North Central Reading Series: Lisa Fishman & Jordan Dunn

Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) are delighted to host poets Lisa Fishman and Jordan Dunn for a virtual reading on Sunday, April 6th, 2025 at 5pm CST. 

Lisa Fishman is the author of eight books of poetry, a short story collection, and several chapbooks. Her newest poetry book is One Big Time, out on Wave Books in spring, 2025. World Naked Bike Ride was published in Canada by Gaspereau Press in 2022 and was a finalist for the Canadian ReLit Award in short fiction. Other Wave poetry titles are Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (2020) and 24 Pages and other poems (2015). She continues to live primarily on the farm she and her husband started in 1999 in Orfordville, Wisconsin, dividing her time between Wisconsin and Canada. She is a dual US/Canadian with earlier roots in both the Detroit area and Montreal.

Jordan Dunn is the author of Notation (Third Hand Books, 2024) and Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press, 2022) as well as various chapbooks and ephemeral prints including Common Names, Reactor Woods, and A Walk at Doolittle State Preserve. He lives with his family in Madison, WI, where he edits and publishes Oxeye Press.

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. Past readers have included Merrill Gilfillan, Joshua Beckman, Tirzah Goldenberg, José Felipe Alvergue, and Shannon Tharp. Readings are held twice per year. 

This event will be recorded. Please join us Sunday, April 6th at 5pm CST on Zoom