Tag: B.J. Best

• cbr 18 / summer 2011

  

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  cbr 18 / summer 2011 

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  Eleven Poems: An Audio Chapbook
  Elli Hazit

  J.D. Salinger: A Life
  Kenneth Slawenski
  Reviewed by Norma Gay Prewett

  Birds of Wisconsin
  B.J. Best
  Reviewed by Amy Lou Jenkins

  Lord of Misrule
  Jaimy Gordon
  Reviewed by Bob Wake

  The Masturbator
  A short story by John Lehman

  Consultation
  A short story by Ruben Varda

  From the Archives
  Origins of FIS (Factory in a Suitcase)
  An excerpt from Redshift: Greenstreem
  Rod Clark

  June 18, 2011

  Amy Lou Jenkins, B.J. Best, Birds of Wisconsin, Bob Wake, Consultation, Elli Hazit, J. D. Salinger, Jaimy Gordon, John Lehman, Kenneth Slawenski, Lord of Misrule, Norma Gay Prewett, Origins of FIS (Factory in a Suitcase), Rod Clark, Ruben Varda, The Masturbator

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• Verse Wisconsin Publishers Lunch

  A terrific Saturday afternoon of good food and literary talk with small press publishers at Edenfred arts residency in Madison. The event was sponsored by Verse Wisconsin, a newly launched poetry magazine edited by Wendy Vardaman and Sarah Busse. The magazine is a reboot and redesign of Linda Aschbrenner’s much-admired Free Verse, which flourished for over ten years until Linda decided to pass the torch last year.

  Wendy Vardaman and Sarah Busse were kind enough to spend a few minutes talking with Coffee Spew at Edenfred about their co-editorship of Verse Wisconsin:

  Thanks is due Edenfred executive director David Wells for preparing a startlingly upscale gourmet lunch. See below for photos of the attendees:

  

  Left to right: Jerry and Paula Anderson (Echoes), B.J. Best (Arbor Vitae), Sarah Busse (Verse Wisconsin), Rod Clark (Rosebud), John Lehman (The Village Poet).

  

  Left to right: Linda Lenzke (Our Lives), Jeri McCormick (Fireweed Press), Ralph Murre (Little Eagle Press), Charles Nevsimal (Centennial Press), Erik Richardson (Signs and Wonders).

  

  Left to right: Wendy Vardaman (Verse Wisconsin), Lester Smith (Popcorn Press), Shoshauna Shy (Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf), F.J. Bergmann (Mobius), Jason A. Smith (Wisconsin People & Ideas).

  March 20, 2010

  Arbor Vitae, B.J. Best, Centennial Press, Charles Nevsimal, Echoes, Edenfred, Erik Richardson, F.J. Bergmann, Fireweed Press, Jason A. Smith, Jeri McCormick, John Lehman, Lester Smith, Linda Aschbrenner, Linda Lenzke, Little Eagle Press, Mobius, Our Lives, Paula Anderson, Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, Popcorn Press, Ralph Murre, Rod Clark, Rosebud, Sarah Busse, Shoshauna Shy, Signs and Wonders, The Village Poet, Verse Wisconsin, Wendy Vardaman, Wisconsin People & Ideas

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