Contact Us Cowfeather Press PO Box 620216 Middleton, WI 53562 Phone: 608- 831-0094 Email: cowfeather (at) versewisconsin (dot) org
Media Material Titles Available More about 2013 titles Press release 10/12 2013 titles! Verse Wisconsin's YouTube Channel Press release 10/11
Audio Poems Author interview & poems from Luz de Todos los Tiempos / Light of All Times , 4-25-13 Shiny Things Milk from Sleepy Cows Artists (from Unexpected Shiny Things, by Bruce Dethlefsen)
Reviews "No Wisconsin library should be without a copy of Unexpected Shiny Things as a core part of its poetry collection." MBR
From Bruce Dethlefsen "It is my very good fortune to have been chosen Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2011-2012. "In my second book, Unexpected Shiny Things, published by Cowfeather Press, I've attempted to examine my relationship to the natural world, people and places, and come to grips somehow with the death of my younger son."
Advance Praise I have known this marvelous poet, Moisés Villavicencio Barras, for many years. It is a pleasure to finally see his work published in a bi-lingual edition. His poety reflects devotion to Mexico, to his native Oaxaca, and to his family. The histories here, and the mysteries, come from the hand of a poet who should be read, whomust be heard. One finds here a mind focused on the beauty of language and the deep song of loveliness and love.—Neeli Cherkovski, author of Leaning Against Time With six chapbooks already to her credit, Cathryn Cofell presents her first full-length collection, and it's wonderful. Sister Satellite has sass and snap, a fresh and entertaining voice, but it also wields a sharp edge, cutting deeper as it goes deeper. Sharper and deeper. Frankly feminist, Cofell's energetic, unconventional poems tell hard truths with wit and wide-open eyes. Every woman should read this book. So should every man. —Kelly Cherry, author of The Retreats of Thought: Poems Bruce Dethlefsen writes of the small moments and the grand events with tenderness and wit, and an openness that invites the reader (any reader) in the first time around, and yet rewards the careful reader each time after. There's clarity that's not to be confused with naivete or simplicity, an intimate tone that lures us, that gets us on the poet's wave-length, and then come the bright surprises, and slants of perception and humor that accumulate poem by poem into a redemptive vision of the world around us.–Max Garland, author of Hunger Wide as Heaven and The Postal Confessions

Contact Us

Cowfeather Press
PO Box 620216
Middleton, WI 53562

Phone: 608- 831-0094

Email: cowfeather (at) versewisconsin (dot) org

Media Material

Press release 10/12
2013 titles!

Verse Wisconsin's YouTube Channel

Audio Poems

Author interview & poems from Luz de Todos los Tiempos / Light of All Times , 4-25-13

Shiny Things
Milk from Sleepy Cows
Artists
(from Unexpected Shiny Things, by Bruce Dethlefsen)

Reviews

"No Wisconsin library should be without a copy of Unexpected Shiny Things as a core part of its poetry collection." MBR

Advance Praise

I have known this marvelous poet, Moisés Villavicencio Barras, for many years. It is a pleasure to finally see his work published in a bi-lingual edition. His poety reflects devotion to Mexico, to his native Oaxaca, and to his family. The histories here, and the mysteries, come from the hand of a poet who should be read, whomust be heard. One finds here a mind focused on the beauty of language and the deep song of loveliness and love.—Neeli Cherkovski, author of Leaning Against Time

With six chapbooks already to her credit, Cathryn Cofell presents her first full-length collection, and it's wonderful. Sister Satellite has sass and snap, a fresh and entertaining voice, but it also wields a sharp edge, cutting deeper as it goes deeper. Sharper and deeper. Frankly feminist, Cofell's energetic, unconventional poems tell hard truths with wit and wide-open eyes. Every woman should read this book. So should every man.
—Kelly Cherry, author of The Retreats of Thought: Poems

Bruce Dethlefsen writes of the small moments and the grand events with tenderness and wit, and an openness that invites the reader (any reader) in the first time around, and yet rewards the careful reader each time after. There's clarity that's not to be confused with naivete or simplicity, an intimate tone that lures us, that gets us on the poet's wave-length, and then come the bright surprises, and slants of perception and humor that accumulate poem by poem into a redemptive vision of the world around us.–Max Garland, author of Hunger Wide as Heaven and The Postal Confessions

Books

New for 2013! Luz de Todos los Tiempos/Light of All Times by Madison’s Moisés Villavicencio Barras (June) and Sister Satellite by Appleton poet Cathryn Cofell (September)! Download the press release. Titles may be pre-ordered online (see below) or by mail. Download a pre-order form. Echolocations, Poets Map Madison, will be available Fall, 2013.

In September-October join us at one or more of 3 Cowfeather Reading Parties to celebrate these new books.

Read more about Cowfeather's books...

Luz de Todos los Tiempos/Light of All Times, by Moisés Villavicencio Barras (June 2013)

Sister Satellite, by Cathryn Cofell (August 2013)

Echolocations, Poets Map Madison, edited by
Sarah Busse & Wendy Vardaman, with Shoshauna Shy, Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf (October 2013)

Unexpected Shiny Things, by Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Bruce Dethlefsen (November 2011)

Books available in print from Cowfeather Press (at Verse Wisconsin & Cowfeather events), from the authors, through the mail, or online, from Cowfeather directly, below, or at Amazon.

Mail-in preorder for Luz & Sister Satellite. Information about ordering Echolocations by mail.

Unexpected Shiny Things is also available as an ebook: on Kindle at Amazon, and on Nook from Barnes & Noble. Visit Dethlefsen's Amazon author page.

Book stores wishing to purchase multiple copies will receive a whole-sale discount. Please contact us for details.

Reading Unexpected Shiny Things with a group? Classrooms, reading groups, & community reads may want to start with discussion questions written by the author and editors of Cowfeather Press. And don't miss the Audio Poems in the sidebar, read by the author!

From the Launch Reading of Unexpected Shiny Things

(more video available at the Verse Wisconsin YouTube Channel)

Contact Us

Cowfeather Press PO Box 620216 Middleton, WI 53562 Phone: 608- 831-0094

Email: cowfeather (at) versewisconsin (dot) org

Media Material

Titles Available

More about 2013 titles

Press release 10/12 2013 titles!