15 Facts About Lorine Niedecker

Lorine Niedecker is regarded as a major figure in the history of American regional poetry, the Objectivist poetic movement, and the mid-20th-century American poetic avant-garde.

Lorine Niedecker was born on Black Hawk Island near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin to Theresa and Henry Lorine Niedecker and lived most of her life in rural isolation.

Lorine Niedecker grew up surrounded by the sights and sounds of the river until she moved to Fort Atkinson to attend school.

Lorine Niedecker sent her poems to Louis Zukofsky, who had edited the issue.

Lorine Niedecker then found herself in direct contact with the American poetic avant-garde.

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Lorine Niedecker insisted that she have an abortion, which she did, although they remained friends and continued to carry on a mutually beneficial correspondence following Niedecker's return to Fort Atkinson.

Lorine Niedecker was befriended by a number of poets, including Cid Corman, Basil Bunting and several younger British and US poets who were interested in reclaiming the modernist heritage.

Lorine Niedecker had previously earned her living scrubbing hospital floors in Fort Atkinson, "reading proof" at a local magazine, renting cottages and living in near-poverty for years.

When Millen retired in 1968, the couple moved back to Blackhawk Island, taking up residence in a small cottage Lorine Niedecker had built on property she inherited from her father.

The cottage, now known as the Lorine Niedecker Cottage, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lorine Niedecker died in 1970 from a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving behind several unpublished typescripts.

Many other Lorine Niedecker papers were burned by Millen, who said he did so at Lorine Niedecker's request.

Lorine Niedecker's name was added to her parents' headstone which uses the original spelling of the family name, Neidecker.

The primary Lorine Niedecker archives are in the Dwight Foster Public Library and the Hoard Museum in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.

Lorine Niedecker's comprehensive Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy, were published by the University of California Press in 2002.