CATHRYN COFELL
About
Poeting
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Winner of the 2019 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award for "Stick Figure with Skirt"
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Author of Sister Satellite and six chapbooks of poetry, including "Split Personality" in collaboration with Karla Huston
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300+ published poems, essays and book reviews
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Winner of the Mill Prize for Poetry, the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Prize, the WI Academy Poetry Award (Wisconsin People & Ideas) and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations, among others
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Fixture (in concrete) in Waupaca and Appleton's city sidewalks
Advocating
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Recipient of the Christopher Latham Sholes Award for mentoring
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Poetry Unlocked Event Coordinator and PR maven
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Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) President, founder of the Chapbook Prize
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Founder of the WI Poet Laureate Commission and the WI Poet Laureate Fund
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Two-time former Chair of the WI Poet Laureate Commission
Speaking, Teaching
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Keynote speaker at multiple events, including the Great Lakes Writers Festival, the Women’s Fund of the Fox Valley Annual Luncheon, the U.S. Venture Open, and the UW-Whitewater Creative Writing Festival
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Panelist and presenter at numerous venues including the WI Book Festival, Chippewa Valley Book Fest, Carroll University, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Festival, Marian University, Ripon College, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse, UW-Marathon and UW-Whitewater
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A license to officiate!