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the NEBRASKA POETS Calendar
is accepting submissions til
JUNE 1ST!!!! ,,, CLIK HERE for more info!!!
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The Lincoln Underground Magazine is accepting submissions NOW!:
CLIK HERE
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Click HERE
for the latest info on Music and Poetry at
CRESCENT Moon COFFEE
8th & P sts, LINCOLN!!!!
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PRAIRIE SCHOONER MAGAZINE
sets up new rules for submissions this summer!
the Schooner writes:
School's out for summer, but we want to keep reading! So we’re breaking our own rule — our general submission period closes May 1, but between May 2 and August 31, we’ll accept creative nonfiction essay submissions via our online submission system.
is accepting submissions til
JUNE 1ST!!!! ,,, CLIK HERE for more info!!!
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The Lincoln Underground Magazine is accepting submissions NOW!:
CLIK HERE
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Click HERE
for the latest info on Music and Poetry at
CRESCENT Moon COFFEE
8th & P sts, LINCOLN!!!!
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PRAIRIE SCHOONER MAGAZINE
sets up new rules for submissions this summer!
the Schooner writes:
School's out for summer, but we want to keep reading! So we’re breaking our own rule — our general submission period closes May 1, but between May 2 and August 31, we’ll accept creative nonfiction essay submissions via our online submission system.
CliK here for more info
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Pictures, Pictures:
Lincoln High School Slam Team pics at the South Mill, March 6th -- Tuesdays with Writers:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/LincolnHighSchoolSlamTeamTake2
James "Mississippi" Redd at Crescent Moon, March 5th :
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JamesReddAtCrescentMoon
The F Street Writers Workshop at Crescent Moon, Feb 27th:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TheFStreetWritersWorkshopReadsAtCrescentMoonCoffee
Tony Church: 12 Strings Go to the MOON, FEB 26th:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TonyChurch12StringsOnTheMoon
Jeff Allesandrelli and Trey Moody read at the Moon, FEB 20th:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JeffAlessandrelliAndTreyMoodyReadAtCrescentMoon
James Shea reads at Crescent Moon - Feb 13th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/NEWesleyanProfJamesSheaReadsAtCrescentMoon
Prairie Schooner launch party and Irish reading - Feb 10th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/PrairieSchoonerIrishIssueLaunchPartyReading
the Write Stuff writing group plus Dee Thompson-
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TuesdaysWithWritersForFebruaryTheWriteStuffWritingGroupPlusDeolaThompson
Lois Lewandowski reads at Crescent Moon Feb 6th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/NovelistLoisLewandowskiReadsAtCrescentMoonFebruary6th
the F Street Writers Workshop reads at St Marks, Feb 5th -
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TheFStreetWritersWorkshopReadsAtTheirAnnualStMarksOnTheCampusGathering
The Resonators play at Crescent Moon, Feb 3
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TheResonatorsAtCrescentMoon
Allison Hedge Coke reads at Crescent Moon - Jan 30th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/AllisonHedgeCokeReadsAtCrescentMoonJanuary30th2012
Ciara McCormack reads at Crescent Moon - Jan 9th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/CiaraMcCormackReadsAtCrescentMoonCoffee
Andrew Ek at the South Mill - Jan 3rd
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JanuaryReadingAtTheSouthMillForTuesdaysWithWritersAndrewEk
Julia Nadeau and Sheila Tinkham read at Crescent Moon - Jan 2nd, 2012
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JuliaNadeauAndSheilaTinkhamReadAtCrescentMoonCoffee
Nebraska Poets Calendar 2012 reading -
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/2012NebraskaPOETSCalendarReading
Chaparral foursome at the Moon
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/ChaparralFoursomeAtTheMoon
Ted Kooser - 200th Heritage Room reading - Nov 20th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TedKooserNov20th
Joy Harjo in Kearney - Nov 15th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JoyHarjoInKearneyTheReynoldsReadingSeriesNovember15th2011
Sandra Mathews at Crescent Moon Nov 14th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/SandraMathewsBenhamReadsAtTheCrescentMoonNovember14th
Twyla Hansen and John Walker at Crescent Moon Nov 7th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TwylaHansenReadsJohnWalkerSingsCrescentMoonCoffeeNovember7th2011
Heidi Hermanson and Shoshana Sumrall at the South Mill:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/HeidiHermansonShoshanaSumrallFrerkingAtTheSouthMill
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check out more info at:
May 28th, 7pm Poetry at the Moon
Carole Levin, UNL Professor, and Marianne Kunkel, UNL Doctoral student, to read tonight
