Kim Suhr

5 Writerly Things, 8.8.25 Resources to support your writing life

Some great stuff for writerly folks. Enjoy.

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Find Your Local Station Wisconsin Public Radio consists of 39 stations programmed by seven regional studios and carrying programming from two WPR networks! These stations, studios and networks allow Wisconsin Public Radio to...

Mon 7/28 – Fri 8/15 Jim Fleming will read for a half hour from Michael Perry's “Truck” each weekday on Wisconsin Public Radio.

When:
WPR Music at 7pm (CT)
WPR News at 9:30pm (CT)

Your local station can be found here: tinyurl.com/3t6rvsej

If you miss it, you can listen here: tinyurl.com/4m3afdx7

My condolences. She has left a beautiful mark on the world.

Talking about concrete next actions right now…

Such great energy and leadership in #nokings ! Thank you!

Any suggestion for stowing luggage while at the protest?

Pushing the River: Book talk Feat. Author Frank Bures and special guest Michael Perry Frank Bures is joined by his friend Michael Perry for a night of conversation about outdoor adventures, and misadventures.

If you happen to be in the Eau Claire area on May 15, I’m doing a live event with my friend Frank Bures to promote his new book, Pushing the River. Event details here: volumeone.org/events/2025/....

If you can’t make it, the book is available at Bookshop.org and Amazon.

Elizabeth Warren and the "act of hope." I think you'll like this.

Nothing wrong with hope!
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And, of course, Boswell! www.boswellbooks.com/opening-lett...

And Niche Book Bar www.findyournichemke.com

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It’s Independent Bookstore Day! I’m going to hit Lion’s Tooth in Milwaukee, WI. What shop will you visit? www.lionstoothmke.com

So far, so good! I hope there are seedlings of hope in your world, too!

Here’s a wonderful opportunity for poetic physicians. www.upstate.edu/bioethics/wr...

An image of a hand holding the book, "Looking for Alaska" by John Green. https://www.blue-house-books.com/item/YbuqOsBAiIp4ROxpFKvEKg The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold! First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. "Looking for Alaska" brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction. Newly updated edition includes a brand-new Readers' Guide featuring a Q&A with author John Green

Join us for the Banned Book Club on April 13th at as we dive into "Looking for Alaska" by John Green. 🛶✨

Get your copy now with 10% off at BHB, or check it out on Libro.fm, Bookshop.org, or at your local library!

Let’s celebrate the freedom to read together! blue-house-books.com/events/23115...

You crack me up. Don’t sensor yourself on my account 😉 Glad to be connected with you here!

The background is sky blue and at the bottom there's a dark red banner with the University of Wisconsin Press logo in white and info on the discount: discount on poetry titles all month, NPM25UWISC. At the top, there's a black circle with a 3D rendering of the cover of Salvage. Underneath, a description of the book: Part blasphemous prayer, part stand-up comedy, wholly unique, this breathtaking collection is by turns devastating, funny, and startling. "Some things happened to me in my formative years that I don't want to tell you about," writers Hedgie Choi, "but some things happened to you too."

It's National Poetry Month! We're fortunate to be able to work with many fabulous poets each year through the Wisconsin Poetry Series!

We're running a 30% discount on in-stock poetry books all month--including Hedgie Choi's new book SALVAGE.

Use code NPM25UWISC at uwpress.wisc.edu/Series/W/Wis...

Wish me luck with my little victory garden…😊

The back room at The Sugar Maple is all ready for our Showcase readers and their adoring fans. Join us! Reading starts at 3:30.

Wish I’d have had a camp like this when I was coming up!

Zoom in and see the mint green…what is it? lichen? limestone? Whatever it is, I’ve never seen it before. Lucky me!

I listened—great episode!

I wonder how many years this tree stood before it decided to take a bow and start its second life as a home for crawly creatures…

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I am really looking forward to chatting with author, Tamara Dean about her book SHELTER AND STORM (which I absolutely adored) at BOOKS & CO in Oconomowoc (which I also absolutely adore). Please join us if you can on Thurs May 15 @ 6:30 pm: www.eventbrite.com/e/books-comp...

This is a marvelous contest!

Friends headed to AWP! I am not going to be there this year but please do check out this amazing reading by the Wisconsin Poetry Series winners! Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Caroline M. Mar and Translation Prize winner Peter Covino!

At top, a teal banner reading" forthcoming May 6!" and at bottom our yellow sprinkle pattern. In the middle, on the left, a photo of the cover of The Thief of Words. On the right, a quote from the Booklist review: "This earnest collection finds characters navigating their lives as realities around them and connections to others shift. . . . Bukoski's stories finely capture the unobserved weight of identity and things left behind."--Booklist

"Bukoski's stories finely capture the unobserved weight of identity and things left behind.”

Many thanks to Booklist for this fabulous review of Anthony Bukoski's forthcoming story collection, The Thief of Words!

Learn more about The Thief of Words: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/The-...

Emma Donoghue, author of The Paris Express 03/31/2025 Milwaukee, , CelticMKE - Literary Event | Art Scene Milwaukee Boswell Book Company and CelticMKE present a special, ticketed evening with Irish author Emma Donoghue, whose novels include acclaimed titles such as Room, Haven, and The Pull of the Stars. Donoghue a...

Wisconsin friends, or people who want to make the trek—I’ll be in conversation with @emmadonoghue.bsky.social on March 31 at CelticMKE in Wauwatosa! Event is at 6:30pm; tickets cost $35 and include admission and a hardcover copy of Emma’s book The Paris Express.
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Heron Tree Call for Submissions Calling writers of found poetry! Heron Tree Review is open to submissions of found poems composed form sources published in or before 1929.

Read past issues of Heron Tree & send them your best found poetry created from source materials published in 1929 or earlier. No fee. Deadline: May 15.
https://www.newpages.com/guide-submission-opportunities/heron-tree-call-for-submissions-2025/

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Digging this book (and I’m not even a dog person. Sshhhh, don’t tell anyone.)