About
Poeting
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Winner of the 2019 Main Stree Rag Poetry Book Award for "Stick Figure with Skirt"
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Author of Sister Satellite and six chapbooks of poetry
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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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Performer with Obvious Dog (Bruce Dethlefsen & Bill Orth), most often music and poems from Lip
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Fixture (in concrete) in Appleton's city sidewalks
Advocating
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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
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Former VP Letters for the WI Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
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Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP), Co-VP Central Fox Valley Region, founder of the Chapbook Prize
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Former advisory Board of Verse Wisconsin and member of the Foot of the Lake Poetry Collective.
Speaking, Teaching...
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Keynote speaker at multiple events with upwards of 1000 attendees, including the Women’s Fund of the Fox Valley Annual Luncheon, WI Book Festival, U.S. Venture Open, UW-Whitewater Creative Writing Festival and various high school career day programs.
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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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Experienced workshop instructor, reader/presenter, commercial voice-over artist.
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A license to officiate!