Wendy Vardaman photo
photo by Greer DuBois

CONTACT

wvardaman@hotmail.com

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Wendy Vardaman
Madison, Wisconsin

BIO

Wendy Vardaman, has a Ph.D. in English from University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University. Co-editor of Verse Wisconsin, her poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals, including Poetry Daily, Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes, Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory, Letters to the World, Poet Lore, qarrtsiluni, Mezzo Cammin, Nerve Cowboy, Free Verse, Wisconsin People & Ideas, Women’s Review of Books, Rain Taxi Review, Rattle and Portland Review. The author of Obstructed View (Fireweed Press, 2009), she has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and was runner-up in 2004 for the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Lorine Niedecker Award. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with husband, Thomas DuBois, has three children, and works for the children’s theater company, The Young Shakespeare Players.

PUBLICATIONS

Obstructed View, Fireweed Press, 2009 - $12.00

OTHER WORK ON THE WEB

Poetry on qarrtsiluni en.wordpress.com/tag/wendy-vardaman/
Poetry on Fiera Lingua Poet's Corner fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid= 2889

Interview with Iranian poet, Farrideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi eclectica.org/v13n1/vardaman.html
Review of Modern Life, by Matthea Harvey raintaxi.com/online/2008summer/harvey.shtml
Review-Essay, Poems Including History and More, Women's Review of Books wcwonline.org/content/view/1667/38/

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BOOKINGS

2010

February
Featured reader on February 5th at 6:30 PM at the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the program titled "American Virtue, American Vice: An Evening of Poetry," and on February 14th at 2:00 PM reading at the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Winter Festival at Avol's Bookstore, both in Madison

March
Featured reader with Sarah Busse March 12th at 7:30 PM at The Village Booksmith in Baraboo, and on March 20th hosting the Verse Wisconsin Launch at Avol's Bookstore in Madison

June
Featured reader June 18th-19th at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha

    POEM

CRACKS

In the week that winter
yields to spring, the last snow seeps
into the saggy-doored garage, between wide foundation gaps,
through unevenly settled concrete plates, mixing there
with leaves left by late November:
fall sediment that dries, shrinks, then swells and steeps
as thaw replaces freeze, requiring lapsed
rituals of broom and rake, soap and wipe. I clear

a path to reach my sleeping bike;
extract a stack of dingy plastic chairs, once white;
excavate the dog’s ripe backyard waste,
look for crocus, daffodil, lilac
that shoot up and open in a blink; debate whether we ought
to risk geraniums yet; watch for signs of the buried-last-fall cat, heaved back.

Wendy Vardaman

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