Big Land -Wiggerman

Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair:  Best of Texas Poetry Calendar.         Edited by Scott Wiggerman.  Austin: Dos Gatos Press, 2008.  224 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0976005148 http://www.dosgatospress.org 187 poets, almost 300 poems, covering Texas geographically and its many castes in poems with a Texas theme  This special issue and the continuing annual publications should be acquired by persons and institutions wishing to project a profile of being within the realm of Texas poetical society.  Each contains older awarded and first-time poets.  Issues rapidly become out-of-print.   "Scott Wiggerman is the author of Vegetables and Other Relationships (Plain View Press, 2000) and editor of the Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press), now in its eleventh year. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Poesia, Contemporary Sonnet, Visions International, Spillway, Sojourn, and the Paterson Literary Review. In addition, his poems appear in several anthologies, including This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians 2 (Windstorm Creative, 2004), In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief (Sherman Asher, 2006), The Weight of Addition (Mutabilis Press, 2007), and Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press, 2008)."   "Dos Gatos Press is a small non-profit press dedicated to the promotion of Texas poets and poetry. It is operated by poets Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen."  "Our primary means of promotion is the production of the annual Texas Poetry Calendar, now in its twelfth year, a continuation of the fine calendars that Flying Cow Productions originally produced. We also offer a series of readings each year to introduce the public to the work of the poets in each calendar."