News from the Friends of Lorine Niedecker

  • 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

  • Winter 2024 Hear the Solitary Plover

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker will host a reading by the poets published in the Winter 2024 Solitary Plover on Thursday, February 29 at 6:30 p.m. CST. We invite you to join us for this virtual reading conducted on Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting by clicking here Meeting ID: 864 9007 9677 Passcode: 520557 Read more

  • North Central Reading Series: Tirzah Goldenberg & Joshua Beckman (10/1/23)

    Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) present the second in a biannual series of North Central virtual readings on Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 5pm CST. October readers will be Tirzah Goldenberg (Puget Sound, WA) and Joshua Beckman (Red Hook, NY). This event will be hosted in Zoom and will be recorded. Please join us! About the featured readers Tirzah Goldenberg is the author of Aleph and Like an Olive, both published by Verge Books. She is working on a new book that includes a long erasure poem of her great-grandfather’s 1931 text on the history of Philadelphia’s markets. Originally from… Read more

  • Kate Colby & Chuck Stebelton Poetry Reading

    Kate Colby’s nine books of poetry and essays include I Mean, Dream of the Trenches, and, most recently Reverse Engineer. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Dodd Research Center at University of Connecticut, and Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room. She grew up in Massachusetts, where she helped found and establish the Gloucester Writers Center, and currently lives in Providence. “I have written at length about Oppen, Creeley, Stein, Olson, William Carlos Williams and other adjacent poets, so writing about Niedecker was overdue. I grew up in New… Read more

  • Kate Colby & Nick Gulig Poetry Reading

    Kate Colby’s nine books of poetry and essays include I Mean, Dream of the Trenches, and, most recently Reverse Engineer. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Dodd Research Center at University of Connecticut, and Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room. She grew up in Massachusetts, where she helped found and establish the Gloucester Writers Center, and currently lives in Providence. “I have written at length about Oppen, Creeley, Stein, Olson, William Carlos Williams and other adjacent poets, so writing about Niedecker was overdue. I grew up in New… Read more