From Susan Firer’s 2007 book, Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People. You might recognize a name or two in this one. 😎 Celebration of Life today from 2:00-5:00 at North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee’s Lake Park.
Stephen Powers
@dollyfan.bsky.social
www.stephenrogerpowers.com Poet, writer, professor, Dolly fan. Latest poetry collection, Hail My Attention Kindly, published by Salmon Poetry in 2024.
From Susan Firer’s 2002 book, The Laugh We Make When We Fall.
From Susan Firer’s 1993 book, The Lives of the Saints and Everything.
From Susan Firer's 1979 book, My Life with the Tsar and Other Poems.
A celebration of life is planned for Friday, September 12th, from 2:00-5:00 at North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee. www.feerickfuneralhome.com/obituary/sus...
Obituary for Susan Marie Firer at Feerick Funeral Home
Susan Marie Firer, age 76, died on Friday, September 5, 2025, at Lawlis Family Hospice in Mequon, Wisconsin, with her children and grandchildren at her side. She was born October 14, 1948, in Milwauke...
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From Susan Firer’s 1992 book, The Underground Communion Rail.
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He is Trying to Get Home From the Store,
He starts to change into blowy horizontal lake rain, then migrating red admirals. We chose the imaginal north/south somewhere between Bartlett Avenue and Jupiter, between Lake Michigan and the Aegean....
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Ennistymon Book Town Festival events at the Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre this weekend! @salmonpoetry.bsky.social
Milwaukee! This coming Friday at 6:00 PM at UWM in the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center.
Milwaukee! May 30th! A launch for an anthology set in the world of a new game by Anvil 8 Games. My story is about a strong-headed young man who loves his toy collection. His in-laws assert he is too old for toys, so they demand he sell them. Hilarity ensues! Magic! Come see us May 30th!
There are 18 nominees in the Poetry Full-Length Book category for the Georgia Author of the Year awards, and Hail My Attention Kindly, my most recent book published last year by @salmonpoetry.bsky.social , is one of them! It's rubbing shoulders with some pretty cool books by some pretty cool poets.
The photograph by Michael Sergi that was used for the cover of Hail My Attention Kindly, my latest book that came out earlier this year from @salmonpoetry.bsky.social, can be seen until January 31st at Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts as part of the Doors, Windows, and Reflections exhibit!
Current fiction read. Completely losing myself in small-town novels lately.
Current fiction read. No other writer helps me understand the pathos and absurdity of living in a small town better than Richard Russo. #novel #richardrusso #somebodysfool #northbathtrilogy #onmybookshelf #fiction #smalltownlife #grotesque
Thanks to Eureka Literary Magazine for publishing my short shout out to Sheila Roberts (the South African writer, not the romance novelist). elm.eureka.edu/743/literary... #newwriting #eurekaliterarymagazine #publication #nonfiction #sheilaroberts #milwaukeewriters #southafricanwriters
Sheila Roberts
The Marvelous Sheila Roberts by Stephen Roger Powers Sheila Roberts (the writer from South Africa, not the romance novelist) was my doctoral advisor. She did her best to keep me on task, and...
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