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Wendy Videlock

Palisade, Colorado

Wendy Videlock is the author of the full-length poetry collections Slingshots and Love Plums (2015), The Dark Gnu and Other Poems 7 (2013), and Nevertheless (2011), as well as the chapbook What’s That Supposed to Mean (2010). Known for poems that evoke myth, fairy tale, and the natural world, Videlock has also received praise for her deft command of meter. In an interview with the Colorado Poets Center, Videlock noted that, for her “the iamb is really just another of the many natural pulsings of the earth.” A regular contributor to Poetry, Videlock lives with her husband and children in Palisade, Colorado.

Black and white headshot of poet Wendy Videlock on top of a hill.

By Wendy Videlock

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A Relevance

Column 372

Disarmed

Column 264

The Owl