Category: News

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

The Summer 2023 issue of The Solitary Plover is now available here. Features include: essay by Lauren Carlson, recent recipient of the joint Write On Door County/Friends of Niedecker fellowship essay by Shanley Wells-Rau a selection of original poetry news from the world of Niedecker