This list of poetry readings is provided by the women of Poetry Unlocked:
MONDAY, JUNE 14
SHELTERING WITH POEMS: COMMUNITY AND CONNECTION DURING COVID
7:00 pm
Virtual – see link below
About this Event:
On June 14, we’ll hear from contributors to “Sheltering with Poems: Community and Connection During COVID,” an anthology of 89 poems from 74 Wisconsin writers. The poets in this anthology are nurses and lawyers, teachers and scientists, artists, students, booksellers and business owners — in other words, all of us including these featured readers:
Fabu Carter
Robin Chapman
Cathryn Cofell
Maryann Hurtt
Dasha Kelly Hamilton
Emilie Lindemann
Scott Lowery
Jill Madden Melchoir
Sara Sarna
Beth Tornes
Plus publisher Steve Tomasko!
The poems, mostly written in the first months of the pandemic, relate the writers’ efforts to come to grip with those new terms and situations that we all had to deal with: sheltering in place, social distancing, isolation. But it’s not just a bleak world depicted in poems, there is also hope, love and humor.
The poetry editors for the anthology are Bruce Dethlefsen, Kathleen Serley and Angela Voras-Hills. The book is co-published by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and Bent Paddle Press and is available to order at WFOP.org. All proceeds from the sale of the book go to WFOP.
A limited open mic will follow, requiring an advance sign-up. We encourage you to read your own pandemic poems, your own version of Sheltering with poems (or fiction or essays). Email us to reserve your spot at PoetryUnlockedAppleton@gmail.com. Names will be accepted in the order received until slots are filled. Thank you for understanding.
TO REGISTER FOR SHELTERING WITH POEMS, CLICK ON THIS ZOOM LINK:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvf-yrqDIvHdYrFgIliPn0Bzrl_v0NhTC_
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
ON DECK FOR POETRY UNLOCKED (virtual):
July 12: Andrea Potos and Katrin Talbot
Aug 9: Jordan Brown and Madelyn Sosa
Sept 13: DeWitt Clinton and Nathan Reid
This list of poetry readings, workshops, submissions and more comes to you from the women of Poetry Unlocked: Katie Chicquette-Adams, Cathryn Cofell, Sarah Gilbert, Bobbie Lee Lovell and Laura Winkelspecht.