News from the Friends of Lorine Niedecker

  • North Central Reading Series: Sara Ellen Fowler & José Felipe Alvergue

    Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) are delighted to host poets Sara Ellen Fowler and José Felipe Alvergue for a virtual reading on Sunday, October 20th, 2024 at 5pm CST.  Sara Ellen Fowler’s first book, Two Signatures (University of Utah Press, 2024) was selected by Joan Naviyuk Kane as winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. Sara is a writer, artist, and educator living in California. Her writing has appeared in The Offing, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, Interim, and Gigantic Sequins, among others. Her work has been supported by The Frost Place, the Ashbery Home School, and Community of Writers.… Read more

  • Summer 2024 Solitary Plover Reading

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker will host a reading by the poets published in the Summer 2024 Solitary Plover on Thursday, August 8 at 6:30 p.m. CST. We invite you to join us for this virtual reading conducted on Zoom. Read more

  • Niedecker’s Binoculars: A virtual talk by Patrick Morrissey

    Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) are delighted to host poet and essayist Patrick Morrissey for a virtual talk delivered via Zoom on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 5pm CST. This event will be recorded. This talk will consider the significance of double vision, shifting scales, and embarrassment in the poetry of Lorine Niedecker. Through close consideration of a few favorite poems and some speculation about the value of poetry, Morrissey hopes to open up a conversation about Niedecker’s ways of seeing and some ways we might “carry our clarity with us.” About the Speaker Patrick Morrissey’s third book of poems,… Read more

  • “Locating Lorine Niedecker”, a collection of new essays published at Post45

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker were really excited to see a recent set of essays related to Lorine Niedecker over at Post45, with contributions from poets and scholar like Hoa Nguyen, Sasha Steensen, Samia Rahimtoola, Michelle Niemann, plus Sarah Dimick and Brandon Menke, who edited the collection. You can read those at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/niedecker/ The editors also compiled “The Marsh,” a set of poems by Hannah Brooks-Motl, Stephanie Burt, Sarah Dowling, Tiff Dressen, Kelly Hoffer, Brandon Menke, Michelle Niemann, Sasha Steensen, and Kerri Webster, which “speak urgently to landscapes under peril and their countervailing miracles, which endure in states of intellectual,… Read more

  • Solitary Plover Newsletter and Reading

    The Winter 2024 issue of the Solitary Plover has been published here. The Hear the Solitary Plover reading is scheduled for Thursday, February 29 at 6:30 pm CST remotely on Zoom. Get the details of the reading here. Read more

  • North Central Reading Series: Merrill Gilfillan

    Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) are delighted to host poet and essayist Merrill Gilfillan for a solo virtual reading on Sunday, March 31st, 2024 at 5pm CST. This event will be hosted on the Zoom platform (see the event description below for the URL) and will be recorded. Merrill Gilfillan was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, in 1945 and studied literature at the Universities of Michigan and Iowa. His first book of poems appeared in 1970. Recent publications include A Walkable Rain (Oxeye Press, 2024) and Stars Seen Then (Partly Press, 2020). Selected Poems will be published by Flood Editions… Read more