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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.

  • Home Coming – A Novel – By Rosemary Hintz

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    In the follow up to her first novel, Return to Sawyer School, Rosemary Hintz delivers yet another captivating novel about growing up during the war years of the 1940s in Home Coming.

  • Corn Legends

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    Corn has its legends. Once were the Mayan and Aztec, once the Sauk, the Iroquois, the Huron, the Navajo; once was Hiawatha. In our age legendary corn is knee high by the Fourth, though it might have been wiser had that not been uttered.

  • The Beatles to be Replaced by Big Brother and the Holding Company

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    Nearly two years ago, highly trained musical analysts from Berkeley technical school in Southern Indiana put into effect “Operation Big Brother.” I know what you’re thinking.

  • Dylan Thomas Reading Upcoming

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    Prof. Gareth Lloyd Jones, emeritus professor at Bangor University, Wales, will read from the works of Dylan Thomas at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, July 28, at the Church of the Atonement, Fish Creek.

  • Hansotia Recognized with Jumpstart Award

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    Phil Hansotia of Ellison Bay was a finalist in the 2010 Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award. He will receive $250 to create “poetry trails” (poems in display cases mounted on posts) in Newport State Park, a partnership between the Wallace, Unabridged and Word Women poetry groups with the Newport Wilderness Society, Newport State Park, and Sevastapol, […]

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 277

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    Here’s hoping that very few of our readers have to go through cardiac rehab, which Thomas Reiter of New Jersey captures in this poem, but if they do, here’s hoping that they come through it feeling wildly alive and singing at the tops of their lungs.

  • Honest Men, Unprotected

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    I wasn’t sure why the boots bothered me. They weren’t even mine. Basic brown steel toes. Nothing much to speak of, but there they were – laid out in the middle of the rig. I had to take them off of him around the same time my partner was putting the shock pads away. The […]

  • Friends’ Book Sale at Sturgeon Bay Library

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    The Friends of Door County Library will be holding its 2010 Book Sale July 29 – 31. More than 10,000 books will be available for sale and will cost just $1 for a hard cover book and 25¢ for children’s books. Where else can such a great bargain be found? This sale is held in […]

  • Jacksonport Historical Series Continues with Volume Seven

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    Volume Seven of Jacksonport Through the Generations is now available. This number in the Jacksonport Historical Society’s on-going series features stories about the Bley, Brungraber, Clark, Graf, Herbst, Kasten, Mueller, and Naumann families.

  • Book Signing by Door County Author

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    Jerry Amos, author of the newly published novel, The Division, will appear at Sturgeon Bay’s Book World, 30 N. 3rd Avenue, on July 31 from 11 am – 2 pm.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 276

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    I live in Nebraska, where we have a town named Homer. Such a humble, homely name and, as it happens, the poet Donal Heffernan is from Homer, and here’s his hymn to the town and its history.

  • I Thought You Were Dead

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    Reading Pete Nelson’s novel I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story was a guilty pleasure, like eating a tater tot casserole or listening to country music.

  • Celebrated Environmental Author to Visit Peninsula State Park July 23 & 24

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    Peninsula State Park welcomes Marybeth Lorbiecki, author of the Aldo Leopold biography A Fierce Green Fire on July 23 and 24. Lorbiecki will share excerpts from Leopold’s conservation writings at an illustrated talk on Friday, July 23, from 8 – 9 pm at the Nature Center.

  • Novel Ideas Hosts First-time Author Champan

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    Meet Wisconsin author Brett Champan at Novel Ideas Bookstore in Baileys Harbor on Saturday, July 17 at 1 pm for a reading and booksigning for his new book Rearview Sunset.

  • Hintz’s Home Coming Now Available

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    Rosemary Hintz will be at The Bridge in Egg Harbor on July 31, 3 – 5 pm, signing copies of her latest book, Home Coming. The novel Home Coming is the story of Robbie Wilson, who readers first learned of in Return to Sawyer School, Hintz’s first historical novel.

  • Feed the Belly

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    Plum Bottom Pottery will be hosting the second annual launch of the summer edition of Knock: Door County Arts and Lit Journal Thursday June 15 from 6 – 9 pm for an evening of art, food, and literature. The event will mark the eighth issue of Knock, which is themed the Belly. The new summer […]

  • New Poetry from Barbara Larsen

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    New Poetry from Barbara Larsen Editor’s Note: I set out to choose two poems from Door County Poet, Barbara Larsen’s new book of poetry Finding Tongues in Trees to publish in the Pulse.

  • Loves Precept and Denial

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    Episode 10 Oh love, if we could find a path, away from all this aftermath. And linger as we wonder through this forest of enchanted hue. Then I within my heart would know, past semblance of a fading show.

  • Two Poems

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    When Wildflowers Emerge When wildflowers emerge in spring they dress like Carnival goers disguised as moments of color before the Lenten plain. Trillium begin their days in first-communion white then learn to blush from experience of dancing airs in May.

  • Champan Signs Books in Sturgeon Bay

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    Area readers are invited to meet Brett Champan, a Wausau native and current resident of northeastern Wisconsin, who will be signing his new novel, Rearview Sunset, at Book World in Sturgeon Bay Saturday, July 10, 11 am – 3 pm.