The information below, provided by Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Cathryn Cofell, lacks exact location/addresses for some events, but links to websites and email addresses are included, so that information should be easy to find.
SAT, FEB 28 at 7:00 pm: Words on Fire, Door Community Auditorium. Musicians pair with poets to create a real coffeehouse atmosphere. Nothing decaf here, just great music and verse presented by some of Door County’s finest and a few featured guests from the south including Cathryn Cofell with Obvious Dog (Bill Orth and Bruce Dethlefsen). For tickets ($15) or more information, visit http://www.dcauditorium.org/coffeehouse-concertreading-words-on-fire-featuring-door-county-musicians-and-poets/#.VNfWsFXF_EI
Also, be sure to check out the great variety of writing opportunities beginning February 16 at The Mill, A Place for Writers by visiting https://www.facebook.com/TheMillAPlaceForWriters
Sadly, we’ve received word that The Oshkosh Scene is now defunct, so do not send submissions their way anymore 🙁
Check out all the other great events coming up in Feb below!
WED, FEB 11 at 7:00 P.M. YOUTH READERS featured at the DICKINSON POETRY SERIES: On the second Wednesday of every month the Dickinson Poetry Series features a reading by a local or regional poet followed by an open mic and reception. The public is welcome, and admission is free. 7:00 p.m. at the UUF, 10341 Highway 42 in Ephraim. For more information visit www.uufdc.org or call 920.854.7559.
MON, FEB 16, the WFOP Poetry Series at Copper Rock Café, 210 W. College Ave, Appleton features Andrew McSorley, Melissa Range, and Austin Segrest. Plan to arrive by 6:45 or earlier to get refreshments and sign up for the open reading, with the reading beginning promptly at 7.
Melissa Range’s first book of poems, Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010), won the 2010 Walt McDonald Prize in Poetry. Range is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Recent poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Ecotone, Image, New England Review, Subtropics, and other journals. Originally from East Tennessee, she currently lives in Wisconsin, where she is an assistant professor of English at Lawrence University.
Originally from Alabama, Austin Segrest teaches English at Lawrence. As a PhD student at Missouri, he was poetry editor of The Missouri Review. His poems appear in The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and Blackbird.
Andrew McSorley is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Blue Earth Review, Lindenwood Review, Rougarou, and the anthology, Vision/Verse 2009-2013. He lives in Appleton where he works at the Seeley G. Mudd Library at Lawrence University. You can find him there, shuttling books across the country from the comfortable confines of the Interlibrary Loan Department.
ON DECK AT COPPER ROCK
Mar 16: Richard Swanson and Timothy Walsh
Apr 20: Lawrence University Students
For more information contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.
Sat., Feb. 21, Georgia Ressmeyer & Marilyn Zelke-Windau will appear at the Paradigm (coffee house and eatery), 1202 N. 8thStreet, Sheboygan, from 2-4 p.m., to read from and sign their new poetry books: Waiting to Sail by Ressmeyer and Momentary Ordinaryby Zelke-Windau. They invite other poets to bring a poem to read during the open mic portion of the event. For more info, contactgjressmeyer@sbcglobal.net.
TUES, FEB 24, C. KUBASTA at CARAMEL CRISP, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh at 6:15pm: In the game room beyond the cafe portion of the building. Pick up your edibles, walk on back til you see us. The section is cozy and much quieter! Kubasta attended Wells College and received an MFA in poetry from The University of Notre Dame. A Lovely Box was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013 and won the 2014 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Prize. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals. Check her website: http://ckkubasta60.wix.com/ckubasta She currently teaches English and Gender Studies at Marian University, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She lives with her beloved John, cat Cliff, and dog Ursula. For more info about this reading series, contact mandiisaacson@gmail.com
THURS, FEB 26, ANGELA SORBY, 4:30 pm in the Nathan Marsh Pusey Room of the Warch Campus Center at Lawrence University in Appleton. Contact melissa.h.range@lawrence.edu for more info.
THURS, FEB 26, SARAH GILBERT & MARK FALCONE, 6-8 pm: Featured Reader(s) + Open mic at The Readers Loft | 2069 Central Ct, Suite 44, Green Bay. For more info: torigw@twc.com or call the Loft at (920) 406-0200 | www.readersloft.com.
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