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska where she specializes in early modern English women's and cultural history. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University. Her books include, Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, co-authored with John Watkins (Cornell University Press, 2009); Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); The Reign of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002); and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), which was named one of the top ten academic books of the 1990s by the readers of Lingua Franca, September, 2000. She has worked on two major exhibits, "Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend" at the Newberry Library in Chicago and "To Sleep Perchance to Dream" at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities long-term fellowships. She is the past president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the co-founder and president of the Queen Elizabeth I Society, and is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Marianne Kunkel is the managing editor of Prairie Schooner and a third-year Ph.D. student in poetry at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, with a specialization in women’s and gender studies. Her poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, River Styx, and elsewhere, and her chapbook, The Laughing Game, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press
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May 26 - June 2 Great Plains Theatre Conference Red Cloud, NE. Offers playwrights the opportunity to interact with, and have their work seen by top writers, directors, and actors from around the country. In addition, playwrights will be able to work directly with these professionals in hands on writing and industry workshops. Playwrights will also participate in daily panel discussions and have tickets to evening performances with master playwrights and theatre practitioners.
May 31, June 1 & 2 57th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference Red Cloud, NE. “Willa Cather, Poet: Making Herself Born”: The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets from the Great Plains region. Sponsored by the Willa Cather Foundation.
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The conference is part of the creative writing program within the English Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The university has a rich literary history that could be said to have begun with Willa Cather (a student of the university) and continues to this day with esteemed projects such as the journal Prairie Schooner and, of course, the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference which has brought in Pulitzer winners, National Book Award winners, and best-selling authors.
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Kwame Dawes, professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is among 181 scholars, artists and scientists in the United States and Canada who were selected for the honor from nearly 3,000 applicants.
The fellowship will support his work on the poem cycle, “August: A Quintet,” which is based on the work of August Wilson, an American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner whose work illustrated the African-American experience in the 20th century.
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the 2012 UNL English Department Literary contest Winners are:
Graduate Awards
Sherman Alexie to Edit Special Portfolio for Winter 2012 Issue of Prairie Schooner
The fellowship will support his work on the poem cycle, “August: A Quintet,” which is based on the work of August Wilson, an American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner whose work illustrated the African-American experience in the 20th century.
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the 2012 UNL English Department Literary contest Winners are:
Graduate Awards
Vreeland Graduate
Daniel Nyikos (fiction)
Nima Najafi Kianfar (poetry)
Daniel Nyikos (fiction)
Nima Najafi Kianfar (poetry)
Mari Sandoz/ Prairie Schooner
First: Claire Harlan-Orsi
Second: Wendy Oleson
Third: John Johnson
First: Claire Harlan-Orsi
Second: Wendy Oleson
Third: John Johnson
Susan Atefat Peckham Award
Marianne Kunkel
Marianne Kunkel
Gaffney/Academy of American Poets
First: James Crews
Second: Megan Gannon
Third: Arden Hill
First: James Crews
Second: Megan Gannon
Third: Arden Hill
Undergraduate Awards
Vreeland Undergraduate
Katelyn Helberg
Katelyn Helberg
Marjorie Stover
First: Samantha Adrales
Second: Ian Sacks
First: Samantha Adrales
Second: Ian Sacks
Undergraduate Poetry Awards
First: Allison Fortkamp
Second: Noah Glover-Ettrich
Third: Alicia Meyer
First: Allison Fortkamp
Second: Noah Glover-Ettrich
Third: Alicia Meyer
Wilbur Gaffney Essay
First: Carrie Chen
Second: Taylor Kessner
First: Carrie Chen
Second: Taylor Kessner
Ted Kooser Award
Kate Okerlund (instructor: Adrian Koesters)
Kate Okerlund (instructor: Adrian Koesters)
Laurus Awards
Fiction, First Place: Max Larson
Fiction, Second Place: Alec Slyter
Poetry, First Place: Kelsey Reifert
Poetry, Second Place: Dylan Roberson
Visual Art, First Place: Vilis Lipins
Visual Art, Second Place: Ian Tredway
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Fiction, Second Place: Alec Slyter
Poetry, First Place: Kelsey Reifert
Poetry, Second Place: Dylan Roberson
Visual Art, First Place: Vilis Lipins
Visual Art, Second Place: Ian Tredway
Sherman Alexie to Edit Special Portfolio for Winter 2012 Issue of Prairie Schooner
Prairie Schooner is excited to announce that the amazing Sherman Alexie will guest-edit a Native American-themed portfolio of prose and poetry forPrairie Schooner’s Winter 2012 issue!
