This list of poetry readings, workshops, submissions and more comes to you from the women of Poetry Unlocked: Katie Chicquette, Cathryn Cofell, Sarah Gilbert, Bobbie Lee Lovell and Laura Winkelspecht.
Monday, January 10
KENNETH GURNEY & JACKIE MCMANUS
7:00 pm
Virtual – see link below
Kenneth P. Gurney maintains his poetry practice in Albuquerque, NM. Over 700 of his poems have appeared in publications in the USA and around the world in both print and on the web. He posts new poems regularly to his poetry blog umflop.com. His latest collection is published under the title Odd Year Even. He spends his life with his beloved Dianne—New Mexico’s natural beauty never ceases to amaze them. Odd Year Even may be purchased via https://www.amazon.com/Odd-Year-Even-Kenneth-Gurney/dp/B08ZBJFW47/
Jackie McManus is the author of The Earthmover’s Daughter (2018) and Related to Loon (Finishing Line Press, 2021). She has been published in Sky Island Journal, Cathexis Northwest, Front Porch Review, Thimble Literary Journal, VoiceCatcher, Barstow & Grand, and other publications. Whether it’s the Kuskokwim, the Gallatin, the Yellow or the Columbia, she always writes near a river, usually with mountains in sight.
A limited open mic will follow (one piece, two if they are short).
TO REGISTER FOR THE CALENDAR READING, CLICK ON THIS ZOOM LINK:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwocO6hpjguHtF_QmzaIcwEFSTE3WExrTEa
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
ON DECK FOR POETRY UNLOCKED (virtual):
2/14/22: Love and Anti-Love Poems, Featuring the Women of Poetry Unlocked
3/14/22: Cristina Norcross (plus one more to be announced soon)
These events are brought to you, in part, by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP), an organization founded for the creation, promotion and enjoyment of poetry throughout the state of Wisconsin. To learn more, visit www.wfop.org.
OTHER READINGS & EVENTS IN THE AREA
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January 20 & February 17
TURNING A CORNER: EXPLORING AND CREATING POEMS OF TRANSITION
7-8:30 p.m.
Featuring Angela Voras-Hills
Whether expected or not, transitions on any scale can challenge our beliefs, shift our perspectives, and alter our lives. In this two-part workshop, we’ll read and discuss poems that acknowledge, embrace, and grieve a variety of transitions. We’ll also consider transitions as a poetic device in contemporary poetry, exploring how poems turn, shifting from one idea to another.
Through writing exercises and prompts, we’ll apply what we’ve discussed in order to draft new poems, hopefully awakening new responses to the transitions we’ve lived through and those that lie ahead. While primarily generative and discussion-heavy, writers will have an opportunity to share their work with the group. Readings will include work by Laura Kasischke, Craig Morgan Teicher, Ross Gay, and many more. After the two sessions, you’ll have a handful of new poems, fresh perspectives on your work, and exposure to some great poems you might not have read yet!
This program is free, but we ask that you register in advance for both parts:
Part 1: (https://wfop.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=93d84b1658d7e0c45e0b5f065&id=9ae925e682&e=1e5254b330) https://wfop.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=93d84b1658d7e0c45e0b5f065&id=930b907fdd&e=1e5254b330
Part 2: (https://wfop.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=93d84b1658d7e0c45e0b5f065&id=8489e0384c&e=1e5254b330)
Angela Voras-Hills (MFA University of Massachusetts-Boston) is a writer, teacher, editor, and community organizer. Her debut collection of poems, Louder Birds (Pleiades 2020), was awarded the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Best New Poets, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Memorious, New Ohio Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals and anthologies.She has received grants from The Sustainable Arts Foundation and Key West Literary Seminar, as well as a fellowship at Writers’ Room of Boston. She lives with her family in Milwaukee, WI, and is a PhD student at UW-Milwaukee.
This workshop is brought to you by Poetry at Large, a program of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poet’s Northeast Region. These workshop series are designed to complement engaged and active poetry readings and other fellowship events. The workshops are designed to help you take your writing to the next level with the challenge to delve deeper and activate what matters.
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Belonging Through Poetry at the Appleton Public Library
Every 4th Wednesday, the library is supporting a monthly, virtual group that will explore life’s big topics in poetry with the hopes of creating connections and a sense of belonging in the community.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwoc-qhrj8iGdxObAwqie5iqvYkbKKGobjX
CONTESTS & SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES
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Write On Door County is accepting applications through January 28 for the 2022 Dick Scuglik Memorial Residency and Scholarship for a writer working in ekphrasis. Follow the link to learn more!
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Looking for something different, maybe a little challenging, to fuel your creative practice?
ArtAsPoetryAsArt (coordinated by the Lakeshore Artists Guild) could be just the thing.
Here is how it works:
· Artists and poets enter by submitting 1 piece of work between now and February (digital file of artwork/poem)
· Artists look at the “submitted” poems, and poets look at the “submitted” art, and choose the ‘Top 3’ works that appeal to them
· Each artist is paired with a poem and must create a new art work “inspired” by the poem
· Each poet is paired with an art work and must create a new poem “inspired” by the art work
· In June 2022, all the “submitted” and “inspired” pairs of art and poetry will be exhibited online and at the Manitowoc Public Library in Manitowoc, WI
Entries are due on February 6, 2022.
Details about the event and forms to register to participate are at this link:
ArtPoetryArt 21-22 Entry Form
What does this end up looking like? Here are the art and poetry pairings from last year:
ArtPoetryArt 20-21 Online Exhibit
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2023 WFOP Poets’ Calendar Is Now Open For Submissions, through February 1, 2022
The theme is the “Mythos of Wisconsin,” with guest editors Tom & Ethel Davis and Michael Orlock. Check out the detailed Submission Guidelines & How to Enter.
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2022 WFOP Chapbook Prize is now open, through February 1, 2022
A contest for chapbooks published in 2021 by Wisconsin authors. This year’s judge is Margaret Haase. For guidelines, visit here.
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Muse Prize for Excellence in Poetry is Now Open to Wisconsin Poets, through February 1, 2022
Check out the detailed Submission Guidelines & How to Enter.
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WFOP Student Contest is Now Open through February 1, 2022
For Wisconsin students grades 6 – 12. Check out the detailed Submission Guidelines & How to Enter.
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Council for Wisconsin Writers Contest, deadline Jan. 31, 2022!
Wisconsin writers are invited to enter work published during the 2021 calendar year in multiple categories, including book-length poetry and a set of five poems.
First-place winners in all categories except the Young Writers Award will receive $500 and a one-week writer’s residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point WI. Honorable mention recipients will receive $50 and a one-week writer’s residency at the Painted Forest Study Center Valton WI.
Specific guideline, entry forms and important additional information for each award category are on the CWW website.