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A tribute to Tuschen in the acclaimed literary magazine/book published three times a year, "ROSEBUD" (Issue 66):
Cover of the issue
Inside
"Tuschen Etrics, Poems from a Cloth Room and Paris."
Click the button below the images for a good chunk of excerpts from the book. Art inside by Dan Yopack.
Cover of book
Screen Shot of AbeBooks.com
Screen Shot of AbeBooks.com
More from ETRICS below - "Aaron´s Clue", a rarely read piece in 11 parts.
Tuschen said in his forward:
Cover of issue
Click on the button below for a PDF of excerpts of the book scanned. If you would like the whole book, please contact us via the Contact page and we will be happy to send you the whole book in digital form.
Cover
Inside
Screen Capture of Abe Bookseller, selling the book
Covers
"The Percodan Papers". We still haven´t found a copy of it or it´s contents. Please contact us if you have. Thank you!
Cover
Insert Portrait
Drawing by Phoebe Stone
A poster for "Thighs, Sighs, and Other Things," a book by Tuschen and the book "Belly Lint," by Hannibal.
A book by Tuschen that seems to have completely vanished...
Again, this site is an on going process. If there is anything you might know or have about anything related to Tuschen and feel like sharing, please use the contact page to contact Tuschen´s son Jordan. Thank you-
Wisconsin Historical Society Citation for use of this image on this website:
RECORD DETAILS:
Image ID:53786
Creation Date:circa April 1971
Creator Name:Unknown
City:Madison
County:Dane
State:Wisconsin
Collection Name:Madison People's Poster and Propaganda Collection, 1969-1976
Genre:Poster
Original Format Type:prints, fine-art
Original Format Number:PH 4003, Box 41, Folder 5
Original Dimensions:11 x 14 inches
Tuschen served as editor for a 3 book anthology of poems called
"The Camel, The Lion and The Child".
Photo courtesy of Scott Feiner
"The State Street Poetry Sheets 2002-2005"
Between the years 2002 and 2005, John Tuschen, Madison ' s
first and longest tenured Poet Laureate, published and distributed
The Free State Street Poetry Sheet twice a month through a project
grant issued by what is now known as the Madison Arts Commission.
The Poetry Sheet blended three of Tuschen’s most fervent beliefs: 1)
Art is for the people, ie, us regular joes, 2) Art makes the daily grind
tolerable, 3) people need and want their perspectives of the world
enlarged by art in their daily lives. He recruited merchants up and
down State Street to meet the matching-grant requirement of the
MAC, he rifled his resources of local poets and their poetry, solicited
new poems from local poets both known and obscure and
occasionally received unsolicited poems of value from previously
unknown artists who had submitted their work to him for critique. He
chose ones he felt most exemplified the three beliefs of the project, as
well as humor and a surprising point of view, he sorted for theme,
purpose of content, ability to read while walking (yes, that was a
lesser criteria!), and the ability to present new or perceptively altered
points of view that applied to the events of the day or season. He
published these himself on brightly colored paper: on the front, the
poem, a blurb about the author and why the poem was chosen, and
various contact information; on the back, the merchant supporters
and their establishments. He first distributed them among the
merchants who had supported the grant, then walked State Street
handing out the sheets to passers by, getting into conversations,
getting to know regular readers, putting art in the hands of the people,
making Art happen in the work place and the public gathering places
of Madison’s downtown, in his words: the streets.
This book, The State Street Poetry Sheets 2003-2005 recalls
the years when words were dependably bandied among us, changing
people s opinions and starting conversations among strangers. It
brings back writing that bears remembering and announces to a new
populous that words have scope and poems reveal it, that words,
when put in unexpected order, change the way people feel about each
other, their lives and the world they live in. It embodies the fervent
hope of all Madison poets that poetry will once again flow in our
streets and be as common as politics in our general conversations.
first and longest tenured Poet Laureate, published and distributed
The Free State Street Poetry Sheet twice a month through a project
grant issued by what is now known as the Madison Arts Commission.
The Poetry Sheet blended three of Tuschen’s most fervent beliefs: 1)
Art is for the people, ie, us regular joes, 2) Art makes the daily grind
tolerable, 3) people need and want their perspectives of the world
enlarged by art in their daily lives. He recruited merchants up and
down State Street to meet the matching-grant requirement of the
MAC, he rifled his resources of local poets and their poetry, solicited
new poems from local poets both known and obscure and
occasionally received unsolicited poems of value from previously
unknown artists who had submitted their work to him for critique. He
chose ones he felt most exemplified the three beliefs of the project, as
well as humor and a surprising point of view, he sorted for theme,
purpose of content, ability to read while walking (yes, that was a
lesser criteria!), and the ability to present new or perceptively altered
points of view that applied to the events of the day or season. He
published these himself on brightly colored paper: on the front, the
poem, a blurb about the author and why the poem was chosen, and
various contact information; on the back, the merchant supporters
and their establishments. He first distributed them among the
merchants who had supported the grant, then walked State Street
handing out the sheets to passers by, getting into conversations,
getting to know regular readers, putting art in the hands of the people,
making Art happen in the work place and the public gathering places
of Madison’s downtown, in his words: the streets.
This book, The State Street Poetry Sheets 2003-2005 recalls
the years when words were dependably bandied among us, changing
people s opinions and starting conversations among strangers. It
brings back writing that bears remembering and announces to a new
populous that words have scope and poems reveal it, that words,
when put in unexpected order, change the way people feel about each
other, their lives and the world they live in. It embodies the fervent
hope of all Madison poets that poetry will once again flow in our
streets and be as common as politics in our general conversations.
Rod Clark, Suni Caylor & Terry Talbot prior to publication
Press
A happy reader
"Ambitious Leanings, Memoirs of an Ex-Poet Laureate"
Unfortunately, it appears as though Tuschen deleted or destroyed the majority of the 150 some pages of the book before his passing. Click the button below the image to see the 19 pages that remain.
It could also be noted that he wrote a book in Paris that upon returning to the USA he burned in a trash can. Perhaps when you understand you´re not necessarily infinite, maybe letting go of your work is part of the process.
