With an archetypal Texas image by photographer Walter Eagleton, our calendar for the current year features 95 poems from the Lone Star State and beyond.
Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry—61 poetry writing exercises by 58 teaching poets. ♦ Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar. ♦ Redefining Beauty: 2010 Texas Poet Laureate Karla K. Morton’s breathtaking poems about her personal experience with breast cancer.
Spotlight
Wingbeats contributors Madelyn Garner and Andrea L. Watson are the editors of Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, new from 3: A Taos Press. This lovely anthology includes work by Wingbeats editor Scott Wiggerman and by Wingbeats contributors Susan Terris and Ellaraine Lockie.
Collecting Life will share table space with Wingbeats March 1–3 at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs national conference in Chicago. If you’re going to be at AWP, drop by and say hello. We’ll be at table Q11.
Upcoming Events
- Four Sunday Afternoons, Four Poets, Four Wingbeats Workshops
- January 15 – February 26, 2012
- Austin — BookPeople
- Dos Gatos Press at Victoria College
- February 3, 2012
- Victoria, Texas
- Dos Gatos Press at AWP
- February 29 - March 3, 2012
- Chicago, IL
Submission Guidelines
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Mailing Deadline: February 21, 2012. No submission fee: send in your poems!
See Guidelines for the 2013 Texas Poetry Calendar »