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Daily Bread for 9.18.25: Wisconsin’s landscapes in Niedecker’s life of language

Good morning.

Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 6:38 and sunset is 6:58, for 12 hours, 20 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 10.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.

On this day in 324, Constantine decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine’s sole control over the Roman Empire.


On the Rock River near Lake Koshkonong, Lorine Niedecker built a life in language. From the solitude of Blackhawk Island, she wrote poems animating the marshes and swales near Fort Atkinson. Nicholas Gulig traces the reach of Niedecker’s voice as a Midwestern working-class writer within the modernist currents of 20th-century poetry.

The stealthy approach:

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