CONTACT

rschapma@wisc.edu

BIO

Robin Chapman's work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Hudson Review, OnEarth, Poetry, and The Southern Review, among many other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in J. Bosveld (ed.) Prayers to Protest, B. Goldberg (ed.) The First Yes, and B. Swann (ed.) Poetry Comes Up Where It Can.She teaches a week-long workshop in poetry at The Clearing in Door County theclearing.org with Judith Strasser and is a member of the performing group Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet, with Shoshauna Shy, Richard Roe, and John Lehman. They are available to perform at museum openings, festivals and special events. Her poems have been set to music by Canadian composer Sara Scott Turner, incorporated in paintings by Canadian artist Colleen Anderson-Millard, and included in the Madison Festival Choir's Prairie Songs. A recipient of two Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Development Grants and a 2007 Literary Arts Fellowship, Robin is co-organizer of the Epidemic Peace Imagery exhibit ("hoping the idea will spread"), over 300 peace works by poets and visual artists to a same-size format that is touring Wisconsin in 2003-08 geocities.com/epidemicpeaceimagery/. She is professor emerita of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin­Madison, and won an Outstanding Achievement Poetry Award from the Wisconsin Library Association for her collection The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead published by Word Tech Editions in 2007.

Robin hosts a poem a day from fellow & sister poets with one of her watercolors, at her blog, RobinChapmansPoemaDay, robinchapmanspoemaday.blogspot.com/

Send up to 5 published poems, with journal credit and links to your homepage, to Robin at: chapman@waisman.wisc.edu

BOOKINGS

2010

October
Presenting the program "Under the Influence" on October 23rd with the Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet at the Chippewa Valley Book Festival in Eau Claire