Courtesy of WFOP’s Cathryn Cofell:
POETRY UNLOCKED PRESENTS: SUE BLAUSTEIN AND DG CLEARING
Monday, November 11
The Draw
800 S. Lawe Street, Appleton
7:00 pm
Sue Blaustein published her first book “In the Field, Autobiography of an Inspector” in 2018. She retired from the Milwaukee Health Department in 2016 and is an active volunteer. She blogs for Ex Fabula (“Connecting Milwaukee Through Real Stories”), serves as an interviewer/writer for the “My Life My Story” program at the Zablocki VA Medical Center, and chases insects at the Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center. Her publication credits can be found at www.sueblaustein.com.
DG Clearing has created and promoted art his entire life, studying the Arts and Letters at the University of Wisconsin and Minnesota. During the 80’s & 90’s, he was a well-known visual artist, showing with Peter Dean, Andy Warhol, Christopher Mako, and others. The written word has always intrigued DG: How to tell a history, a truth, uncover a lie, a love. He has put together words, timepieces of our lives, for many years. Poetry allows him to condense a story, the size of a novel, into just a page.
An open mic will follow these featured readers. Cash bar (beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages) available.
ON DECK:
Dec 9 – WFOP Poets’ Calendar Reading
CALL FOR READERS FOR THE DEC 9 CALENDAR EVENT: Do you have a poem in the 2020 WFOP Poets’ Calendar? Join us to read your poem (and a couple more)! Already lined up: Deb Andrews (reading the Roops), Cathryn Cofell, Bruce Dethlefsen, Sheri Elmer, Kathryn Gahl, Sarah Gilbert, Annette Langlois Grunseth, Linda Nett-Dusterhoeft, Judy Kolosso, Mary Wehner and Ed Werstein!
It’s a reading, a book (calendar) launch AND a holiday party – all rolled up in one, with funding to make it a really special event from the Green Bay Packer Foundation! To participate, email us at PoetryUnlockedNEW@gmail.com
OTHER READINGS & EVENTS IN THE AREA
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TARFIA FAIZULLAH – RESCHEDULED EVENT!
Wednesday, November 13
MLK Lounge, Harwood Memorial Hall
Ripon College, Ripon
7:30 pm
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf Press, 2018) and Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014). Tarfia’s writing appears widely in the U.S. and abroad. She’s the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, three Pushcart prizes and other honors. She was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change.
As always, this event is free and open to the public, and books will be available for cash purchase and author signing.
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FRANCHA BARNARD
Wednesday, November 13
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County
10341 Water Street (Hwy 42), Ephraim
7:00 pm
Open mic follows featured readers. For more information email contact @uufdc.org.
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SYLVIA CAVANAUGH & ED WERSTEIN
Thursday, November 14
Lion’s Mouth Bookstore
401 N Washington St Ste 107, Green Bay
5:30 – 7:00 pm
The Green Bay Poetry Reading Series moves to its new location at Lion’s Mouth with this exceptional poetry duo from the southern part of the state.
Open mic follows featured readers. For more information, visit the new website at https://poetryatlarge.com/
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CHAMINADE WOMEN’S CHORUS PRESENTS “POETRY IN SONG”
Saturday, November 23
2:00 pm and 4:00 pm
The Draw
800 S. Lawe Street, Appleton
Poetry Unlocked is pleased to partner with the Chaminade Women’s Chorus for a collaborative song/art/poetry event entitled “Poetry in Song.”
Friends of Poetry Unlocked will join the chorus to recite six works of poetry. After each recitation the chorus will perform a setting of the poem in song. There will also be artwork on display in the Feather and Bone Gallery that was inspired by these poems.
“Caged Bird” — Maya Angelou
“On the Pulse of Morning” — Maya Angelou
“Still I Rise” — Maya Angelou
“Down By the Salley Gardens” — William Butler Yeats
from “Aspen Castle” — Emily Bronte
“Fame Is a Fickle Food” — Emily Dickinson
For more information contact Renée Millard, Chaminade.chorus@gmail.com, 920-450-4510
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ANNETTE LANGLOIS GRUNSETH
Tuesday, November 26
Evergreen Manor, Fireside Room
1125 N. Westfield Drive, Oshkosh
6:30 pm
Annette Langlois Grunseth, author of Becoming Trans-parent: One Family’s Journey of Gender Transition is a pushcart prize nominee and has been recognized by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Wisconsin People & Ideas for her poetry. She has published widely in journals and anthologies with recent poems appearing in Poets to Come, Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday Anthology, and From Everywhere a Little: A Migration Anthology. Her manuscript Mail Call Vietnam 1968-69 is currently looking for a publisher.
An open mic will follow where participants may read a poem of their own or one that they love.
For further information you may contact Mandi Isaacson at mandiisaacson@gmail.com or Frankie Mengeling at mengeling.frankie23@gmail.com.
DEADLINES & SUBMISSIONS
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DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2020 to submit to the 2021 Wisconsin Poets Calendar. Theme is “Home.” Guest editors are Keesie Hyzer, Nancy Jesse, & Gillian Nevers. Follow this link for more details: https://www.wfop.org/annual-contests
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DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1, 2020: The Tenth Annual WFOP Chapbook Contest is now open! Submit your poetry chapbook of 16-47 pages published during 2019 by the deadline of February 1, 2020. This year’s Judge is Taneum Bambrick. Find guidelines and entry form on the WFOP website (contests). If you have questions, contact Annette Grunseth at annettegrunseth@gmail.com