Alexie is a writer, poet, and filmmaker best known for his short-story collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, and his stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories 2004 and Pushcart Prize XXIX. The author of twenty-two books, he has won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, a National Book Award, for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and the PEN/Faulkner Award, for War Dances, among many other honors. His film,Smoke Signals, won the 1998 Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award and Filmmakers’ Trophy.
According to Marianne Kunkel, Prairie Schooner’s Managing Editor, “I can’t think of a better way to follow our successful Winter 2011 Special Irish Issue than with a Native American-themed issue highlighting the best poems, stories, and creative essays by some of today’s most talented Native American authors. In the second installment in our new series of internationally-themed winter issues, we’re excited to showcase the creative work of authors whose roots are right here in Nebraska and elsewhere. And to have the phenomenal, multi-talented author Sherman Alexie select the work—it doesn’t get any better than that.”
Of course, all of us at Prairie Schooner are thrilled about this news! Check back for updates, including details regarding Winter 2012 issue launch events scheduled for early 2013
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The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE offers 2-8-week residencies year-round for writers, visual artists, and music composers with an upcoming deadline of March 1. See website for complete information: www.KHNCenterfortheArts.org.
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UNL professor Joy Castro's forthcoming debut novel, Hell or High Water, has been chosen as the September 2012 Book of the Month by the Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Club. It's good national publicity for a first novel: there are book club chapters all over the country, and Joy will be doing teleconferencing in September.
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UNL professor Joy Castro's forthcoming debut novel, Hell or High Water, has been chosen as the September 2012 Book of the Month by the Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Club. It's good national publicity for a first novel: there are book club chapters all over the country, and Joy will be doing teleconferencing in September.
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UNL professor Wheeler Winston Dixon's book A History of Horror (Rutgers UP) has been chosen by Choice, the ALA Library Journal, as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year for 2011. As Choice notes, their list of Outstanding Academic Books "comprise[s] less than 9 percent of the titles reviewed during 2011 and 2.5 percent of those submitted during that same time span, [ensuring that] these exceptional titles are truly the 'best of the best.'" In addition, A History of Horror will be released as an audio book by Redwood Audiobooks in 2012, and has just gone into a second printing from Rutgers.
