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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.

  • Featured Poet: Katie Schnorr

    Katie Schnorr lives on a farmstead in Southern Door County with her husband and two young daughters. She teaches in the Sturgeon Bay Public Schools and also writes for Door County Living magazine.

  • Door County Author Introduces Book for Patients and Caregivers

    Madonna Siles shares her surprising successes, set-backs and discoveries from eight years of caregiving in her new book, Eureka! Memories and Motivations: A Strategy for Creating a Healing Home for the Stroke/Brain Injury Patient and Caregiver.

  • Barbara Larsen Next Dickinson Poet

    Barbara Larsen, author of six poetry books, is the next featured poet in the Unitarian Universalist’s Dickinson Series. She will share her poetry on May 12, 7 pm.

  • To Our Pacifists on Veteran’s Day

    For once, let’s praise the men who wouldn’t fight, the women on both sides who sang for peace, the ones who stood against the tanks, that Might would never be abused; that war might cease. They have no flag, no sword, no honor guard, no purple heart, no annual parade, no list of names on […]

  • Dog at the Wheel

    I call When she answers I can hear the dog Leaning close As if the call was really meant for him Or he is her telephone Chaperone His panting is louder Than her voice A ready steady cadence Like he is on a treadmill Propelling the car forward Her voice Begins to gradually diminish I […]

  • Rain

    Rain makes me feel AMAZING! To me, it’s not just a chore of Nature, It’s a feeling! Indescribable! The feeling you get running barefoot in the rain. Or snuggling on the Ferris wheel. Sharing an Ice Cream Cone. Riding on the handle bars of someone’s bike. Hiding in a secret place only you know about. […]

  • Moonlight on the Goldenrod

    Walking together in the twilight Strong mild winds from the south Summer warmth with a hint of fall Open spaces stretching before us Light haze covering the sky Humid aid enveloping the fields Thick forests at the horizon Colors fading to shades of gray Fragrances of drying summer Fields of ripe corn and waving grass […]

  • Upper Bear Creek Road (Evergreen, CO)

    On this morning’s meander before Thanksgiving feast I coast and curve mindfully between the crossing creek-bed Gazing in amazement at gigantic homes, humongous boulders, And timbered beams bravely lodging beneath the behemoth rock. The rushing stream, frosted along its sides, brags icily Of mountain trout hidden within. A small herd of overfed horses Stand patiently […]

  • Lost Lake Road

    It’s April and a single sandhill crane flies across my road. Great blue herons when they arrive blow in like dark-blue smoke. Their necks are bowed as if recoiling from the shock of finding Door County’s leafless spring. But this sandhill’s aim is arrow-straight gliding down to the stubble fields where he stands to rest […]

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 264

    Wendy Videlock lives in western Colorado, where a person can stop to study what an owl has left behind without being run over by a taxi.

  • Celebrating Wisconsin’s Readers and Writers on April 17

    As the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day approaches, one way to celebrate will be Wisconsin Center for the Book’s (WCB) Nature Book Bash on April 17. A “non-urban book festival” that helps to connect the dots of science, books, birders, and readers, this year’s book bash will be held at a new time and site – April 17, 5 – 8 pm, at Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre (WRCT).

  • Dear Mr. Patrick Henry

    Dear Mr. Patrick Henry   Where are you when we need you? You raised a whirlwind and rode it to revolution. railed at king and parliament, aloof and overseas.   Our Congress seems detached, putting Party before public, re-election before principle. Hope packed her bags and left, and skeptics are having a field day.   […]

  • Dear Liberace

    Dear Liberace,   May I call you Lee? Even in absentia, I know you’re out there. Smiling, glittering – the perfect host.   I remember seeing you on Person to Person. Edward R. Murrow, the famous newsman, interviewing you, the famous entertainer, on live television. Swathed in white, brilliant even on black and white TV, […]

  • Dear M. Antoine de St. Exupéry

    Dear M. Antoine de St. Exupéry For a very long time I was a grown-up. This you will understand, having been such a person yourself. I spoke with other grown-ups of politics and fashions, of recipes and lesson plans. I wore stockings and pointy-toed shoes, just like the shoes that all the other teachers wore […]

  • Dear Saint Joan

    Dear Saint Joan I’ve been meaning to write you for years after reading Shaw’s play and seeing Cindy Sheehan camped on the border of our leader’s land in Texas to protest our wars. From your lofty view, it cannot matter that I am a writer who also taught a generation about women like you, but […]

  • Dear Glenn Ford

    Dear Glenn Ford, In the days when you and William Holden made romantic Westerns in the West my friend, Joyce, and I could not decide which of you we loved the very best.

  • Dear Martha Stewart

    Dear Martha Stewart, With an adhesive lint roller in one hand and a julep strainer in the other I strive to be like your model of efficiency, but do have a bit of trouble locating my can opener. While I hope to master the six steps to foolproof gravy, tasty leftovers and perfectly folded towels […]

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 262

    When we hear news of a flood, that news is mostly about the living, about the survivors. But at the edges of floods are the dead, too. Here Michael Chitwood, of North Carolina, looks at what’s floating out there on the margins.

  • April: Once Again it’s Poetry Month

    When April comes along with Her sweet flowers
    The poets bloom as well to bless Her hours.

  • UU Fellowship Features Poetry of Schnorr

    The Dickinson Poetry Series kicks off its second season April 14 at 7 pm, with readings by Katie Schnorr, a teacher, writer and actress living in Southern Door County.