From WFOP’s Cathryn Cofell:
GEORGIA RESSMEYER AND MARILYN ZELKE WINDAU
Monday, September 18, 2017
The Draw, 800 S. Lawe Street, Appleton
7 – 8:30 pm
Open mike follows featured readers.
Georgia Ressmeyer, a New York native, has lived in Wisconsin since 1974, first as an attorney in Milwaukee, now as a poet in Sheboygan. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee in poetry and won this year’s Honorable Mention award in the Lorine Niedecker poetry contest sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Her second full-length poetry collection, Home/Body, is out in 2017 from Pebblebrook Press, an imprint of Stoneboat Literary Journal. Previous poetry books include an award-winning chapbook, Today I Threw My Watch Away (Finishing Line Press, 2010) and Waiting to Sail (Black River Press, 2014). She lives three blocks from Lake Michigan in Sheboygan. Please see her website, www.georgiaressmeyer.com, for more information.
Marilyn Zelke Windau is a Wisconsin poet and a former elementary school art teacher. She enjoys painting with words. Her poems and articles have appeared in many printed and online venues including Verse Wisconsin, Stoneboat, Your Daily Poem, Midwest Review and several anthologies. Her chapbook Adventures in Paradise (Finishing Line Press) and self-illustrated manuscript, Momentary Ordinary (Pebblebrook Press), were published in 2014. Owning Shadows is newly published by Kelsay Books in 2017. She adds her maiden name when she writes to honor her father, who was also a writer.
NOTE: The Lawe Street bridge is closed, north of The Draw – arrive from the south or through the Flats. Also, there is limited parking in front of the Draw; leave this for those who have difficulty with the longer walk from the larger parking lot which is on E. Newberry, on the south side of the building, across the bridge/lock.
Please feel free to bring your own nibbles or beverages — wine or beer allowed!
ON DECK:
Oct 16 Mary Strong Jackson and Annette Grunseth
Nov 20 Bobbie Lovell and Laura Winkelspecht
Dec 4 2018 WFOP Poets’ Calendar Reading
This event is 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. For more information about the poetry reading series in Appleton, contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.netmailto:pses@sbcglobal.net
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ANNETTE LANGLOIS GRUNSETH
Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Reader’s Loft
2069 Central Court, Green Bay
5:30-7 pm
Annette will be reading from her new book “Becoming Trans-parent, One Family’s Journey of Gender Transition” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her reading is part of a 5-part series celebrating The Art and Science of Gender and Identity in co-sponsorship with University of Wisconsin Green Bay (UWGB), Positive Voice, a non profit LGBT group in Green Bay and The Readers Loft Bookstore.
Web Links to the Reading: https://www.facebook.com/
http://www.readersloft.com/
The poetry and lecture series will also include gender and art displays at UWGB’s Lawton Gallery from September, thru the first week of October.
WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
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NOVEMBER 10-11: WFOP Fall Conference in Stevens Point featuring Coleman Barks, Lisa Starr and Elaine Strite. Full details & registration at http://www.wfop.org/conferences/
DEADLINES & SUBMISSIONS
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A POETRY OPPORTUNITY FOR KIDS & GRANDKIDS
The WFOP is partnering with the NEW Zoo for its second annual ANIMAL POETRY CONTEST. Kids’ poems are due by Sunday, September 17. Learn how to enter here:
http://www.wfop.org/zoo
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SEPTEMBER 23 DEADLINE: The Mill’s poetry contest is open to writers 18 or older, who reside, work, or attend school in the Fox Cities (within a 25 mile radius of Appleton) or participants in Mill Classes, past or present.
Details here: http://millwriters.org/the-2017-mill-prize-for-poetry-submission-guidelines/
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STORYCATCHERS LIVE: CALL FOR STORYTELLER SUBMISSIONS
Deadline: October 1, 2017
We’ve all come across books that have changed us. Perhaps it was the banned book you snuck in to read under your covers or tucked in the jacket of another book…or maybe a book blew open your concepts of what you thought you knew. Books can introduce you to some of your favorite friends, deeply held beliefs and make the hopeless romantic in you never stop waiting for your own Mr. Darcy. So for the October Storycatchers event, we’re partnering with the Fox Cities Book Festival to ask: What are the books that changed, challenged and shaped you?
You DO NOT need to be a professional storyteller, or even have told a story in public before.
Submit your story OR 2-min recorded story pitch to tara@storycatcherscommunity.com by October 1st to be considered. Visit https://www.facebook.com/storycatcherscommunity/ for more information.
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Millwork is now accepting poetry and short fiction submissions!!
Millwork is a new online literary magazine, centered in Wisconsin, seeking submissions of poetry and short fiction for 2017/2018. Millwork publishes original poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction prose in English. There is no reading fee. Please, send us only your unpublished work. We do not accept previously published pieces.
New, emerging, and established poets are encouraged to submit. For further submission details or to check out Millwork‘s inaugural issue, please visit http://millwriters.org/millwork/
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Fox Valley’s The Scene features a poetry column by Troy Schoultz, covering poetry readings, events, happenings, etc., and will feature a poem or two from local and statewide poets. Per Troy, submission process is ridiculously informal: email poems with your name and city of residence to troy.schoultz@gmail.com com.