A couple of our favorite poets — well, aren’t they all! — read from their works on Sunday, Oct. 13, in Spring Green!
More about and for Wisconsin writers is at www.wiswriters.org. Please drop by!
Supporting Wisconsin writers from 1964 to 2022
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A couple of our favorite poets — well, aren’t they all! — read from their works on Sunday, Oct. 13, in Spring Green!
More about and for Wisconsin writers is at www.wiswriters.org. Please drop by!
by jhayslett
Susan Elbe announces that her new book of poetry, The Map of What Happened, which won The Backwaters Press Prize for 2012, is just out. The book is available at Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/kfshq86. Or it can be purchased from Susan via her web site: http://www.susanelbe.com/Susan_books.htm.
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The following is from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poet’s Cathryn Cofell
Monday, April 15, 6:30 p.m. – Marilyn Annucci and Susan Elbe
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) Fox Valley Poetry Series meets at Harmony Cafe in Appleton (233 E. College Ave) on the third Monday of most months. Each evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with the featured reader(s), followed by an open mic open to anyone who wishes to read 1-2 poems.
Marilyn Annucci won first place in the 2012 Sunken Garden Poetry Award, selected by Tony Hoagland, for her chapbook Waiting Room (Hill-Stead Museum, 2012). She grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she has taught a variety of writing classes for fifteen years. She is also the author of Luck, a chapbook from Parallel Press, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Dogwood, Umbrella Journal, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Verse Wisconsin, North American Review, 5 am, and Indiana Review.
Susan Elbe is the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press), which won Honorable Mention for the Council for Wisconsin Writers Posner Poetry Book Award, and two chapbooks, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press) and Where Good Swimmers Drown (Concrete Wolf Press, 2012). She won the 2012 Backwaters Press Prize for her second collection, The Map of What Happened, due out in 2013. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies. Among her awards are the 2011 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Prize, the inaugural Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize (Calyx), the Council for Wisconsin Writers Lorine Niedecker Award, and fellowships to Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. www.susanelbe.com.
ON DECK AT HARMONY – 2013
May 20 Laurel Mills and Marilyn Potter
Jun 17 Andrea Potos and Katrin Talbot
Jul 15 Carrie Shipers and Jim Pollock
OTHER KEY HAPPENINGS
APRIL 14 (SUNDAY), KARLA HUSTON BOOK LAUNCH AND READING: Karla will read from her new collection of poems: A Theory of Lipstick. Join the fun. There’ll be a surprise or two, sweets and a cash bar. Books for sale! Did I mention poetry? Philip Dacey says, “From the title poem, which is a tour de force of naming, to the linguistic highwire act she performs in “O Hair,” Huston writes the way her mother wore lipstick—…” 2:00-3:30 pm at Atlas Coffee Mill, 425 W. Water Street, Appleton.
APRIL 17 – 24, THE FOX CITIES BOOK FESTIVAL: CHECK OUT THE FULL SCHEDULE OF POETRY AND MORE ATwww.foxcitiesbookfestival.org — there are SO many wonderful authors presenting through the week, but key poetry events occur on Friday, April 19 (spoken word workshop and performance by 2-time national slam champ, Guante!), Saturday, April 20 (craft talk and reading by MN Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen) and a full day of poetry readings, craft talk and panel discussions on Sunday, April 21 at Atlas Coffee Mill including a tribute to Ellen Kort and reading by WI Poet Laureate Max Garland!
APRIL 23 (TUES), APPLEBLOSSOM BOOKS, OSHKOSH FEATURES JEANIE AND STEVE TOMASKO: Jeanie and Steve live in Middleton, but their hearts reside near Lake Superior. From reading his poems, you might think that Steve has some kind of insect fetish. You might not be too far off the mark. Jeanie is the author of Sharp as Want (Little Eagle Press), a poetry /artworks collaboration with Sharon Auberle, Tricks of Light (Parallel Press) and the e-chapbook, If I Confess Before 5:00 (Right Hand Pointing.) The reading takes place at 6:30 pm at Apple Blossom Books, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh. An open mic will follow where participants may read one or two of their own poems or poems by others that they love. Come early and enjoy a meal or grab a cup of coffee at Caramel Crisp and Café whose inner doors connect with the bookstore.
