Supporting Wisconsin writers from 1964 to 2022
by jhayslett
Kudos to CWW member, past board member and award-winning poet Robin Chapman for the posting of her poem “Enough” on Garrison Keillor’s — of NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion” fame — “The Writer’s Almanac” website. Here’s the link:
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014%2F07%2F20
Way to go, Robin!
by jhayslett
Council for Wisconsin Writers board member and past-Wisconsin Poet Laureate Marilyn Taylor’s ears picked up on Saturday when she heard and passed along that “our very own Christopher Latham Sholes is profiled on Garrison Keillor’s daily poetry column today.”
Keillor, in his “The Writer’s Almanac”, which airs on a number of public radio stations including Wisconsin Public Radio, noted that “The typewriter was patented on this date in 1868, by Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sholes was a newspaperman, and he was driven to invention out of necessity: His printers went on strike. He and two colleagues set out to invent a machine to print letters on paper.” You can read the rest of the story at http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2012/06/23 after scrolling past–or after reading–the lovely poem, “When I Am Among The Trees” by Mary Oliver.
CWW’s Christopher Latham Sholes Award recognizes Wisconsin residents for outstanding encouragement and support of Wisconsin writers.
How nice that our award namesake made the national scene via Keillor’s “Almanac.” Thanks, Garrison!
Please visit the CWW website at www.wiswriters.org