The L.A. Times has a previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut story, “Look at the Birdie.” Clever and polished (if dialogue heavy) with a couple of fun twists. Very Vonnegut, I’d say, mixing social satire and noirish pulp with a dash of Weird Tales horror. About a discredited psychotherapist using paranoid schizophrenics as “muscle” in a blackmail scheme. It’s the title story in a posthumous collection just out from Delacorte Press in hardback.
Unpublished Vonnegut story
Published October 19, 2009 Literature , Short Story Leave a CommentTags: Kurt Vonnegut, Look at the Birdie
Verse Wisconsin
Published September 16, 2009 Literature , Poetry , Writing Leave a CommentTags: Poetry, Sarah Busse, Verse Wisconsin, Wendy Vardaman, Wisconsin poetry
Here’s the press release about Verse Wisconsin, now accepting submissions (some of co-editor Sarah Busse’s own poetry appears in CBR:16):
NEW ONLINE RESOURCE FOR WISCONSIN POETS
The new poetry magazine, Verse Wisconsin, has gone online as of September 1, 2009. Featuring information for poets across the state and beyond, the website ushers in the next phase of Verse Wisconsin’s project, and offers a place for poets across the state to post their local events and learn of others.
Co-editors Wendy Vardaman and Sarah Busse welcome everyone on board. “We know our links page isn’t nearly complete. Far from it! But we also wanted poets to feel free to share information with each other, rather than for us to pose as the experts,” explains Busse.
The magazine will publish poetry and prose about poetry and is currently accepting submissions. “We’re hoping to reach a broad cross-section of poets in the state, and beyond,” says Busse. “Our predecessor, Linda Aschbrenner, published a variety of styles and voices in Free Verse. In moving the magazine to Madison, and updating it, we’re hoping to continue her tradition and expand upon it.”
The editors are accepting poetry submissions from poets now, with the intention of publishing a first issue, online and in print, in January 2010. The online and print versions will offer different, but complementary, material.
Learn more at www.versewisconsin.org.
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Published from 1998-2009 as Free Verse, Verse Wisconsin publishes poetry and serves the community of poets in Wisconsin and beyond. In fulfilling our mission we:
• showcase the excellence and diversity of poetry rooted in or related to Wisconsin
• connect Wisconsin’s poets to each other and to the larger literary world
• foster critical conversations about poetry
• build and invigorate the audience for poetry