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Pictures, Pictures:
Lincoln High School Slam Team pics at the South Mill, March 6th -- Tuesdays with Writers:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/LincolnHighSchoolSlamTeamTake2
James "Mississippi" Redd at Crescent Moon, March 5th :
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JamesReddAtCrescentMoon
The F Street Writers Workshop at Crescent Moon, Feb 27th:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TheFStreetWritersWorkshopReadsAtCrescentMoonCoffee
Tony Church: 12 Strings Go to the MOON, FEB 26th:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TonyChurch12StringsOnTheMoon
Jeff Allesandrelli and Trey Moody read at the Moon, FEB 20th:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JeffAlessandrelliAndTreyMoodyReadAtCrescentMoon
James Shea reads at Crescent Moon - Feb 13th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/NEWesleyanProfJamesSheaReadsAtCrescentMoon
Prairie Schooner launch party and Irish reading - Feb 10th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/PrairieSchoonerIrishIssueLaunchPartyReading
the Write Stuff writing group plus Dee Thompson-
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TuesdaysWithWritersForFebruaryTheWriteStuffWritingGroupPlusDeolaThompson
Lois Lewandowski reads at Crescent Moon Feb 6th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/NovelistLoisLewandowskiReadsAtCrescentMoonFebruary6th
the F Street Writers Workshop reads at St Marks, Feb 5th -
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TheFStreetWritersWorkshopReadsAtTheirAnnualStMarksOnTheCampusGathering
The Resonators play at Crescent Moon, Feb 3
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TheResonatorsAtCrescentMoon
Allison Hedge Coke reads at Crescent Moon - Jan 30th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/AllisonHedgeCokeReadsAtCrescentMoonJanuary30th2012
Ciara McCormack reads at Crescent Moon - Jan 9th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/CiaraMcCormackReadsAtCrescentMoonCoffee
Andrew Ek at the South Mill - Jan 3rd
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JanuaryReadingAtTheSouthMillForTuesdaysWithWritersAndrewEk
Julia Nadeau and Sheila Tinkham read at Crescent Moon - Jan 2nd, 2012
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JuliaNadeauAndSheilaTinkhamReadAtCrescentMoonCoffee
Nebraska Poets Calendar 2012 reading -
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/2012NebraskaPOETSCalendarReading
Chaparral foursome at the Moon
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/ChaparralFoursomeAtTheMoon
Ted Kooser - 200th Heritage Room reading - Nov 20th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TedKooserNov20th
Joy Harjo in Kearney - Nov 15th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/JoyHarjoInKearneyTheReynoldsReadingSeriesNovember15th2011
Sandra Mathews at Crescent Moon Nov 14th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/SandraMathewsBenhamReadsAtTheCrescentMoonNovember14th
Twyla Hansen and John Walker at Crescent Moon Nov 7th
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TwylaHansenReadsJohnWalkerSingsCrescentMoonCoffeeNovember7th2011
Heidi Hermanson and Shoshana Sumrall at the South Mill:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/HeidiHermansonShoshanaSumrallFrerkingAtTheSouthMill
Greg Kuzma's Screenplay, read on
stage at the Moon, October 24th:
Nebraska Celebration of
Books, Oct. 22nd, Lied Center:
Marge Saiser at the John
Ames Reading, Bennett Martin Library:
Terrance Oberst
& James Crews, October 10th :
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Prairie Moon Reading & Music News:
http://moonreading.blogspot.com/
Matt Mason's Poetry Menu:
The Nebraska Poetry Menu at www.poetrymenu.com
Brett Spencer's Nebraska Center for Writers:
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/
YouTube page at Creighton:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CreightonCCAS
Nebraska Center for the Book:
http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/index.asp
Reynolds Series 2011, UN - Kearney :
http://www.unk.edu/academics/english/UNK_Reynolds_Series/
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THE DAILY SCHEDULE:
Prairie Moon Reading & Music News:
http://moonreading.blogspot.com/
Matt Mason's Poetry Menu:
The Nebraska Poetry Menu at www.poetrymenu.com
Brett Spencer's Nebraska Center for Writers:
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/
YouTube page at Creighton:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CreightonCCAS
Nebraska Center for the Book:
http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/index.asp
Reynolds Series 2011, UN - Kearney :
http://www.unk.edu/academics/english/UNK_Reynolds_Series/
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THE DAILY SCHEDULE:
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May 28th, 7pm Poetry at the Moon
Carole Levin, UNL Professor, and Marianne Kunkel, UNL Doctoral student, to read tonight
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska where she specializes in early modern English women's and cultural history. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University. Her books include, Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, co-authored with John Watkins (Cornell University Press, 2009); Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); The Reign of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002); and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), which was named one of the top ten academic books of the 1990s by the readers of Lingua Franca, September, 2000. She has worked on two major exhibits, "Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend" at the Newberry Library in Chicago and "To Sleep Perchance to Dream" at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities long-term fellowships. She is the past president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the co-founder and president of the Queen Elizabeth I Society, and is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Marianne Kunkel is the managing editor of Prairie Schooner and a third-year Ph.D. student in poetry at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, with a specialization in women’s and gender studies. Her poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, River Styx, and elsewhere, and her chapbook, The Laughing Game, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press
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May 26 - June 2 Great Plains Theatre Conference Red Cloud, NE. Offers playwrights the opportunity to interact with, and have their work seen by top writers, directors, and actors from around the country. In addition, playwrights will be able to work directly with these professionals in hands on writing and industry workshops. Playwrights will also participate in daily panel discussions and have tickets to evening performances with master playwrights and theatre practitioners.
