Category: Literature News
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The everyday adventures, struggles, and shenanigans of a father and his only son. It’s the stuff of memories, of Sundays, of legend. The comic strip “Up Nort” has been gracing the pages of the Peninsula Pulse for three years, and it is all about those everyday adventures.
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“Nature of Peninsula” Now Available
Friends of Peninsula State Park (FPSP) are pleased to announce the publication of The Nature of Peninsula: A Park Ecology Sampler. The 90-page book, with color photographs, features essays by field specialists including Roy and Charlotte Lukes, Scott Craven, Tom Blackwood, and several DNR staff.
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“Jacksonport Through the Generations” Re-released
The original 1997 edition of Jacksonport Through the Generations: Volume I, produced by Jim Halstead on his personal computer, has been newly released in an expanded version.
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2012 Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar Released
The 2012 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, released by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, will be available for sale at Novel Ideas in Baileys Harbor mid-June.
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The 2011 Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose and Photography Jubilee Judges
Justin Isherwood, whose humorous and thought-provoking non-fiction essays have graced pages of the Pulse for years, will judge this year’s Hal Grutzmachers’ Writers’ Expose non-fiction contest.
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The Peninsula Pulse is once again sponsoring the Hal Grutzmacher Writer’s Exposé and Photography Jubilee. The contests are held in the spirit of the late Hal Grutzmacher, a professor and Door County bookstore owner, by offering commentary and encouragement to promising writers and photographers.
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Pulse comic “Up Nort” turned into book.
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Wisconsin Academy to Steward Wisconsin Poet Laureate Position
Citing a long history of support for the arts, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters announced that it will steward the Wisconsin Poet Laureate position and provide staff support for the Poet Laureate Commission.
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Dickinson Poetry Series Presents “June in June”
The upcoming Dickinson Poetry Series at the UU Fellowship in Ephraim is titled “June in June,” featuring the works of Baileys Harbor poet June Nirschl on June 8 at 7 pm.
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Novel Ideas of Door County Hosts “Sharp As Want” Reading and Signing
Sunday, June 5 at 2 pm, Novel Ideas Bookstore of Baileys Harbor will host an Author and Artist Book Signing. Poet Jeanie Tomasko will read from and discuss Sharp as Want, her award-winning book which also features the photo-artwork of Sharon Auberle.
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Newport State Park of Door County Updates Poetry Trail
The current exhibit on Newport State Park’s Poetry Trail features poems by two students from Gibraltar High School, Lexie Janssen and Lena MacDonald, and two from Sevastopol, Trevor Hietpas and Cody Birnschein, as well as five poets whose work has appeared in past issues of the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar: Francha Barnard, David Clowers, Alice D’Alessio, Gary Jones, and Jeanie Tomasko.
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Wallace Poetry Group Presents “Rockwell Revisited”
“Rockwell Revisited” is the name of the twelfth annual Poetry and Art show at the Meadows Gallery in Scandia Village, Sister Bay. A reading of the poems will be held in the Meadows dining room on Wednesday, May 18 at 2 pm.
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Jacksonport Historical Society Publishes Ninth Volume
In the Woods: Stories from Lakeshore Road is the latest book from the Jacksonport Historical Society. Released as volume nine in the series “Jacksonport Through the Generations,” the book traces the history of the .85-mile stretch of road along Lake Michigan from the ‘20s to the present.
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The Dickinson Poetry Series Combines Poetry and Music
The musical duo of Bruce Dethlefsen and Bill Orth will perform as Obvious Dog on Wednesday, May 11 as a part of the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series.
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Author Brian Freeman Appears in Door County
This issue’s featured excerpt comes from Brian Freeman’s newest suspense novel, The Bone House, featuring a Door County setting. In a review of his newest book, the Minneapolis Star Tribune called it “a scorching suspense novel.”
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D.R. Baker Releases “American Supper”
On March 8, 2011, D.R. Baker published his first collection of poetry, American Supper. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Baker has returned to Algoma where he established his own publishing company, Transtemporal Publishing, Ltd.
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Ted Prokash of Door County Releases Debut Novel
“ . . . rum, rum rum. Buckets and barrels and gallons of rum.” Six sturdy Midwesterners seek answers to inscrutable questions through a brutal regimen of sensual osmosis in A Fool for Lesser Things, Ted Prokash’s debut novel, available now from Joyless House Publishing.
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Door County Libraries Host Author of “The Bone House”
The Friends of Door County Libraries Book and Author series will feature award-winning mystery author Brian Freeman in two appearances. On Friday, May 13, Freeman will speak at 7 pm at the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay; on Saturday, May 14 he will speak at 10 am at the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Station.
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Norbert Blei Kicks Off Dickinson Poetry Series
Norbert Blei will inaugurate the third year of the Emily Dickinson Poetry Series with a reading at 7 pm on Wednesday, April 13 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim.
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Party with the Poets at Book Publication Celebration
Poets and poetry lovers will celebrate the publication of Memory Keepers on Sunday, March 27 at 11:30 am, following the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County’s annual Poetry Sunday service.