Category: News

  • Caryl Pagel’s talk on Lorine Niedecker now available from PBS Wisconsin

    PBS Wisconsin recorded a presentation on Lorine Niedecker given by Caryl Pagel at the Hoard Historical Museum on August 29, 2024. It can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdt8I4vx3k. Enjoy! It was an insightful and sympathetic overview of Niedecker’s life and work, including many photographs. Caryl Pagel is an associate professor at Cleveland State University,…

  • Applications now open for 2025 Lorine Niedecker Fellowship

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker and Write On, Door County are pleased to announce the availability of a Lorine Niedecker Fellowship during May 2025. This fellowship is offered every two years to an established or emerging poet familiar with the work of the 20th century American poet, Lorine Niedecker, and encourages research into Niedecker’s life…

  • “Locating Lorine Niedecker”, a collection of new essays published at Post45

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker were really excited to see a recent set of essays related to Lorine Niedecker over at Post45, with contributions from poets and scholar like Hoa Nguyen, Sasha Steensen, Samia Rahimtoola, Michelle Niemann, plus Sarah Dimick and Brandon Menke, who edited the collection. You can read those at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/niedecker/ The editors…

  • 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 in Zoom and will be recorded. Please join us! About…

  • A ‘Very Veery’ Lorine Niedecker Week in Wisconsin: September 10-17th, 2023

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker are pleased to be involved in organizing and co-sponsoring a series of poetry readings, performances, and public discussions as part of a ‘Very Veery’ Lorine Niedecker Week in Wisconsin from September 10 – 17, 2023. Events will be held in Fort Atkinson (Hoard Museum), Kenosha (Carthage College), Fish Creek (Write On Door…