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Registration deadline is
Early registration is advised. Each workshop category is limited to 12 participants.
Email to see if there is class availability.
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Saturday, June 2nd -- 1pm, A duo reading at the Bookworm bookstore (8702 Pacific St., Omaha). Twyla Hansen reads from her new book, Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet published by The Backwaters Press 2011, and Lisa Knopp will read essays from What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri and Platte published by the University of Missouri Press 2012. The annual Art Fair will be held at Countryside Village that weekend, too; please arrive early to find parking and browse the exhibits!
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Sun 6/3, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Amy Keller & Jeff Martinson, editors of Lincoln's hottest new quarterly literary magazine will be in our store selling their Spring issue signed by contributors for $5 each. They'll also talk to interested writers about getting published in future issues of the 'zine. Don't miss it!
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Monday, June 4th - Crescent Moon's Poetry at the Moon:
the writer/musician/general philosopher-about-town Dr. JOHN Walker will bring his new book of poems/stories/antee-Dotes , " What the Hoops Junkie Saw" http://www.prairiedogmusic.com/books/index.html
AAAAnd a few other good-to-near-great moments to the stage at the Moon tonite!! AAAnd - Look for a few musicians to show up and play a few tunes ....
Guest host tonight is Marge Saiser --
A transplanted Okie who now calls Nebraska home, John Walker has been performing his brand of country-blues music for more than 40 years. His musical roots go back to Bob and Johnny Lee Wills, Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter, Bukka White, Brownie McGhee, and numerous small-town Oklahoma churches where he grew up singing songs like "What a Friend," "Oh Happy Day," and "Just a Closer Walk with Thee."
His own songs reflect that upbringing in their laid-back accessibility and Southern rural themes. They combine foot-stomping rhythms with smooth melodies and expressive lyrics, all to the distinctive accompaniment of a unique finger-picking style of guitar playing.
He has played those songs in auditoriums and bars and churches and festivals and living rooms and hay fields across the country since the sixties. John Walker is a long-time traveler with the Nebraska Arts Council's Touring Artists program and has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as Nebraska's representative to the Center's State Days concert series.
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Monday, June 4th, -- the Apollon presents
May 30–June 2, 2012 (Chadron State College Chadron, Neb.)
The Mari Sandoz Heritage Society is hosting a two-day workshop for writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction from May 30-June 1, 2012 on the Chadron State College campus. Writers of all levels, ages 16 and up, are invited to attend. This is an exceptional opportunity for aspiring writers to gain insight from noted authors. Participants have a chance to learn from and discuss writing with established authors in an intimate, casual environment.
Classes are offered on these genres:
- Poetry (Performance & Spoken Word)
Instructor: Jovan Mays - Poetry (Contemporary Verse)
Instructor: R.F. McEwen - Fiction (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Instructor: Milton Wolf - Fiction (General Fiction)
Instructor: Sean Doolittle - Revising Your Writing
Instructor: Linda M. Hasselstrom - Prose II (TBA)
Instructor: Poe Ballantine
Registration deadline is
May 7, 2012
Early registration is advised. Each workshop category is limited to 12 participants.Email to see if there is class availability.
