Tag: The Village Poet

• 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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• The Village Poet

  

  John Lehman, aka The Village Poet, has a new chapbook showing up around the Cambridge-Rockdale community. Free copies can be found just about everywhere, from the library to the state bank to the Piggly Wiggly. John says he’ll send out free copies to anyone interested, far and wide. Email name and address to John@VillagePoet.com.

  Local residents abound throughout John’s work. I myself was honored to discover on returning home last year from a family vacation at sea that a commemorative poem had been issued. Reprinted below exactly as it appears in the Village Poet chapbook:

  

  March 5, 2010

  Bob Wake Goes on a Cruise, Cambridge-Rockdale Wisconsin, John Lehman, The Village Poet

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