John Lehman

CONTACT

1-608-235-2377

John Lehman
Rockdale, Wisconsin

POTENTIALLY AVAILABLE TO GO TO SCHOOLS TO DO READINGS AND/OR WORKSHOPS

BIO

Twice a finalist for the Wisconsin Poet Laureate position, John Lehman is the founder and original publisher of Rosebud, a national magazine of short stories, poetry and illustration for people who enjoy good writing. He is also the poetry editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas, as well as managing partner of Zelda Wilde Publishing, editor of the new interactive web-zine Cool Plums CoolPlums.com and the online RosebudBookReviews.com, and a member of the Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet which includes Shoshauna Shy, Robin Chapman and Richard Roe. He has presented writing seminars on poetry, autobiography, creative non-fiction and acting techniques for writers in dozens of cities throughout the country. He is a book reviewer and columnist, and has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes (short story, poetry and creative non-fiction). Born in Chicago, he lives with his wife Talia Schorr and their four dogs in the smallest incorporated village in Wisconsin.

Exciting free workshops and blog at coolplums.wordpress.com and check out RosebudBookReviews.com

PUBLICATIONS

Acting Lessons, Parallel Press, 2008 - $10
Shorts - 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise, Zelda Wilde Publishing, 2005 - $11.95
America's Greatest Unknown Poet, Lorine Niedecker in Letters, Reminiscences, Photographs and Her Poems, Zelda Wilde Publishing, 2003 - $12
Dogs Dream of Running, Salmon Run Press, 2001 - $12
Shrine of the Tooth Fairy, Cambridge Book Review Press, 1998 - $8

All books available at bookstores and from amazon.com and bn.com

Audio CD's available from amazon.com: $10.00 each

The Writer’s Cave: Why Writers Write What They Do
10 Things I Think Know about Getting Published
How and Why a Poem Works + Stopping at the Woods

BOOKINGS

2010

June
Participant June 18-19 at the Wisconsin Festival of Books presenting "Lorine Niedecker and the How of Poetry" at UW-Waukesha

September
Facilitating a workshop on September 25 titled "How a Poem Works" and emceeing an open mic at The Lorine Niedecker Poetry Festival in Fort Atkinson

October
Teaching a workshop October 17-19 titled "Poetry - From Personal to Powerful" at The Clearing in Door County, and on October 23, appearing with the Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet at the Chippewa Falls Book Festival in Eau Claire

POEM

IS THIS A DATE?

The Friends of the Library meeting
Thursday night, 6pm. Cheese roll,

cut-up mushroom and turkey brats
on toothpicks, charts with spaces

for those willing to work the craft fair
next year. Sips of wine from a local

shop. We drive in separate cars, sit
in a circle, talk about a new building,

more books, better this, better that.
I see us in older couples or similar to

books on the shelves. Grateful to be
understood, to have a home, to be held.

Published by Zelda Wilde Publishing

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