Participants register for one workshop; which will take place in four sessions over two days. All classes are held at Chadron State College. Field trips will take place at Fort Robinson State Park, Chadron State Park, Museum of the Fur Trade or the Fort Robinson Playhouse for theater productions. Additional writing excursions may be arranged, as well as nature hikes or writing retreats. Each workshop is led by published authors and writing professionals and sessions are open to all aspiring writers.
WRITING FESTIVAL
On Saturday, June 2, a festival, open to the workshop attendees and the public, will be held on at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center in Chadron, Neb. The festival will include readings from workshop participants, talks by authors, publishers and others associated with writing.
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Saturday, June 2nd -- 1pm, A duo reading at the Bookworm bookstore (8702 Pacific St., Omaha). Twyla Hansen reads from her new book, Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet published by The Backwaters Press 2011, and Lisa Knopp will read essays from What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri and Platte published by the University of Missouri Press 2012. The annual Art Fair will be held at Countryside Village that weekend, too; please arrive early to find parking and browse the exhibits!
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Sunday, June 3rd - at A Novel Idea Bookstore, 14th & O sts, Lincoln:
Book Signing/Meet & Greet: Editors of Lincoln UndergroundSun 6/3, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Amy Keller & Jeff Martinson, editors of Lincoln's hottest new quarterly literary magazine will be in our store selling their Spring issue signed by contributors for $5 each. They'll also talk to interested writers about getting published in future issues of the 'zine. Don't miss it!
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Monday, June 4th - Crescent Moon's Poetry at the Moon:
the writer/musician/general philosopher-about-town Dr. JOHN Walker will bring his new book of poems/stories/antee-Dotes , " What the Hoops Junkie Saw" http://www.prairiedogmusic.com/books/index.html
AAAAnd a few other good-to-near-great moments to the stage at the Moon tonite!! AAAnd - Look for a few musicians to show up and play a few tunes ....
Guest host tonight is Marge Saiser --
A transplanted Okie who now calls Nebraska home, John Walker has been performing his brand of country-blues music for more than 40 years. His musical roots go back to Bob and Johnny Lee Wills, Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter, Bukka White, Brownie McGhee, and numerous small-town Oklahoma churches where he grew up singing songs like "What a Friend," "Oh Happy Day," and "Just a Closer Walk with Thee."
His own songs reflect that upbringing in their laid-back accessibility and Southern rural themes. They combine foot-stomping rhythms with smooth melodies and expressive lyrics, all to the distinctive accompaniment of a unique finger-picking style of guitar playing.
He has played those songs in auditoriums and bars and churches and festivals and living rooms and hay fields across the country since the sixties. John Walker is a long-time traveler with the Nebraska Arts Council's Touring Artists program and has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as Nebraska's representative to the Center's State Days concert series.
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Monday, June 4th, -- the Apollon presents
Out of the Lips of Silence
(Special reprisal of the fall premiere)
at the Red Cloud Opera House (Red Cloud, NE). As part of the 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, this one-night performance is open to conference attendees only. Please visit the conference registration page for more information about how to join us in Red Cloud:www.willacather.org/conferences/spring-conference. Inspired by Willa Cather’s poem “Prairie Spring,” this piece takes the seemingly blank landscape of Nebraska and transforms it into a rich, complicated, and violent story of generation and regeneration. Selected artists are creating paintings and sculptures for the gallery show, inspired by rehearsal for the movement piece. The performance will be preceded by a plated meal, sourced locally by chef John Schow and drawing from The Apollon’s signature style of “comfort food reinvented.”
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May 31, June 1 & 2 57th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference Red Cloud, NE. “Willa Cather, Poet: Making Herself Born”: The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets from the Great Plains region. Sponsored by the Willa Cather Foundation.
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June & July "Journey Stories" exhibit Kearney, NE. A Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. At the Trails and Rails Museum, 710 West 11th Street.
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June 4 - 8 Red Cloud: Willa Cather's Window to the WorldRed Cloud, NE. A Road Scholar Program.
