Parallel Press

Just a head's up that things will be a little quiet around here for a bit, as we are doing some restructuring in the Parallel Press offices--a.k.a. our student assistant (me) is graduating! :) If you need anything in the meantime, don't hesitate to email Lis Owens at [email protected]. It has been nice sharing your stories and promoting all things poetry. Keep spreading the good word, poets and poetry aficionados!

Hey, poetry and Verse Wisconsin fans! Be sure to save the date for this upcoming event on June 29 1-4pm at Olbrich Gardens. Among other things, there will be readings, an author book swap, a used poetry book giveaway, and CAKE! Click the link below for info.
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b6b97cc6370400d9cd01966c5&id=1b7bde55b1&e=dcf39d81a2

Verse Wisconsin Celebration June 29, 1-4 p.m. Olbrich Gardens Verse Wisconsin published its last of 14 print & online issues in April 2014! (An anthology of prose from issues 100-114 is still forthcoming in the Fall.) While we've heard from some that you're sad to see it end, we're grateful to poets & supporters to have been able to produce this independent, hybrid magazine for 5 years, and we'd like to celebrate with you!

Looking for something to do tomorrow? Head to Mystery to Me bookstore 7:00-9:00pm to hear Parallel Press poets Katrin Talbot, Evie Robillard, and Robin Chapman read new work!

We are pleased to announce that Tom Erickson's poetry chapbook, The Lawyer Who Died in The Courthouse Bathroom (Parallel Press, 2013), received second place in the 2014 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest for chapbooks by Wisconsin authors published in 2013. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor, Tom!

Here's some National Poetry Month inspiration for you... Heather Corbally Bryant writes about her "first time" (submitting a poem, that is). What was yours like?

http://www.davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com/2014/04/my-first-time-heather-corbally-bryant.html

Speaking of Heather Corbally Bryant, check out Verse Wisconsin's lovely review of her Parallel Press chapbook, Lottery Ticket. Go, Heather! http://versewisconsin.org/Issue113/reviews/bryant.html

The Quivering Pen: My First Time: Heather Corbally Bryant Just now I can feel that little quivering of the pen which has always foreshadowed the happy delivery of a good book. --Emile Zola