Here’s some January news from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, including the Council for Wisconsin Writers contest deadline, which is January 31. Get details at www.wiswriters.org/rules:
Make a point of coming out on January 21 to help us kick off the Harmony Cafe/WFOP Poetry Series in style…Brent (driving all the way over from Rhinelander!!) and David (from Ripon!!) are two of Wisconsin’s (and the nation’s) FINEST poets.
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, January 21, 6:30 p.m. – Brent Goodman and David Graham
Brent Goodman is the author of Far From Sudden and The Brother Swimming Beneath Me. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sou’wester, Pank, Poetry, Barn Owl Review, and elsewhere. Brent lives in Rhinelander WI, where he works as a creative professional and serves as an assistant editor for the online journal Anti-. For sample poems and more, visit www.brentgoodman.info/
David Graham has published six collections of poetry, including Stutter Monk (Flume Press) and Second Wind (Texas Tech University Press). He also co-edited (with Kate Sontag) the essay anthology After Confession: Poetry as Confession from Graywolf Press. Essays, reviews, and individual poems have appeared widely for over thirty years. Recently anthology appearances include Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else; Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees; Poetry from Paradise Valley: Poems from the First Decade of Valparaiso Poetry Review; and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. He has served on the Advisory Board of Verse Wisconsin, as poetry editor for Blue Moon Review and as poet-in-residence at the Frost Place, in Franconia, New Hampshire. He is Professor of English at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin. For more on David, visit http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/grahamd/
ON DECK AT HARMONY – 2013
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Feb 18 FICTION LIKE POETRY: Abby Frucht and Don Wydeven
Mar 18 Bobbie Lovell and Michael Koehler
Apr 15 Marilyn Annucci and Susan Elbe
OTHER KEY HAPPENINGS
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JANUARY 22 (TUES), APPLEBLOSSOM BOOKS, OSHKOSH FEATURES MARILYN ZELKE-WINDAU: A retired art educator who lives in Sheboygan, Marilyn likes to paint with words. Her work has been published in many journals including Brawler Lit, Qarrtsiluni, Your Daily Poem, Verse Wisconsin, Seems, and Stoneboat. Marilyn will be giving a poetry reading 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. Come early and enjoy a meal or grab a cup of coffee at Caramel Crisp and Café whose inner doors connect with the bookstore.
CONTESTS
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Wisconsin Writers Awards DEADLINE JANUARY 31!
WFOP 2013 CHAPBOOK PRIZE DEADLINE FEB 1!: The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets honors the best chapbook published in the previous year by a Wisconsin resident. Visit http://wfop.org/contests.html for details.
WFOP MUSE PRIZE FOR POETRY DEADLINE FEB 1: Open to any Wisconsin resident (you don’t need to be a member of the WFOP). Visit http://wfop.org/contests.html for details.
Cathryn Cofell, PR Coordinator for
Sarah Gilbert, Poetry Reading Series Coordinator (and WFOP Regional VP)