New! Cowfeather Press is a project of Verse Wisconsin. Cowfeather’s mission is to 
bring the work of Wisconsin poets and poetry into the light, by publishing books written by deserving Wisconsin authors, by building audience for poetry across the state, and by encouraging all Wisconsin poets to write to their highest potential.
Verse Wisconsin is available as both a print & online journal with compatible but different content. Visit versewisconsin.org and join us on facebook.
Current Issue
In the news
- Two poems from Verse Wisconsin 101 appear in the 2012 Pushcart Anthology
- Wisconsin People & Ideas, "5Q-Cowfeather Press," Fall 2011
- WORT Radio Literature, 4/21-11, interview with Wendy Vardaman on sonnets & VW105 Forms issue
- Wisconsin People & Ideas, "Verse-O-Matic Delivers Bite Size Poetry (and Candy)," Summer 2011
- Harriet the Blog: The Poetry Foundation, 5/11
- Madison Magazine Liberal-Arts Blog, 3/11
- VW 104 interview with John Koethe at Poetry Daily, 3/11
- Duotrope Digest, 8/10, Interview
- Isthmus, 8/12/10
- WORT Radio Literature, 7/22/10, 7:30 pm, with Sarah Busse
- VW 102 interview with Matthea Harvey at Poetry Daily, 7/10
- Madison Magazine Liberal-Arts Blog, 3/10
- Coffee Spew (Blog of Cambridge Book Review), 3/10
- Poetry Dispatch, 3/10
- Square 77 (Wisconsin State Journal), 3/10
- Wisonsin People & Ideas, 1/10
- Madison Magazine, 11/09
- WORT Radio Literature, 10/15/09, 7:30 pm
Mission
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
History
Verse Wisconsin was originally published as Free Verse from 1998-2009. The magazine was born out of a creative writing workshop, and carried on as a labor of love by Linda Aschbrenner, of Marshfield, Wisconsin, who also published chapbooks as Marsh River Editions. For eleven years, Free Verse helped poets in Wisconsin and across the country keep in touch with each other’s work, their news and opportunities.
