Poetry Daily, the world’s premier website of its kind (www.poems.com), receiving in excess of 20,000 hits per day, will feature on Sunday, October 23, one of Karl Elder’s sequences, “Logo Rhythms,” from his collection The Minimalist’s How-to Handbook, released from Parallel Press in May of this year. It will be our Poet in Residence’s fourth appearance on this prestigious venue for poetry.
Elder will participate in Wisconsin Book Festival
On Sunday of this week, Professor Elder read from his new book Mead: Twenty-six Abecedariums at the invitation of the Council for Wisconsin Writers at the Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison. On Saturday, he participated in the festival symposium, “Poetry and Community: An Open Roundtable on Poetry in Wisconsin for Poets, Publishers, Teachers, Book Buyers, and Librarians.”
“Demarcations,” a poem from Karl Elder’s The Minimalist’s How-to Handbook, has been selected by Woodrow Hall Editions’ POETRY JUMPS OFF THE SHELF program for distribution as a laminated bookmark by independent bookstores in Madison during the Wisconsin Book Festival, October 13-17.