Mark Your Calendar for the Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival
The 2010 Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival is scheduled for Friday and Saturday September 24 and 25. Mark your calendar! Here is all the information
Friends of Lorine Niedecker at Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English Conference in October
The Friends of Lorine Niedecker will present a workshop on teaching Lorine Niedecker at the WCTE Conference in Eau Claire, WI on Friday, October 22. We will also be showing Cathy Cook's film "Immortal Cupboard." For more information on this conference go to the WCTE Web site.
Reading the Ridges Seminar August 8-13, 2010, Door County Wisconsin
Reading the Ridges: Lorine Niedecker and the Natural Worlds of Wisconsin
This seminar will explore the work of Wisconsin’s greatest poet Lorine Niedecker, who wrote about her island home in southern Wisconsin as well as the Ridges Sanctuary in Door County and the Lake Superior region. An avid student of geologic, natural and human history, Niedecker weaves imagery of Wisconsin’s waterways, birds and plants into her intensely personal and political poems. The course will offer an overview of Niedecker’s life and writings as well as discussion of contemporary writers who influenced her work. Participants will focus in particular on three poems widely considered to be her finest: “Wintergreen Ridge,” “Lake Superior,” and “Darwin.” In discussions, participants will examine her sources for these three poems, including her correspondence, the scientific and historical materials she read and the natural surroundings of Door County. Students will explore how a place becomes a poem.
