Important message for ISFPC Members

Several members have contacted Caroline and myself to errors in the last issue of Indiana Poet and the 2016 Annual ISFPC Contest Brochure.

The errors that are pertinent to contest rules and poetry forms are being addressed.

We are correcting the errors and will mail out a supplement to Vol. 73 No. 5 March/April Indiana Poet shortly.

Please contact ISFPC president Sandra Nantais or 1st VP Caroline Dewey with any concerns.

Sandra Nantais  [email protected]   or   [email protected]
Caroline Dewey  [email protected] 




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Indiana State Poet Laureate 2016/2017 Shari Wagner has accepted an invitation to our 2016 Fall Rendezvous as our Key Note Speaker. 
 
On Saturday, she will read her poetry with a Q & A from 3:00 – 4:00 pm. She will also do a workshop from 6:15 – 7:00 pm.
 
It is always a great honor for Indiana’s Poet Laureate to attend our Fall Rendezvous and even more so when they hang out with us! 

BiographyShari Wagner has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University and teaches poetry and memoir writing for the Indiana Writers Center. She is the author of two poetry books: "The Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems of Indiana" (Bottom Dog Press, 2013) and "Evening Chore" (Cascadia, 2005). She also co-wrote two books of non-fiction with her father, Dr. Gerald Miller: "A Hundred Camels: A Mission Doctor's Sojourn and Murder Trial" (Cascadia, 2009) and "Making the Rounds: Memoirs of a Small-Town Doctor" (BookLocker, 2015). Wagner's poetry has been published in many journals, including North American Review, Shenandoah, The Christian Century, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Poetry East. Her poems have also appeared in The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, and Dave Eggers' Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2013. Wagner, who comes from a Mennonite background, often writes about her family history and has several of these poems in the anthology, "A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry" (University of Iowa Press, 2003). Her work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and she has been awarded two Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellowships, as well as eight grants from the Indiana Arts Commission. In 2009 she was co-winner of Shenandoah's The Carter Prize for the Essay.

Make sure you save the date for our Fall Rendezvous!
2016
​ISFPC Fall Rendezvous
Oct 14-16, 2016

Spring Mill Inn​
Spring Mill State Park​
​Mitchell, IN