Category: Poetry
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Poets Laureate on the Poetry Trail
by Jerod Santek, Artistic Director, Write On, Door County On a Sunday afternoon in early October – the first sunny day after many days of rain – a group of poets and poetry lovers gathered at Newport State Park for a reading by Door County Poet Laureate Nancy Rafal and Wisconsin Poet Laureate Margaret Rozga. […]
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Dancing through Mike Orlock’s Poetry
by Thomas Davis When Sturgeon Bay poet Mike Orlock gets into a string of words, he flips them around, watches them twist the air, then slings a period into an idea that somehow is not quite expected. He has just released a new book, Poetry Apocalypse & Selected Verse, which is a companion to his […]
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Mike Orlock is a retired high school teacher and coach. He and his wife, Liz, retired to Sturgeon Bay in 2008. He enjoys travel, reading, writing, films and spending time with his two children and five grandchildren. From 1989 to 2001, Orlock wrote film reviews for the Reporter-Progress newspapers in suburban Chicago and was a […]
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Jude Genereaux is Featured Poet at Next Dickinson Poetry Series
Jude Genereaux will be the featured poet at the Dickinson Poetry Series on Oct. 9, 7 pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 10341 Hwy 42 in north Ephraim. The series is held monthly on the second Wednesday and features a renowned local or regional poet, an open mic that allows others to read their poetry […]
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Acclaimed Authors Headline Island Literary Festival Sept. 19-22, 2019
Washington Island is the center of Wisconsin’s literary world this weekend. An exceptional group of nationally and internationally acclaimed authors this year who all live and work in the Midwest will be in attendance for the four-day festival, including Jane Hamilton, Rebecca Makkai, Bao Phi, Scott Russell Sanders, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Paula Carter. The […]
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Where We Write: Authors on Where they Find Inspiration
Ben Franklin did it in the bathtub. Toni Morrison in a motel room. Stephen King on a table between the washer and dryer. Where authors go to access their creativity often begins with their physical space. Whether it’s a bustling coffee shop or a secluded study, the end game for writers is the same: to […]
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Questions & Authors: JoAnn Balingit
by Jerod Santek, Artistic Director, Write On, Door County JoAnn Balingit, a former poet laureate of Delaware, will be in residence at Write On the week of Sept. 15. She is the author of the full-length collection Words for House Story and several chapbooks. I recently talked with her about her writing and her career. […]
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Peninsula Poetry: Thomas Davis
Thomas Davis as an educator, environmentalist and writer. He works in many genres – fiction, playwriting and poetry – and in August was recognized in the Wisconsin People & Ideas annual writing contest with an honorable mention for his poem “Gaia’s Song.” Davis’s latest work is In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, a historical novel […]
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Dickinson Poetry Series Features Marilyn Taylor
Marilyn Taylor will be the featured poet at the Sept. 11, 7 pm, Dickinson Poetry Series event held at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 10341 Water St. (Hwy 42) in north Ephraim. Taylor, a former Wisconsin poet laureate, is the author of six poetry collections, and her work has appeared in Poetry, Able Muse and Measure […]
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Door County Poets Receive Honorable Mentions in Statewide Poetry Contest
Wisconsin People & Ideas, the quarterly magazine of the Wisconsin Academy, announced the 2019 winners of its statewide fiction and poetry contests. Fiction winners were Exile by Steve Fox, first place; Spirit Box by Nikki Kallio, second place; and Mirror Box by Michael Hopkins, third place. Poetry winners were “Greyhound” by Robert Russell, first place; […]
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Peninsula Poetry: ‘Praise for Dark Things Too’
curated by the Door County Poets Collective Sharon Auberle is a poet and photographer who fell in love with Door County in 1984 and made it her home in 2008. She has a number of poetry collections, four of which include collaborations with other poets. Her latest book is a poetry/sketch collaboration with poet and artist […]
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POETRY: ¿Quién eres? Who are you?
In the fall of 2018, Write On led a multi-week writing program for Latinx students at Sturgeon Bay High School. The program was to culminate on Nov. 12 with a workshop and reading with Write On’s writer-in-residence, Eloisa Gomez, but the students were inspired and wanted to continue meeting and writing after Gomez left. Teachers […]
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PENINSULA POETRY: Estella Lauter’s ‘Incubator’
Lauter was appointed poet laureate of Door County for 2013-15, during which time she founded the Door County Poets Collective to publish an anthology, Soundings: Door County in Poetry (Caravaggio Press, 2015). With Francha Barnard, she co-edited the 2017 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar for WFOP on the theme of water. Since her retirement from the University […]
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Garland Featured in Dickinson Poetry Series
Max Garland, the 2013-14 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, will be the featured poet at the Dickinson Poetry Series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim on July 10, 7 pm. He will read some of his own work and discuss Walt Whitman’s bicentennial birthday. Garland is the author of The Word We Used for It and […]
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Q&A with the 2019 Hal Prize Judges
We had the opportunity to talk with the 2019 judges for the Hal Prize in Literature and Photography – Tytia Habing (photography), Cynthia Swanson (fiction), Ira Sukrungruang (poetry) and Thomas Pecore Weso (nonfiction) – about their art. Peninsula Pulse (PP): When did you know you wanted to be a writer or photographer? Cynthia Swanson (CS): I […]
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Henry Timm is an actor, director, poet, playwright and publisher who is well known to Peninsula Pulse readers, having written articles about books, local theater and literary events. He and Nancy Rafal published N.E.W. Voices: A Literary Magazine in 2011-12. In 2014, Timm directed the world premiere of the English-language version of Policy, a play […]
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Thomas and Ethel Mortenson Davis will be the featured poets at the Dickinson Poetry Series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on May 8, 7 pm. An open mic will follow. Thomas has had six books published, including two epic poems, The Weirding Storm and An American Spirit. He will primarily present sonnets from his novel […]
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Door County Poet Laureate Nancy Rafal Is Coming to a Library Near You
Even though she won a gold star for it, Nancy Rafal discounts the poem she wrote about the wind in sixth grade. “Awful poem,” she said. “I should say it was in a two-room school, so it didn’t take much to get a gold star.” It would be many years before the Milwaukee native would […]
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The Peninsula Pulse proudly presents the 2019 Hal Prize. Awarded annually since 1998, the mission of the Hal Prize is to encourage and appreciate artistic expression in various literary forms and photography. The competition offers publication in the Peninsula Pulse’s annual Literary Issue, reaching a readership of 18,000. Prizes include cash awards of up to […]
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Our April Peninsula Poetry author is June Nirschl of Baileys Harbor. What strikes her poetic fancy are the ironies and contradictions in life. In looking back over a lifetime (always in Wisconsin), she is amazed by the stories each of us has carved out. Chasing variety accounts in part for her leaving secondary education post-motherhood […]