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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Wisconsin Writing Duo Sets Debut Mystery Novel in Door County
Peggy Williams and Mary Joy Johnson’s first mystery, On the Road to Death’s Door, is being published under the pen name M J Williams in both electronic and print formats by Amazon.
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21012 – 2013 Emily Dickinson Poetry Series Announced
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County (UUFDC) is pleased to announce an exciting list of featured poets for 2012-2013, the fourth year of the series.
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Book Sale at Sturgeon Bay Library
The Friends of the Door County Libraries is sponsoring a “Half-Price Book Sale” at the Sturgeon Bay Library on March 17 from 9 am – 1 pm. The event is a combination of spring-cleaning and an attempt to make way for new book donations.
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Family Literacy Calls Upon Dr. Suess
Over 200 people attended a Dr. Seuss-themed Family Literacy Night at Sawyer School on March 8. Reading specialist, Gretchen Montee, teamed up with The Boys and Girls Club and the Sturgeon Bay Parent-Teacher Group (PTG) to enlist the help of school staff and community members to create an interactive event for local families.
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Ministry Door County Medical Center Auxiliary’s annual book fair will be held in the hospital lobby on March 22 from 10 – 3:30 pm and March 23 from 9 – 2:30 pm.
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Dickinson Poetry Series Features Barnard
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series will feature retired Sheboygan elementary school librarian Francha Barnard on March 7 at 7 pm.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 348
When we’re on all fours in a garden, planting or weeding, we’re as close to our ancient ancestors as we’re going to get. Here, while he works in the dirt, Richard Levine feels the sacred looking over his shoulder.
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Upon Seeing Sandpipers in Hawaii
Looking like balls of brown- and white putty a sculptor has perched atop rigid black legs, sandpipers race up and down the beach, thin black bills exploring the littoral, probing for food, not comprehending that in Paradise they need not move with such stiff-legged purpose.
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Cantata for Woodland and Orchestra
There, just there – where the first cellos of March come in, before the oboes or the ides – there, the brooding
before budding or cranes return, before clarion brass of calendar spring, the thing made of maple and ice,
there, that dripping, the ripping of the long, white garment, there, the giggling of flutes, perennial roots waking in cold soil. -
It is with a certain regularity we collect each other. So common is this procedure a diagnosis is available for those who collect people, what for want of a better word to call it friendship.
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Gibraltar Student Poets Featured in Dickinson Poetry Series
On Feb. 8, seven Gibraltar High School students were featured at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series. The Emily Dickinson Poetry Series takes place on the second Wednesday of the month throughout the year.
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Fox Presents Door County Thriller
The Moonhawker by George Fox is a thriller about a Special Forces soldier-turned-educator, Atticus Gunner. After an anonymous philanthropic organization makes him an offer he cannot refuse, Gunner and his two young daughters embark on an adventure into the untamed waters of northern Lake Michigan on a 32-foot sloop named the Moonhawk.
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Dustin glides his fingertips over the guitar strings. The heat and damp of sweat spreads over his shoulders as he softly lets out lyrics penned days ago.
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It had been raining for what seemed like weeks. Whole deltas, river towns, and swaths of civilization were getting wiped off the map on the 6:00 o’clock news almost every night over dinner on the TV.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 347
My mother and her sisters were experts at using faint praise, and “Bless her heart” was a very useful tool for them. Richard Newman, of St. Louis, does a great job here of showing us how far that praise can be stretched.
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“Untitled” Used & Rare Books of Sturgeon Bay will host their First Friday Open Mic Poetry Night event Feb. 3 from 5 – 8 pm. The program is part of the shop’s 2012 monthly series of poetry events to add activity and enjoyment to Door County residents and visitors during these slow and silent winter months.
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Dickinson Poetry Series Features Young Poets
An accomplished group of young poets from Gibraltar High School will be featured at the Dickinson Series reading on Feb. 8 at 7 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (UUF) in Ephraim.
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“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”
As a title The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter suggests romance, but Carson McCullers’ classic novel does not deal with the course of true love. Instead she echoes themes found in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.
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Door County Reads Event Schedule
Residents and visitors are invited to participate in this year’s Door County Reads by reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and participating in scheduled activities throughout January and February.
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Poetry Series Features Clowers
The next Dickinson Poetry Series will feature David Clowers in “Out of the Woods and Into a Poem” on Jan. 11 at 7 pm at the UU Fellowship in Ephraim. Clowers lived in a small, self-built cabin on 30 acres of Door County woods without electricity or running water for nine years – over three times as long as Henry David Thoreau.