Lorine Niedecker – Poet of Place
Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970) is a twentieth-century, second-wave, Modern American poet often identified with the Objectivists. Living most of her life on the shores of the Rock River near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, she is perhaps best known as a poet of place who wrote about the Blackhawk Island that she loved. Her work, however, ranges from modernist folk poetry (NEW GOOSE, 1946) to haiku-like forms to long poems like “Lake Superior” and “Wintergreen Ridge” (NORTH CENTRAL, 1968). She is admired for the subtlety of her tightly crafted, nuanced and deliciously ironic poems, as well as for her total devotion to her calling. More…
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Wisconsin poet laureate Nicholas Gulig on Lorine Niedecker’s influence
Wisconsin's Poet Laureate and UW-Whitewater professor Nicholas Gulig recently appeared on Paul Nelson's Cascadian Prophets Podcast to talk about his discovery of Lorine Niedecker in graduate school, what her work taught him about the relationship between poet and...
Solitary Plover Newsletter and Reading
The Winter 2024 issue of the Solitary Plover has been published here. The Hear the Solitary Plover reading is scheduled for Thursday, February 29 at 6:30 pm CST remotely on Zoom. Get the details of the reading here.
North Central Reading Series: Tirzah Goldenberg & Joshua Beckman (10/1/23)
Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) present the second in a biannual series of North Central virtual readings on Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 5pm CST. October readers will be Tirzah Goldenberg (Puget Sound, WA) and Joshua Beckman (Red Hook, NY). This event will be hosted...