According to Oscar Wilde, “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” Come get some advice, both good and bad, from our lineup of poets. In the darkest times, poets remind us over and over again how to live, how to squeeze out meaning and hope from each day. In the words of one poet, “Find something in the near distance to look forward to.” Start here.
Watershed Reading: Advice
Jenny Benjamin is the owner of her freelance writing business JB Communications, LLC. She is also a part-time English teacher at NOVA Tech high school. Over thirty of her poems have appeared in journals, including DIAGRAM, South Carolina Review, Fulcrum, Baltimore Review, Chelsea, and the Crab Orchard Review. Her first novel, This Most Amazing, was published in 2013 by Armida Books in Nicosia, Cyprus. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her three daughters and dog.
Adam Fell is the author of Catastrophizer, winner of the Sixth Finch 2022 Chapbook Contest, and two books of poetry: Dear Corporation, (Forklift Books 2019) and I Am Not A Pioneer (2011), winner of the 2011 Posner Poetry Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and UW-Madison, and is an Associate Professor of English at Edgewood College in Madison, WI, where he curates the Monsters of Poetry reading series.
Lisa Vihos is the 2015 winner of the Wisconsin People and Ideas Poetry contest and is working on her next book of poetry at her dining room table in Sheboygan, overlooking Lake Michigan.
Ed Werstein, Milwaukee, is the East Region VP of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) and represents the WFOP on the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. In 2018 he edited the anthology, Bards Against Hunger: Wisconsin Edition, which raised money for local food pantries and shelters. His recent chapbook is Benediction & Baseball (Fireweed Press).
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