Wendy Videlock

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). OCLCbr>894746852

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

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

''Hot Sonnets'', ed. Moira Eagan (Entasis Press, 2011). OCLCbr>733042107

''Irresistible Sonnets'', ed. Mary Meriam (Headmistress Press, 2014). OCLCbr>885199103

''Literature, an Introduction to Poetry, Fiction, and Drama'', ed. Dana Gioia and XJ Kennedy (Pearson, 2020). OCLCbr>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). OCLCbr>985071573

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

''Western Weird'', ed. Mark Todd (Western Press Books, #4 2015). OCLCbr>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). OCLCbr>809772835

''The Dark Gnu and Other Poems'' (Able Muse Press, 2013). OCLCbr>829388310

''Slingshots and Love Plums'' (Able Muse Press, 2015). OCLCbr>911135262

''Wise to the West'' (Able Muse Press, 2022). OCLCbr>1289617397

References

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1961 births
Living people