Writers Place Records, 1988-1997

Contents List

Container Title
M2004-001
Folder   1
Series: Correspondence, News clippings, and Newsletters, 1988-1990
Series: Poetry Readings, Talks, and Discussions
1627A/1
Dennis Trudell, talk and reading, “Poetry and Revolution in Central America,” 1988 November 11
1627A/2-3
Lisel Mueller, Guest Writer Series, reading: “The Poem v. Its Occasion,” 1989 March 15
1627A/4
Daniel Kunene, Guest Writer Series, poetry and discussion, “The Writer and the Dynamics of Struggle in South Africa,” 1989 October 7
1627A/5-8
Gladys Swan, Guest Writer Series, fiction reading and talk: “Moving from Experience to Story,” 1989 October 28
1627A/9-11
Angela Peckinpaugh and Andrea Musher, Guest Writer Series, performance pieces: “Courage and Color: Personae Poems of Women Visual Artists,” and “If It Weren't for her Stays,” 1989 November 17-18
1627A/12
Daniel Kunene, talk: “The Writer's Struggle in South Africa,” 1989 October 5
1627A/13-14
Marianne Boruch, Guest Writer Series, poetry reading by author of Descendant and discussion: “The Long(er) Poem,” 1990 February 10
1627A/15-16
John Oliver Simon, Guest Writer Series, poetry reading and talk: “Braiding the Strands: Contemporary Latin American Poetry,” 1990 February 24
1627A/17-18
Jill Breckenridge, Guest Writer Series, poetry reading and talk: “Writing the Book in Mixed Forms, Poetry and Prose,” based on her book, Civil Blood, 1990 March 3
1627A/19-20
Mike Wilkerson and Lisa Ruffolo, short fiction readings, 1990 June 20
1627A/21-22
Jim Fleming, “Wisconsin's Backyard: Readings from Muir, Leopold, Vukelich, Mountain Wolf Woman,” part of the Festival of the Lakes, 1990 July 28
1627A/23
Janet Shaw and Ron Wallace, talk: “Successful Publishing,” 1990 April 21
1627A/24-25
Michael Klein and Wisconsin, poetry reading by editor of Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS, talk about the making of this anthology, 1990 April 28
1627A/26
Fireweed Poetry Collective, poetry reading and talk on how to start a poetry collective, 1990 July 12
1627A/27
Margaret George, talk: “On Writing Historical Fiction: The Writing Life,” by author of The Autobiography of Henry VIIII, 1990 October 22
1627A/28
Leslie Ullman, Guest Writer Series, poetry reading by author of Natural Histories and creativity workshop: “Dancing Into Your Voice,” 1990 November 2
1627A/29
Ron Kuka, Mark Wunderuch, Madison Review readings, poetry, and Rabin Chapman, Frank Keppler, fiction, talk by the editorial staff, and others, 1991 February 8
1627A/30-31
Pam Painter, Guest Writer Series: Interview, WORT Radio Literature, 1991 March 19
1627A/32
Pam Painter, fiction reading from award-winning Getting to Know the Weather, 1991 March 22
1627A/33
Pam Painter, fiction workshop based, 1991 March 20
1627A/34
David Wojahn, Guest Writer Series, poetry reading by author of Mystery Train and talk on writing poetry: “Tell, Don't Show,” 1991 April 19
1627A/35
David Wojahn, Guest Writer Series, poetry reading by author of Mystery Train and talk on writing poetry: “Tell, Don't Show,” 1991 April 18
1627A/36
Jean Feraca, talk: “Writing as an Inner Guide: What the Poem Knows That You Don't,” 1991 June 26
1627A/37
Ellen Kort, “Discover Your Story Workshop,” using discovery writing, guided, 1991 July 13
