Monday, September 17
SYLVIA CAVANAUGH AND ED WERSTEIN
The Draw
800 S. Lawe Street, Appleton
7 – 8:30 pm
Free and open to the public! Cash bar, open mike follows our featured readers.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Sylvia Cavanaugh has an M.S. in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin. She teaches high school African and Asian cultural studies and advises break-dancers and poets. She and her students are actively involved in the Sheboygan chapter of 100,000 Poets for Change. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. She is a contributing editor forVerse-Virtual: An Online Community Journal of Poetry. Her first chapbook, Staring Through My Eyes, was published by Finishing Lines Press in 2016. A second chapbook, Angular Embrace, was published by Kelsay Books in 2018. You can find more of Sylvia’s poetry at https://sylviacavanaugh.com/
Ed Werstein, Milwaukee, spent years in manufacturing and union activity before his muse awoke and dragged herself out of bed. He advocates for peace and against corporate power. His poetry has appeared in Stoneboat, Blue Collar Review, Gyroscope Review, Red Cedar and several other publications. He is a regional VP of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (www.wfop.org). His chapbook, Who Are We Then?, was published by Partisan Press. His full-length collection, A Tar Pit To Dye In, was published this year by Kelsay Books.
ON DECK:
Oct 8 Fox Cities Book Festival featured poets Kavon Cortez Jones and Beth Spencer
Nov 19 Kathryn Gahl and Elizabeth Keggi
Dec 3 WFOP Calendar reading
For more information about the poetry reading series in Appleton, contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.
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SHARON AUBERLE
Wednesday, September 12
UU Fellowship
10341 Water St., Ephraim
7:00 pm
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County presents the Emily Dickinson Poetry Series at 7:00 PM on the second Wednesday of the month. Each evening a featured poet will read his or her own poetry followed by an opportunity for audience members to read during an open mic session.
https://uufdc.org/dickinson-poetry/
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MARVIN MENGELING
Tuesday, September 25, 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.
Marvin Mengeling was first raised in Elburn then Hampshire, Illinois. He received a B.A. in English from Rockford College. His Masters and Ph.D. in American Literature are from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Except for the years 1990-93, when he was Director of UW Oshkosh’s weekend college, Mengeling was a member of the UWO English Department—he retired in 1999. During this time he taught a wide range of courses in American Literature AND Science Fiction. His articles on such writers as Irving, Melville, Poe, Capote, Ellison, Ginsberg, Ray Bradbury and others have appeared in critical journals and edited books. In 2002 he published a book on writer Ray Bradbury—Red Planet, Flaming Phoenix, Green Town. In his spare time, in addition to writing poetry about death, he writes jokes and personal essays. A book of personal essays, Crows, Pete Rose, UFOs, and Other Pretty Pieces was published in 2011. His poems have appeared in “Wisconsin’s Poets’ Calendar,” “Fox Cry,” Writer’s Premiere,” etc. He currently lives in Oshkosh with wife Frankie (a real poet), son Tom (a real photographer) and Katrina (a real cat). Daughter Brenda Jo and husband Michael do real medical research at the University of California Davis. And so it goes.
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@gmail.com.
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/#services
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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.org/conferences/
DEADLINES & SUBMISSIONS
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The Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission is pleased to announce the call for applications and nominations for the Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2019–2020. 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.wallopzine.com/
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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Bramble Fall 2018 is open for submissions through September 10, 2018.
Guest Editor: Ronnie Hess
Prompt: Versatility
Guidelines here:
http://www.wfop.org/bramble-how-to-submit