Poetry Meets Music

Write On is happy to continue our collaboration with Midsummer’s Music, Poetry Meets Music. At one concert in each of Midsummer’s series offerings, a poet will read a poem written in response to a piece of music to be performed. Poets were given recordings in advance with no identifying information as to the title, composer, era, etc., and were asked not to look up this information. The result is a poem composed entirely in response to the emotions or memories the music evokes. 

For today’s concert, we are pleased to present poet Annette Langlois Grunseth. Today’s concert is César Franck Piano Quintet. To order tickets, please visit Midsummer’s Music.

Annette Langlois Grunseth is a poet and nofiction writer from Green Bay who received the 2022 Hal Prize for Poetry and a 2022 Gold Medal from the Military Writers Society of America for her book Combat and Campus: Writing Through War, a biography of her brother’s Vietnam War letters and anti-war campus protest at home. She earned a Pushcart Prize nomination with her poetry book Becoming Trans-Parent: One Family’s Journey of Gender Transition. Her poems have appeared in the 2023 anthology Poetry of Presence II: Wisconsin People & Ideas and The Poeming Pigeon, as well as two Door County poetry anthologies. She is retired from a 40-year career in healthcare marketing and public relations.