Coming Up

2023
Wednesday April 19, 6:30 pm:
Reading at Ethel Everhard Memorial public Library

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Links

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Latest Books

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Small Talk cover
Losing Purchase (Apprentice House, 2023) $15

Small Talk cover
Small Talk (Little Eagle Press, 2014) $15

Unexpected Shiny Things coverUnexpected Shiny Things (Cowfeather Press, 2011) $16

Breather coverBreather $15

Breather reviewed by Lester Smith in Verse Wisconsin Online.

Surfacings

Wisconsin State Journal
“Just Read It: Bruce Dethlefsen”

Radio
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youTube
More of Bruce’s poems!

Bruce in Verse Wisconsin

Radio
The Writer's Almanac(Garrison Keillor reading Bruce’s poem "Untitled")

Bruce on Your Daily Poem

Bruce on Facebook

youTube
Bruce reading at HPL

Radio
The Writer's Almanac(Garrison Keillor reading Bruce’s poems)

Video interview
In Wisconsin (Wisconsin Public Television) with Patty Loew; aired on April 22, 2011. (3-4 minutes)

Video interview
Wisconsin Eye 12.10.10 "Wisconsin in Words: New Poet Laureate Bruce Dethlefsen"

Interview
by Sharon Auberle in Quill and Parchment

youTube
Cathryn Cofell and Obvious Dog

Bruce Dethlefsen photo Bruce Dethlefsen, Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2011–2012) has a new book out, Losing Purchase, published by Apprentice House Press, Loyola University, Baltimore MD.  Available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble,  or order from Bruce for $15 +$3 shipping and handling. Dethlefsen is available for poetry workshops and readings. Contact: poetdethlefsen@gmail.com.

car by ralph murre

Will

these are yours
the sun   the moon   the stars
the bike   the ball glove
okay   the boots
but you can’t have
the wars   the pain
and dread you can’t have that
oh yeah the rain
the rain I keep
sorry

—Bruce Dethlefsen

bruce dethlefsen photo

"if a novel is winter, and a short story is a snow storm, then a poem is a snowball, squeezed."