1627A/38
Sara and Jay Rath, talk: “How to Find Artistic Freedom as a Freelance Writer,” 1991 July 18
1627A/39
Robin Becker, Guest Writer Series, talk by author of Giacometti's Dog, small press publishing and poetry workshop, 1991 October 21
1627A/40
Bridget Brown, fiction reading, “Woman Without Cats,” 1991 October 19
1627A/41
Martha Vertreace, “An Evening with Martha Vertreace,” poetry reading by author of A Cat's Eye Moon, 1991 November 8
1627A/42
Vance Wilson, “An Evening with Vance Wilson,” author of The Quick and the Dead, reading from his novel in progress, 1991 November 22
1627A/43
Antler, “An Evening with Antler: Poetry and Performance,” 1992 March 25
1627A/44-45
Fabu Mogaka and Agate Nesaule, reading and discussion of the personal and political in literature with Rafael Perez-Torres, 1995 May 8
1627A/46-47
Clint McCown, “An Evening with Clint McCown,” founder and editor of The Beloit Fiction Journal on small press submissions, 1992 October 16
1627A/48-49
Dick Ringler, Agate Nesaule, Dewitt Clinton, and Wanda Bincer, “Healing Our Nation's Wounds,” panel discussion and open mike, 1992 November 7
1627A/50-51
Tim O'Brien and D.M. Boulay, writers on war read from their fiction, 1992 November 8
1627A/52
Vance Wilson, “Eudora Welty: Her Short Stories and Novel, The Optimist's Daughter,” 1990 July 18
1627A/53
Lynn Keller, “Quest and Question: The Art of Elizabeth Bishop,” 1990 October 24
1627A/54
Ron Kuka, “The Writing of Andre Dubus,” 1990 November 7
1627A/55
Rafael Perez-Torres, “Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Language of Silence,” 1990 November 14
1627A/56-57
Emily Auerbach, “Virginia Woolf Today - Her Influence as Writer and Thinker”
1627A/58
Sara Rath, “Rediscovering Anne Sexton,” 1990 December 5
1627A/59-60
Andrea Musher, “Lucille Clifton: The Work of a Common Woman,” 1990 June 27
1627A/61
Jean Feraca, “The Impersonal Voice in Contemporary Poetry,” 1991 February 27
1627A/62
Rafael Perez-Torres, “Chicano Poetry - The first 10 years,” 1991 March 13
1627A/63
Emily Auerbach, “Emily Dickinson and A Room of Her Own: The Relationship of Solitude to the Author's Work”
1627A/64
Daniel Kunene, “Thomas Mofolo's Chaka,” 1991 March 10
1627A/64 (continued)
Jerry Mirskin, “Mary Oliver's Poetry,” 1991 March 24
1627A/65
Vance Wilson, “Peter Taylor's Fiction,” 1991 March 24
1627A/66-67
Sara Rath, “Childhood Memories in Writing,” 1991 June 19
1627A/68
Dick Ringler, Sara Rath, “Contemporary American Love Poems”; Dick Ringler on “The Scots Poet: Edwin Muir,” 1991
Note: These talks took place on February 13, 1991 and June 26, 1991.
1627A/69
Will Risley, “Magical Realism and Three Novels by Gabriel García Márquez,” 1991 July 17
1627A/70
Gay Davidson-Zielske, “Flannery O'Connor: The Mysterious Habit of Being,” 1991 July 24
1627A/71
Kirsten Wasson, “Anzia Yezierska and the Myth of the Melting Pot,” 1991 July 31
1627A/72
Mary Layoun, “Contemporary Arab Women Writers,” 1991 October 13
1627A/73
Rafael Perez-Torres, “Gary Soto, Poet,” 1991 November 3
1627A/74
NiYi Osundare, “The State of Literature in Nigeria,” 1991 July 10
1627A/75
Ron Kuka, “The Fiction of Alice Munro,” 1992 March 1
1627A/76
Kathleen McSharry, “Diane di Prima, Beat and Feminist Poet,” 1993 March 22
1627A/77
