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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Winter 2021 Solitary Plover
The newest issue of the Solitary Plover is now available here.
Through This Door: Wisconsin in poems
Go to https://www.fortlibrary.org/wisconsinpoems/ to register for this live Zoom event. “Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems,” is a new anthology edited by Margaret Rozga and Angela C. Trudell Vasquez. It includes work by a wide range of Wisconsin poets, including...
Summer 2020 Solitary Plover
The summer issue of the Solitary Plover is now available here. Features include: Two poems by Lorine Niedecker Text of David Pavelich's presentation at the 2017 Poetry Festival Images of Lorine in summer and a selection of original poetry.
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