APRIL 26-27 (FRI-SAT), THE WFOP SPRING CONFERENCE, OCONOMOWOC: There’s still time to register to attend this fabulous weekend of poetry, book sales, and fellowship (esp. the fellowship!). Visit http://wfop.org/confrncs/vernconf.html
Don’t forget to visit the CWW website at www.wiswriters.org for more Wisconsin writers news.
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Here’s some January news from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, including the Council for Wisconsin Writers contest deadline, which is January 31. Get details at www.wiswriters.org/rules:
Make a point of coming out on January 21 to help us kick off the Harmony Cafe/WFOP Poetry Series in style…Brent (driving all the way over from Rhinelander!!) and David (from Ripon!!) are two of Wisconsin’s (and the nation’s) FINEST poets.
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) Fox Valley Poetry Series meets at Harmony Cafe in Appleton (233 E. College Ave) on the third Monday of most months. Each evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with the featured reader(s), followed by an open mic open to anyone who wishes to read 1-2 poems.
Monday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. – Brent Goodman and David Graham
Brent Goodman is the author of Far From Sudden and The Brother Swimming Beneath Me. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sou’wester, Pank, Poetry, Barn Owl Review, and elsewhere. Brent lives in Rhinelander WI, where he works as a creative professional and serves as an assistant editor for the online journal Anti-. For sample poems and more, visit www.brentgoodman.info/
David Graham has published six collections of poetry, including Stutter Monk (Flume Press) and Second Wind (Texas Tech University Press). He also co-edited (with Kate Sontag) the essay anthology After Confession: Poetry as Confession from Graywolf Press. Essays, reviews, and individual poems have appeared widely for over thirty years. Recently anthology appearances include Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else; Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees; Poetry from Paradise Valley: Poems from the First Decade of Valparaiso Poetry Review; and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. He has served on the Advisory Board of Verse Wisconsin, as poetry editor for Blue Moon Review and as poet-in-residence at the Frost Place, in Franconia, New Hampshire. He is Professor of English at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin. For more on David, visit http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/grahamd/
ON DECK AT HARMONY – 2013
Feb 18 FICTION LIKE POETRY: Abby Frucht and Don Wydeven
Mar 18 Bobbie Lovell and Michael Koehler
Apr 15 Marilyn Annucci and Susan Elbe
OTHER KEY HAPPENINGS
JANUARY 22 (TUES), APPLEBLOSSOM BOOKS, OSHKOSH FEATURES MARILYN ZELKE-WINDAU: A retired art educator who lives in Sheboygan, Marilyn likes to paint with words. Her work has been published in many journals including Brawler Lit, Qarrtsiluni, Your Daily Poem, Verse Wisconsin, Seems, and Stoneboat. Marilyn will be giving a poetry reading at 6:30 pm at Apple Blossom Books, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh. An open mic will follow where participants may read one or two of their own poems or poems by others that they love. Come early and enjoy a meal or grab a cup of coffee at Caramel Crisp and Café whose inner doors connect with the bookstore.
CONTESTS
WFOP 2013 CHAPBOOK PRIZE DEADLINE FEB 1!: The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets honors the best chapbook published in the previous year by a Wisconsin resident. Visit http://wfop.org/contests.html for details.
WFOP MUSE PRIZE FOR POETRY DEADLINE FEB 1: Open to any Wisconsin resident (you don’t need to be a member of the WFOP). Visit http://wfop.org/contests.html for details.
Cathryn Cofell, PR Coordinator for
Sarah Gilbert, Poetry Reading Series Coordinator (and WFOP Regional VP)
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Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets PR Coordinator Cathryn Cofell sends the following news:
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) Fox Valley Poetry Series meets at Harmony Cafe in Appleton (233 E. College Ave) on the third Monday of most months. Each evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with the featured reader(s), followed by an open mic open to anyone who wishes to read 1-2 poems.
