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 320
When I was a little boy, the fear of polio hung over my summers, keeping me away from the swimming pool. Atomic energy was then in its infancy. It had defeated Japan and seemed to be America’s friend.
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On the Trail with the Local Poet Laureate
They assemble at appointed hour / three poets toting pens and cameras. / It was to be an ekphrastic experience, visual artists and / writers wrestling works from respective muses
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American Life in Poetry: Column 318
I love poems that take pains to observe people at their tasks, and here’s a fine one by Christopher Todd Matthews, who lives in Virginia.
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Newport State Park of Door County Updates Poetry Trail
The current exhibit on Newport State Park’s Poetry Trail features poems by two students from Gibraltar High School, Lexie Janssen and Lena MacDonald, and two from Sevastopol, Trevor Hietpas and Cody Birnschein, as well as five poets whose work has appeared in past issues of the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar: Francha Barnard, David Clowers, Alice D’Alessio, Gary Jones, and Jeanie Tomasko.
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Wallace Poetry Group Presents “Rockwell Revisited”
“Rockwell Revisited” is the name of the twelfth annual Poetry and Art show at the Meadows Gallery in Scandia Village, Sister Bay. A reading of the poems will be held in the Meadows dining room on Wednesday, May 18 at 2 pm.
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Jacksonport Historical Society Publishes Ninth Volume
In the Woods: Stories from Lakeshore Road is the latest book from the Jacksonport Historical Society. Released as volume nine in the series “Jacksonport Through the Generations,” the book traces the history of the .85-mile stretch of road along Lake Michigan from the ‘20s to the present.
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Going full flannel is like going full monty except in the opposite direction. The farmhouse closet is divided in half, if not quite in half because Wisconsin is slightly more Mars than it is Venus.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 315
We who teach creative writing have been known to tell our students that there is no subject so common and ordinary that it can’t be addressed in a poem, and this one, by Michael McFee, who lives in North Carolina, is a good example of that.
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The Dickinson Poetry Series Combines Poetry and Music
The musical duo of Bruce Dethlefsen and Bill Orth will perform as Obvious Dog on Wednesday, May 11 as a part of the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series.
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Author Brian Freeman Appears in Door County
This issue’s featured excerpt comes from Brian Freeman’s newest suspense novel, The Bone House, featuring a Door County setting. In a review of his newest book, the Minneapolis Star Tribune called it “a scorching suspense novel.”
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D.R. Baker Releases “American Supper”
On March 8, 2011, D.R. Baker published his first collection of poetry, American Supper. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Baker has returned to Algoma where he established his own publishing company, Transtemporal Publishing, Ltd.
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It’s a melancholy day, / dim and dreary. / Rain falls steadily, / ringlets in puddles of water.
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outward / not inward to find her / missing a sink / running water / plastic scrubbies / anti-bacterial soaps / bleach / windex spray bottles / paper towels
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We sit across from one another / at the kitchen table / the blue checkered cloth / a field between us.
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You can see only the shoes of fairies whose feet / are dressed in the color of daffodils and dandelions.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 314
Maybe you have to be a poet to get away with sniffing the paws of a dog, and I have sniffed the paws of all of mine, which almost always smell like hayfields in sunlight.
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Ted Prokash of Door County Releases Debut Novel
“ . . . rum, rum rum. Buckets and barrels and gallons of rum.” Six sturdy Midwesterners seek answers to inscrutable questions through a brutal regimen of sensual osmosis in A Fool for Lesser Things, Ted Prokash’s debut novel, available now from Joyless House Publishing.
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Door County Libraries Host Author of “The Bone House”
The Friends of Door County Libraries Book and Author series will feature award-winning mystery author Brian Freeman in two appearances. On Friday, May 13, Freeman will speak at 7 pm at the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay; on Saturday, May 14 he will speak at 10 am at the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Station.
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Always the water, changing, changing, / blue, blue-green, blue-gray, blue, / sometimes lullabying the shore, / gently stroking; sometimes / domineering companion of the shore, / passionate, angry, lashing at the rocks.
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Norbert Blei Kicks Off Dickinson Poetry Series
Norbert Blei will inaugurate the third year of the Emily Dickinson Poetry Series with a reading at 7 pm on Wednesday, April 13 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim.