Wendy Videlock


Wendy Videlock is a poet and artist. She is the author of the chapbook What’s That Supposed to Mean and collections Wise to the West, Slingshots and Love Plums, The Dark Gnu and Other Poems, and Nevertheless. She also published a collection of essays, The Poetic Imaginarium: A Worthy Difficulty, in 2022.

Personal life

Since 1997, Videlock and her husband have been living on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, where they raised their two children.

Career

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.” 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 and the New York Times.
Videlock also occasionally teaches poetry workshops and has worked with the Western Colorado Writers' Forum to develop workshops that integrate different art practices into one setting.
She published her first chapbook, What’s That Supposed to Mean in 2010, and four poetry collections: Wise to the West, Slingshots and Love Plums, The Dark Gnu and Other Poems, and Nevertheless.

Art

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.

Awards and honors

Videlock has received numerous awards.
  • Western Slope Poet Laureate, Telluride Institute, 2023 - 2025
  • "Ode to the Slow": Cantor Poetry Prize, Telluride Institute, 2022
  • "North of Mist":  Keats Soul Making Award, Janice Farrell Poetry First Prize, 2020
  • "The Nature of it All:" Keats Soul Making Award, Kathleen McClung “Beloved” Sonnet Third Prize, 2020
  • Finalist, Colorado Poet Laureate, 2019
  • Nevertheless: finalist Colorado Book Award, 2012
  • "The Various Ways Oh My Can be Said": Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, 2007

    Anthologies

Best American Poetry, ed. Sherman Alexie, David Lehman. OCLC
Best American Poetry, ed. Natasha Tretheway, David Lehman. OCLC
HERE, Poems for the Planet, ed. Elizabeth J. Coleman, with an introduction by His Holiness the Dali Lama. OCLC
Hot Sonnets, ed. Moira Eagan. OCLC
Irresistible Sonnets, ed. Mary Meriam. OCLC
Literature, an Introduction to Poetry, Fiction, and Drama, ed. Dana Gioia and XJ Kennedy. OCLC
Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, ed. Julie Kane.
Manifest West, ed. Caleb Seeling. OCLC:
Nasty Women Poets, Subversive Verse, ed. Grace Bauer, Jule Kane. OCLC
The Quadrant Book of Poetry, Australia, ed. Les Murray. OCLC
Western Weird, ed. Mark Todd. OCLC
Writing Motherhood, ed. Carolyn Jess-Cooke. OCLC:

Poetry

What's That Supposed to Mean?. OCLC:
Nevertheless. OCLC
The Dark Gnu and Other Poems. OCLC
Slingshots and Love Plums. OCLC
Wise to the West. OCLC