Lorine Niedecker

By Margot Peters | October 14, 2011

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Fort Atkinson hosts the 3rd annual Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival this weekend. Niedecker is admired today as a great American modernist poet, but she lived most of her life in relative obscurity along the Rock River. Biographer Margot Peters shares her story.

Margot Peters

Margot Peters

Margot Peters is an award-winning biographer. Her most recent work is Lorine Niedecker: A Poet’s Life.
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