The Professor's Quarters

The Clearing Folk School is where Norbert Blei taught a weeklong writing workshop every summer for nearly 40years. !e school built by landscape architect Jens Jensen is situated atop one of the most beautiful bluffs in DoorCounty. !is is Norbert Bleis DoorCounty the subject of much of his writing. Nearly two years prior to his death in 2013 Norbert invited some of his long-time students (all accomplished writers themselves) to contribute essays to a book he intended to write about his years as a teacher at!e Clearing. The book would be his personal perspectives on teaching students and the importance of place specifically The Clearing. The Professors Quarters is a collection of those student essays compiled and edited by long-time Blei students and writers: Alice DAlessio Albert DeGenova Jude Genereaux and Susan OLeary. This is a book about love. The love of a teacher a place and the writing life.