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WFOP Spring Conference
Friday–Saturday, April 24–25, 2009

at the Olympia Hotel Resort & Spa
1350 Royale Mile Road, Oconomowoc, WI 53066
262-369-4570 or 800-558-9573
www.olympiaresort.com

All registrations, contact:
Michael Kriesel
Conference Coordinator
H16550 State Hwy. 52
Aniwa, WI 54408-9618

Inquiries, contact:
Michael Kriesel
(715) 446-3645
Mkriesel@wausau.k12.wi.us

Visit the WFOP store to register and pay registration fee online.

Early registration: $55.00
EXTENDED TO March 25, 2009

After March 15: $60.00

Walk-in: $65.00

Add $25.00 if non-member (includes membership)

Add $89.00 per night for room reservations

Click here for printable registration form.

Driving Directions to Olympia Resort:

From Chicago:
North on I-94 toward Milwaukee. Take the 894 bypass, which rejoins I-94 west to Madison. Approx. 25 miles to Oconomowoc exit #282 (Hwy 67). Right on Hwy 67, 1.5 miles on left.

From Madison:
East towards Milwaukee on I-94 approx. 50 Miles to Oconomowoc exit #282 (Hwy 67). Left on Hwy 67, 1.5 miles on left.

From Milwaukee:
West toward Madison on I-94 25 miles to Oconomowoc exit #282 (Hwy 67). Right on Hwy 67, 1.5 miles on left.

 

Conference Schedule
Friday, April 24
4:00 p.m. Registration opens
4:30–7:00 p.m. Book Fair
5:30 p.m. Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. Open Mic
9:00 p.m. Karaoke contest in the bar. Members are welcome to attend and/or compete.
Saturday, April 25
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Registration opens
9:00 a.m. Welcome/Business Meeting
10:00 a.m. Introduction of MARILYN TAYLOR, our newest Wisconsin Poet Laureate
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Roll Call Poems (24 line limit)
11:15 a.m. The Möbius Strip of Air presented by KARL ELDER
12:00 noon Lunch
1:00 p.m. Muse Contest Awards
1:30 p.m. Regional Poetry presented by RICHARD TERRILL
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Roll Call

4:00 p.m.

Remainder of Door Prizes


Guest Speaker: Richard Terrill

    Richard Terrill is the author of a collection of poems, Coming Late to Rachmaninoff, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, and two books of creative nonfiction, Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz and Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir, winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for nonfiction. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Arts Boards, the Jerome Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He has taught as a Fulbright professor in China, Korea, and Poland, and currently teaches creative nonfiction and poetry writing in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He works as a jazz saxophone player with the Larry McDonough Quartet.

Guest Speaker: Karl Elder

    Karl Elder’s ninth collection of verse, Gilgamesh at the Bellagio, recently won publication in The National Poetry Review Award Book Series.  Among his honors are a Pushcart Prize; two appearances in The Best American Poetry; and the Chad Walsh, Lorine Niedecker, and Lucien Stryk Awards.  Mr. Elder is the Jacob and Lucile Fessler Professor of Creative Writing and Poet in Residence at Lakeland College.

Guest Speaker: Marilyn Taylor

    Marilyn Taylor, Poet Laureate of Wisconsin for 2009 and 2010, is the author of six collections of poetry.  Her work has also appeared in The American Scholar, Poetry, The Formalist, First Things, Measure, and many other journals and anthologies.  She is currently a Contributing Editor for The Writer magazine, where her columns on craft appear bi-monthly.  Marilyn teaches regularly for the Honors College at UWM, Redbird Studios in Milwaukee, Lawrence University's Bjorklunden Seminar Center in Baileys Harbor, and Allwriters Studio in Waukesha.  Marilyn was the Poet Laureate of Milwaukee in 2004 and ‘05.