Tag Archives: Norbert Blei
Norbert Blei Launches Unitarian Fellowship’s 2011 Dickinson Poetry Series, Apr 13
Posted on 24. Mar, 2011 by Staff Reporter.
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County’s (UUFDC) Emily Dickinson Poetry Series will open with author Norbert Blei at 7 pm on Wednesday, April 13 celebrating the third year of readings by local poets and authors. The UUFDC Dickinson Series begins each year in April, acknowledging National Poetry Month and this reading is also one of [...]
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Author and Washington Island Ferryman Dick Purinton to Speak at Sister Bay Library at 1 PM Saturday, Dec 5
Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
“Dick Purinton has many great stories to tell. Come listen. Enjoy,” says Door County author and publisher Norbert Blei. For many decades the Washington Island ferry has been crossing through Death’s Door in the gusty, wet and wild days of late November and December. Author, blogger and ferryman, Dick Purinton will talk about his life [...]
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Door County’s Cross+Roads Press Announces the Release of “I’ll Tell You So,” a Flash Story from the Haibun Collection by Jeffrey Winke
Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Staff Reporter.
Since 1994, Norbert Blei’s Cross+Road Press has been publishing works by writers and artists usually in the form of small chap books, in paperback, with stapled binding, 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Forget the word “haibun” for now. Just enjoy the pleasure and energy of Jeff Winke’s writing – so brilliantly exhibited below. There [...]
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Six Found-Poems in the Words and Paintings of Andrew Wyeth by Norbert Blei
Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
LOST & FOUND: We have all seen and discovered poems before we ever read them or found the words to write them ourselves. For as long as I remember I have ‘rescued’ (found?) poems in my surroundings. Especially poems in the city: the writ of grit; words on walls; words scratched on homemade window signs; [...]
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The Poetry of Persona and the Divided Self
Posted on 08. Feb, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
Not every poet finds a reason or need to develop a voice within a voice, another ‘persona’ if you will, but for some time a number of poets (Americans in particular) have been getting outside/inside themselves in the way writers of fiction create ‘characters’ or characters to voice other levels of meaning. CAUTION: It may [...]
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Norb Blei’s Latest Notes from the Underground… “Skating Backwards”
Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
Once after the war the small boy went from the city in a new blue Buick convertible and skated a frozen river in a forest preserve with his favorite uncle who was like a father to him. Uncle Stephan was a soccer player, a soft ball player, an archer, a photographer, a singer, and a [...]
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Norb Blei’s “Memoir” Dispatches, #8 on Eric Chaet
Posted on 02. Jan, 2009 by Norbert Blei.
Author’s Note: This is the last of the “end-of-the-old-year, beginning-of-the-new-year dispatches.” I accomplished most of what I set out to do for this annual, memorable time-span in the culture, when most Americans appear anxious to fine-tune their sense of spirit. There were two other pieces I wanted to offer, which I will re-think and present [...]
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The Coyote Speaks on Door County Times
Posted on 02. Dec, 2008 by Norbert Blei.
The annual Deer Hunt in Wisconsin ended this past Sunday. By all indications (state-wide), not great but okay. Fewer hunters. Fewer deer taken. A blood sport – and not everyone’s cup of tea. Including me, when I first set down in the rural of this place, going on forty years ago. But I have come [...]
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What do you do up there all winter…
Posted on 19. Nov, 2008 by Stephen Kastner.
In his Basho’s Road, Ellison Bay writer Norbert Blei says… “The word glowing in the center of it all is ‘meditation.’ Yes, we’ve all been there before. We’ve made mush of the concept, ‘marketing’ it to death. Yet – it comes to all of us without knowing, whether we beckon it or not. If the [...]
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New releases from Norb Blei’s Cross + Roads Press
Posted on 12. Nov, 2008 by Stephen Kastner.
This is a book full of ghosts… once, during the deathwatch, my mother looked up at me (she was perfectly lucid) and said who is that woman behind you? there was no one, and I said so, but she insisted, oh yes, she has her hand on your shoulder… the death of a parent is [...]
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