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Third Thursday: a poetry event John Walser will be the featured poet on May 16. You can see the rest of the 2013 lineup here.
A new book Lake Superior - Lorine Niedecker's Poem and Journal Along with Other Sources, Documents and Readings, has been published by Wave Books. It is a compilation of the poem, Lorine's research notes, three of her letters to Cid Corman and other relevant writings that support understanding the poem.
POETRY FESTIVAL UPDATE: The 2013 Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival in Fort Atkinson is scheduled for October 11 and 12. View the preliminary schedule here.
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.
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Fog-thick morning—
I see only
where I now walk. I carry
my clarity
With me.
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