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Wisconsin Poetry Series This series includes: Currently, the University of Wisconsin Press seeks to publish a minimum of seven poetry titles each year as part of the Wisconsin Poetry Series. Works are chosen for publication following an open reading period (submissions are accepted between July 15 and September 15) for the poetry prizes awarded by the Press. The Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, along with the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation, are awarded annually. They are selected by a guest judge following an initial screening process conducted by coeditors Sean Bishop and Jesse Lee Kercheval in conjunction with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The winner of each prize receives $1,000 and the publication of their work by the University of Wisconsin Press. The Brittingham Prize in Poetry was founded in 1985 with the help of grants from the Brittingham Trust. Administered by the UW Foundation, the trust was established in 1924 by the wills of lumber baron Thomas Evans Brittingham Sr. and his wife, activist Mary Clark Brittingham, to benefit the University. The Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry was founded in 1994 with the help of a bequest from Sara Pollak. The prize honors her husband, Felix, a major Wisconsin poet and former curator of the Rare Book Room and Little Magazine Collection in the UW–Madison Libraries. The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry may be awarded annually to a collection of poetry submitted by a previous winner of either the Brittingham or Felix Pollak prizes. Recipients are selected by the coeditors of the Wisconsin Poetry Series with input from screeners and faculty in the Creative Writing Program at UW–Madison. The Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation was founded in 2022 to cater to the readers, poets, and editors who want to read poetry written across the world. It aims to be one small part of breaking down the language barriers that divide us and help make work written in other languages visible to a wider public. Priority for publication apart from the prizes is given to titles selected as honorable mention by that year’s judge or otherwise deemed to be exceptional by the series coeditors and screening committee. For poetry submission guidelines, click here.
Featured  Salvage “Choi’s Salvage transverses a landscape that is entirely her own, a landscape full of friends, mythological characters, and animals of unknown size. God is there, too, though it is unclear whether this is the god of people, the god of horses, or the god of polar bears. It is a book of vast subjects and vast feeling, filled with an ecstatic strangeness that has been neglected in American poetry for far too long.  Paper $17.95ISBN 9780299351847  Rich Wife “Such an astonishingly brilliant, complex, and uniquely beautiful book. Its confident, self-complicating long poems drive headlong toward an ever-more-nuanced and layered understanding of the inescapable traps of womanhood and motherhood. There’s so much pleasure and surprise in how these poems shift register and scope from line to line, section to section, as Bludworth de Barrios keeps moving us incrementally and masterfully toward striking flashes of insight. This is one of the best poetry collections I’ve read in a very long time. Paper $17.95ISBN 9780299351649  Interstitial Archaeology “Interstitial Archaeology is all-consuming. It’s a marvel. Sometimes, a poetry collection feels like inhabiting the vast and intricate estate of a person’s imagination, as if entering a cathedral, where the saints, captured in stained glass, are the chalk-outlined martyrs haunting our newsfeeds. Felicia Zamora incorporates all knowledge: math, myth, and memory, from Emerson to Audre Lorde. The poetic forms included here are like a collection of fragments from a lost city. This book is impossibly good. These poems are both grounded and otherworldly. Prepare yourself. Eat a big breakfast and pack a lunch. This book is a journey. Paper $17.95ISBN 9780299353445  What Sex Is Death? “Dario Bellezza—mentored by Morante and championed by Pasolini, who called him ‘the best poet of the new generation’—remains one of the essential Italian voices of the latter half of the twentieth century. As an out gay man, he wrote transgressive poems of love and sex and polemic (by turns tender, brash, angry, defiant) as the gay-rights struggles of the sixties and seventies morphed into the AIDS crisis of the eighties and nineties. Thanks to poet-translator Peter Covino’s scrupulous yet daring versions, which are labors both of love and skill, American readers can now trace the arc of Bellezza’s career, from his early Invective and License to his final Proclamation on Glamor—each an aching, disruptive testament to ‘this infected world.’ Paper $18.95ISBN 9780299350345 Recent and Backlist Click the book icon below the cover image to add the title to your shopping cart.
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The Story of Your Obstinate Survival
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Afterlife
Psalms
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Grace Engine
Midwhistle
As If a Song Could Save You
American Sex Tape™
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Girl's Guide to Leaving
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American Parables
Come Clean
Blood Aria
Conditions of the Wounded
Alien Miss
Perigee
Fractures
Fruit
Queen in Blue
No Day at the Beach
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