2025 Poets’ Calendar

Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets publishes an annual calendar of poetry the Poets' Calendar. Poets with a connection to Wisconsin are invited to submit their poetry for inclusion with no entrance fee. The calendar is one of our biggest projects each year and serves as our primary outreach effort.

The theme for the 2025 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar is “shine.” Your poem may shine a light on something, shine into a dark corner, capture the brilliance of an experience, relationship, place, or anything. A brass doorknob. Your vinyl LP. The epiphany you had the first time you did something hard. A crow’s view. The afterglow of a mopped floor. The way you love.

You get the idea. Send us a poem that shines!

Our strongest pieces of advice: avoid using the word “shine” in your poem(s) and follow the submission rules below.

GUIDELINES
Submission Period: December 1, 2023-February 9, 2024
Editors: Jeanie Tomasko, Linda Voit, and Beth Ann Workmaster

The artist for the calendar will be Sharon Auberle, and Wendy Vardaman will do layout. 

2024 Calendar

Our 2024 calendar is now available. You may buy the calendar online or in-person at the following bookstores.

Books & Company, Oconomowoc
Boswell Books, Milwaukee
Bound to Happen Books, Stevens Point
Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau
Dovetail Marketplace, Duluth
Half Price Books, Madison (East and West stores)
Honest Dog Books, Bayfield
Janke Books, Wausau
Kismet Bookshop, Verona
Leopold’s Books, Bar & Caffe, Madison
Lion’s Mouth, Green Bay
Lion’s Tooth, Milwaukee
Musem of Wisconsin Art, West Bend
Mystery to Me, Madison
Novel Bay Booksellers, Sturgeon Bay
Otherworlds Books, Sturgeon Bay
Pearl Street Books, La Crosse
Redberry Books, Cable
Room of One’s Own, Madison
The Regal Find, Middleton
University Book Store, Hilldale, Madison
Volume One, Eau Claire
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee
Write On Door County Book Fair, Fish Creek
Zenith Books, Duluth