Wingbeats Exercises and Practice in Poetry

Scott Wiggerman is the author of two books of poetry, Presence and Vegetables and Other Relationships , as well as the editor of several volumes, including WINGBEATS: EXERCISES AND PRACTICE IN POETRY (Dos Gatos Press, 2011) and BIG LAND, BIG SKY, BIG HAIR. He has published widely—from journals such as Comstock Review , SPILLWAY, Southwestern American Literature , Switched-on Gutenberg , and Hobble Creek Review (which has twice nominated him for a Pushcart); to anthologies such as City of the Big Shoulders , Among the Leaves , Two Southwests , Collecting Life , and This New Breed ; to nonfiction texts such as Poetry as Spiritual Practice , The Book of Forms , and Poem, Revised . A…  More popular instructor of poetry workshops,Scott is chief editor for Dos Gatos Press, publisher of the Texas Poetry Calendar .  Less

David Meischen has been writing poetry and teaching the writing of poetry for twenty-five years. He was the Master Teacher in English for UTeach-Liberal Arts, the teacher preparation program in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas, Austin, 2002-2006. He has had poems in The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, Borderlands, Cider Press Review, and other journals, as well as Two Southwests (Virtual Artists Collective, 2008), which features poets from the southwest of China and the United States. Meischen is a co-founder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press.