Ksenija Bilbija, “Writing Against Oppression: Luisa Valenzuela's Other Weapons,” 1992 April 26
Series: New Voices Series: Readings in Poetry and Prose
1627A/78
Susan Wicks and Ron Kuka, 1990 March 18
1627A/79-80
Shirley Anders/Bill Lawlor, 1990 October 14
1627A/81
Charles Cantrell/Rusty Russell, 1991 February 24
1627A/82
Alan West/Bridget Brown, 1991 March 17
1627A/83
Jean Tucker/C.J. Muchhala, 1991 April 14
1627A/84
Mark Kraushaar, 1991 May 12
1627A/85-86
Ellen Kort/Pamela Chickering, 1991 October 20
1627A/87
Marilyn Annucci/Fred Stein, 1991 December 15
1627A/88
Martha Mihalya/Joseph Gahagan, 1991 March
1627A/89
Rusty McKenzie/Nancy Bauer-King, 1991 March 2
1627A/90
Michael Tierney/Gay Davidson-Zielske, New Voices, 1992 April 24
1627A/91
Alison Townsend, Deborah Gillespie/Peg Sherry, 1991 May 15
1627A/92
Pat Dyjak-Gleckman/Zhen Chang, 1992 June 12
1627A/93
Jae Leslie Adams/Carl Lindner, 1992 November 20
1627A/94-95
Laurel Mills/Maureen Waugh, 1992 December 4
1627A/96
Chris Tozier/Jennifer Fitzsimmons, 1992 December 11
Series: Open Mike Programs
1627A/97-98
Open Mike, 1991 July 14
1627A/99-100
Open Mike/Open House, 1991 February 21
1627A/101
Chuck Shobert, Rusty Russell, Men's Open Mike; Chuck Shobert, Rusty, Ron Czerwein on WORT's Breakfast Special, 1991 July 6
1627A/102
Chuck Shobert, Rusty Russell, Men's Open Mike; Chuck Shobert, Rusty, Ron Czerwein on WORT's Breakfast Special, 1991 July 10
1627A/103
Over 55 Open Mike, 1992 July 24
1627A/104-105
Kathleen King, Iefke Goldberger, Open Mike: “War, Race, and Nationalism,” with Sally Floody, Mary Miller, Bea Cameron, David Yngsdahl, David Klagsbrun, Wayne Roberts, Eric Vogt, Bonnie Brown, Eric Riley, H.R. Britton, 1991 October 9
1627A/106-107
Friday the 13th, 1992 November 13
Series: Unnumbered Readings and Open Mike Programs
1627A/108
Dale Kushner, Jean Feraca; Dale Kushner on Conversations with Jean Feraca, 1989
1627A/109
Janet Shaw, Lisa Ruffolo, 1989 February
1627A/110
Angela Peckinpaugh, “Womanly Arts: Beyond Constraints,” Andrea Musher, 1989 November 17
1627A/111
Open House, 1990
1627A/112
Sara Rath, David Steingass, Open House, 1991 September 29
1627A/113
Martha Bergland, reading, 1991 October 25
1627A/114
Dale Kushner, “Gianfranco Reading Pagnucci,” 1992 March 5
1627A/115
Richard Jones, “An Evening with Richard Jones,” 1992 April 3
1627A/116
Kotrodimos, Dyjak-Gleckman, Adv. Poet P.C. Group Reads Koronelos, Rose, Lindblom, 1992 July 9
1627A/117
Sam Mills, “Sam Mills Reads at Archives Bookstore,” 1992 July 14
1627A/118
Angelique Kidjo, and others, “Peer Group Reading plus Angelique Kidjo,” 1992 July 16
1627A/119
Langetieg, Knezevis, Plane, “TWP Writing Group Reading Kudla, Sawyer, Oderman,” 1992 July 23
1627A/120
Mary Beth Kotrodimos, Open House, Rachel Pastan, 1993 February 8
1627A/121-122
Dale Kushner, featured reader, Open Mike, 1993 April 12
1627A/123
“Harvest” Open Mike; “To Be a Man, To Be a Woman,” 1993 October 11
1627A/124-125
Abby Frucht, talk and workshop, 1993 April 17
1627A/126
Zell, Neale, Langeteig, King, Open Mike, with Roberts, Mancuso, Martin, Russell, Cameron, Koronelos, Nelson, Rose, Koenig, 1993 April 26
1627A/127-128
Nelson, Zell, Mancuso, Hayes, Open Mike, with Cameron, Young, Polin, Augustine, Koronelos, Rose, Uphoff, 1993 July 19
