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NEBRASKA = EARTH:AIR:WATER:FIRE! I STAND WITH RANDY! --- EVENTS COMING!

Organize an " EARTH:AIR:WATER:FIRE! I STAND WITH RANDY! " reading for the August 5th thru 7th weekend, to raise awareness of the TransCanada XL pipeline protests
see this link for more info: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=215423981829129
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Bittersweet Nebraska, Call for submissions: Planning an exhibition that will showcase images and stories exploring social irony in Nebraska. Submit by July 1. For more info, kindly visit ourFacebook page or email bittersweetnebraska@gmail.com.
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write a haiku about
NEBRASKA = EARTH:AIR:WATER:FIRE ....
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other helpful links:

........Pictures:

Tom Ukinski & Terry Oberst reading at Crescent Moon:

https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/TomUkinskiTerryOberstReadAtTheCrescentMoon

Grace Bauer, Joy Castro, Virginia Gilbert reading at Crescent Moon:
https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/GraceJoyVirginia

the Puddin' House Gang, reading at South Mill (Tuesdays with Writers):
https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/TuesdaysWithWritersThePuddingHouseGangReads

the Melody Wranglers sings at Crescent Moon:
https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/MelodyWranglersCrescentMoon

Frank O'Neal reads at Crescent Moon:
https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/PoetryAtTheMoonFrankONeal

the Memorial Day open reading at Crescent Moon, honoring Bill Kloefkorn:
https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/TheMemorialDayReadingHonoringBillKloefkornAndAllOurFallen

Mary Helen Stefaniak & Brent Spencer reading at Crescent Moon:
https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/MaryHelenBrentATCM

Nick Dahlquist & Brittany Bydalek sing at Crescent Moon:
https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/NickDahlquistBrittanyBydalekAtCrescentMoon

Tim Schaffert reads at Crescent Moon:
https://picasaweb.google.com/rexwalton47/TimSchaffertReadsAtCrescentMoonCoffee
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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/Reynolds_Series_2010/
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THE DAILY SCHEDULE:

Monday, august 1st - 7pm
Poetry at the Moon presents
Kelly Madigan....

Tonight, Kelly brings it on with a variation on her theme - come listen.

Kelly Madigan is a Lincoln writer working in multiple genres. She has poems forthcoming in Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology from Trinity University Press; A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry from The University of Akron Press; and The Untidy Season, Backwaters Press. She is currently experimenting with the long poem.
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August 6th, 2pm - at Crescent Moon Coffee ===
WE STAND WITH RANDY .....

Join us for an afternoon of celebrating Nebraska's natural bounty, and underlining the dangers from the XL pipeline!

Many voices joining to hold up Nebraska, and hold down the pipeline!

Randy will be there to address the group, as well as many volunteer writers and musicians --

Writers -- bring some of your publications to sell at this event, and donate all or part of the proceeds to the cause...

Readers so far signed up for this event: Deborah McGinn, Marge Saiser, Barbara Rixstine, Sarah Fairchild, Karla Decker, Rosemary Zumpfe, Greg Kosmicki, and YOU, if you sign up at the event!!


an afternoon of grassroots action, hosted by Jim & Mary Pipher --- one of many events this August 5 - 7 weekend to highlight the issues we have with the XL pipeline, and other affronts to our state

email Rex at rexwalton@windstream.net to sign up to read or sing on this program!

SEE ALSO fACEBOOK AT: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149616915114617

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Monday, August 8th, 7pm: Poetry at the Moon

LISA KNOPP & FRIENDS - 7PM
hosted by Amy Plettner

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Tuesday, August 9th -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Grey Castro for info:grey.cb.castro@gmail.com
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Monday, August 15th, 7pm: Poetry at the Moon Presents:
Liz Clark Wessel, Shelly Clark Geiser, and Marge Saiser, reading...

Liz Clark Wessel is a poet, illustrator, book editor and publisher (with her newly-reformed Stray Dog Press, renamed as Argos Books [ argosbooks.org ] ). Liz has been living in Stockholm, Sweden with her husband, Mårten, for years, although recently they lived in NYC for postgrad work at Columbia School for the Arts.

SHELLY CLARK received an MA in journalism at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln and her BA from University of Nebraska — Kearney. Her poems have appeared in Nebraska Territory, Nebraska English Journal, and Plains Song Review. Her work has been anthologized inTimes of Sorrow/Times of Grace. Clark co-edited, with Marjorie Saiser, a book of interviews featuring Nebraska writers entitled Road Trip: Conversations With Writers(Backwaters Press, 2003).

MARJORIE SAISER is a poet living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received an MA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, winning the Vreelands Award and the Academy of American Poets competition. Her work has been published in literary journals including Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Zone 3, CrazyHorse, and Cream City Review. Her poems have been finalists for the Robert Penn Warren Prize, the New Letters Literary Awards, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a 2000 recipient of the Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council and in 1999 received the Literary Heritage Award from the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. Saiser is a speaker for the Nebraska Humanities Council. Her first full-length collection,Bones of a Very Fine Hand, won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her second book, Lost in Seward County, was published in 2001 by Backwaters Press, 3502 N 52nd St, Omaha, NE 68104, and is available there or from Lee Booksellers 888-665-0999. She is co-editor of Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press, 2002), an anthology of poetry and prose by women of the Great Plains, which was named Poetry Honor Book in 2003 by the Nebraska Center for the Book, and also co-editor of a book of interviews, Road Trip: Conversations with Writers(Backwaters Press, 2003). Her most recent collection isBeside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press, 2010).

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Monday, August 22nd - 7pm -

Poetry at the Moon ==

Reading tonight --- Joe Starita

Joe Starita was an investigative reporter and New York bureau chief for The Miami Herald, where one of his stories was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is now a professor at the University of Nebraska’s College of Journalism and the author of The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge,
an account of four generations of a Lakota Sioux family, that garnered a second Pulitzer Prize nomination, won the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association Award, and has been published in six foreign languages.
Joe also has a definitive volume on Chief Standing Bear ...