Hansotia Recognized with Jumpstart Award

Phil Hansotia of Ellison Bay was a finalist in the 2010 Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award. He will receive $250 to create “poetry trails” (poems in display cases mounted on posts) in Newport State Park, a partnership between the Wallace, Unabridged and Word Women poetry groups with the Newport Wilderness Society, Newport State Park, and Sevastapol, Gibraltar and Southern Door high schools.

Shoshauna Shy of Woodrow Hall Editions based in Madison created the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award, an offshoot of the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf initiative, designed to help other Wisconsin poets implement a project that brings poetry into the eye of the general public in an unconventional manner.

For more information visit http://www.PoetryJumpsOfftheShelf.com.