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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American Life in Poetry: Column 324
Here’s a fine poem by my fellow Nebraskan, Barbara Schmitz, who here offers us a picture of people we’ve all observed but haven’t thought to write about.
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Dickinson Poetry Series Features Michael Farmer
Michael Farmer will be the featured poet in the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series on July 13 at 7 pm. An open mic will follow Farmer’s reading. Farmer, a poet from Baileys Harbor, describes himself in the as “short and sweet.”
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Children’s Book Combines Door County Talent
Goobadabers, a new children’s book written by Door County resident Gregg E. Powell and illustrated by former Door County resident Corinne Lea, is now available from Publish America.
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Meet the Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose Fiction Judge
Ron Kuka, Faculty Associate and Creative Writing Program Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, will judge the fiction category for this year’s Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose.
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“No Haircut” Book Signing in Door County
James Grady, author of the children’s book No Haircut, a story about a child fearing a haircut, will be holding a book signing at Book World, Inc., located at 30 N. 3rd Avenue in Sturgeon Bay.
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Now when the summer comes, and for awhile / We live through all the haunts we knew when we were young / We say, “Let’s climb the Tower tonight.” / And this we do.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 323
Joe Paddock is a Minnesota poet and he and I are, as we say in the Midwest, “of an age.” Here is a fine poem about arriving at a stage when there can be great joy in accepting life as it comes to us.
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turned out / a predictor / of success / though givers / didn’t guess it
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Door County Poet Profile: Barbara Gregorich
Home: Chicago and Door County / Favorite poet: Probably W.H. Auden. / Favorite poem: Can’t possibly narrow it down to one!
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Justin Isherwood’s New “Pulse”
Justin Isherwood, a longtime contributor to the Peninsula Pulse and this year’s non-fiction judge for the Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose, recently published a collection of essays entitled Pulse.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 322
Cathy Smith Bowers was recently appointed poet laureate of North Carolina, and I want to celebrate her appointment by showing you one of her lovely poems, a peaceful poem about a peaceful thing.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 321
For me, the most worthwhile poetry is that which reaches out and connects with a great number of people, and this one, by Joe Mills of North Carolina, does just that.
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Rudy Senarighi of Door County Receives Book Award
Presented by the University of Minnesota Duluth Library, Lake Superior Writers, and Friends of Duluth Public Library, the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA) were announced May 19.
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Door County Resident Releases Debut Novel
James c. Rigoni of Gills Rock (and Longboat, Florida) recently released his first book, Time Once Again: Evolution of the Spirit, a novel about a man’s enlightened journey to self-discovery with the help of an unlikely mentor, Jonathan.
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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.