I’m still mining great information from the panel discussion by small press publishers I attended at the Wisconsin Book Festival. As the discussion got deep into how to find a publisher for your chapbook, policies varied, from accepting unsolicited manuscripts to invitation-only, but all of the publishers the advice quickly turned to a point on [...]
There was a fantastic panel discussion regarding poetry during the Wisconsin Book Festival. Several small-press publishers answered questions posed by Verse Wisconsin co-editors Sarah Busse and Wendy Vardaman. The publishers had a variety of takes on many questions, ranging from how long it should take to get a response on submissions to money and keeping [...]
Regular contributor Sarah Busse, together with co-editor Wendy Vardaman and advisory board members B. J. Best, Cathryn Cofell, Tom Erickson, David Graham and Angela Rydell, recently rolled out a print and online magazine, Verse Wisconsin.
Sarah and Wendy stepped in when Linda Aschenbrenner, a seemingly tireless supporter of Wisconsin poets, decided to retire and close up [...]