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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.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 314

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    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.

  • Ted Prokash of Door County Releases Debut Novel

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    “ . . . 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.

  • Door County Libraries Host Author of “The Bone House”

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    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.

  • Birch Forest by Water

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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.

  • Norbert Blei Kicks Off Dickinson Poetry Series

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    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.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 313

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    Go for a walk and part of whatever you walk through rides back on your socks. Here Peter Everwine, a California poet, tells us about the seeds that stick to us, in all their beauty and variety.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 310

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    A friend saw a refrigerator magnet that read, PARENTING: THE FIRST 40 YEARS ARE THE HARDEST. And lots of parents, thinking their children have moved on, discover one day that those children are back. Here Marilyn L. Taylor, Poet Laureate of Wisconsin, writes of that.

  • Party with the Poets at Book Publication Celebration

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    Poets and poetry lovers will celebrate the publication of Memory Keepers on Sunday, March 27 at 11:30 am, following the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County’s annual Poetry Sunday service.

  • “Verse Wisconsin” Seeks Submissions

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    The theme for the November 2011 issue of Verse Wisconsin Online is “Earthworks.” Co-Editors Sarah Busse and Wendy Vardaman seek poems “that move the earth, and move us as readers.”

  • Conversation

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    is not like bowling, / is not hurling / an obdurate opinion / down a polished path,

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 311

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    Peggy Shumaker lives in Alaska, but she gets around the world. Here she takes us with her on a ninety-foot dive into colorful mid-Pacific waters.

  • Defending the Fort

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    On any given weekend our family would jump in the white Ford station wagon and head out to visit our farm relatives. We had three sets of them about a half hours ride west of Rockford, Illinois.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 309

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    I love poems that celebrate families, and here’s a fine one by Joyce Sutphen of Minnesota, a poet who has written dozens of poems I’d like to publish in this column if there only were weeks enough for all of them.

  • Dickinson Poetry Series Features Michael Farmer

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    Michael Farmer of Baileys Harbor will be the featured poet in the UU Fellowship Dickinson Poetry Series on Wednesday, March 9 at 7 pm. His reading will conclude the 2010-2011 Emily Dickinson Poetry Series at the UU Fellowship.

  • Honoring Poet Frances May

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    A celebration of Door County’s first designated Poet Laureate, Frances May, will be held in her honor on Sunday, March 13 at 3 pm at the Miller Art Museum.

  • “The Paris Wife”

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    Ernest Hemingway was a man’s man, glorying in those things male: fishing, hunting, fighting bulls, going to war, and enjoying fleeting love.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 308

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    Connie Wanek is one of my favorite poets. She lives in Duluth and has a keen eye for what goes on around her. Here’s a locked and loaded scene from rural America.

  • Forestville Library Hosts “Flat Stanley”

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    “Flat Stanley,” from Shawnee Mission, Kansas will be visiting the Forestville Branch of the Door County Library for the Stories and Fun session at 9:30 am on Friday, Feb. 25.

  • A Rose By Any Other

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    A rose by any other / In the cold Northern Door / Can be seen obscene / By those who ignore / The scent of difference

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 305

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    The great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso said that, in his subjects, he kept the joy of discovery, the pleasure of the unexpected. In this poem celebrating Picasso, Tim Nolan, an attorney in Minneapolis, says the world will disclose such pleasures to us, too, if only we pay close attention.