Halfway to the North Pole: Door County in Poetry

These poems, while providing some anchors in parts of Door County, Wisconsin visitors know, will introduce you to places, people, and issues not often noticed by the millions of people who come to the county every year. The Door County Poets Collective hopes that after reading this anthology you might want to know better on your own: places like Mud Lake, Three Springs, Bjorklunden, Mojo Rosa's; people like Increase Claflin or Norbert Blei; efforts to bring back the Monarch Butterflies, preserve the night sky, cut or treat infected ash trees, keep the Boreal forest. Door County is not only a beautiful place whereculture and nature support each other; it is also a complex community of people and other creatures who come together to care for the land and water that sustain our lives in all seasons. Halfway between the hottest and coldest places on earth,we like to think we have the best of both.… (more)