On June 13 at 7 pm the Dickinson Poetry Series will feature contributors to Soundings: Door County in Poetry, a new anthology of poems about Door County selected by the Door County Poets Collective. Poets who will each read a poem from the book include: Francha Barnard, Loraine Brink, Richard Carter, David...

Robin Chapman is the featured reader for the Dickinson Poetry Series on May 13 at 7 pm. Chapman teaches poetry workshops in Door County and collaborates with physicists, photogravure artists, painters, and composers in her work. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including the Posner Poetry Award-winning Images...

On April 8, the Dickinson Poetry Series features Anita Beckstrom at 7 pm at UUFDC. Born in Sister Bay, Beckstrom’s roots are deep in Door County.  She returned to Sister Bay in 1950 after being raised in Milwaukee and studying art at Milwaukee State Teacher’s College, now UWM. She married, raised...

Henry C. Timm is the featured reader for the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series on Wednesday, March 11 at 7 pm. Timm is an actor, director, poet, playwright and publisher. His degrees (from Hamline University and the University of Minnesota, and from post graduate studies at Brandeis University and the...

In the first year of the Emily Dickinson Poetry Series, 2009-2010, a Gibraltar student was a featured reader. The reading was such a success that we knew we should encourage more student readers. We established one reading each year just for students and the successes have continued. The audiences have...

On Wednesday, January 14 at 7 pm, UUFDC member David Clowers will be the featured reader for the monthly Dickinson Poetry Series. After receiving his BA in English and History from Kalamazoo College, and an MA in English from the University of Michigan, David taught British and American literature at Drake...

Mike Orlock is the featured reader for the Dickinson Poetry Series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on December 10 at 7 pm. Orlock, a retired high school teacher and coach, splits his time between Illinois and Sturgeon Bay. He enjoys travel, reading, writing, films, and spending time with his two...

By Chuck Lauter Earlier this year Loraine and Don Brink published a memoir entitled “Lives Long Lived.” The book contains poetry by Loraine and stories by Don. On Wednesday, November 12 at 7 pm, the Brink family will be featured readers at the Dickinson Poetry Series. The reading will present...

On Wednesday, October 8 at 7 pm, June Nirschl is the featured reader for the UUFDC’s monthly Dickinson Poetry Series. First impressions do have an impact. The hopeful, positive characters of childhood literature left a permanent optimism on June Nirschl. Life, however, has tempered that view. Her poetry acknowledges the...

SWEET KAHLUA AND SOUR LIME, the latest edition of the annual UUFDC chapbook featuring some of the poems read in the 2013 – 2014 Dickinson Poetry Series will be released in October. The title suggests that poetry helps us see, understand and accept the contrasts of life: sweet and sour,...