Lorine Niedecker

Solitary Plover Reading Series: Winter 2023 edition
2023-04-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
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Thursday, April 13 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time
The Friends of Lorine Niedecker invites you to this special poetry event. The poets published in the Winter 2023 issue of “The Solitary Plover” will join us for a reading of their work. This reading will be moderated by Plover poetry editor Tom Montag, who will also read from his latest work.
Poets who will be reading their poetry are:
Angela Hoffman, Donna Fleischer, Ronnie Hess, Stephen Hemenway, Joel Van Haaften, Michael Nickels-Wisdom, Julia Wagner, Elizabeth Robinson, Lakshman Bulusu, Mike Sikkema, Katrina Serwe, and Gary Hotham.
You can join us by clicking on this Zoom link at the time of the program.
The Solitary Plover is the newsletter of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker. It is issued twice each year, in winter and in summer. You can sign up to receive The Plover in your email and read issues on the Friends of Lorine Niedecker website here.

North Central Reading Series: Shannon Tharp & Noah Zanella
2023-03-26 17:00 - 18:00
Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) present the first in a biannual series of North Central virtual readings on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 5pm CST. Our inaugural readers will be Shannon Tharp (Denver, CO) and Noah Zanella (Chicago, IL).

Shannon Tharp is the author of The Cost of Walking (Skysill Press, 2011) and Vertigo in Spring (The Cultural Society, 2013). She’s also co-editor with Sommer Browning of Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship (Library Juice Press, 2018). Her poems and essays have appeared in Blazing Stadium, The Brooklyn Rail, Coldfront Magazine, The RS 500, SALT, Typo, and The Volta, among others. She lives in Denver, where she’s a librarian at the University of Denver.

Noah Zanella is a Chicago based writer and musician. He works as a professor at Carthage College, an editor at MASKS literary magazine, and a teaching artist at Hugo House. He’s also a cofounder of Gourd magazine, which will be releasing its first issue in the fall. He credits Lorine Niedecker‘s writing with teaching him how to write poems, and he reads her collected work every summer.

Solitary Plover Reading Series: Summer 2022 edition
2022-11-15 17:30 - 18:30
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Tuesday, November 15 at 6:30 p.m. Central Time
The Friends of Lorine Niedecker invites you to this special poetry event. The poets published in the Summer 2022 issue of “The Solitary Plover” will join us for a reading of their work. This reading will be moderated by Plover poetry editor Tom Montag, who will also read from his latest work.
Poets who will be reading their poetry are:
Lauren Carlson, Margaret Coombs, Tyler Farrell, Donna Fleischer, Mary Fry, Ronnie Hess, Angela Hoffman, Jeffrey Leisgang, Stephen Manuel, John Martone, Marilyn K. Moody, Elizabeth Harmatys Park, Jean Preston, Mary Rowin, Jeanie Tomasko, and Michael Dylan Welch.
You can join us by clicking on this Zoom link at the time of the program.
The Solitary Plover is the newsletter of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker. It is issued twice each year, in winter and in summer. You can sign up to receive The Plover in your email, read the Summer 2022 issue and previous issues on the Friends of Lorine Niedecker website here.

Solitary Plover Reading Series: Winter 2022 edition
2022-04-26 17:30 - 18:30
Hear The Solitary Plover
The Friends of Lorine Niedecker and the Dwight Foster Public Library invite you to celebrate National Poetry Month with this special poetry event at 6:30pm CT on on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. The poets published in the Winter 2022 issue of “The Solitary Plover” will join us in-person and remotely for a reading of their work. This reading will be moderated by Plover poetry editor Tom Montag, who will also read from his latest work.
You can attend:
IN PERSON at the Dwight Foster Public Library, 209 Merchants Ave in Fort Atkinson
REMOTELY by viewing the Live Stream on Youtube here.
The Solitary Plover is the newsletter of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker. It is issued twice each year, in winter and in summer. You can sign up to receive The Plover in your email, read the Winter 2022 issue and previous issues on the Friends of Lorine Niedecker website here.
