Poet Shara Lessley launched the #SeptWomenPoets hashtag (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) as a way to create an online book club where readers share selections and covers from books by women poets. The challenge has encouraged readers to showcase and discuss some of their favorite poems and poets across social media. Here are some University of Wisconsin Press collections we encourage you to consider for your #SeptWomenPoets TBR pile:
- The Blue Hour by Jennifer Whitaker
- The Book of Hulga by Rita Mae Reese
- Hive by Christina Stoddard
- My Favorite Tyrants by Joanne Diaz
- Otherwise Unseeable by Betsy Sholl
- The Sleeve Waves by Angela Sorby
We are giving away a bundle of recent collections by some of the talented female poets published in the Wisconsin Poetry Series edited by Ronald Wallace, including an advance copy of a book publishing later this fall (entry form and guidelines below).
One winner will receive a copy of:
- The Explosive Expert’s Wife by Shara Lessley
- Season of the Second Thought by Lynn Powell
- The Apollonia Poems by Judith Vollmer
- An advance reading copy of Why Can’t It Be Tenderness by Michelle Brittan Rosado