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:
- Gloss by Rebecca Hazelton
- Dear Terror, Dear Splendor by Melissa Crowe
- House of Sparrows by Betsy Sholl
- Why Can’t It Be Tenderness by Michelle Brittan Rosado
- The Explosive Expert’s Wife by Shara Lessley
- Season of the Second Thought by Lynn Powell
- The Apollonia Poems by Judith Vollmer
- The Blue Hour by Jennifer Whitaker
- The Book of Hulga by Rita Mae Reese
- Hive by Christina Stoddard
We are giving away a set of debut collections by two of the talented female poets published in the Wisconsin Poetry Series edited by Ronald Wallace and Sean Bishop (entry form and guidelines below).
One winner will receive an advance copy of these forthcoming titles:
- If the House by Molly Spencer (October 2019)
- Ganbatte by Sarah Kortemeier (October 2019)