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Conference
Ideas:
3/13/06
from Shoshauna Schey:
1. (procedural) Break the Roll Call into shorter sessions with more
intimate groupings, to free up time for other activities and allow
for more social exchanges
2. (procedural) Run several events simultaneously, to give people
a choice of what to do.
3. (program idea) Have established groups such as the Wasteland
Poets, Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet, Lake Effect or the Entendres,
for example, do a presentation/reading and talk about how and why
they got started and what their experiences have been.
4. (program idea) Invite Wisconsin publishers like Cream City
Review, Porcupine, Free Verse, Rosebud, etc., to a forum or
panel where they talk about their submission policies, selection
decisions, and future plans. Should include a Q & A session.
5. (program idea) Offer a reading by poets who have chapbooks, where
the authors can plug their books, talk about the process they went
through with their manuscripts, and share readings and information.
Having a chapbook published is a highlight in the life of a poet,
and giving more of the spotlight to those poets who achieve this
landmark would be honorable.
3/13/06
from Judith Zukerman, two speaker suggestions:
--Jan Phillips, author of "Marry Your Muse" and more.
She works with multiple media and is inspiring at getting people
to touch greater depths in their writing.
--Marj Hahn, a young, aspiring poet who gives wonderful workshops
-- architecture of poetry, music of poetry, art of poetry, prose
poems. To take a workshop with her is to drink from the deepest
of wells.
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