Wendy Videlock (born 1961) is a poet and artist. She is the author of the chapbook What’s That Supposed to Mean (2010) and collections Wise to the West (2022), Slingshots and Love Plums (2015), The Dark Gnu and Other Poems (2013), and Nevertheless (2011). She also published a collection of essays, The Poetic Imaginarium: A Worthy Difficulty, in 2022.

Personal life 
Since 1997, Videlock and her husband have been living on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, where they raised their two children.

Career 
Videlock is a regular contributor to Poetry, known for engaging with themes of myth, fairy tale, and the natural world and for “deft command of meter.” Under the editorship of Christian Wiman, Poetry Magazine has published dozens of her poems. Her work has appeared twice in Best American Poetry, and she is a regular contributor to The Hudson Review, Hopkins Review, and Rattle Magazine. She has also appeared in Oprah Quarterly and the New York Times.

Videlock also occasionally teaches poetry workshops and has worked with the Western Colorado Writers' Forum to develop workshops that integrate different art practices into one setting.

She published her first chapbook, What’s That Supposed to Mean in 2010, and four poetry collections: Wise to the West (2022), Slingshots and Love Plums (2015), The Dark Gnu and Other Poems (2013), and Nevertheless (2011).

Art 
Videlock is also a visual artist, specializing in alcohol ink paintings, whose works appear in galleries throughout the Western Slope. She has an art Instagram under the username wendyvidelock.inklings and a website.

Awards and honors 
Videlock has received numerous awards.

 Western Slope Poet Laureate, Telluride Institute, 2023 - 2025
 "Ode to the Slow": Cantor Poetry Prize, Telluride Institute, 2022
 "North of Mist":  Keats Soul Making Award, Janice Farrell Poetry First Prize, 2020
 "The Nature of it All:" Keats Soul Making Award, Kathleen McClung “Beloved” Sonnet Third Prize, 2020
 Finalist, Colorado Poet Laureate, 2019
 Nevertheless: finalist Colorado Book Award, 2012
"The Various Ways Oh My Can be Said": Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, 2007

Bibliography

Anthologies 
Best American Poetry, ed. Sherman Alexie, David Lehman (Simon & Schuster, 2015).  OCLC 894746852

Best American Poetry, ed. Natasha Tretheway, David Lehman (Simon & Schuster, 2017).  OCLC 1015685314

HERE, Poems for the Planet, ed. Elizabeth J. Coleman, with an introduction by His Holiness the Dali Lama (Copper Canyon Press, 2019).  OCLC 1050964228

Hot Sonnets, ed. Moira Eagan (Entasis Press, 2011).  OCLC 733042107

Irresistible Sonnets, ed. Mary Meriam (Headmistress Press, 2014).  OCLC 885199103

Literature, an Introduction to Poetry, Fiction, and Drama, ed. Dana Gioia and XJ Kennedy (Pearson, 2020).  OCLC 1040228058

Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, ed. Julie Kane (Kelsay Books).

Manifest West, ed. Caleb Seeling (Western Press Books, 2017).  OCLC: 990506442

Nasty Women Poets, Subversive Verse, ed. Grace Bauer, Jule Kane (Lost Horse Press, 2016).  OCLC 985071573

The Quadrant Book of Poetry, Australia, ed. Les Murray (Quadrant Books, 2012).  OCLC 859577509

Western Weird, ed. Mark Todd (Western Press Books, #4 2015).  OCLC 921888503

Writing Motherhood, ed. Carolyn Jess-Cooke (Seren Books, 2017).  OCLC: 993289324

Poetry 
What's That Supposed to Mean? (EXOT Books, 2010).  OCLC: 779996912

Nevertheless (Able Muse Press, 2011).  OCLC 809772835

The Dark Gnu and Other Poems (Able Muse Press, 2013).  OCLC 829388310

Slingshots and Love Plums (Able Muse Press, 2015).  OCLC 911135262

Wise to the West (Able Muse Press, 2022).  OCLC 1289617397

References 

1961 births
Living people