Prairie Moon Reading and Music News

2011-09-02T10:56:00.001-05:00

HOT NEWS:

from Rex:

I went to the Prairie Schooner Book prize reading last night (Jan 31st) -- Kwame Dawes is bringing on the "Prairie Schooner New School" push with a rush!

Kwame kicked off the evening in the lush, up-to-the-minute-design hall at the Andersen Building (Journalism Dept - used to be an insurance bldg - 15th & Q sts) with a short informal, warm greeting and moved quickly to outline the evening's activities -- then ...

We had an interpretive piece of digital art based on one of James Crews's poems (Orpheus, Twice, p. 49, from James' book, The Book of What Stays), (James is the 2010 Poetry winner) by one of the UNL profs, Luis Peon-Casanova , and then 20 minutes of James Crews reading, opening with his "Palomino" poem, and going through a number of masterful sombernesses --

then a musical piece written and sung by "Mississippi" James Redd - on part of a story by the fiction winner from 2010, Greg Hrbek, from his 2010 -winning book, "Destroy All Monsters" ..... a great musical piece, by the way, so well crafted and sung -- ! ..AAAAnd then a reading of part of Greg's fiction, which is a story based on an Islamo-Fascist nuclear attack with a dirty bomb on San Francisco - sort of -----

AAAnd then a DANCE piece from the UNL School of Dance with 8 members and the Director of the School of Dance, Susan Levine, interpreting a poem by the 2009 winner of the Schooner Poetry Prize, Shane Book ...

and then a 9 minute film conceived and assembled by Shane, on his poem, "Dust", a so-well-done reflection and unfolding of that work --

and THEN, poetry from that book, by the author Shane --

all told, an almost 2 hour program that was magnificient -- and held at the School of Journalism (Andersen Hall - some of last year's Book Fest events were held there) .. which is a fab video studio/auditorium --

And now we see a BIG two-day event at the Sheldon!! EEE-Haaaa !! "

Thursday, February 9th & Friday, February 10th -

Prairie Schooner

SEE (way) below for MORE details!!
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GOOD News from the Creative Writing dept. of Lincoln high School (Deborah McGinn):

Scribe 2012 , the literary magazine of Lincoln High School since 1930 has won for the second year in a row, the National Council of Teachers of English Highest Superior Award. A total of 391 schools entered their magazines and 96 were considered. The editorial squad, as they choose to be called, are very proud of themselves. Our shirts this year are cardinal red with white letters classy and spiffy.

In addition, I am trying to get a slam poetry team started at Lincoln High. Matt Mason and Andrew Ek have masterminded the plan and organized it well. There is a superb documentary I encourage you to see called “Louder Than a Bomb” Google Adam “Poet Breathe” from “Louder Than a Bomb” and watch this kid perform with passion you have never seen before. Google “Counting Graves” from the same source to see the power of a four-person ensemble. This documentary has our kids on fire with inspiration to compose.

This event will be Nebraska’s first, originating in Chicago, and LHS will be the only Lincoln team to compete in “Louder Than a Bomb” (the contest name) in Omaha this April. The professional coach assigned to Lincoln High is Dominique Garay and I am excited to work with him. Dom and I will strategize after school one day a week with kids. During the week I will have them writing so they are competent on the page and Dom will come to help shape the performance aspect. We will not be a team of yelling nonsense, but a team of writing and revising so our original pieces sing figurative language from metaphor to sharp details with a story and message. We have diverse voices and authentic tales, full of rich experience.

Let's cheer on the LHS Slam Team!!!

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The nation's largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers is recognizing Kwame Dawes, professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, for his commitment to his fellow writers.

New York-based Poets & Writers has named Dawes as a recipient of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. The award recognizes writers who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community.
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Pictures, Pictures:

Greg Kuzma's Screenplay, read on stage at the Moon, October 24th:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/ReadingTheScreenGregKuzmaSScriptOnStageAtTheCrescentMoon

Nebraska Celebration of Books, Oct. 22nd, Lied Center:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/NECelebrationOfBooks2011

Marge Saiser at the John Ames Reading, Bennett Martin Library:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/MargeSaiserAtTheNEHeritageRoomLincoln

Terrance Oberst & James Crews, October 10th :

https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051/TerranceOberstJamesCrews

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check out more info at:

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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:

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Monday, February 6th, at 7pm: Poetry at the Moon.

Mystery writer Lois Lewandowski reads:

Lois Lewandowski grew up on a farm in Northeast Nebraska. A lifelong Nebraska resident, she writes novels, short stories, and the occasional poem. Her short story, "The River Man" was a finalist in the 2005 Pebble Lake Review. She has also been published in Plains Song Review.

