Wingbeats II: Exercises and Practice in Poetry
Scott Wiggerman is the author of two books of poetry,PresenceandVegetables and Other Relationships, and co-editor of several volumes, including WINGBEATS: EXERCISES & PRACTICE IN POETRY (2011) and WINGBEATS II (2014), and LIFTING THE SKY: SOUTHWESTERN HAIKU & HAIGA, both from Dos Gatos Press. His poems have recently appeared in the anthologies THIS ASSIGNMENT IS SO GAY;The Crafty Poet;Forgetting Home: Poems about Alzheimer's; andBetween: New Gay Poetry. Wiggerman's sonnets have twice been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. He is chief editor for Dos Gatos Press in Austin, Texas, publisher of theTexas Poetry Calendar, now in its seventeenth year.David Meischen has been writing poetry and teaching the writing of poetry for thirty years. He has had poems inThe Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, Borderlands, Cider Press Review, and other journals, as well asTwo Southwests(Virtual Artists Collective, 2008), which features poets from the Southwest of China and the United States. Meischen has participated in four collaborative poetry and art shows, most recentlyEkphrasis: Sacred Stories of the Southwest(Phoenix, AZ, Obliq Art, 2014). Also a fiction writer, Meischen has recent stories inThe Gettysburg Review, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. He won the 2012 Talking Writing Prize for Short Fiction. Co-founder of Dos Gatos Press and co-editor of WINGBEATS I and II, Meischen lives in Austin, TX, with his husband—also his co-publisher and co- editor—Scott Wiggerman.