John Lehman

CONTACT

1-608-235-2377

John Lehman
Rockdale, Wisconsin

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

POEM

THE NUT BREAD MURDERS

A friend sends a loaf of nut bread that’s dense
as a kiln-dried brick. I tell my wife it reminds me
of something my first wife would bake. Is this
a mistake? No, because upon hearing it she
makes me a fluffy coffee cake with a brown-sugar
and chocolate-chip topping, and I deduce there
may be a lesson about women here. (how one
can be played against another). So I call my
first wife who asks what the hell I want. Hmmm.
Later, I decide to put her in a novel I’m plotting
as a character out to poison everyone with her
goddamn nut bread while I, the hero, am saved by
a stripper named Brown Sugah. Writing comes fast.
It’s February in Wisconsin and I am going nuts.

Published by Parallel Press

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