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,…

Join us at the Sturgeon Bay Fine Arts Fair for a special edition of Art/Speaks, our free creative lab with writing inspired by art. Sculptor Teresa Lind will hold a public aluminum pour for a new sculpture that will be installed on the East Waterfront Promenade. The public is invited to take part in both…

Sparked by reading aloud – and maybe acting out – some fun, child-friendly poems, children from preschool to 2nd grade and a parent, grandparent, or other caregiver are invited to work together to create their own original poems. The adult will act as a “scribe” to write the words the child dictates, collaborating to make something new.…

We don’t need to wait for “special” experiences in order to write poems. Beautiful, resonant poetry can—and so often does—spring from our everyday lives: the objects we live with and love, the more-than-human beings we encounter in our backyards or neighborhoods. In this class, we’ll explore poems, and poem-making, based in the ordinary and daily.…

Write On is proud to host a reading with three highly-acclaimed poets: April Gibson, Roy Guzmán, and Kathryn Kysar. The reading is free and open to the public. A light reception will be available. Poets will have their books available for sale and signing. April Gibson is a poet, writer, and professor. Her work has…

Have you felt a surge of inspiration watching greatness play out on the baseball field or tennis court? Have you run the race of your life and in the end felt like you were flying? Rose from your yoga mat and felt renewed? If you wish you could bottle up that energy and share it…

As part of our Dick Scuglik Memorial Fellowship, we present an artist conversation with visual artist Cheryl Stidwell Parker and poet Wendy Vardaman. The fellowship is awarded annually to a writer working in ekphrasis — writing about art. The writer is paired with a Door County visual artist. The two exchange work and generate new…

Join us for a special edition of Art/Speaks, our free creative lab taking inspiration from visual art. Today’s session is held in conjunction with the exhibit “Are We Listening?” by visual artist Rebecca Carlton. Hundreds of clay homing pigeons represent the threatened languages of the world. The session includes an introduction by the artist. Led…

Celebrate National Poetry Month with the launch of Albert DeGenova’s new book Human Nature, Mauricio Kilwein Guevara doing his first Door County reading, and Tori Grant Welhouse reading new work and poems from her award-winning book Vaginas Need Air.  Albert DeGenova is an award-winning poet, publisher, and teacher, as well as the Executive Director of Write On, Door County. He…

We experience what Joseph Campbell calls “the rapture of being alive” when we allow the fullness of joy and sorrow to enter our consciousness. As poets, writing from the whole self, going about the business of our daily lives, is where our deepest power lies. In our hours together, we will look at exemplary poems…