1627A/129
“Dog Days” Open Mike, 1993 August 9
1627A/130
Jean Feraca reading: “Art in Relation to Life,” Crossing the Great Divide, 1993 August 19
1627A/131
TWP Non-fiction class, 1993 September 2
1627A/132
Alison Townsend, featured reader, Open Mike, 1993 September 13
1627A/133-135
Dale Kushner introduction, Ron Wallace, UW Faculty Reads, TWP Benefit, Tom McKeown, Jesse Lee Kercheval, 1993 October 12
1627A/136-138
Mancuso, Goldberger, Cameron, “To Be a Man, To Be a Woman” Open Mike, Langetieg, Rose, Gredler, Calden, Thompson, 1993 November 8
1627A/139
Kotrodimos, Zeier, Pastan, Zell, 1993 December 6
1627A/140
“It's a Wonderful Life” Open Mike, 1993 December 13
1627A/141-142
“Leave Taking” Open Mike
1627A/143
King, Robbins, Boley, Draheim, Love and the Lonely Heart, Open Mike with Spicer, Mancuso, Merrill, 1994 February 14
1627A/144
DeWitt Clinton, “An Afternoon with DeWitt Clinton,” 1994 February 20
1627A/145
Lisa Ruffolo, fiction class, 1994 March 9
1627A/146
Roberts, Ely, King, Mancuso, “Reunion” Open Mike, Pyles, Ely, 1994 March 14
1627A/147
Wide Open Mike, 1994 April 11
1627A/148-149
Blanche Altshuler, featured reader, “Darling We Are Getting Old,” 1994 May 9
1627A/150-151
TWP Open Mike, June 13
1627A/152-153
“1st Annual Writers' Place Writing Contest Winners' Reading,” 1994 June 17
1627A/154
Marianna Wright, host, Open Mike, 1994 August 8
1627A/155
“Captivity and Imprisonment” Open Mike, 1994 September 12
1627A/156
“Telling the Hard Stories” Open Mike, 1994 October 10
1627A/157
“A Day Downtown” Open Mike, 1994 October 11
1627A/158
“Family, Children, Parents” Open Mike, 1994 November 14
1627A/159
“The Gifts We Give” Open Mike, 1994 December 12
1627A/160
Mannette Ansay, talk, 1994 December 19
1627A/161
“Voices of Ancestors” Open Mike, 1995 January 9
1627A/162
“Virtue and Vice” Open Mike, 1995 February 13
1627A/163
Fabu Mogaka, reading from “From Down Home,” 1995 February 25
1627A/164
Mariann Ritzer, featured reader, Open Mike, 1995 April 7
1627A/165
“Brothers and Sisters” Open Mike, 1995 March 12
1627A/166
Theresa Tilan, featured artist, “The Body, The Senses” Open Mike, 1995 April 10
1627A/167-168
Open Mike, 1995 June 12
1627A/169-171
Knickelbine, Sickman, Firer, “2nd Annual Contest Reading,” Futrell, Thorvaldson, Dinur with Reyes, Zell, 1995 June 23
1627A/172-173
“Animal Dreams” Open Mike, 1995 July 10
1627A/174
Kyoko Mori, 1995 July 22
1627A/175-176
Open Mike, 1995 August 14
1627A/177-178
“Work” Open Mike, 1995 September 11
1627A/179-180
“Mature Lifestyles” Open Mike, 1995 October 9
1627A/181
Conise Mancuso, emcee, “A Day Downtown” Open Mike, 1995 October 10
1627A/182
Sharon Van Sluijs, 1995 October 11
1627A/183
Karen Halvorsen Schreck, 1995 November 11
1627A/184
“Loss and Gain” Open Mike, 1995 November 13
1627A/185
Mary Beth Kotrodimos, Elena, Guest readings, Reyes, Pat Dyjak, 1995 November 17
1627A/186
“Love: Delicious Delirium Rock Bottom Truth...,” 1996 February 12
1627A/187
Open Mike, 1996 March 11
1627A/188
Thomas Kennedy, reading, 1996 March 14
1627A/189
“3rd Annual Contest Reading,” 1996
1627A/190
Poets at the Art Center, 1997 January 31
1627A/191
Ginny Lin, Judy Berrendt, reading Linda Hart, undated
1627A/192
M. Waugh, Peg Sherry, reading, Jeff Klink, Ratke, Kidjo, undated