Category Archives: Wisconsin

Joshua Davies, River Falls, WI 2022

Joshua Davies Shuki1067@gmail.com River Falls, WI  

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Lisa Vihos- Sheboygan, Wisconsin- 2022

  Lisa Vihos- lisavihos@gmail.com- Sheboygan, Wisconsin Photo credit: Mike Huibregtse  

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Lisa Vihos- Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2021

  VIDEO LINK IN ARCHIVES: https://archive.org/details/100-thousand-poets-for-change-sheboygan-wisconsin-2021

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BONK!- Racine, Wisconsin 2021

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Mike Wendt- Woodland Pattern- Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2020

ORGANIZER: Mike Wendt, program director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. Open Mic Reading: 100 Thousand Poets for Change Sat. Sept. 26 | 2 pm CT | $Give What You Can September 26, 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of … Continue reading

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Lisa Vihos-Sheboygan- 2020

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Lisa Vihos-Sheboygan, Wisconsin – Mead Library and Wilson Elementary School-2019

  Sheboygan photos courtesy of Nanette Bulebosh. We had such a great and attentive crowd of young people at Wilson Elementary School listening to poetry today. Poetry was shared by the principal, the custodian, several teachers, some brave and talented … Continue reading

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Susan Durant, Children’s librarian, Mead Public Library, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2019

Susan Durant susan.durant@meadpl.org       

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Nick Demske-Bonk-Racine, Wisconsin 2019

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Nick Demske-Bonk!- Racine, Wisconsin 2018

ORGANIZER: Nick Demske CONTACT: nick.demske@racinelibrary.info BONK! 118 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH 2018 THE GEORGE BRAY NEIGHBORHOOD YMCA 924 CENTER STREET RACINE, WI 6:00 PM (doors open at 5:30pm) bonkperformanceseries.wordpress.com This month’s event will be part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, … Continue reading

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Lisa Vihos – Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2018

ORGANIZER: Lisa Vihos CONTACT: lisavihos@gmail.com Yesterday, I got to go to Wilson School to share poetry with students, K-5th grade as part the of “Read a Poem to Child” initiative of 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Today: 100TPC open mic … Continue reading

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Lisa Vihos- Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2018

ORGANIZER: Lisa Vihos CONTACT: lisavihos@gmail.com   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Vihos stoneboat.journal@gmail.com July 20, 2018 Poetry for Change Returns to Sheboygan The public is invited to participate in an open mic poetry reading Sheboygan, WI, July 2018 – 100 … Continue reading

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Lisa Vihos-Sheboygan, Wisconsin- Malawai Reading Garden 2018

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Peter Whalen – Milwaukee High School of the Arts Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2017

ORGANIZER: Peter Whalen CONTACT: whalenpj@milwaukee.k12.wi.us ORGANIZATION”: Milwaukee High School of the Arts Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Michael Wendt Woodland Pattern- Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2017

ORGANIZER: Michael Wendt CONTACT: michaelw@woodlandpattern.org

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Nick Demske – Racine, Wisconsin 2017

Organizer: Nick Demske Contact: nick.demske@racinelibrary.info Photos by Thomas Hibbard: Poets and The Autumn Countryside

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Lisa Vihos-Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2017

Organizer: Lisa Vihos Contact: spyderbyte@aol.com From Sheboygan organizer, Lisa Vihos: Once again, we will be on the terrace of Mead Public Library from 1-3 p.m. Our featured reader this year is the poet laureate of Milwaukee, Roberto Harrison. There will … Continue reading

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Bob Hanson- Neshkoro WI 2016

ORGANIZER: Bob Hanson CONTACT: koshinbobh@gmail.com

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Nick Demske and Matt Mulder -Racine, Wisconsin 2016

Organizer: Nick Demske and Matt Mulder Contact: nick.demske@racinelibrary.info BONK! 95 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th OLYMPIA BBROWN UNITARIAN UNIVERASLIST CHURCH 625 COLLEGE AVENUE RACINE, WI 6 PM (doors open 5:30) bonkperformanceseries.wordpress.com This month’s BONK! performance series #96 joins the world-wide celebration of … Continue reading

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Lisa Vihos-Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2016

Organizer: Lisa Vihos Contact: spyderbyte@aol.com  

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Margaret Rozga, Ed Werstein and Sacred Garden Poets-Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2016

Organizer: Margaret Rozga, Ed Werstein and Sacred Garden Poets Contact: margaret.rozga@uwc.edu Location: Scheduled for Friday evening, September 23rd, starting at 5:30, sign-up at 5:00 p.m.  We’ll be at the Paliafito Eco-Arts Garden on 3rd and Walker Streets.  In case of … Continue reading

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Thomas Hibbard-Hartland, Wisconsin 2015

ORGANIZER: Thomas Hibbard CONTACT: tomhibb@sbcglobal.net THE ESOTERIC FLIGHT OF THE MOUNTAIN BIRDS …in this emotional place I’ll encounter my end and my beginning -Mahmoud Darwish winter approaching its lonely emptiness paints the end of time earth tones such darkness where a … Continue reading

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Denise Sweet-Green Bay, Wisconsin 2015

Organizer: Denise Sweet Contact: denisehsweet@gmail.com

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Lisa Vihos-Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2015

