News from the Friends of Lorine Niedecker

  • Kate Colby & Richard Meier Poetry Reading & Class Discussion

    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

  • “Trim Green Thought”: A Public Discussion of Lorine Niedecker’s fiction and poetics

    Jenny Penberthy, Kate Colby, and Flora Coker will engage in a public discussion of Lorine Niedecker’s published fiction and poetics with emphasis on Niedecker’s ‘The evenings automobiles’ Jenny Penberthy’s research and writing have focused on the poetry of Lorine Niedecker. She edited Niedecker’s poems—New Goose (Listening Chamber, 2003), Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works (University of California Press, 2002), and Harpsichord & Salt Fish (Pig Press, 1991) —and her letters—Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931-1970(Cambridge University Press, 1993)—along with a collection of essays and letters, Lorine Niedecker: Woman & Poet (National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, 1996). In 2016 she edited Kenneth… Read more

  • A ‘Very Veery’ Lorine Niedecker Week in Wisconsin: September 10-17th, 2023

    The Friends of Lorine Niedecker are pleased to be involved in organizing and co-sponsoring a series of poetry readings, performances, and public discussions as part of a ‘Very Veery’ Lorine Niedecker Week in Wisconsin from September 10 – 17, 2023. Events will be held in Fort Atkinson (Hoard Museum), Kenosha (Carthage College), Fish Creek (Write On Door County), and Milwaukee (Woodland Pattern) and will feature Jenny Penberthy, Kate Colby, Flora Coker, Nick Gulig, Chuck Stebelton, and Richard Meier. The events of this week are cosponsored by Friends of Lorine Niedecker, Woodland Pattern, The Hoard Museum, Carthage College, The Ridges Sanctuary, and Write On… Read more

  • Summer 2023 Solitary Plover

    The Summer 2023 issue of The Solitary Plover is now available here. Features include: essay by Lauren Carlson, recent recipient of the joint Write On Door County/Friends of Niedecker fellowship essay by Shanley Wells-Rau a selection of original poetry news from the world of Niedecker Read more

  • Hear the Solitary Plover Summer 2023

    The FoLN have scheduled the next Hear the Solitary Plover reading. This reading will be held virtually on Zoom. Click here to join the reading. Poets reading will be many of the poets published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Solitary Plover. The reading will be moderated by Tom Montag, Poetry Editor. Some of those reading their works include: Angela Hoffman, Donna Fleischer, Lakshman Bulusu, Ronnie Hess, Nancy Shea, Lisa Vihos, Linda Voit, and Gary Hotham. Read more

  • Hear the Solitary Plover Summer 2023

    Thursday, August 24 at 6 pm CST. The FoLN have scheduled the next Hear the Solitary Plover reading. Poets reading will be many of the poets published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Solitary Plover. The reading will be moderated by Tom Montag, Poetry Editor. Some of those reading their works include: Angela Hoffman, Donna Fleischer, Lakshman Bulusu, Ronnie Hess, Nancy Shea, Lisa Vihos, Linda Voit, and Gary Hotham. Virtual Only. Click here to join the reading on Zoom. Listen to poets published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Solitary Plover read their poems.   Read more