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Cathryn Cofell with The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) says that as part of the Fox Valley Poetry Series, which meets at Harmony Cafe in Appleton (233 E. College Ave) on the third Monday of most months, Rolf Olson and Sharon Auberle will be readin on Monday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m.

 Sharon Auberle is the author of three poetry collections– two of which also contain her photographs and two book collaborations with poets in which her photos are featured.    Her newest work is a collection of poems with Ralph Murre, titled Wind Where Music Was.   She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including Earth’s Daughters; Goose River Anthology 2013; Verse and Vision and Cradle Songs.  For reasons which are still a mystery to her, she has authored a blog–Mimi’s Golightly Café for seven years, which contains a potpourri of her images and words.

Rolf Olson has been a craftsman in wood and metal for 25 years, working as a boat builder, joiner, and blacksmith designing and building doors, cabinets, furniture and functional objects in wood and metal.  He began writing poetry seriously about 13 years ago, publishing his first chapbook, “One Glass Eye” in 2003.  His next book, “Riot at the Poets’ Café,” is in its’ final editing at this time.  His poems have been described as spare, fun, intense, and Zen-like.  He has been a member of the “Unabridged Poets” for 8 years, is currently the resident manager at a destination hotel in Egg Harbor and has been living in Door County for the past 30 years.

Other events and news include:

NOVEMBER 26 (TUESDAY), APPLE BLOSSOM BOOKS, OSHKOSH FEATURES LAUREL MILLS & MARILYN POTTER:  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.  Laurel Mills will read from Rumor of Hope, which won Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Award, and Wisconsin Library Association’s Outstanding Achievement Honors.  Marilyn Potter’s life as a poet began with the death of her husband.  Encouraged by a personal poet friend to write as a form of grieving, she discovered the muse within.  Come early and enjoy a meal or grab a cup of coffee at Caramel Crisp and Café whose inner doors connect with the bookstore.

Poetry Off the Page  

Workshop Leader: Glenis Redmond
For Educators of Grades 4-12
Date: Thursday, Dec. 5, 4 – 7 p.m.
Location: Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Fee: $30 or $25 / AASD Staff (includes resource packet and boxed dinner)
Based on the belief that poetry, in addition to being written and read, should be

performed. This workshop will help educators introduce students to the topic of poetry. Participants will learn ways to help students learn brainstorming techniques, imagery and layering to write powerful and effective poems. Clear and easy poetic structures and formats empower students to expand their imaginations and cross creative boundaries. Award-winning poet Glenis Redmond will share techniques on how to help students express themselves through their words and bring their poetry to life on the page as well as off the page. This workshop was developed in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

  .  To register:  

http://www.foxcitiespac.com/educators/available-workshops
  DEADLINES!

 COUNCIL FOR WISCONSIN WRITERS’ WI WRITERS AWARDS NOW OPEN, 

DEADLINE — JANUARY 31, 2014:

WFOP CHAPBOOK CONTEST OPENS DECEMBER 1, DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1: For a book published in 2013.  Do not have to be a WFOP member to enter.  See http://wfop.org/contests/cbprize.html for contest rules.

WFOP MUSE PRIZE DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1: For an original unpublished poem.  Do not have to be a WFOP member to enter.  See http://wfop.org/contests/muse.html for contest rules.

 

 

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Two More WFOP Events

Mill Saturday with Wisconsin Poet Laureate Max Garland

 The Mill: A Place for Writers

November 2, 2013, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Class fee: $75, which includes lunch, tax and tip and morning coffee

 Atlas Coffee Mill (www.atlascoffeemill.com)

425 W. Water Street

Appleton, WI  54911

 “[This is] a workshop with special emphasis on writing about place and our relationship to places of particular significance to us.  Such writing might be considered an alternative kind of “mapping,” mapping that illuminates what Google Earth and Garmin and other satellite technologies can’t. It may be that in the wake of our astounding array of technologies, we still need poetry, literature, art, to fully understand and communicate where we are in the world, as well as who we are. We’ll read examples of poets writing about “place,” and do some original writing connected to place, and how it reflects and informs our identity.”

 Class is open to 12

 contact: info@karlahuston.com or smpolansky@hotmail.com for more information or to sign up. 

 Max Garland, Wisconsin’s 5th poet laureate, has taught at UW-Eau Claire since 1996 and is the author of two award-winning poetry collections: The Postal Confessions (winner of the 1995 Juniper Prize in poetry) and Hunger Wide As Heaven (winner of the 2005 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize) as well as the chapbook, Apparitions (Parallel Press, UW Libraries, 1999).  His work—poems, essays and short stories—has been featured in numerous publications. In addition, he’s a member of the Eau Claire-based band Eggplant Heroes, which plays literary-inspired folk and Americana.

