Robin Chapman
CATTAILS
June cattails ring the marsh,
doubled cylinders held above
the new leaf tips—
a chartreuse fuse lit and burning
down the barrel to the matched
receptive green . . .
Robin Chapman’s work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Hudson Review, OnEarth, Poetry, and The Southern Review, among many other journals. Her poems have also been included in numerous anthologies. She teaches a week-long workshop in poetry at The Clearing in Door County theclearing.org with Judith Strasser and is a member of the performing group Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet.
Her poems have been set to music and incorporated in paintings, and included in the Madison Festival Choir’s Prairie Songs. A recipient of two Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Development Grants and a 2007 Literary Arts Fellowship, Chapman is co-organizer of the Epidemic Peace Imagery exhibit, more than 300 peace works by poets and visual artists that toured Wisconsin in 2003-08.
She is professor emerita of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and won an Outstanding Achievement Poetry Award from the Wisconsin Library Association for her collection The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead published by Word Tech Editions in 2007.
Event
Saturday, October 23, at 2:45 p.m. – Reading and Discussion with the Prairefire Poets, Eau Claire Room, LEPMPL, Eau Claire, WI
Selected Publications
- Abundance, Winner of Cider Press Review’s 2007 Editors’ Award
- Smoke and Strong Whiskey, Word Tech Editions – 2008
- The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead, Word Tech Editions – 2007 – Winner of an Outstanding Achievement Poetry Award from the Wisconsin Library Association
Web Site
http://www.bookthatpoet.com/poets/lehmanjo.html
