Dubuque Area Writers Guild (The DAWG)
Poetry Readings
June 25 | Air Program – Eagle Point Park | 6 – 10 PM
June 26 | Water Program – National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium | 2 – 5 PM
June 27 | Earth Program – Farmers’ Market | 9 – Noon
June 27 | Fire Program – Dubuque Museum of Art, Downtown | 6 – 11 PM
About: The Dubuque Area Writers Guild (DAWG) has existed for over 40 years but had gone dormant after Covid. Last year, we revived the DAWG, publishing an anthology on connections and a special issue on migrants plus had nine members attend the Luther College Writers Festival. This year we are publishing an anthology themed on nature and another special issue plus are planning our first writing workshop in late April and tentatively have one planned for October. Our mission is to support the local writing community, especially young, aspiring writers.
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PARTICIPATING WRITERS
Hannah Adalance
Fire Program
Hannah Adalance is a Wisconsin-based poet who daylights as an accountant. Her work often explores the intermingling of beauty and pain, and the unnoticed connections waiting all around us. Recent features include the art and poetry exhibit Interesting Times at Voices Studios, and Driftless: An Anthology of Voices From Where We Live. Join the conversation on Substack (@hannahadalance) and learn more at HannahAdalance.com.
Greta Gorsuch
Air and Water Pograms
Greta Gorsuch studies language use in both speech and texts, and she is keenly interested in adult language learning in both first and second languages. She has lived in Dubuque, the Philippines, Japan, West Texas, and Vietnam. She now lives in Dubuque (again), and she exists in a state of permanent and happy culture shock.
Dianne Koch
Earth Program
Dianne Koch loves the written word. Having taught English at Dubuque Senior High School, she enjoyed sharing her love of language with students in English literature and writing classes for twenty years. She also was a Loras College English adjunct instructor for four years. Prior to her English teaching career, she also taught Band and Orchestra in the Catholic schools and piano privately as well. Now in retirement, since her English paper grading days are over, she hopes to spend more time writing and maybe even dabble with song writing.
Kevin Koch
Earth Program
Kevin Koch is the author of Skiing at Midnight: A Nature Journal from Dubuque County, Iowa; The Driftless Land: Spirit of Place in the Upper Mississippi Valley;. The Thin Places: A Celtic Landscape from Ireland to the Driftless; and, most recently, Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland. He also writes an Outdoors column for The Telegraph Herald. More of his work can be found at: https://www.kevinkochdriftlessland.net/. He is a Professor of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, where he taught for more than forty years.
Jeanne Rupert
Earth Program
Jeanne Rupert has enjoyed expressing herself through poetry since childhood. As a physician and educator, she is interested in exploring the interactions of the environment and human health. In the Driftless and many places around the world, she finds our Earth to be a source of wonder, inspiration and healing.