June 15 - 17 Homestead Days Beatrice, NE. "150 Years...Pursuing American Dreams"
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June 15 - 17 Homestead Days Beatrice, NE. "150 Years...Pursuing American Dreams"
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June 9th thru June 15th -
the 2012
2012 faculty includes emily danforth, Meghan Daum, Kwame Dawes, Dave Madden, Lee Martin, Michelle Tea, & more. Sign up for the newsletter for updates.
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Monday, June 11th - Poetry at the Moon with Nebraska author Lisa Knopp, and her newest book, What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte. University of Missouri Press, 2012.
Lisa Knopp is the author of five collections of essays, each of which explores the concepts of place, home, nature, and spirituality. Her most recent collection, What the River Carries: Encounters with Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, is forthcoming from the University of Missouri Press in April 2012. Knopp's essays have appeared in many of the best publications, including Shenandoah,Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Connecticut Review, Creative Nonfiction, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and Northwest Review. Six of her essays have received Notable Essay citations in the Best American Essays series (1991, 1994, 2001, 2001, 2008, 2010). Currently, she is working on a collection of autobiographical and spiritual essays.
Monday, June 11th - Poetry at the Moon with Nebraska author Lisa Knopp, and her newest book, What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte. University of Missouri Press, 2012.
Lisa Knopp is the author of five collections of essays, each of which explores the concepts of place, home, nature, and spirituality. Her most recent collection, What the River Carries: Encounters with Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, is forthcoming from the University of Missouri Press in April 2012. Knopp's essays have appeared in many of the best publications, including Shenandoah,Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Connecticut Review, Creative Nonfiction, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and Northwest Review. Six of her essays have received Notable Essay citations in the Best American Essays series (1991, 1994, 2001, 2001, 2008, 2010). Currently, she is working on a collection of autobiographical and spiritual essays.
for more:
http://www.lisaknopp.com/bio/
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Monday, June 18th - BIG TIME Benefit reading with Greg Kuzma and friends, at Crescent Moon Coffee, 7pm!!
the evening's menu is vocaleze, as in prose and poetry, and good vibes to benefit
the Lincoln Underground Magazine,
and Crescent Moon .... come on down --- !!!!
sales of Greg's books, 5$ a piece (yes, that is correct) to benefit the magazine, and the Moon
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Sunday, June 24th -- 1pm
Poetry Sandwiches:
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Monday, June 18th - BIG TIME Benefit reading with Greg Kuzma and friends, at Crescent Moon Coffee, 7pm!!
the evening's menu is vocaleze, as in prose and poetry, and good vibes to benefit
the Lincoln Underground Magazine,
and Crescent Moon .... come on down --- !!!!
sales of Greg's books, 5$ a piece (yes, that is correct) to benefit the magazine, and the Moon
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Sunday, June 24th -- 1pm
Poetry Sandwiches:
Community at Work
presents noted Omaha poets Matt Mason and Sarah McKinstry-Brown on Sunday, June 24th, at 1:00 p.m. Matt and Sarah have graciously consented to present their poetry in order to raise funds for the social ministries of the parish, including the Lunch program, and the Door Ministry, which provides a food pantry, clothing, and emergency assistance.
Matt Mason Biography
Matt Mason has won a Pushcart Prize and 2 Nebraska Book Awards (for Poetry in 2007 and Anthology in 2006); organized and run poetry programming with the U.S. Department of State in Kathmandu, Nepal and Minsk, Belarus; and been on 5 teams at the National Poetry Slam. He edits http://poetrymenu.com/, a listing of every Nebraska poetry event. He is Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective, board president of the Nebraska Center for the Book, and has served as the Nebraska State Coordinator for Poetry Out Loud, a Poetry Foundation/NEA program. Through the Nebraska Writers Collective, Matt recently put on the area's first Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival to great success, ensuring it will be back in 2013.
Sarah McKinstry-Brown Biography
Winner of the 2011 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry and the Academy of American Poets Prize, Sarah McKinstry-Brown studied poetry at the University of New Mexico and the University of Sheffield, England. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska, and her first full-length collection of poetry, Cradling Monsoons, won the 2010 Blue Light Book Award.
