Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Cathryn Cofell-Mutschler sends the following news:
Monday, August 20
LOUIS V. CLARK III AND LISA VIHOS
7 – 8:30 pm
Free and open to the public!
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Louis V. Clark III was born and raised on the Oneida reservation in Wisconsin. He started writing poetry to exorcise the demons that accompany racism added to alcoholism that haunted his youth. The University of Arkansas offered to publish his first chapbook, “Two Shoes” in 2010. The Wisconsin Historical Society Press took a chance on a unique concept and published his second book, “How to be an Indian in the 21st Century” in 2017, a memoir in poetry and prose. This book has won the Midwest Independent Booksellers Peoples Choice Award for 2017. Both books have won awards from the Oneida Arts Board for excellence in Literature. Clark has been honored to be on National Public Radio as well as Wisconsin Public Radio. A sequel to “How to be an Indian” is due out sometime in 2019.
The poems of Lisa Vihos have appeared in numerous journals, both print and online. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her fourth chapbook, Fan Mail from Some Flounder, just appeared in 2018 from Main Street Rag Publishing. She is the poetry and arts editor of Stoneboat Literary Journal and the Sheboygan organizer for 100 Thousand Poets for Change.
ON DECK:
Sept 17 Sylvia Cavanaugh and Ed Werstein
Oct 8 Fox Cities Book Festival featured poets Kavon Cortez Jones and Beth Spencer
Nov 19 Kathryn Gahl and Elizabeth Keggi
For more information about the poetry reading series in Appleton, contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.
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TROY SCHOULTZ
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Evergreen Manor
1125 N. Westfield Drive, Oshkosh
6:30 pm
An open mic will follow where participants may read a poem of their own or one that they love.
Troy is a lifelong Wisconsin resident. Past employment has included factory worker, security officer, laser engraver and non-profit executive. He received his bachelor degree in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh in 1997. He eventually earned his Masters of Science in Teaching-English at the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point in 2009. He is currently an underemployed lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley. His poems, stories, and reviews have appeared in Seattle Review, Rattle, Slipstream, Chiron Review, Word Riot, Fish Drum, The Great American Poetry Show, Steel Toe Review, Midwestern Gothic and many others since 1997. He is the author of two chapbooks and one full-length collection: A Field of Bonfires Sings (Wolf Angel Press, 1999), Good Friday (Tamafyr Mountain Poetry 2005) and Biographies of Runaway Dogs (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press). He was nominated in 2012 for a Pushcart Prize by Slipstream literary magazine for my poem “The Biographies of Dogs Who Dared to Run Away.” He is currently the editor of Fox Cry Review. His interests and influences include rock and roll, vinyl LPs, found objects, the paranormal, abandoned places, folklore, old cemeteries and the number five.
Please note that we have relocated to Evergreen Manor, 1130 N. Westfield. We will have a larger and quieter space. We will be in the Fireside Room, which is near the front entrance.
For further information you may contact Mandi Isaacson mandiisaacson@gmail.com or Frankie Mengeling mengeling.frankie23@
OTHER READINGS & EVENTS IN THE AREA
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The Mill Fall Class schedule is out. Classes in poetry with Tom Montag and Karla Huston, nonfiction with Jill Swenson and Prosody with Steve Polansky! Click here for more information: https://millwriters.org/#servi
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THE WFOP FALL CONFERENCE
November 2-3
Holiday Inn Hotel & Convention Center
1001 Amber Avenue, Stevens Point
CONFERENCE THEME:
Poetry of Transition, Transformation & Revision
Featured Poet: TC Tolbert
TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things.
TC earned his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona in 2005 and is currently Core Faculty in the Low Residency MFA Program at Oregon State University – Cascades. S/he is a nationally certified EMT and in the summer, s/he leads wilderness trips for Outward Bound. TC was selected as Tucson’s Poet Laureate in 2017. TC’s first full-length collection, Gephyromania, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2014. Gephyromania was selected as one of the top poetry books of 2014 by Entropy and was listed by Eileen Myles as one of her favorites for 2014 in The Gay and Lesbian Review.
Open to both members AND non-members! To register or for more information: http://www.wfop.o
DEADLINES & SUBMISSIONS
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MADISON—The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, in partnership with the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, is pleased to announce the call for applications and nominations for the Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2019–2020. Beginning August 20, 2018, the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission will accept applications from individual poets who are seeking the position as well as applications from others who are nominating a poet for Poet Laureate. For either, a complete application package must be sent to the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission (wipoetlaureate@gmail.com) as one e-mail attachment no later than October 5, 2018. The Wisconsin Poet Laureate’s term of service is two years. The next term begins on January 1, 2019 and ends on December 31, 2020. Complete application materials and information can be found on the Wisconsin Poet Laureate website application page.
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Wallop is a brand new, independently produced zine out of Appleton, WI. Each issue will have a different theme, represented from a variety of perspectives. Wallop will appear in print and is now seeking submissions for the first issue.
Here is the link to the website: https://www.wallopzin
The editors are looking for poems, personal accounts, short stories, comics, and work that blurs the lines between genres or doesn’t easily fit into one of these categories. You could send a description of your favorite outfit in third grade, or a list of your favorite places to hang out in high school, or a poem made from old journal entries. The priority for the first issue is that the submission be representative of some aspect of growing up in Northeastern Wisconsin. They can refer to that experience either directly or indirectly. We are also looking for artwork: drawings, black and white photos, doodles. They will all be reproduced in black and white, so high contrast is best.
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The 2018 Mill Prize for Poetry: Submissions are open through August 31, 2018: Entrants must be 18 or older, reside, work, or attend school in the Fox Cities (within a 25 mile radius of Appleton) or participants in Mill Classes, past or present.
For more details, visit https://millwriters.org/
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Bramble Fall 2018 is open for submissions through September 10, 2018.
Guest Editor: Ronnie Hess
Prompt: Versatility
Guidelines here:
http://www.wfop.org/bramble-ho
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