Laurel Bastian is the recipient of the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship for 2010-2011, awarded by the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. She is on the faculty of Madison College, runs a creative writing program for incarcerated adults, and is currently curating "CROSSHATXH" a new and dynamic reading series in Wisconsin (you can join the Facebook page for the series here).

Links to several poems now online:

"Broken Records and Other Formal Extremities"
"Offerings"
"What Frommers Left Out"
"North Pole Missive" and "Memo to a Co-worker"*
"Layaway"
"On Completing the Smallest Painting in the Western Hemisphere"
"Academic Interest"
"Ars Poetica" and "Nacre"

Articles about teaching creative writing in corrections can be found in these issues of Verse Wisconsin and Madison Magazine

Plus, poetry coming soon from:
Puerto Del Sol, Tar River Poetry, Nimrod, Whiskey Island, and Gargoyle Magazine

All photographs on this site are the work of Jennifer Bastian. To see more, slip on over to jenniferbastian.com.