7 DAVID GRAHAM 7 TAYLOR GRAHAM 7 BARBARA GREGORICH 7 ADAM HALBUR 7 KAREN HALEY 7 WILLIAM WRIGHT HARRIS 7 GEORGE HELD 7 LOWELL JAEGER 7 GARY JONES 7 GLENN KLETKE 7 MARK KRAUSHAAR 7 RICHARD KRESAL 7 MICHAEL KRIESEL 7 MIKE LANE JACKIE LANGETIEG 7 ESTELLA LAUTER 7 TOM LAVELLE 7 JANET LEAHY 7 NORMAN LEER 7 JOHN LEHMAN 7 JEF LEISGANG 7 JUDY LENT 7 MARYELLEN LETARTE 7 PAM LEWIS 7 SANDRA J. LINDOW 7 JOE MASSINGHAM 7 P. C. MOOREHEAD 7 BRUCE NIEDT 7 UCHE OGBUJI 7 ANN PENTON 7 NANCY PETULLA 7 CHARLES PORTOLANO 7 SUMMER QABAZARD 7 HARLAN RICHARDS 7 JENNA RINDO 7 JEANNIE E. ROBERTS 7 TESS ROMEIS 7 CHUCK RYBAK 7 G. A. SCHEINOHA 7 E. M. SCHORB 7 ANNE SHAW 7 PEGGY SHUMAKER 7 HAL SIROWITZ 7 STEVEN D. STARK 7 A’YARA STEIN 7 CAROLE STONE 7 MOLLY SUTTON KIEFER 7 LEN TEWS 7 ELIZABETH TORNES 7 PEGGY TROJAN 7 FEATURES CAROLYN VARGO 7 FRANK X WALKER 7 MARY WEHNER 7 GREG WEISS 7 ED WERSTEIN 7 MARIE SHEPPARD WILLIAMS 7 COMMUNITY INCLUSIVE: A POETICS TO MOVE US FORWARD BY MARGARET ROZGA A CONVERSATION WITH FRANK X WALKER CX DILLHUNT & DREW DILLHUNT AT THE KITCHEN TABLE: SHOSHAUNA SHY TALKS WITH MARK KRAUSHAAR $8 ? Editors’ Notes ? Maybe most of you know that women’s collections of poetry, while they might see the light of day more easily THANKS TO THESE DONORS! than in the past, get reviewed less frequently when published, and, when reviewed, often by women, appear in less prominent/prestigious venues than men’s books. If you haven’t heard of Vida, an organization founded to support UP TO $100 women’s writing, you can learn about it at vidaweb.org. One of the most important contributions Vida has made for DANIEL BACHHUBER the last several years running is “The Count,” which tracks statistics on male and female writers, reviewers, and books MARY JO BALISTRERI reviewed in high end publications. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the cards are stacked overwhelmingly in favor of men at DAVID BLACKEY these places—The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Poetry, Paris Review, The Nation, JOHN BLONER etc. To hear some of their editors talk, you’d think women didn’t write much at all, especially not literary criticism. EMERY CAMPBELL KOSROF CHANTIKIAN So here are some facts about VW’s book reviews, which counter the idea that women don’t review or write criticism. RUSSELL GARDNER, JR. For issues 105-109 (April, 2011-July, 2012) we published 122 reviews (that’s a lot of books reviewed, by the way). Of that total, 63—just over 50%—were books by women, which certainly bucks the trends documented by Vida. Maybe SARAH GILBERT it takes women editors to publish reviews of women’s books? Also counter to Vida’s trends is the split in VW between LUCY ROSE JOHNS male/female among reviewers, who are overwhelmingly women. In a typical issue we publish 17-18 reviewers, only 2 MARTHA KAPLAN or 3 of whom are men. We’re delighted to publish reviews by women, but we’re concerned about what that imbalance JACKIE LANGETIEG suggests and why it exists. Where are the male reviewers? It’s not because our poetry community is more female. The RICHARD MOYER balance of poets who submit and publish in VW hovers around 50/50. Is it because the men who write reviews—and C.J. MUCHHALA there are plenty among our published poets who do—reach higher to publish them? Is it a compensation issue? At KATY PHILLIPS higher end venues, reviewers tend to get paid. At VW (and others like us), they do not. Is it the case that men don’t ROB POCKAT review unless compensated? At Rattle (which, like VW, also pays reviewers one print copy and runs reviews online), ESTER PRUDLO there’s a healthy mix of women/men reviewers and books reviewed, but it’s a more prestigious venue than VW and, perhaps not coincidentally, has a male editor. DOUGLAS RABBACH CHARLES RIES No one that we know of is keeping a comparable “count” of reviews about and by writers of color. Our own record on JOHN WALSER representing a wider diversity of authors is not what we would like it to be. Of those 122 reviews, 11 books were written MARILYN WINDAU by non-white authors. We’d very much like to include a broader range of reviews about and by African American, Latina/o, Native, and Asian American authors, and we welcome those reviews from all of you. Besides helping to create 100-500 a more open, welcoming space for all poets, wider knowledge will, we believe, benefit all of us as artists and individuals. ANONYMOUS (2) CATHRYN COFELL We both review for VW and sometimes elsewhere. Besides providing a service to other poets, reviews help us think CHARLES HUGHES about a book and learn from it. Your work becomes a window into my work and into poetry. Books come to VW from poets and publishers around the U.S., not just in Wisconsin. You can review someone whose work you’ve followed for MARY WEHNER years or never heard of. We welcome reviews of “Books Received,” as well as others. Publishers will often send a review copy if specifically requested. Writing reviews is one of the easiest ways to support other poets, while improving our own 1000+ poetic craft. Creating a venue that other poets and publishers know as a reliable source of thoughtful criticism is also, WISCONSIN FELLOWSHIP OF POETS we believe, one more way to raise the profile of Wisconsin’s poets. We invite all of our readers and poets to review. We’d especially like to see more of the men we publish writing reviews, and we invite all of you to read and review a greater diversity of authors. We’re happy to suggest a book or Verse wisconsin author from our list, if you would like to review but appears tri-quarterly through 2012 and two times a don’t know where to start. year beginning in 2013. Please consider a subscription for your local library, high school, senior center, or other institution. Yes! I’d like to: Thanks to R. A. Davis and Greer DuBois for volunteer proofreading help. Lingering errors are, of course, the responsibility of VW’s editors. Subscribe (2 issues): ($15 regular, or $10 student) School: Contact us: [email protected]. Give a gift subscription ($15) Make a donation $ © Verse Wisconsin 2012 Get on the email list for news Advertise Review books Co-Editors Volunteer (e.g., proofreading, mailing, distribution, fundraising, publicity) Sarah Busse Wendy Vardaman Name Advisory Board Linda Aschbrenner Address B. J. 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