poetry conference

WENDY SCHMIDT

Tuesday, June 28

Caramel Crisp, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh

6:15 – 7:30 pm featured reader, followed by an open mic

Wendy Schmidt has been writing short stories and poetry for the last ten years.  Pieces have been published in Verse Wisconsin, Chicago Literati, City Lake Poets, Literary Hatchet, Moon Magazine and a number of other poetry and fiction anthologies. She is the proud author of her first children’s book, The Fairy Tree. Check out Wendy L. Schmidt on her Amazon Author Page or catch one of her short films on her Wendy L. Schmidt, Phantom Poetess YouTube Channel.

The reading is located in the game room beyond the cafe portion of the building. Please come early and treat yourself to coffee, dessert or other goodies to enjoy during the reading. For further information contact Kay Sanders at rksanders42@gmail.com or Mandi Isaacson at mandiisaacson@gmail.com.

On deck at Caramel Crisp:

July 26 – Lisa Vihos

August 23 – Louis Clark

September 27 – Laurel Mills

October 25 – Linda Voit

JULY EVENTS IN NORTHEAST WI

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SYLVIA CAVANAUGH & CATHRYN COFELL

Monday, July 18

Poetry Rocks! Reading Series

Copper Rock Café, 210 W. College Ave, Appleton  

7 pm, featured readers followed by open mike

Originally from Pennsylvania, Sylvia Cavanaugh has an M.S. in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin.  She currently teaches high school African and Asian cultural studies and advises break dancers and poets. She and her students are actively involved in the Sheboygan chapter of 100,000 Poets for Change. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have appeared in An Arial Anthology, Gyroscope Review, The Journal of Creative Geography, Midwest Prairie Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Verse-Wisconsin, and elsewhere.  She is a contributing editor for Verse-Virtual: An Online Community Journal of Poetry. Her chapbook, Staring Through My Eyes, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016.

Cathryn Cofell, of Appleton, has birthed the poetry collection Sister Satellite (Cowfeather Press), six chapbooks and Lip, a CD blending her poetry with the music of Obvious Dog. She is a fierce advocate for positive mental health, with the arts a crucial part of the equation – serving on the WI Poet Laureate Commission and the board of the WI Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters; as a volunteer with NAMI Fox Valley, the Fox Cities Book Festival, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and with this amazing Poetry Rocks Reading Series.

ON DECK AT COPPER ROCK:

Aug 15            Be Alford and Mykaela Lewis

Sept 19           Andrea Potos and Katrin Talbot
Oct 17             Robert Nordstrom and Wendy Schmidt
Nov 21            Mary Jo Balesteri and Maryann Hurtt
Dec 5              WFOP 2017 Calendar Poets

For more information on the Poetry Rocks series contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.

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ABIGAIL WELHOUSE & C. KUBASTA

Half Price Books 281 N. Casaloma Drive, Appleton

Wednesday, July 6

7:00 PM

Abigail Welhouse is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and City College in New York.  She has two chapbooks: Bad Baby published by dancing girl press in 2015, and Too Many Humans of New York which was published in March by Bottlecap Press.  She currently resides in New York and works as a book publicist.

C. Kubasta experiments with hybrid forms, excerpted text, and shifting voices –her work has been called claustrophobic and unflinching.  Her chapbook, A Lovely Box (Finishing Line Press) won the 2014 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Prize. A second chapbook &sis forthcoming in Summer 2016, and a book Of Covenantsin 2017. All Beautiful & Useless (BlazeVOX [books], 2015) explores the stories of growing up girl in rural Wisconsin in fragments, ellisions and half-understood stories.  She teaches writing, literature and cultural studies at Marian University, in Fond du Lac.

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MARGARET HASSE

Wednesday, July 13

UUF, 10341 Highway 42, Ephraim

7 pm, open mic to follow

What to expect from Margaret: Powerful descriptions and insight, surprises and bursts of humor.

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. For more information visit www.uufdc.org or call 920.854.7559.

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LISA VIHOS

Tuesday, July 26

Caramel Crisp, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh

6:15 – 7:30 pm featured reader, followed by an open mic

The reading is located in the game room beyond the cafe portion of the building. Please come early and treat yourself to coffee, dessert or other goodies to enjoy during the reading. For further information contact Kay Sanders at rksanders42@gmail.com or Mandi Isaacson atmandiisaacson@gmail.com.

On deck at Caramel Crisp:

August 23 – Louis Clark

September 27 – Laurel Mills

October 25 – Linda Voit

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 THE SUMMER POETRY FESTIVAL!!

Saturday, July 30

The Readers Loft | 2069 Central Ct, Suite 44, Green Bay

1:00-4:00 pm Featured Reader(s) + Open mic

House of the Tomato Poetry Reading Series announces the first Summer Poetry Festival outside at The Reader’s Loft, Green Bay. Enjoy sets of music and poetry, wine by the glass and appetizers. Event is FREE. Featured poets include:

Brittany Cavallaro
Cathryn Cofell
Bruce Dethlefsen
Karla Huston
C. Kubasta
James P. Roberts
Kathryn Gahl
Nathan J. Reid

Music by The Ugly Brothers

On Deck:

September 29: Bobbie Lovell and Wendy Diehlman
October 27: Kathryn Gahl and Lauren Mills

For more info: torigw@twc.com or call the Loft at (920) 406-0200 | www.readersloft.com.

WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES

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There’s still time to register for Karla Huston’s summer poetry class at the Mill!

Poetry Re-Vision – with Karla Huston
The act of revision doesn’t mean editing or correcting your writing for mechanical errors. It means re-seeing what your poem is meant or wants to be. Join Karla Huston to re-vision poems that aren’t quite working, poems that need major or minor tweaking or re-seeing. In this class, we’ll explore several methods for re-visioning your poems. There will be opportunity for new writing as well.

Six weeks. Begins June 29 7-9 pm
Cost: $150, Mill Members: $135
Held at Trinity Lutheran Church, 209 S. Allen St., Appleton

Contact Karla Huston: karlahuston@gmail.com

DEADLINES & SUBMISSIONS

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DEADLINE September 1, 2016 to Enter the 2016 Triad Prize

For Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets members only, the WFOP sponsors a triad of contests:
Theme Poet Contest “Birds,” “Bees,” or “Birds & Bees”
Poet’s Choice Contest
Kay Saunders Emerging Poet Contest

Membership for students only $15 a year, $30 for adults. To join, visit http://www.wfop.org/membership/join-or-renew