Sarah’s poetry has been published in everything from West Virginia’s standardized tests to literary journals such as the Chicago Quarterly Review. It also appears in several slam poetry anthologies, including The Spoken Word Revolution Redux, which includes poems from Poet Laureates Billy Collins and Ted Kooser. Other publication highlights include Nebraska Presence, An Anthology of Nebraska Writers; Plainsongs; The Sow’s Ear; The Cimarron Review; and poetry at https://www.poetryspeaks.com alongside the works of Emily Dickinson and Lord Byron.
A native of Albuquerque, NM, McKinstry-Brown has taught performing and writing workshops in libraries, schools, and universities throughout the United States. She currently lives in Omaha, NE with her poet husband Matt Mason and their two beautiful, feisty daughters.
A contribution of $10 at the door is suggested, but no one will be turned away.
The poets will have copies of their books for sale and signing after the reading, and cookies and coffee will be available.
Matt Mason Biography
Matt Mason has won a Pushcart Prize and 2 Nebraska Book Awards (for Poetry in 2007 and Anthology in 2006); organized and run poetry programming with the U.S. Department of State in Kathmandu, Nepal and Minsk, Belarus; and been on 5 teams at the National Poetry Slam. He edits http://poetrymenu.com/, a listing of every Nebraska poetry event. He is Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective, board president of the Nebraska Center for the Book, and has served as the Nebraska State Coordinator for Poetry Out Loud, a Poetry Foundation/NEA program. Through the Nebraska Writers Collective, Matt recently put on the area's first Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival to great success, ensuring it will be back in 2013.
Sarah McKinstry-Brown Biography
Winner of the 2011 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry and the Academy of American Poets Prize, Sarah McKinstry-Brown studied poetry at the University of New Mexico and the University of Sheffield, England. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska, and her first full-length collection of poetry, Cradling Monsoons, won the 2010 Blue Light Book Award.
Sarah’s poetry has been published in everything from West Virginia’s standardized tests to literary journals such as the Chicago Quarterly Review. It also appears in several slam poetry anthologies, including The Spoken Word Revolution Redux, which includes poems from Poet Laureates Billy Collins and Ted Kooser. Other publication highlights include Nebraska Presence, An Anthology of Nebraska Writers; Plainsongs; The Sow’s Ear; The Cimarron Review; and poetry at https://www.poetryspeaks.com alongside the works of Emily Dickinson and Lord Byron.
A native of Albuquerque, NM, McKinstry-Brown has taught performing and writing workshops in libraries, schools, and universities throughout the United States. She currently lives in Omaha, NE with her poet husband Matt Mason and their two beautiful, feisty daughters.
A contribution of $10 at the door is suggested, but no one will be turned away.
The poets will have copies of their books for sale and signing after the reading, and cookies and coffee will be available.
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July 15 "I Am A Man" , by Joe Starita, the One Book One Nebraska Book Discussion with Speaker Dwight Howe
Time TBA. Ponca, NE.
Dwight Howe, a member of the Ponca Tribe, will be the guest speaker, in tribal regalia. A meal will be included. Hosted by Friends of Ponca Carnegie Library. Contact Beth Foulks, poncalib (at) gpcom.net, for more information. At Ponca State Park Resource Center.
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July 15 "I Am A Man" , by Joe Starita, the One Book One Nebraska Book Discussion with Speaker Dwight Howe
Time TBA. Ponca, NE.
Dwight Howe, a member of the Ponca Tribe, will be the guest speaker, in tribal regalia. A meal will be included. Hosted by Friends of Ponca Carnegie Library. Contact Beth Foulks, poncalib (at) gpcom.net, for more information. At Ponca State Park Resource Center.
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July 28 Norfolk Public Library Literature Festival 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Norfolk, NE. For literature lovers of all ages. Featuring Lisa Wheeler, Sharon Draper, April Henry. Contact Karen Drevo at 402-844-2108, kdrevo (at) ci.norfolk.ne.us for more information. At Northeast Community College.
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