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In Fort Atkinson, the Friends of Lorine Niedecker and the Hoard Historical Museum co-steward the 20th century poet's local legacy. They connect archives and research about Niedecker to readers, scholars, writers and the community.

Poet, writer, scholar and small press publisher Caryl Pagel delivers a lecture on the life of Lorine Niedecker — including Niedecker's relationship to Fort Atkinson, writing, reading, humor, regional politics, the Great Lakes and 20th century poetry.

A visual essay explores Lorine Niedecker’s photographs, revealing how the poet turned her lens toward everyday scenes of water, sky, and land to capture small details and preserve fleeting impressions of place and season.

A visual essay presents watercolors from the Lorine Niedecker Archival Collection at the Hoard Historical Museum in Fort Atkinson, showing how the poet used painting to observe and document her surroundings.

On the streets of Fort Atkinson in the region where Lorine Niedecker lived most of her life, large poetry walls share excerpts of her work — part of a broader history of public muraling generating spontaneous encounters with art and ideas.