BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hayfork and Sickle - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hayforkandsickle.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hayfork and Sickle REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250629T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250629T153000 DTSTAMP:20260428T141804 CREATED:20250412T175627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250625T155734Z UID:2126-1751205600-1751211000@hayforkandsickle.com SUMMARY:Book Club June 2025 DESCRIPTION:The poet for June is Jane Hirschfield\, and our leader for this month is Sarah Brehm. Follow the links below to an interview with the author and to her poems. And please RSVP at the bottom of this page.\n  \nFrom Sarah: I learned about Jane Hirshfield via an On Being interview in 2021\, “Jane Hirshfield: The Fullness of Things.” This is from the description: The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: “It’s my nature to question\, to look at the opposite side. I believe that the best writing also does this … It tells us that where there is sorrow\, there will be joy; where there is joy\, there will be sorrow … The acknowledgement of the fully complex scope of being is why good art thrills … Acknowledging the fullness of things\,” she insists\, “is our human task.” And that’s the ground Krista meanders with Jane Hirshfield in this conversation: the fullness of things — through the interplay of Zen and science\, poetry and ecology — in her life and writing. \nThe “On Being” podcast is available online and via podcast apps. The web page at https://onbeing.org/programs/jane-hirshfield-the-fullness-of-things/ has links to the episode\, the unedited conversation\, and a transcript. The Poetry Foundation website has a detailed bio and about 40 poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-hirshfield. \nThe focus for Book Club 2025 is poetry: powerful words packed in an accessible format. Each month we discuss a different book or author; a member of the group gets to select the book and lead discussion. We’re a casual group\, so there’s no need to worry about the difference between syntax and simile … just gathering together for good company and conversation. \n\n\n \n \n Book Club June 2025\n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n PhoneEmail(Required)\n \n Are you bringing a guest?List name(s) hereMessage or Question for JillDietary Restrictions\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nWe’ll have beverages and maybe a snack\, light conversation\, some time to capture our thoughts in a journal; we may sit or walk outside when the weather is right. \nWe have two friendly dogs who can be kept in a separate area from guests by request. \n  URL:https://hayforkandsickle.com/event/book-club-june-2025/ LOCATION:Hayford & Sickle – Tomah\, WI\, Tomah\, WI\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hayforkandsickle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Jane-Hirshfield.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250316T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250316T153000 DTSTAMP:20260428T141804 CREATED:20250120T164445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250120T170301Z UID:2031-1742133600-1742139000@hayforkandsickle.com SUMMARY:Book Club March 2025 DESCRIPTION:The focus for Book Club 2025 is poetry: powerful words packed in an accessible format. Each month we discuss a different book or author; a member of the group gets to select the book and lead discussion. We’re a casual group\, so there’s no need to worry about the difference between syntax and simile … just gathering together for good company and conversation. \nSome poems can stab you in the heart and some can make you laugh – Billy Collins writes both types\, and everything in between. Learn more here at the Poetry Foundation: \nDubbed “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times\, Billy Collins is famous for conversational\, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky\, tender\, or profound observation on the everyday\, reading and writing\, and poetry itself.\n  \n\nWe’ll have beverages and maybe a snack\, light conversation\, some time to capture our thoughts in a journal; we may sit or walk outside when the weather is right. \nWe have two friendly dogs who can be kept in a separate area from guests by request. \n  URL:https://hayforkandsickle.com/event/book-club-march-2025/ LOCATION:Hayford & Sickle – Tomah\, WI\, Tomah\, WI\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hayforkandsickle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_3156-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250216T153000 DTSTAMP:20260428T141804 CREATED:20250120T164327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250120T165639Z UID:2036-1739714400-1739719800@hayforkandsickle.com SUMMARY:Book Club February 2025 with Nancy Noelke DESCRIPTION:The focus for Book Club 2025 is poetry: powerful words packed in an accessible format! Each month we discuss a different book or author; a member of the group gets to select the book and lead discussion. We’re a casual group\, so there’s no need to worry about the difference between syntax and simile … just gathering together for good company and conversation. \nFor February\, we have a special guest – local author\, Nancy Noelke. She will be reading from her book and will have copies available to purchase for $15. You don’t have to read ahead for this event! \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat We Keep\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe new book of poems by Nancy Noelke\n  \nIn this moving memoir in poetry\, Nancy Noelke honors each stage of life with a lyric\, tender\, and independent spirit. In poems that chart a 1960s childhood\, marriage\, motherhood\, and divorce\, then map the terrain of caretaking aging parents\, grieving\, and the acceptance and creativity found in aging\, Noelke voices a fierce vitality born from loving herself and her world exactly as they are.\n  \n                                                                 —Rebecca Jamieson\, author of The Body of All Things \n\n\n\n\nRSVP here for February 16\, 2:00 – 3:00 PM ⬇️\n  \n\nWe’ll have beverages and maybe a snack\, light conversation\, some time to capture our thoughts in a journal; we may sit or walk outside when the weather is right. \nWe have two friendly dogs who can be kept in a separate area from guests by request. \n  URL:https://hayforkandsickle.com/event/book-club-february-2025/ LOCATION:Hayford & Sickle – Tomah\, WI\, Tomah\, WI\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hayforkandsickle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/What-We-Keep.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR