North Central: A Virtual Reading Series presents Chuck Stebelton & Miri Karraker
November 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CST
The Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) are delighted to host poets Chuck Stebelton (Milwaukee) and Miri Karraker (Minneapolis) for a virtual reading on Sunday, November 15th, 2026 at 5pm CST.
This virtual event will take place on Zoom and will be recorded.
Chuck Stebelton is author of One Hundred Patterns & Three Heuristics (Green Gallery Press, 2023). Easterly is just out from The Year (Fall, 2026). His previous poetry collections include An Apostle Island (Oxeye Press, 2021), The Platformist (Cultural Society, 2012), and Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). As a poet and Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer, he has led workshops and field trips for nonprofit organizations and conservancy groups including Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters; Field Work Milwaukee; Woodland Pattern; Friends of Lorine Niedecker; and Lynden Sculpture Garden. He currently serves as Director of Special Projects & Initiatives at Woodland Pattern, and since 2018 has held an ongoing artist residency at Lynden Sculpture Garden. He prints pamphlets, broadsides, collaborative print objects and such under the Ben Tinterstices Editions imprint. Ted Berrigan, “interstices // bent.”
A winky knot of anxious confusion and over-it anger, Miri Karraker’s garden path paws around with an ear to the ground to find out what it knows, unearthing only labyrinth and glitch in the places it thought it knew the best. A goldfinch can only do so much. A lonely fact can be misread. New modes of listening prevail in lieu, each corner and crossing lit anew with indignant, local hope.
https://www.communitymausoleum.org/books/p/garden-path
Miri lives and works in Minneapolis.
North Central is a virtual reading series providing a space to gather and hear living poets who connect in various ways to the poetry of Lorine Niedecker. The series takes its title from North Central (London: Fulcrum Press, 1968), the third book of poems published in Niedecker’s lifetime. The readings are curated by Chuck Stebelton and Richard Meier and supported by the Friends of Lorine Niedecker. Readings are held twice per year, in October / November and March / April.
Learn information about the Friends of Lorine Niedecker.
Visit our YouTube playlist to view past events in the North Central reading series.
For more information about this event, contact Chuck Stebelton cstebelton@gmail.com or Richard Meier rmeier@carthage.edu