Event Schedule
MKE poetica: June 3
Featuring Boston Poet Maxwell Kessler and Mke High School Slam Poet Dion Kentle.
You're invited to MKE POETICA, a place where emerging writers and performers have a chance to work alongside established, nationally recognized poets. All ages welcome!
Writing Workshop begins at 6:30 PM
* Led by Boston poet Maxwell Kessler
* Just bring a pen!
Open Mic with Features begins at 7:30 PM
Adult Feature: Maxwell R. Kessler was born and raised in the Idaho wilderness, and the Rocky Mountains have made him the man he is today. He began writing poetry when he joined the heavy metal band Bedlam in 10th grade. Though he has since taken a sabbatical, he hopes to one day unite his poetic prowess with the his metal brutality to conquer the world.
In the meantime, he has has been a member of two Emerson College Slam Teams (including the 2009 College Nationals Finalists), a member of the 2009 Boston Cantab Team, and he is the current Champion of Champions at the Boston Poetry Slam. He also helped found and run the Emerson Poetry Project, a weekly poetry reading at Emerson College, and organized the 2010 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (also at Emerson).
Youth Feature: Dion Kentle is from Northwest Opportunities Vocational Academy, winner of the 2010 NOVA School Poetry Slam.
This event is sponsored by Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee Writers Workshop and Brewed Cafe
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May 6
Adult feaures: JULIE STRAND
Pushcart Prize Nominee
Youth Feature: EMMITT WILLIAMS (Reagan High School), member of 2010 Wisconsin Brave New Voices team!
Writers' circle/workshop: 6:30pm
Open Mic with features: 7:30pm
$3 cover, all ages
Welcome to another installment of the MKE Poetica Spoken Word Poetry Series: a place where emerging writers and performers have a chance to work alongside established, nationally recognized poets. All ages are welcome!
Adult Feature: JULIE STRAND lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is the Education Coordinator at Woodland Pattern Book Center. Currently she serves as an editorial assistant for Tarpaulin Sky, which publishes cross-genre / trans-genre / hybrid forms as well as innovative poetry and prose. Julie's second chapbook, The Mae West Defense was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2009. Poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the literary journals Caffeine Destiny, FOURSQUARE Editions, Wicked Alice, Arsenic Lobster, WOMB Poetry, Boo: A Journal of Terrific Things, Cant Journal, Burdock: The Salacious Banter Reading Series Issue and others. In 2008, her poem "Neon Yellow" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
This event is sponsored by Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee Writers Workshop and Brewed Cafe.
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LOVE POEMS/POEMAS DE AMOR
with poet Carmen Alicia Murguia
Wednesday, February 10th, 7 pm
A WRITERS WORKSHOP FOR THE LOVER IN ALL OF US!
Bring a notebook, your favorite writing instrument, and an open corazón/heart!
For more information/Para mas información: Call CARMEN @ (414) 745-1517
February 4 - Haiti Fundraiser
Adult feaures: Nigel Wade and Shelly Vickie Davis
Milwaukee’s 2009 and 2010 Grand Slam Champions!
Youth Feature: Justin Sparapani (Milwaukee High School of the Arts)
writers' circle: 6:30pm
open mic: 7:30pm
$3 cover, all ages
"Poetry as a platform for social discussion"
Just bring a pen!
Proceeds from this event will go to benefit S.O.I.L.
“Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. We believe that the path to sustainability is through transformation, of both disempowered people and discarded materials, turning apathy and pollution into valuable resources. SOIL promotes integrated approaches to the problems of poverty, poor public health, agricultural productivity, and environmental destruction. We attempt to nurture collective creativity through developing collaborative relationships between community organizations in Haiti and academics and activists internationally empowering communities, building the soil, nourishing the grassroots.”
Sponsored by Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee Writers Workshop and Brewed Cafe
MARN Workshops: Saturday, December 12th
*Bookkeeping for Creatives*
Noon–2pm
You've started selling your work or booking your act on a regular basis or
otherwise started to have regular enough work that it's bringing in some
income – that's great! But what do you need to do so that come tax time
you're not in trouble?
Karl Klein of KKCPA has helped many creatives get their financial records in order. Karl will go through what you need to keep track of to make tax time easier for you.
$20/ $15 for MARN members
*The Art of Teaching Art*
2:30–4:30pm
Teaching in the arts can be rewarding on so many levels. But how to you get
those jobs? And once you have them what do you do?
Sally Witte, Executive Director of Artists Working in Education (AWE), will go through the ins and outs of these important jobs. She has important insights into being an arts educator and can help you to make the teaching experience rewarding for you and the kids you impact.