Monday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. – Brent Goodman and David Graham
Brent Goodman is the author of Far From Sudden and The Brother Swimming Beneath Me. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sou’wester, Pank, Poetry, Barn Owl Review, and elsewhere. Brent lives in Rhinelander WI, where he works as a creative professional and serves as an assistant editor for the online journal Anti-. For sample poems and more, visit www.brentgoodman.info/
David Graham has published six collections of poetry, including Stutter Monk (Flume Press) and Second Wind (Texas Tech University Press). He also co-edited (with Kate Sontag) the essay anthology After Confession: Poetry as Confession from Graywolf Press. Essays, reviews, and individual poems have appeared widely for over thirty years. Recently anthology appearances include Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else; Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees; Poetry from Paradise Valley: Poems from the First Decade of Valparaiso Poetry Review; and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. He has served on the Advisory Board of Verse Wisconsin, as poetry editor for Blue Moon Review and as poet-in-residence at the Frost Place, in Franconia, New Hampshire. He is Professor of English at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin. For more on David, visit http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/grahamd/
ON DECK AT HARMONY – 2013
Feb 18 FICTION LIKE POETRY: Abby Frucht and Don Wydeven
Mar 18 Bobbie Lovell and Michael Koehler
Apr 15 Marilyn Annucci and Susan Elbe
OTHER KEY HAPPENINGS
FOOT OF THE LAKE POETRY COLLECTIVE READING AT THE WINDHOVER: NO EVENT IN JANUARY – RETURNING FEBRUARY 12
JANUARY 9 (WED), DICKINSON POETRY SERIES FEATURES ESTELLA LAUTER: Since her retirement from teaching in the UW System, Estella has published two chapbooks with Finishing Line Press in Georgetown, KY. Some of her latest work may be seen online at www.versewisconsin.org in Issue 110, “It’s Political.” She will read at 7:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County, 10341 Water Street, Hwy 42, Ephraim (On the south end of the Shops of Green Gables) An open mic for other poets will follow. New poets and listeners are welcome.
JANUARY 22 (TUES), APPLEBLOSSOM BOOKS, OSHKOSH FEATURES MARILYN ZELKE-WINDAU: A retired art educator who lives in Sheboygan, Marilyn likes to paint with words. Her work has been published in many journals including Brawler Lit, Qarrtsiluni, Your Daily Poem, Verse Wisconsin, Seems, and Stoneboat. Marilyn will be giving a poetry reading at 6:30 pm at Apple Blossom Books, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh. An open mic will follow where participants may read one or two of their own poems or poems by others that they love. Come early and enjoy a meal or grab a cup of coffee at Caramel Crisp and Café whose inner doors connect with the bookstore.
CONTESTS
Wisconsin Writers Awards Contests Open
Contact: Robin Chapman rschapma@wisc.edu 608-238-6932
For the 49th year, the Council for Wisconsin Writers sponsors its contests for work published by Wisconsin writers in the prior year. Entries published in 2012 are invited in the categories of book-length fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; short fiction and nonfiction; a set of five poems; outdoor writing; and children’s literature. The Council contests open November 1, 2012 and will close January 31, 2013 (postmark deadline). Authors who enter must be current Wisconsin residents. The entry fee is $20. Out-of-state judges will make the selections. Awards will be presented in a banquet at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee in May 2013. First-place winners will receive $500 and week-long writers’ residencies at Shake Rag Alley Center for Arts and Crafts or Maplewood Lodge in Mineral Point. CWW also sponsors an Essay Award for Young Writers (1500 word maximum) for Wisconsin high school students; there is no entry fee, and the award is $250 this year. Members of the board will judge. Postmark deadline for the student essay contest is also January 31, 2013. Nominations are also open for the $1000 Major Achievement Award, which is given to recognize a Wisconsin writer who deserves special recognition for literary merit. Specific guidelines, entry forms, and important additional information for each award category are available on the website, www.wiswriters.org. CWW is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of published Wisconsin writers and encouraging an appreciation of Wisconsin writing.
WFOP 2013 CHAPBOOK PRIZE: The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets is dedicated to promoting poetry in Wisconsin and seeks to expand its contest offerings by honoring the best chapbook published in the previous year by a Wisconsin resident. DEADLINE: 2/1/13. Visit http://wfop.org/contests.html for details.
WFOP MUSE PRIZE FOR POETRY: Open to any Wisconsin resident (you don’t need to be a member of the WFOP). DEADLINE: 2/1/13. Visit http://wfop.org/contests.html for details.