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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Wis. Author Rochelle Pennington Releases New Book
Cupola House in Egg Harbor will be featuring autographed copies of Rochelle Pennington’s newest title, Christmas Gifts: Ten of the Greatest Ever Given, for its Labor Day weekend festivities.
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Opportunity for Wisconsin Poets
Building on the success and popularity of the first “Verse and Vision” exhibition, Gallery Q 1108 Main Street Stevens Point invites Wisconsin poets to submit original poems for consideration as part of a second collaborative exhibition of art and poetry.
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Door County Author Releases Updated Edition
On Wings of Trust tells the true story of Captain Carole Litten, who proved worthy of her 114 passengers’ trust by skillfully landing an aircraft that suffered two emergencies.
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Ellen Baker Signs “I Gave My Heart to Know This” in Door County
The Ephraim Historical Foundation will host a book signing reception for Ellen Baker, author of I Gave My Heart to Know This (Random House, 2011), on September 2 from 4 – 6 pm at Anderson Barn History Center in Ephraim.
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During spring break of 2001 when teacher/writer Richard Horan set out from his home in Wisconsin with his wife and two daughters for a vacation along the Gulf Coast, he had given no thought to collecting tree seeds, much less writing a book about the project.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 329
I’ve gotten to the age at which I spend a lot of time remembering, and it’s the fragments that seem to affect me the most, fleeting glimpses into the past that leave me still reaching for something I can’t quite grasp.
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There was only one rite of passage left for me on Thursday, February 18, 1959 at 8:52 am when I reached the legal age of 21. Whereas, yesterday on the 17th and up to the early morning on the 18th, I was just “Hughie Boy” or “kiddo,” or better yet, “young man.” Now I was to be known as “man,” “Mister,” “Sir.”
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American Life in Poetry: Column 328
I don’t often mention literary forms, but of this lovely poem by Cecilia Woloch I want to suggest that the form, a villanelle, which uses a pattern of repetition, adds to the enchantment I feel in reading it.
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Door County Poet Profile: June Nirschl
Mrs. Boland was pruning a red peony bush / when she told me she had been feeding Sport. / Sport? A rope tightened around my chest, / nearly stopped my heart.
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Aptly named for it was called the party line and in its way did predict the Blackberry and the text message. The party line telephone was grandmother’s entertainment in the leave of afternoon soap operas being it was some years yet till television.
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WRWA Invites Writers and Publishers to Fall Conference
The Wisconsin Regional Writers Association’s (WRWA) fall conference will be held in Stevens Point, Wi. at The Ramada Inn from September 23 – 25. The conference will attract writers from all genres.
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Memoir Captures Author’s Journey Through Cancer and Art Therapy
Journaling Cancer in Words and Images, Caught in the Clutch of the Crab has just been published by pioneering art therapist Harriet Claire Wadeson, Ph.D., LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM.
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Journalist and Author Reads at Edgewood in Door County
Warren Gerds will be at Edgewood Orchard Galleries to share stories from his two recent books, Tales of a Newspaperman and My Father Lives in a Drawer, on August 17 at 4 pm.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 327
Some of us have more active fantasy lives than others, but all of us have them. Here Karin Gottshall, who lives in Vermont, shares a variety of loneliness that some of our readers may have experienced.
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Thoughts on the Process – The Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose
The Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Exposé and Photography Jubilee celebrates the creative process – each photograph, each poem, and each story represents time, patience, and skill from a budding or seasoned artist.
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Searching for Surprise: A Fairly Tale
In Searching for Surprise, published by Third Step Press, author/artist Madonna Siles asks readers to imagine a life without inspiration, excitement or surprise.
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Door County Author Reflects on Childhood in Chicago
Chicago Kid: From Whence I Came, a new memoir by Door County resident Hughie Boy LeVoy, is now available. The book contains a series of personal scenes over 20 years, spanning birth to marriage.
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Judy Roy Featured at Dickinson Poetry Reading
Judy Roy of Baileys Harbor will read from her works of poetry at the Dickinson Poetry Series on August 10 at 7 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 326
I am especially fond of what we might call landscape poems, describing places, scenes. Here April Lindner, who lives in Philadelphia, paints a scene we might come upon on the back side of any great American city.
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and the clay / the brush / the pen call out