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| Alma Mater: | University of Arizona |
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| Movement: | New Formalism |
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| Birth Date: | 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Dayton, Ohio |
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.[1]
Since 1997, Videlock and her husband have been living on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, where they raised their two children.[2] [3]
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.”[4] 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[5] and the New York Times.[6]
Videlock also occasionally teaches poetry workshops[7] and has worked with the Western Colorado Writers' Forum to develop workshops that integrate different art practices into one setting.[8]
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).
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.[9]
Videlock has received numerous awards.
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
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