Category: Literature
The latest news in the literature scene in Door County along with reviews, creative writing and news about The Hal Prize.
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“Christmas Tree Ship Conversation” at DCMM
Best-selling author and storyteller Rochelle Pennington will host a “Christmas Tree Ship Conversation” on June 24 at 2 pm at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 358
Jaimee Kuperman is a poet living and working in the Washington, D.C., area, and she shares with many of us the experience of preparing one’s self for a visit to the dentist.
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Announcing the Judges of the 2012 Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose and Photography Jubilee
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 from accomplished and professional writers and photographers.
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Saturday Book Sales Return to Sturgeon Bay
The Sturgeon Bay Farmer’s Market has returned for the summer and so has the Friends of Door County Libraries Used Book Sales. Visitors to the Farmer’s Market on Saturdays can also “feed their mind” by crossing the street to visit the Used Book Sale in the basement of the Sturgeon Bay Library.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 357
The title of this beautiful poem by Edward Hirsch contradicts the poem, which is indeed a prayer. Hirsch lives in New York and is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, one of our country’s most distinguished cultural endowments.
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A crash downstairs woke him. The sound of someone stepping gingerly among broken crockery tinkled up the stairs. Someone moving carefully. He grabbed his Remington 870 pump home-protection shotgun from the shelf above the bed.
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The Clearing Folk School announces Norbert Blei, essayist, novelist, poet, painter and journalist, will teach a one-day writing class on September 14 from 9 am to 4 pm.
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“Schooner Days in Door County” Available
Twenty-five years after its original printing, Schooner Days in Door County has returned to the Door County Maritime Museums’ store shelves.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 355
Here’s an experience that I’d guess most of the men who read this column have had, getting into a rental tuxedo. Bill Trowbridge, a poet from Missouri, does a fine job of picturing that particular initiation rite.
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Door County Poet Profile: Judy Roy
Where do you write? In my living room, sitting on my favorite loveseat, which my husband calls “the office.”
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Gary Jones Honored at Wisconsin Writers’ Spring Conference
Gary Jones of Sister Bay was recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2012 Florence Lindemann Humor Contest for his essay “Picture This.” The award was presented at the Wisconsin Writers’ Spring Conference on May 5 in Siren, Wisconsin.
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Woodwalk Gallery Hosts Book Launch
Vance Toivonen, author and pastor, will introduce his new book, Reading Jesus: Meeting the Word of God at Woodwalk Gallery June 6 from 7 – 9 pm. At this launch, there will be refreshments, opportunities to meet the author and signed copies available for purchase.
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Children’s Book Donated to the Wellness Center of Door County
The Wellness Center of Door County received a donation of $300 worth of children’s books from Altrusa of Door County, a charitable organization whose mission is “advancing literacy through opportunities.
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Paul Burton Releases “From Trails to Rails”
How did immigrant settlers of Door County get around before there were roads and motorized vehicles? A new book by Paul Burton, From Trails to Rails is an illustrated introduction to how travel evolved on the peninsula.
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Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award Brings Poetry to Baileys Harbor
Nancy Rafal of Baileys Harbor received a Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award for her proposal to bring poetry into the eye of the general public in an unconventional manner.
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At first it was as if / you just stepped away. Everything as always: / framed family photos / lining packed bookshelves, / teapot filled for another sip
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Eleven run-down cabins / on two good walleye lakes, / the resort owner tells fishing folk.
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Door County Poets’ Retreat Redux
“The retreat reminded me that I am a poet,” said Appleton writer Barb Germiat, “and that I want to focus my efforts more on poetry and be a poet every day again.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 352
Here’s a moving poem about parenthood, about finding one’s self to be an adult but still trying to care for the child within. Mark Jarman teaches at Vanderbilt University.
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WI Fellowship of Poets Announce Poetry Awards
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) awarded its 2012 Wisconsin Chapbook Prize and 2012 Muse Prize for Excellence in Poetry at the organization’s conference on April 27 and 28 in Madison.