Here are some poetry events scheduled for this summer by CWW’s WFOP friends:
KARL GARSON AND JOHN OLSKI
Monday, June 20
Poetry Rocks! Reading Series
Copper Rock Café, 210 W. College Ave, Appleton
7 pm, featured readers followed by open mike
Karl Garson is the author of two poetry collections, Driving Away From East and West and Thoughts in Available Light. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his poetry has appeared in Apalachee Review, Cimarron Review, Cottonwood, Cream City Review, The Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Red Rock Review and South Dakota Review, among others. After receiving his MFA from the University of Montana in 1981, he taught writing at Boise State University and the University of Arizona before moving the New York Metro area to work as a national correspondent and columnist for The Daily Racing Form. Currently, he is at work on a novel about his experience as a Naval Aviator in Vietnam. He lives one ridge east of the Mississippi on a farm in the Driftless Region of southwest Wisconsin.
John Olski is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Raised in Door County, he now lives in Darboy and works as a support-staff librarian in De Pere, where he organized a Writers’ Workshop and an annual Reader & Author Fair. John has written chapbook reviews forVerse Wisconsin and Portage Magazine, and has participated in WFOP poetry readings in Green Bay and Appleton. Always a journaler, John is getting used to thinking of himself as a poet. He values the slow, meditative pace of writing and the insight it seems to bring.
ON DECK AT COPPER ROCK:
Jul 18 Sylvia Cavanaugh and Cathryn Cofell
Aug 15 Be Alford and Mykaela Lewis
Sept 19 Andrea Potos and Katrin Talbot
Oct 17 Robert Nordstrom and Wendy Schmidt
For more information on the Poetry Rocks series contact Sarah Gilbert at pses@sbcglobal.net.
MORE EVENTS IN NORTHEAST WI
ELLEN KORT SIDEWALK POEM
DEDICATION EVENT
Thursday, June 2
10:00 am
A poem of Ellen Kort’s will be dedicated at the corner of Catherine Street and Green Bay Road in Appleton. The poem is stamped in concrete on the sidewalk and the location overlooks the Fox River near the west side of the College Avenue bridge. During the summer two more poems of Ellen’s will be in sidewalks in Appleton.
Wednesday, June 8
UUF, 10341 Highway 42, Ephraim
7 pm, open mic to follow
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. For more information visit www.uufdc.org or call 920.854.7559.
DOOR COUNTY WINE FEST
Saturday, June 25
12:00 – 7:00 pm
Egg Harbor
An inaugural Door County Wine Fest will take place in Egg Harbor on Saturday, June 25. The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) will have a poetry “stage” featuring Door County and Northeast region poets. Enjoy unlimited tasting of more than 80 different wines. And sumptuous food. And music. And poetry. Find out more here: http://www.doorcountywinefest.com/
PLEASE NOTE: Advance ticket purchase is required.
WENDY SCHMIDT
Tuesday, June 28
Caramel Crisp, 200 E City Center, Oshkosh
6:15 – 7:30 pm featured reader, followed by an open mic
Wendy Schmidt has been writing short stories and poetry for the last ten years. Pieces have been published in Verse Wisconsin, Chicago Literati, City Lake Poets, Literary Hatchet, Moon Magazine and a number of other poetry and fiction anthologies. She is the proud author of her first children’s book, The Fairy Tree. Check out Wendy L. Schmidt on her Amazon Author Page or catch one of her short films on her Wendy L. Schmidt, Phantom Poetess YouTube Channel.
The reading is located in the game room beyond the cafe portion of the building. Please come early and treat yourself to coffee, dessert or other goodies to enjoy during the reading. For further information contact Kay Sanders at rksanders42@gmail.com or Mandi Isaacson atmandiisaacson@gmail.com.
On deck at Caramel Crisp:
July 26 – Lisa Vihos
August 23 – Louis Clark
September 27 – Laurel Mills
October 25 – Linda Voit
NO READING IN JUNE – MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THE SUMMER POETRY FESTIVAL
Saturday, July 30
The Readers Loft | 2069 Central Ct, Suite 44, Green Bay
1:00-4:00 pm Featured Reader(s) + Open mic
House of the Tomato Poetry Reading Series announces the first Summer Poetry Festival outside at The Reader’s Loft, Green Bay. Enjoy sets of music and poetry, wine by the glass and appetizers. Event is FREE. Featured poets include:
Brittany Cavallaro
Cathryn Cofell
Bruce Dethlefsen
Karla Huston
C. Kubasta
James P. Roberts
Kathryn Gahl
Nathan J. Reid
Music by The Ugly Brothers
On Deck:
September 29: Bobbie Lovell and Wendy Diehlman
October 27: Kathryn Gahl and Lauren Mills
For more info: torigw@twc.com or call the Loft at (920) 406-0200 | www.readersloft.com.
For more information about WFOP, contact Cathryn Cofell-Mutschler at ccofell@gmail.com.