News from the Friends of Lorine Niedecker

  • Listen to two recent radio interviews with the producer and writer of the forthcoming ‘Welcome Poets’ docuseries from PBS Wisconsin, premiering Sept. 12th

    While the Friends of Lorine Niedecker and the Hoard Historical Museum prepare for the premiere and local screening (this Friday, Sept. 12) of the PBS Wisconsin docuseries, Welcome Poets, featuring the life and work of Lorine Niedecker, we also want to share links to two recent radio interviews about the series. Last Friday, Madison’s WORT community radio interviewed Welcome Poets producer Colin Crowley who works in the local series unit of PBS Wisconsin. He sat down with 8 O’Clock Buzz show host Andy Moore to discuss the series, including some of its creative and technical aspects —like how the film’s… Read more

  • Summer 2025 Solitary Plover Reading Available on our YouTube Channel

    On Thursday, August 14th, the Friends of Lorine Niedecker, in collaboration with our partners at Woodland Pattern, hosted a reading by the poets featured in the Summer 2025 issue of the The Solitary Plover. The Solitary Plover is the bi-annual (winter/summer) newsletter of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker.  We invite you to watch a recording of the reading here on our YouTube Channel or by clicking on the video embed below. To those who tried to log on to the live Zoom event but were unable to, we greatly apologize for our technical difficulties as the event commenced. We thank you… Read more

  • Community Screening of ‘Welcome Poets’ from PBS Wisconsin at the Hoard Historical Museum

    Join us at the Hoard Historical Museum for two consecutive special community screenings of the brand new Welcome Poets from PBS Wisconsin. This narrative series of six documentary shorts follows former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig in a reflective homecoming, interwoven with the life and work of Fort Atkinson’s own Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970). Through shared landscapes, memory, and poetry, Welcome Poets explores identity, place and the power of poetry to give voice to community. The first screening will start promptly at 5 p.m. followed by a second screening at 7 p.m. Please RSVP for the screening you plan to attend. After each… Read more

  • Summer 2025 Solitary Plover Reading

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker will host a reading by the poets published in the Summer 2025 Solitary Plover on Thursday, August 14 at 6:30 p.m. CST. We invite you to join us for this virtual reading conducted on Zoom. Read more

  • Winter 2025 Solitary Plover Reading

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker are pleased to host a reading by the poets published in the Winter 2025 Solitary Plover at 6:30pm (Central Time) on Thursday, March 13. Poets will read their work from the latest edition of the Solitary Plover and share a favorite poem of Niedecker’s. The event will be hosted on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81018971193 Read more

  • Caryl Pagel awarded the 2025 Lorine Niedecker Fellowship

    February 19, 2025:  The Friends of Lorine Niedecker and Write On, Door County are pleased to announce the selection of Ohio poet Caryl Pagel as the recipient of the 2025 Lorine Niedecker Fellowship. The fellowship provides a two-week residency, one week at Write On, located on Wisconsin’s northeast peninsula, and one in Niedecker’s hometown of Fort Atkinson, WI, along with a $1,000 award and a travel stipend.   Caryl Pagel is the author of four books, most recently Free Clean Fill Dirt (poetry, University of Akron Press) and Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (essays, FC2). She is a publisher and editor… Read more