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Archive for February, 2024
Rueful Proximities: Lorine Niedecker, Queer Affection, and Lyric Drag
Lorine is not Bette nor Billie nor Marlene nor Lena nor Joan nor Judy. But, she is a queer icon. Niedecker’s iconicity stems from the distinctiveness of her habitus and…
Cleaning Women: Occupational Health and Broken Solidarities
For almost seven years, from February 1, 1957 until her marriage in 1963, Lorine Niedecker worked as a cleaner at the Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital. She was 53 years old…
Another Long Stretch of Geologic Time: Lorine Niedecker’s “Lake Superior”
“Probably all it means is another long stretch of geologic time before anything really gets printed. The only time the lava flows is those moments while the poems are being…
Poet’s Poet: Hoa Nguyen Alongside Lorine Niedecker
From the secret notes I must tilt upon pressure execute and adjust1 One doesn’t possess poetry or a poet. Poet’s poet: does this mean a famous unknown celebrated by other relative unknowns?…
Pumps and Plovers: Lorine Niedecker and the Critique of Cybernetic Ecology
In 1962, after more than fifteen years of living without running water, Lorine Niedecker finally got plumbing.1 The installation of pipes, toilet, and sink was a major event in the…
Niedecker’s New Goose: Settler Colonialism on the Cusp of the Great Acceleration
In the opening poem of her 1946 collection New Goose, Lorine Niedecker pulls her readers into the marsh and situates us in a very specific position — that of the…
Locating Lorine Niedecker: Found Among Friends
On a brilliant August day in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin — a micropolis of 12,489, as of the last census, referred to succinctly by locals as Fort — we park across…
Kerri Webster
Last summer I dropped my phone in the Payette River. There was no saving it, unlike the retrieved paycheck (“I knew a clean man”) sun-dried and flattened in Leaves of…
Sasha Steensen
Colorado Diamond If geological time is time times time,we have mined itnearby:the continent’s fifth largest diamond. Just 45…