News from the Friends of Lorine Niedecker

Hear The Solitary Plover Thursday, April 13 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time The Friends of Lorine Niedecker invites you to this special poetry event. The poets published in the Winter 2023 issue of “The Solitary Plover” will join us for a reading of their work. This reading will be moderated by Plover poetry editor Tom Montag, who will also read from his latest work. Poets who will be reading their poetry are: Angela Hoffman, Donna Fleischer, Ronnie Hess, Stephen Hemenway, Joel Van Haaften, Michael Nickels-Wisdom, Julia Wagner, Elizabeth Robinson, Lakshman Bulusu, Mike Sikkema, Katrina Serwe, and Gary Hotham. You can… Read more

Friends of Lorine Niedecker (FoLN) present the first in a biannual series of North Central virtual readings on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 5pm CST. Our inaugural readers will be Shannon Tharp (Denver, CO) and Noah Zanella (Chicago, IL).  Shannon Tharp is the author of The Cost of Walking (Skysill Press, 2011) and Vertigo in Spring (The Cultural Society, 2013). She’s also co-editor with Sommer Browning of Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel: Innovative Meditations on Librarianship (Library Juice Press, 2018). Her poems and essays have appeared in Blazing Stadium, The Brooklyn Rail, Coldfront Magazine, The RS 500, SALT, Typo,… Read more

The Friends of Lorine Niedecker and Write On, Door County are pleased to announce the selection of Michigan poet Lauren Carlson as the first recipient of the 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.  Carlson was selected from a pool of 11 candidates representing six states. Katherine Yets of St. Francis, WI, and Kasey Jueds of Shokan, NY, were named honorable mentions. Read more

Hear The Solitary Plover Tuesday, November 15 at 6:30 p.m. Central Time The Friends of Lorine Niedecker invites you to this special poetry event. The poets published in the Summer 2022 issue of “The Solitary Plover” will join us for a reading of their work. This reading will be moderated by Plover poetry editor Tom Montag, who will also read from his latest work. Poets who will be reading their poetry are: Lauren Carlson, Margaret Coombs, Tyler Farrell,  Donna Fleischer, Mary Fry, Ronnie Hess, Angela Hoffman, Jeffrey Leisgang, Stephen Manuel, John Martone, Marilyn K. Moody, Elizabeth Harmatys Park, Jean Preston,… Read more

The summer edition of The Solitary Plover has arrived! Please enjoy this newest newsletter from the Friends of Lorine Niedecker that was produced by Amy Lutzke and edited by Tom Montag. Read more

Fort Atkinson, WI and Fish Creek, WI – The Friends of Lorine Niedecker and Write On, Door County announce the Lorine Niedecker Fellowship. The new fellowship will be offered every two years to an established or emerging poet familiar with the work of the 20th century American poet, Lorine Niedecker. The purpose of the fellowship is to encourage research into Niedecker’s life and writing, and to promote new work that deals with the poetry of place. The two-week fellowship, to be divided between, first, Write On, Door County, a writing center in northeastern Wisconsin, and then Fort Atkinson, Niedecker’s hometown,… Read more