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The latest news in the literature scene in Door County along with reviews, creative writing and news about The Hal Prize.

  • Place and Time

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    A frosty New Year’s morning / favorite room, corner window / we watch the Calatrava salute / a new morning sun.

  • Door County Poet Profile: Jude Genereaux

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    Any advice to beginning poets? Read a lot of poets, write everything that comes to mind, sort it all out later.

  • Timm Reads at Dickinson Poetry Series

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    Door County poet, playwright and director Henry Timm will read his poetry at the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series November 9 at 7 pm. Timm has written in many poetic forms though he has probably been most influenced by his experience reading and acting Shakespeare and Ibsen.

  • And So It Goes; Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

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    A trademark of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction is his use of authorial intrusions, often blurring the boundaries of fiction and autobiography. In his iconic Slaughterhouse-Five, for example, describing the toilet in the prisoner of war camp in Germany, Vonnegut writes: “An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains.”

  • Door County Hosts Wisconsin Poet Laureate

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    Bruce Dethlefsen, the 2011-2012 Wisconsin Poet Laureate and poetry judge for this year’s Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose, will present two readings in Door County in October.

  • Dethlefsen Publishes New Book

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    Wisconsin Poet Laureate Bruce Dethlefsen has a new book of poems coming out this fall, published by Cowfeather Press. The book, Unexpected Shiny Things, covers territory from the playgrounds of elementary school to the trout streams of Wisconsin, from birth to love to heartbreak, with a focus on the tragic death of Dethlefsen’s son, Willi, in 2010.

  • Poetry Jumpstart Award

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    An offshoot of the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf Initiative, the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award is designed to help other Wisconsin poets implement a project or program that brings poetry into the eye of the general public in an unconventional manner.

  • Considering Mister Dillon and Miss Kitty’s Profession

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    Once our beloved aunt gave my brothers and I a present, a thing she thought farmboys had need for…in hope of turning them into civil farmboys. Ms. Vanderbilt’s extensive 300-page deadweight, ore-boat of a tome titled Etiquette For Young Men.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 338

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    We all hope our children’s lives will be better than our own, and invest in that hope in a variety of ways. Here Michael Ryan of California compares what we can provide for them with what we can’t.

  • Wisconsin Celebrates Poetry

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    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker are hosting the Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival from October 14 – 16 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The goal of the Poetry Festival is to celebrate Wisconsin poetry.

  • Cherry Land Chapters

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    “Oh, Humphrey Bogart,” Amber’s mother sighs on the other end of the line. “Still, I don’t get it – he’s not as good looking as the other guy,” Amber studies the cover of Casablanca, the film she turned off minutes earlier.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 337

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    South Dakota poet Leo Dangel has written some of the best and truest poems about rural life that I’m aware of. Here’s a fine one about a chance discovery.

  • Praise the Undaunted

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    How the trees inform us, / how they stand, how they stand! / How they celebrate the wind, / divide the sky, grab each / a share of earth for sustenance.

  • Poetry Judge and Wisconsin Poet Laureate Releases New Book

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    Wisconsin Poet Laureate, and this year’s Peninsula Pulse’s Hal Grutzermacher’s Writers’ Expose Poetry Judge, Bruce Dethlefsen will soon release his new book, Unexpected Shiny Things.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 336

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    This week’s column is by Ladan Osman, who is originally from Somalia but who now lives in Chicago. I like “Tonight” for the way it looks with clear eyes at one of the rough edges of American life, then greets us with a hopeful wave.

  • Morning Prayer

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    watering nasturtiums / I find a long / spider’s tether line / strung stalk to stalk

  • September

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    the children / have made / a zucchini offering / in the shade

  • A History of Wisconsin Gardens

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    As Wisconsin’s population moved from farmsteads into villages, towns, and cities, the state saw a growing interest in gardening as a leisure activity and source of civic pride.

  • “Wisconsin People & Ideas” and the Wisconsin Book Festival Host Writing Contests

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    Wisconsin People & Ideas regularly publishes some of the best poetry and fiction from around the state, and now it’s the public’s chance to become a part of Wisconsin’s new literary canon.

  • Door County Poet Laureate Presents “The Poet’s Bag of Tricks”

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    Barbara Larsen, recently appointed Door County Poet Laureate by the County Board, is charged with serving as Door County’s “literary ambassador.” Her initial appearance in this role will take place on September 28 from 1 to 2:30 pm at the Red Cup Café on Washington Island.