News from the Friends of Lorine Niedecker

  • Editing the Lorine Niedecker and Louis Zukofsky Correspondence: A Panel Discussion with Jenny Penberthy, Barry Ahearn, and Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker are pleased to host a very special panel discussion focused on the surviving correspondence between Lorine Niedecker and Louis Zukofsky. The event will take place on Zoom and will be recorded. In 1993, Jenny Penberthy published Niedecker and the correspondence with Zukofsky, 1931-1970 with the Cambridge University Press. This volume contained an extensive introduction contextualizing the Niedecker/Zukofsky relationship and made significant portions of most of Niedecker’s surviving letters to Zukofsky available to other scholars and researchers. While fragments from dozens of Zukofsky’s letters to Niedecker survived and were held by the Harry Ransom Center at… Read more

  • North Central: A Virtual Reading Series presents Chuck Stebelton & Miri Karraker

    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… Read more

  • 2027 Lorine Niedecker Fellowship — Applications Open October 15

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker, in partnership with Write On, Door County, are pleased to announce the 2027 Lorine Niedecker Writing Fellowship. Offered every two years to an emerging or established poet familiar with Niedecker’s work, the fellowship encourages new writing engaged with the poetics of place. The fellowship includes a two-week residency, May 2–16, 2027 — the first week in Door County, the second in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Key Dates: Full eligibility, application requirements, and the request form will be available at Write On, Door County. Read more

  • Summer 2026 Solitary Plover Reading – August 13 at 6:00 p.m. [Virtual]

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker will host a virtual reading by the poets published in the Summer 2026 Solitary Plover. Poets will read their work from the new issue and share a favorite poem of Niedecker’s. Click on the “Zoom link” button below to join the meeting. If you are prompted for a Meeting ID, use: 819 5788 0719 Our thanks to Woodland Pattern who generously partner with us to host and administer the Zoom reading. Read more

  • North Central: A Virtual Reading Series presents Ed Roberson & Joel Felix

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker welcome two innovative poets for a free, virtual poetry reading and discussion, open to all, on Friday, March 27, 2026 at 7 p.m. Central. Ed Roberson is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Asked What Has Changed (Wesleyan University Press, 2021), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. His most recent publications include the chapbook Five Poems for a Quartet (Foolscap Poetry, 2025) and found poem(s) (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2024), a collaboration with photographer Ken Taylor. Since 2023 he has served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Roberson’s varied career has… Read more

  • Canceled: February 21 Woodland Pattern Screening of ‘Welcome Poets’

    We regret to announce that the in-person screening and discussion of Welcome Poets, scheduled for Saturday, February 21, at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, has been canceled. While we’re sorry to lose this particular event, the cancellation comes with good reason — with something even more exciting on the horizon in Milwaukee — and we can’t wait to share the news with you soon. Stay tuned! In the meantime, we remain grateful to Woodland Pattern, PBS Wisconsin, and series writer/narrator and former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig for their collaboration and continued support of the community engagement work surrounding the documentary… Read more