ORGANIZER: Lisa Vihos CONTACT: spyderbyte@aol.com

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Nick Demske & Matt Mulder-Racine, Wisconsin 2015

ORGANIZER: Nick Demske & Matt Mulder-Racine CONTACT: nick.demske@racinelibrary.info

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Angela C. Trudell Vasquez -Madison, Wisconsin 2015

Organizer: Angela C. Trudell Vasquez Contact: – angievasquez13@sbcglobal.net

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Thomas Hibbard-Racine, Wisconsin 2014

ORGANIZER: Thomas Hibbard CONTACT: tomhibb@sbcglobal.net

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Lisa Vihos-Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2014

ORGANIZER: Lisa Vihos CONTACT: spyderbyte@aol.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 100 Thousand Poets for Change Returns to Sheboygan with Poetry, Music, and Visual Art Over 600 Events Planned in 100 Countries promoting peace and understanding Sheboygan, Wisconsin – On September 27, 2014 from … Continue reading

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Tom Hibbard- Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2013

Michael…on Saturday, Sept. 28, I was working quite a bit on poems and attempting to read and take care of everything…late in the night, in truth, somewhat slightly after midnight Central Time in sympathy with all the great sensitive poets spread everywhere across the planet, probably many in the Middle East and Afghanistan especially, after prepping just a bit by reading some of Jack Kerouac’s letters from 1952 to his great friend and fellow writer John Clellon Holmes, I brought my cat named “Kitty” into my room and improvised some poems for him, though characteristically he was shy about being privy as part of my writing…and my newly harvested pie pumpkins in the cellar also heard my doleful hopeful words from the heart…and several ghosts that share the room keep me modest company also especially now that the government is shut down and no one knows what will take place regarding anything or if anything matters or what does and what doesn’t matter…so I am honoring this rare fine opportunity of a Day of Poetry for which I am thankful by sending you a poem (below) from my new collection and a photo of my pumpkins…happy poets’ day, viva poetry in the uncompromising Age of Silence…Tom Hibbard

PRIVATE LUXURY
in back of all-night diners
watching midwestern rivers
in darkened greyhound busses
going from philadelphia to cleveland
our spare belongings
scattered across the land
watching agendas of nihilism
declare war on themselves
beginning their tasks of destruction
animosity feeds only its own
as the cold winds blow
are lies all we have
heard sporadically above
a universe of sunlight and rain
that blooms with the definitive fruit of neutrinos
leisure is the only thing you criticize
curious astronauts
driving small cars
splash on the anonymous blacktop
taking all problems for yourself
cut-off from communication

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Laura Serwe-Greenbay, Wisconsin 2013

Organizer: Laura Serwe Contact: serwla21@uwgb.edu

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Wendy Vardaman-Verse Wisconsin- Madison, Wisconsin 2013

ORGANIZER: Wendy Vardaman CONTACT: editors@versewisconsin.org

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David Chirot -Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2013

ORGANIZER: David Chirot CONTACT: david.chirot@gmail.com

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Es El Vee-Green Bay, Wisconsin 2013

ORGANIZER: Es El Vee CONTACT: motherofsalad@gmail.com

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Lisa Vihos-Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2013

ORGANIZER: Lisa Vihos CONTACT: : spyderbyte@aol.com Saturday, September 28, 2013 10:00am until 3:00pm in CDT On Saturday, September 28, the world–wide movement, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, returns to Sheboygan for its third year. All over the world on that … Continue reading

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Madison East Side High School-Madison, Wisconsin

Organizer: Donald Hoaglin Contact: dhoaglin@madison.k12.wi.us Madison East Side High School is having a 100k Poets For Change kick-off performance on Friday the 28th of September at East Side High School during the afternoon. We will have poets who are part … Continue reading

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Laura Serwe-Greenbay, Wisconsin

Organizer: Laura Serwe Contact: serwla21@uwgb.edu

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Mary Swenson-Madison, Wisconsin

Organizer: Mary Swenson Contact: mswensonteach@gmail.com

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Lacrosse, Wisconsin

Organizer: Adam Binash

Contact: ajbinash@gmail.com

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Dec 7-100 ThOuSaNd HIP-HOP HEADS FoR ChAnGe “John “VIETNAM” Nguyen Memorial- Chicago, Illinois TBA

Organizer: Sandra Michelle Magaña contact for information. More TBA Contact: sandy_m312@yahoo.com =========== Check the livestream–Tune in to watch this live event…. ~Special workshops brought to you by~ Kuumba Lynx students and staff ~Special Performances by~ Kuumba Lynx youth of LVHS … Continue reading

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Organizers: Chuck Stebelton, Ching-In Chen, Nikki Wallschlaeger Contact: chinginchen(at)gmail.com or nikkiwallschlaeger(at)gmail.com ******** 100 Thousand Poems of Response and Survival for Milwaukee: in memory of those we’ve lost to and those who are surviving violence in the Milwaukee area Join the … Continue reading

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Denise Sweet-Green Bay, Wisconsin

Organizer: Denise Sweet Contact: denisehsweet@gmail.com

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Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2012

Organizer: Lisa Vihos Contact: spyderbyte@aol.com 100TPC will have a booth at Earthfest in Sheboygan’s Fountain Park on August 18 and 19. We will promote the September 29 event there, along with many other “poetic” endeavors, such as Mead Library, Bookworm … Continue reading

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