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Wingbeats in Madison

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:45:03 +0000

Following up on the success of David Meischen’s summer 2011 Wingbeats workshop in Madison, Dos Gatos Press will host a second Wingbeats workshop in Madison.

Join us at 1 p.m. June 2 at the Sequoya Branch Library of the Madison Public Library for a workshop featuring Wingbeats contributors Cathryn Cofell and Karla Huston.

Details are forthcoming. Check this page again soon.

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admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:20:12 +0000

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.

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admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:10:09 +0000

In late September, Dillon McKinsey interviewed Dos Gatos Press for KOOP radio’s Writing on the Air. Scott Wiggerman, David Meischen, and Cindy Huyser sat down with McKinsey to talk about the Texas Poetry Calendar, Wingbeats, and other Dos Gatos Press projects.

Listen to this program »

Congratulations to Penny Harter! Penny’s Wingbeats exercise has been reprinted in the current issue of Notes from the Gean (Vol. 3, No. 2). The issue includes an interview with Penny, as well as two of her haibun. (Penny’s photo here is by Michael Dylan Welch.)

Read Penny’s Wingbeats exercise here »

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admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:47:50 +0000

Kudos to Erica Lehrer on the release of Dancing with Ataxia. Erica’s work has graced several issues of the Texas Poetry Calendar. Her poem “Wimberley” won first place in the 2012 calendar awards.

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admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:36:31 +0000

Dos Gatos Press co-founder Scott Wiggerman launches Presence, a new book of poems—Thursday, September 15, 7 p.m. at BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar, Austin. It is also Scott’s birthday. Join us for poetry, brownies, red wine, and good cheer.

Dos Gatos Press at AWP

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:30:36 +0000

David Meischen, Scott Wiggerman, and Cindy Huyser will represent Dos Gatos Press at the 2012 Conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. David and Scott are Dos Gatos co-founders and editors of Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry. Scott and Cindy edit The Texas Poetry Calendar. We have reserved a table at the conference bookfair. Scott will be there with his new book, Presence, from Pecan Grove Press.

We’ll be at Table Q11. Drop by and say hello!

Find out more about the conference.

Four Sunday Afternoons, Four Poets, Four Wingbeats Workshops

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:21:14 +0000

All workshops will be held at BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, Austin — in the third-floor reading/classroom space. All workshops are open to the public and free of charge. Participants should bring paper and pen.

See a map of BookPeople »

Kurt Heinzelman — The Window Poem
January 15, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

Katherine Durham Oldmixon —
Lyrical Bees: Writing Poems Inspired by Biology
January 29, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

Abe Louise Young — Birds in the Classroom
February 12, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

David Meischen — with thanks to Georgia Popoff —
Tales from the Bathroom: The Curious Path to a Poem
February 26, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

Kurt Heinzelman is the author of three books of poems, The Names They Found There (2011), Black Butterflies (2004), and The Halfway Tree (2000). A multiple Pushcart nominee, Heinzelman has been a finalist for best poetry volume of the year from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Katherine Durham Oldmixon is the daughter of a research chemist who changed his major from music, and an English teacher who first studied nursing. A much-published poet, she teaches creative writing and literature and directs the writing program at historic Huston-Tillotson University in east Austin, Texas.

Abe Louise Young is an award-winning poet and journalist, who has long worked to nurture writers in unconventional settings. She has recently published in The Nation, New Letters, and Witness, and is the author of one chapbook of poetry, Ammonite.

David Meischen has been writing poetry and teaching the writing of poetry for twenty-five years. He was the Master Teacher in English for UTeach–Liberal Arts, the teacher preparation program in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas, Austin, 2002–2006.

Wingbeats

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:09:46 +0000

On September12, at Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, SC, Wingbeats contributors Ed Madden and Ray Mcmanus will read from their new collections and present their Master Craft Workshop, “To Get Anywhere from Nowhere: Writing Poems About Place.”

Valerie Koehler

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:49:59 +0000

On September 11, Valerie Koehler, owner of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, hosted a reading for the 2011 Texas Poetry Calendar. Blue Willow has held calendar readings for twelve straight years – longer than any other calendar venue.

2011 Texas Poetry Calendar

nick — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:23:27 +0000

Scott Wiggerman and Cindy Huyser, Editors

$13.95

Our 2011 calendar is a spiral-bound desk calendar, 5 ¾ X 8 ½ inches, crisply designed and printed on heavy bright-white paper. Open the stunning, full-color cover, and discover—week by week, poem by poem, the spirit that is Texas. 2010 Texas Poet Laureate Karla K. Morton is represented here, along with Oscar C. Peña, Loretta Diane Walker, Anne McCrady, Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Brenda Nettles Riojas, Robert Wynne, Cyra S. Dumitru, and dozens more.

“Texas poetry is alive and well thanks to the folks at Dos Gatos Press.”

— Steve Labinski, online at Texana Book Reviews

Our submissions come from these regions
Region	Number of Submissions
Panhandle Plains	3
Big Bend Country	1
Hill Country	21
Praries & Lakes	21
Piney Woods	5
South Texas Plains	4
Gulf Coast	27
Outside of Texas	7

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Dos Gatos Press at AWP

Four Sunday Afternoons, Four Poets, Four Wingbeats Workshops

Kurt Heinzelman — The Window Poem January 15, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

Katherine Durham Oldmixon — Lyrical Bees: Writing Poems Inspired by Biology January 29, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

Abe Louise Young — Birds in the Classroom February 12, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

David Meischen — with thanks to Georgia Popoff — Tales from the Bathroom: The Curious Path to a Poem February 26, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

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Valerie Koehler

2011 Texas Poetry Calendar

Kurt Heinzelman — The Window Poem
January 15, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

Katherine Durham Oldmixon —
Lyrical Bees: Writing Poems Inspired by Biology
January 29, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

Abe Louise Young — Birds in the Classroom
February 12, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.

David Meischen — with thanks to Georgia Popoff —
Tales from the Bathroom: The Curious Path to a Poem
February 26, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.