 

Poetry Off the Page

Workshop Leader: Glenis Redmond
For Educators of Grades 4-12
Date: Thursday, Dec. 5, 4 – 7 p.m.
Location: Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Fee: $30 or $25 / AASD Staff (includes resource packet and boxed dinner)
Based on the belief that poetry, in addition to being written and read, should be performed. This workshop will help educators introduce students to the topic of poetry. Participants will learn ways to help students learn brainstorming techniques, imagery and layering to write powerful and effective poems. Clear and easy poetic structures and formats empower students to expand their imaginations and cross creative boundaries. Award-winning poet Glenis Redmond will share techniques on how to help students express themselves through their words and bring their poetry to life on the page as well as off the page. This workshop was developed in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

 .  To register: 

http://www.foxcitiespac.com/educators/available-workshops
 
Reminders of October Events:
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, October 21, 6:30 p.m. – The Electric Squirrels: Maryann Hurtt, Marilyn Windau and Georgia Ressmeyer

Education, art, travel, and writing are lifelong interests for Marilyn Zelke-Windau. Retired from teaching elementary school art, Marilyn is now a docent and workshop facilitator at John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan. She has had poetry most recently published online atqarrtsiluni, Linden Avenue Journal, Brawler Lit, Your Daily Poem and in Stoneboat and Verse Wisconsin magazines.

Maryann Hurtt has had poems in several regional journals, online, and in national anthologies. In 2012 she was a John Wood Scholar in Prague and in 2013 attended Fishtrap on a Sally Bowerman Scholarship.  In her other life she is a hospice nurse, rides a bright yellow tandem with her husband, and loves to fish, except putting on the worm.

Georgia Ressmeyer, an east coast native, has lived happily in Wisconsin since 1974, first as a lawyer in Milwaukee and now as a poet in Sheboygan. Twice a winner of grants from the Wisconsin Arts Board, she has published fiction, numerous poems, and a poetry chapbook, Today I Threw My Watch Away (Finishing Line Press, 2010).

 ON DECK AT HARMONY – 2013 

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Nov 18           Sharon Auberle and Rolf Olson

Dec 2             2014 WI Fellowship of Poets Calendar Reading

Beginning work on 2014 schedule:  please let us know if you are interested in reading or if you have suggestions for other readers!!

OTHER KEY HAPPENINGS 

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The Kress Family Branch Library in De Pere is looking to host a monthly gathering for poets – an opportunity for discussions, guest poets, workshop activities and networking.  If you are an interested poet in the Green Bay / De Pere area, what time of day or day of the week would work best for you?  Contact John Olski at the library at olski_jp@co.brown.wi.us

 OCT 8 (TUESDAY) THE FOOT OF THE LAKE POETRY COLLECTIVE FEATURES MARILYN TAYLOR AND SUSAN ELBE:  7:00 p.m. at THELMA Center for the Arts (formerly the Windhover) in Fond du Lac.  Marilyn is a former Wisconsin Poet Laureate (nuff said!), and Susan is widely published including The Map of What Happened, winner of the Backwaters Prize for 2012.  Readings will be followed by a brief open-mic period.  Free admission, snacks, cash bar.

OCT 9 (WEDNESDAY) DICKINSON POETRY SERIES FEATURES JOHN PATRICK (JACK) REDELL: 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.  7:00 p.m. at the UUF, 10341 Highway 42 in Ephraim.  For more information visitwww.uufdc.org or call 920.854.7559.

OCT 22 (TUESDAY), APPLE BLOSSOM BOOKS, OSHKOSH FEATURES BILL URBROCK:  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.   Bill Urbrock will read a selection of modern Hebrew poetry (in English translation, of course!). Bill, a native of Chicago, taught Old Testament studies at UW-Oshkosh from 1972-2004.  He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Oral-Formulaic Composition and the Book of Job, conducted three NEH seminars on the Book of Psalms, and published two articles on the poetry of Haim Gouri.  He has written several plays for voices that incorporate his own translations and adaptations of poetic sections from the Old Testament.  His newest play, Carmel, will be published later this year by Sheffield Press in England.  Come early and enjoy a meal or grab a cup of coffee at Caramel Crisp and Café whose inner doors connect with the bookstore.

 OCT 25-26:  WFOP FALL CONFERENCE IN STEVENS POINT: It’s the Central-Fox Valley region’s turn to plan, and we’ve mapped out a doozy!  Join us for From Brain to Book:  a Living Library on Poetry Publishing, featuring experts on a range of book publishing options.  Visithttp://wfop.org/confrncs/fallconf.html to learn more and register!