Shoshauna Shy

“The Best Way to Read Lorine Niedecker’s Poems”
First wander through Emerald Grove’s antique store
amongst fishing nets and rusty kerosene lamps
for a spitbox in which to plant Queen Anne’s lace. . . .

Shoshauna Shy’s poems have been published in The Los Angeles Review, The Seattle Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Rattle, Rosebud and Poetry Northwest.

She won First Place in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Triad Contest in 2002; three of her poems were finalists in the Wisconsin Academy Review Poetry Contest in 2004 and the Wisconsin People & Ideas contest in 2010, and one of her poems was selected for the Poetry 180 Library of Congress program launched by Billy Collins.

She was the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ poetry editor for their quarterly newsletter from 2001-2004, and sponsored a contest in Free Verse in 2005. Her collection titled What the Postcard Didn’t Say won an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association in 2008.

Shy works for the Wisconsin Humanities Council and has helped create, coordinate and facilitate poetry programs for the annual Wisconsin Book Festival in downtown Madison each October.

Event
Saturday, October 23, at 2:45 p.m. – Performance by the Prairefire Poets, Eau Claire Room, LEPMPL, Eau Claire, WI

Selected Works