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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.

  • Gaza, January 2009

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    In seven years, we’ve got a whole new body.     – Li-Young Lee, Breaking the Alabaster Jar     A European doctor on emergency duty in Gaza says     it’s like being bombed in a cage,           and I think of how it must seem     to those […]

  • 2 Poems

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    Snowbound   The stomach determines contentment or distress – that pouch behind the ribs hanging like a wattle inflates the kitchen table till it touches walls, makes the speck of grit inside my sock swell into a boulder, the faucet’s steady drip, drip, drip wear enamel off my tooth. To what do I owe this […]

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 242

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    There are lots of poems in which a poet expresses belated appreciation for a parent, and if you don’t know Robert Hayden’s poem, “Those Winter Sundays,” you ought to look it up sometime.

  • Wisconsin Poetry and Short Story Contests Announced

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    Wisconsin residents are encouraged to send in a short story or a batch of three poems to the Wisconsin People & Ideas / Wisconsin Book Festival 2010 poetry and short story contests.

  • LA Novelist Signs Books at Novel Ideas

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    California novelist Sara Kuhns will be at Novel Ideas Bookstore in Baileys Harbor on Saturday, November 28, from 1 – 3, signing copies of her first, self-published novel, A Sigh for Life’s Completion.

  • Out of Tune with the Times

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    I’m rarely surprised by the people I see walking into Slim’s Tavern over on Armitage. Almost all of them are regulars and their faces are familiar. Imagine my surprise, then, when Professor Gardner walked in one summer evening while I was sitting alone at the bar, quietly sipping a beer.

  • Invasives, Aliens, Stowaways

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    Invasives, aliens and stowaways, immigrants, all things foreign…weeds, snails, insects and carp fish. When it comes to immigrants we don’t complain about German brown trout or bees or apple trees or the horse, or cats.

  • A Review – Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

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    What, exactly, were you thinking? Obviously, not the right thing, that’s for sure.

  • Door County Women Pair up for Dickinson Poetry Series

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    A pair of Door County poets will present their works at the Dickinson Poetry Series November 11, 7 pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Ephraim.

  • Caterpillar Reading Program Kicks Off in November

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    In honor of the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” the Door County libraries are participating in the Eric Carle Caterpillar Reading Program during November.

  • 3 Poems

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    Ellen Kort is probably best known outside the Fox Valley as Wisconsin’s first Poet Laureate. As such she became the prime advocate for the craft, traveling the state to serve the muse by opening the hearts and minds of our citizens to the strength, beauty and joy of poetry.

  • The Pickup Truck

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    The pickup truck is an American icon, same as the Conestoga wagon and the Marlboro Man. If there are other farmers in the world, none have the devotion to a truck as the Yankee/Rebel/Cowboy/Dirtball.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 240

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    We haven’t shown you many poems in which the poet enters another person and speaks through him or her, but it is, of course, an effective and respected way of writing.

  • American Life in Poetry: Column 238

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    Though some teacher may have made you think that all poetry is deadly serious, chock full of coded meanings and obscure symbols, poems, like other works of art, can be delightfully playful.

  • Two October ‘treats’ at Novel Ideas Bookstore

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    Novel Ideas Bookstore in Baileys Harbor is treating patrons to two great author events this October.

  • Author Trygvie Jensen to Read and Sign Books at Peninsula Bookman

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    To celebrate the release of his latest book on the commercial fishing industry on Lake Michigan, Trygvie Jensen will be at The Peninsula Bookman in Fish Creek reading from Through Wave & Gales Comes Fisherman’s Tales on Saturday, October 24 at 7 pm.

  • TAP’s Writers Workshop Announces Fall Schedule

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    So you want to write a novel? Try a short story first or perhaps a poem or essay. Tuesdays at TAP, the Writer’s Workshop, returns to Third Avenue Playhouse this fall with a four-session series focusing on literary short forms, including fiction and poetry.

  • A Review: War Dances

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    You know you shouldn’t have done it. It wasn’t a good idea, right from the get-go, but you couldn’t help yourself.

  • To Whom It May Concern

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    To Whom It May Concern, I am writing to recommend Autumn for the position recently left vacant by Summer. I have observed Autumn’s work for the last 40 years or so and feel I am as qualified as anyone to comment on her abilities.

  • Cell Power or Beam Me Up, Scotty

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    During summer vacation we observed over a period of a week our national addiction to cell phones. A few examples, but by no means all, follow. In the Amtrak Station in Milwaukee a young man discussed his recent college graduation and then proceeded to describe his new apartment in the minutest detail.