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Welcome Franco Pagnucci

We’re happy to announce that we’ve signed Franco Pagnucci and will publish his collection of poems, Again The Red Fox.

Franco Pagnucci, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, has published storytelling books for teachers and students as well as six volumes of poetry: Breath of the Onion: Italian-American Anecdotes (2015), Tracks on Damp Sand (2014), a chapbook Imprints of Your Tires on Damp Sand (2012), Ancient Moves (1998), I Never Had a Pet (1992), and Out Harmsen’s Way (1991).

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Welcome Joan Wiese Johannes

We’re excited to welcome Wisconsin poet Joan Wiese Johannes to Water’s Edge Press. We will publish her collected poems Lamenting My Failure to Learn How to Tap Dance: And Other Missteps in fall of 2023. Johannes is a member of Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and is well known through her many previous publications, her work with poets and poetry, as well as numerous awards. Read her bio on our authors page.

About this new collection, Lisa Vihos, poet laureate of Sheboygan, WI says “Johannes guides us through the missteps of youth, adulthood, and old age, culminating in being “on the right foot.” This collection will leave you “yearning to step out on that proverbial limb” with the poet, who gives us daring movement in every poem.”

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Geosmin is finalist in Midwest Book Awards

Geosmin

Congratulations to Catherine Young, whose book Geosmin was selected as a finalist for regional poetry in the 2023 Midwest Independent Publishers Association Midwest Book Awards.

“This year’s finalists represent the best of the best in Midwest publishing,” said Jennifer Baum, the association’s director. “We are proud to honor these authors and publishers for their outstanding work,” she said.

Gold winners will be announced in person at the Midwest Book Awards gala held on June 17, 2023 at Open Book in Minneapolis. Renowned book critic Mary Ann Grossmann is set to keynote the event, which is open to the public.

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Welcome poet Kathleen Serley to Water’s Edge Press

We’re excited to announce that Kathleen Serley’s collection of poems, Statements Made in Passing, will be released by Water’s Edge Press in the spring of 2022. The poems arise out of the poet’s sharp observation of people and things near her own door.

Kathleen Serley, a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, is a lifelong Wisconsin resident, enjoys the way retirement has opened her days to poetry. Her poems have been published in The Solitary Plover, Volga River Review, Verse Wisconsin, Red Cedar and Verse and Vision where she won an Artists’ Choice Award.

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Daniel Smith’s Ancestral featured in the news

Poetry captures sorrow and fallout of farm crisis

by Barry Adams, Wisconsin State Journal


Daniel Smith is featured in the Sunday, July 18, 2021 edition of the Wisconsin State Journal. Barry Adams interviewed Smith at his home near Arena, Wisconsin.

In Ancestral, from Water’s Edge Press, Smith draws on his decades of farming and his experiences as a farm financial counselor in Wisconsin. Many of the poems express the anguish people feel when they realize they can no longer sustain the family farm. Yet Smith’s poetry goes beyond such stories and reveals his deep and enduring connection to the land.

From the article: 

“It bothers me a lot,” Smith said. “The economic,social and cultural impacts of farming are very complex. I think going through all of that and having experienced the emotional turbulence of that really helped me write about it and writing helped me deal with it.”

Read the article and listen to Dan read “Dry Dirt,” a poem from Ancestral. [Permalink]