$20/ $15 for MARN members
MKE Poetica: December
Adult feaure: Eric Mata (Chicago, IL)
Youth Feature: Daisy Ro (St. Joan Antida High School)
writers' circle: 6:30pm
open mic: 7:30pm
$3 cover, all ages
Eric is currently a staff/faculty member at DePaul University. Outside of DePaul he is a poet and social justice educator who is a recent transplant to Chicago from Madison, WI where he was involved in the poetry/slam scene. He was the Madison Grand Slam champion in 2007 and was on three national slam teams. He was also a poet/educator for the First Wave in the Schools program through UW's First Wave program. He has self-published two chapbooks (love in the time of revolution and Prayer Vigil) and co-edited Someone Might Hear You, a youth anthology of poems from the state of Wisconsin.
Sponsored by Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee Writers Workshop and Brewed Cafe
MKE POETICA: November
Adult feaure: Blu Team/Nigel Wade, Bobby Drake and Remy the Gambit
Youth Feature: Khalil of Wauwatosa West High School
writers' circle: 6:30pm
open mic: 7:30pm
$3 cover, all ages
Beginning November 5th, every 1st Thursday of the month MKE POETICA will bring poetic goodness to Walker's Point Center for the Arts.
This open mic series and writers circle provides a space for poets of ALL ages to create and share work in a supportive environment. The writers circle will begin at 6:30 PM, so bring a poem that you have been craving feedback on or just a blank page and pen to build.
Afterwards, poets are invited to share their work on stage alongside a featured local youth poet and a local or nationally recognized adult poet.
Also co-sponsored by:
Marie Larson and Matt Trease
Enemy Rumor: poetry reading series
Saturday, October 24th, 8.00 pm
Marie Larson holds an MFA in poetry from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has appeared in GAM, DIAGRAM, Shampoo, Bombay Gin, and Fact-Simile. She also has work forthcoming in the anthology Chicken Boa: Notes on Skrilla (Mitzvah Chaps). Larson’s review of Lila Zemborain’s mauve sea-orchids appeared in issue 37 of Jacket Magazine. Her current project, Blight, looks to press against the taxonomical membrane of what it means to be human.
You can read some of her poetry online and also download a free pdf of Fact-Simile 2.1 - Spring/Summer 2009.
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Matt Trease lives in Milwaukee, WI with his wife, Kathy and son, Harvey. He is currently working on a dissertation involving the Oulipo, the Avant-garde, and theories of network relations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His poems have or will appear in a handful of journals including The Powhattan Review, Interim, The World According to Goldfish, and, Mitzvah Chaps' Chicken Boa: Notes on Skrilla.
Matt thinks of his poetry as "conceptual," as he favors methodical and procedural approaches to writing. He often opts to infuse his work with allegorical as opposed to symbolic meaning, and is frequently driven by verbal and referential constraints. While his writing often borrows its form from children's toys and games, the content revolves around issues of political struggle, chemical addiction, and domestic instability, creating odd juxtapositions and imaginative inroads into the political.
John Tipton and Beth Bretl
Enemy Rumor: poetry reading series
Saturday, September 19th, 7 pm
John Tipton is the author of surfaces (Flood Editions, 2004). Flood also published a translation of Sophocles’ Ajax in 2008. He lives with his wife Stephanie and son Levi in Chicago.
Beth Bretl's poetry has appeared in The Southern Review,
Aufgabe, HOW2 and other journals. Bretl completed a Ph.D. in creative writing at UW-Milwaukee. Her current projects include a series of poems inspired by Mary Nohl's home and art. She lives with her husband and children in Fox Point.
Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Workshop
Saturday, September 12th, 1 pm - 2.15 pm
The workshop is offered to help prospective applicants better understand the application process. Polly Morris, who administers the fellowship program, will be joined by current and past Nohl Fellows at this informal sessions. The workshop is free and open to the public and applications will be available at the session.
Image from the "Adventures of the Captain Neat-o Man" by the Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa.
Convergence: Performance Art in Milwaukee now available
WPCA is pleased to announce the completion of a book on the history of performance art in Milwaukee. Convergence: Performance Art in Milwaukee was written by local performance artist, writer and art model Pegi Taylor. It is available at WPCA, Woodland Pattern Book Center, People's Books, and Schwartz Bookstores. The cost of the book is $12 per copy plus tax. The book may also be ordered by mail.
The book comes out of a project organized by Taylor in October 2003 at WPCA entitled Convergence: The History and Mystery of Performance Art in Milwaukee. This three-day event brought together the major practitioners of performance art in Milwaukee over the last three decades. Artists included Jon Erickson, Mark Anderson, Deb Loewen, Mark Escribano, Theresa Columbus, Cinnamon Rossman and Allyson Bahr among others. The centerpiece of Convergence is a 16 page anecdotal timeline that traces the trajectory of performance art in Milwaukee from the 1960s to the present. The book also includes discussion on important issues within performance art, including audience, documentation, media coverage, funding, and how the Milwaukee performance art scene reflected what was happening nationally. A listing of sites in Milwaukee that have hosted performance art events is included as well.
The Convergence project is made possible by the generosity of the Milwaukee Arts Board, the United Performing Arts Fund, the Meyer and Norma Ragir Foundation, the Heller Foundation, and the Harry F. and Mary Franke Idea Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
