Chera
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Chera Van Falcon Burg's
Debut Poetry Collection
The poet and scholar, Estella Lauter, said in her review: "This is a beautiful book of poems-full of captivating images, astute insights into human psychology, compelling observations of the natural world and wisdom about our place in it. In five sections, the book moves from the author's early life, when nature was a respite from family trauma, through processes of learning to be of the Earth, not just on it."
In his analysis of the book, the Chicago poet, jazz musician, and literary journal publisher, Albert DeGenova, states: "Van Falcon Burg offers poetic answers true to her experience and vision, which share wisdom deeply felt and powerfully written."​
From the publisher, Thomas Davis: "This is accessible poetry for almost any reader, but it goes beyond most books of poetry as a result of Van Falcon Burg's innovative use of language and the power of her expression. She is after understandings drawn from her life experience... but also after explorations that make sense out of a world with increasing environmental and social challenges. This is an extraordinary first book of poetry by an extraordinary poet and activist."​​​
What We Can See is available in Door County at Novel Bay Booksellers and OtherWorld Books & More and is also available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble under the book title or author's name.
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Poetry & Music Performance
with Hans Christian & Chera Van Falcon Burg
SUNDAY, OCT 20, 2024 4:00PM—5:30PM
at Write On, Door County
4210 Juddville Road, Fish Creek, WI
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Celebrating Van Falcon Burg’s debut book of poetry,
What We Can See, and Christian’s newest CD, Melodiya. The event will feature Hans playing selected solo compositions and musical collaborations with Chera’s performance of poetry.
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Chera Van Falcon Burg is a poet, award-winning filmmaker and psychologist. Her poems have been published in journals, magazines, calendars and on nature trails. Her first book of poetry, What We Can See, was published in 2024 by Four Windows Press. The book received praise from former Door County Poet Laureate, Estella Lauter, and Albert DeGenova, Executive Director of Write On. Chera has performed her poetry with musicians in the US, Mexico and Europe. She was one of six featured poets in Words On Fire, a performance of music and poetry at the Door Community Auditorium in 2023.​
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Hans Christian is a Grammy nominated cellist, multi-instrumentalist, producer/composer based in Sturgeon Bay, WI where he owns and operates Studio 330, a state-of-the art recording facility. His newest CD, Melodiya, is a melodic collection of eight cinematic, orchestral compositions, five of which include the piano and keyboards of Thomas Barquee along with Hans’s string instrumentation and production elements. Hans has 24 original releases and countless releases with other artists. He has been on stage and in the studio with top level musicians and has toured extensively in North America, Mexico and Europe. For more information visit his website: www.hanschristianmusic.com.
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2025 WRITING ON THE DOOR CONFERENCE: Writing the World
May 9th - May 10th at the Landmark Resort, Egg Harbor, WI
Breakout Session with Chera Van Falcon Burg, Ph.D: The Power of Image in Writing About Nature and the Environment to Create a Sensory and Emotional Connection that Results in Action
Crafting effective writing about nature and the environment has become more challenging than ever as the state of the environment
continues to decline and measures put in place to mitigate environmental destruction by world governments are consistently not met, which causes anxiety to increase in ourselves and our communities. At the same time, we hold passionate, positive feelings about the beauty and mystery of the natural world. Valuing both the external landscape of the environment and our internal landscape of complex emotions is critical to developing new ways of perceiving, thinking, and re-imagining stories and solutions that inform our writing. Historically, essays, stories, and poems have been written to protect the land, to make others aware of environmental issues, and to energize people to action. Activist-writing has worked and has created countless other activists. In this session, we will consider how effective writing uses image at its center to engage the reader’s five senses and allows them to imagine themselves physically and emotionally in a particular landscape. We will look at how images create story and characters drawn from the land that evoke meaning and activates feelings in the reader thatculminate in the message that place, and our response to place, matters, which leads to action.