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WFOP Fall Conference
Friday–Sunday, November 5–7, 2010

at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Center
1001 Amber Avenue, Stevens Point, WI 54482
Phone: 715-344-0200

All registrations and inquiries should be directed to:
Michael Kriesel
Conference Coordinator
H16550 State Hwy. 52
Aniwa, WI 54408-9618

(715) 446-3645
Mkriesel@wausau.k12.wi.us

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

.doc schedule and form. Make check payable to WFOP and mail to Mike Kriesel.

Registration: $60.00
Postmarked by October 25, 2010

After deadline and walk-in: $65.00

$85.00 for non-member (includes membership)

Add $89.00 per night for room reservations (WFOP handles room bookings to get this group rate). After October 25th you may have to make your own reservation with the hotel. The rate could be higher.

Driving Directions to Holiday Inn Stevens Point:

From the North (Wausau)
Follow Interstate 39/51 South to Exit 158.  Turn East (left) on Highway 10 for one mile.  Turn North (left) onto Elizabeth Avenue for one block.  The Holiday Inn will be directly ahead. 

From the South (Madison)
Follow Interstate 39/51 North to Exit 158-A.  Turn East (right) on Highway 10 for one mile.  Turn North (left) onto Elizabeth Avenue for one block.  The Holiday Inn will be directly ahead. 

From the West (Marshfield)
Follow Highway 10 East all of the way through Stevens Point.  Turn North (left) onto Elizabeth Avenue for one block.  The Holiday Inn will be directly ahead. 

From the East (Appleton)
Follow Highway 10 West.  Turn North (right) onto Elizabeth Avenue for one block.  The Holiday Inn will be directly ahead.

 
Conference Schedule
Friday, November 5
4:00 p.m. Registration Opens
4:30–7:00 p.m. Book Fair
6:00–7:00 p.m. Board Meeting
7:00–9:00 p.m. Open Mic (Longer poems welcome!) Cash bar and hot appetizers
Saturday, November 6
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast/Book Fair
8:00 a.m. Registration Opens
8:50 a.m. One-poem readings by Freya Manfred & Todd Boss
9:00 a.m. Welcome/Business Meeting
9:50 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Roll Call Poems (24-line limit)
10:50 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. The Way to Do is to Be: a workshop by Freya Manfred
12:00 noon Lunch/Door Prizes
12:45 p.m. Triad Contest Awards
1:15 p.m. Roll Call Poems (24-line limit)
2:00 p.m.

Break
2:15 p.m. Poetry Reading by Todd Boss, followed by a brief Flurry (Todd’s seasonal online journal of wintry poetry)
3:00 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m.

Poetry Reading by Freya Manfred
Sunday, November 7
(Daylight Savings Time – Fall back and sleep an hour longer!)
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Black Holes to Black Ops: Bringing Genre Poetry in from the Cold by F.J. Bergmann
9:30 a.m. Making an Anthology by Robin Chapman & Jeri McCormick
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Poetry Reviews—Who Cares? by Charles P. Ries
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m.

Poetry as Music, Music as Poetry by Cathryn Cofell and Obvious Dog*

(*the musical stylings of Bruce Dethlefsen & Bill Orth)

Guest Speaker: Freya Manfred

Freya Manfred won the 2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Award for Poetry for her sixth collection of poetry, SWIMMING WITH A HUNDRED YEAR OLD SNAPPING TURTLE from Red Dragonfly Press.  Her poems have appeared in over 100 reviews and magazines and over 30 anthologies.

Guest Speaker: Todd Boss

Todd Boss's poems have appeared in THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2010, THE NEW YORKER, POETRY, and on MPR's "All Things Considered." His debut poetry collection, YELLOWROCKET, was published in 2008 by W. W. Norton & Co. Born and raised in central Wisconsin, he now lives in Saint Paul with his wife and two children.