Sarah Sadie Busse and Marilyn Taylor
Monday, May 16
Poetry Rocks! Reading Series
Copper Rock Café, 210 W. College Ave, Appleton
7 pm, featured readers followed by open mike
Sarah Sadie Busse helps people connect to their creativity and to each other. Combining interests in embodied spirituality, creative endarkenment, the wisdom of the body and the power of art, she created Potlick Junction, a shindig on the move for makers, dreamers, and anyone who wants to push out of stale routines. Her poetry chapbook, Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanes was published by Five Oaks Press in 2015 and a full-length collection, We Are Traveling Through Dark at Tremendous Speeds, is out from LitFest Press spring 2016. She teaches at the Loft and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, works with poets one on one, and hosts occasional retreats for writers and other creative types.
Marilyn L. Taylor, former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin (2009 and 2010) and the city of Milwaukee (2004 and 2005), is the author of six poetry collections. Her poems and essays have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry, American Scholar, Measure, and Able Muse. She has taken first place in a number of poetry contests, and recently received the 2015 Margaret Reid Award, an international competition for poetry in traditional forms. She now lives in Madison, and continues to offer poetry presentations and workshops locally, statewide, and beyond
ON DECK AT COPPER ROCK:
Jun 20 Karl Garson and John Olski
Jul 18 Sylvia Cavanaugh and Cathryn Cofell
Aug 15 Be Alford and Mykaela Lewis
Sept 19 Andrea Potos and Katrin Talbot
Oct 17 Robert Nordstrom and Wendy Schmidt
For more information on the Poetry Rocks series contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.
MORE READINGS IN NORTHEAST WI
JON LOOMIS
Tuesday, May 3
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts (THELMA), 51 Sheboygan St., Fond du Lac
7 pm, open mic to follow
Jon Loomis is the author of two books of poems: Vanitas Motel (winner of the 1997 FIELD prize in poetry) and The Pleasure Principle (2001), both published by Oberlin College Press. He is also the author of two critically acclaimed mystery novels, Mating Season and High Season, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and one of the Washington Post Bookworld’s Best Books of 2007.
THELMA’s Foot of the Lake Reading Series is regularly held the first Tuesday of the month in Cafe 1906 from October through May (except January). This free event includes a guest writer, open mic and a cash bar. Readings begin at 7 pm and the doors open at 6:30 pm.
RALPH MURRE
Wednesday, May 11
UUF, 10341 Highway 42, Ephraim
7 pm, open mic to follow
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.
BRAIN MILL PRESS POETS
Thursday, May 19
The Readers Loft | 2069 Central Ct, Suite 44, Green Bay
6-8 pm Featured Reader(s) + Open mic
Founded in 2014 by two bestselling authors with over twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry,Brain Mill Press is a small, independent publisher of “love books for humans.” Their goal is to build a catalog of radically authentic stories and poetry about all facets of the human experience with love, understood as broadly as possible.
On Deck:
July 30 (Saturday, 1-4 pm): Summer Poetry Festival with over 10 poets & music!
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.
6th Annual “Language of Nature” Poetry Reading and Discussion
Saturday, May 21
10 a.m. – noon
Maywood Environmental Park
3615 Mueller Road
Sheboygan, WI 53083
Free Program. $1 donation for printed materials appreciated.
Led by Maryann Hurtt, Georgia Ressmeyer, and Marilyn Zelke-Windau, who will read from their poetry and encourage you to bring 1-2 nature poems of your own, or favorites by others, to read and discuss. Pre-registration preferred (call Maywood at 920-459-3906 for registration and directions).
BILL URBROCK
Tuesday, May 24
Caramel Crisp, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh
6:15 – 7:30 pm featured reader, followed by an open mic
This event will feature readings of selected works by three Jewish American poets, Eve Grubin, Yehoshua November and David Caplan. 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:
June 28 – Wendy Schmidt
July 26 – Lisa Vihos
August 23 – Louis Clark
September 27 – Laurel Mills
For more information about the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and its events, contact Cathryn Cofell at ccofell@gmail.com,