A member of Sisters in Crime, Lois is currently at work on the third book in the Gillian Jones series, the first two being The Fatal Heir and The Burden of Truth.
Lois and her husband reside in Lincoln, Nebraska. They have three children and one grandchild.

an open mike follows the reading by Ms. Lewandowski
held every Monday at Crescent Moon Coffee, 8th & P sts, Lincoln
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Tuesday, February 7th - 7pm - open mike at Indigo Bridge Books, 7th & P sts, Lincoln (email AJA )

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Tuesday, February 7th -- 7-8pm, Paul Dickey reads at Northeast Community College (Hawks Landing in the Student Center, Suite B, Norfolk).

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Tuesday, February 7th - 7pm

"The Right Stuff" writing group reads, followed by Deola A. Thompson

The "Write Stuff" writing group is a generational writing group meeting once a month in Lincoln -- members of the group reading tonite include:

Eileen Durgin-Clinchard, Amy Plettner, Lucy Adkins, Carole Barnes-Montgomery, Nancy Savery, Ardiss Cederholm, Suzanne Yelkin, Linda Stringham, Deb Walz, Anna Jamrog, Rex Walton, Cathy Maasdam, Marge Saiser, and Marilyn Dorf

Deola Morrell-Thompson is a PH.D. student, formerly completing her Bachelor of Science in Speech/Theatre, Bachelor of Arts in English, and Master of Arts in English w/ a Creative Writing Emphasis at the University of NE at Kearney. She has written a collection of poetic works entitled The Beggar’s Wheel, which includes formal poetry exploring the structures of the sestina, villanelle, pantoum, and sonnet. Her work, Burial Societies, a response sestina to Washington Irving’s English Sketches, is published in The Reynolds Review. Her current interest is 19 c. Literature Studies, with a focus on American writers. She plans to complete her Historical Fiction piece based on Stephen Crane’s visit to NE incorporating research of the families, towns, and experiences he encountered here in the late 1800’s.

for more info, email Deborah at dmcginn@lps.org

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Wednesday, February 8th - 8pm - at Meadowlark Coffee, 1624 South st -- open mike for poets and musicians

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Wednesday Words: The Braided River Series:

Featuring Twyla Hansen
February 8th, 2012, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
The Nebraska Arts Council
1004 Farnam St., Lower Level
Omaha, NE

TWYLA HANSEN'S newest book, Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet (Backwaters Press 2011) is a duo with South Dakota rancher-writer Linda Hasselstrom (http://windbreakhouse.com). Her book Potato Soup won the 2004 Nebraska Book Award for poetry, and her poems have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Twyla’s other books are Prairie Suite: A Celebration (with Paul Johnsgard), Sanctuary Near Salt Creek, In Our Very Bones, and How to Live in the Heartland. Her poetry and prose have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Prairie Fire newspaper, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Ascent, Organization & Environment, Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry (Backwaters Press 2007), Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), Poets Against the War (Nation Books, 2003), and A Contemporary Reader for Creative Writing (Harcourt Brace, 1994). Twyla earned her BS and MA from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln. She was raised in northeast Nebraska on land her grandparents farmed in the late 1800s as immigrants from Denmark. She is a creative writing presenter through the Nebraska Humanities Council speaker’s bureau, and lives and works in Lincoln, where her wooded acre is maintained as an urban wildlife habitat and was recognized by the 1994 Mayor’s Landscape Conservation Award.

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Thursday, February 9th -- 7:30pm, the

Smash Teeth Poetry Slam

at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso (1624 South St, Lincoln) with Oracle Jones and Ryley G. Poetry slam is back in Lincoln!

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Thursday, February 9th & Friday, February 10th -

Prairie Schooner

Irish Issue Launch Party
Prairie Schooner invites you to the Prairie Schooner Irish Issue Launch Party, a two-day event at the Sheldon Museum of Art, takes place on Thursday, February 9, and Friday, February 10. This free and open-to-the-public event features award-winning Irish writers included in Prairie Schooner’s Winter 2011 Special Irish Issue, along with other exciting, Irish-themed festivities.

Thursday, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., Irish authors Deanie Rowan Blank and Nuala Ni Chonchuir read and give on-stage interviews in Sheldon’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, followed from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. with a panel focusing on contemporary Irish literature.

Friday, From 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., in the Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, Irish writers Aidan Rooney and Sandra Bunting read and give on-stage interviews, followed from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. by the Prairie Schooner Irish issue launch, featuring live guest readings.

Friday evening, from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the Sheldon’s Great Hall, Prairie Schooner will host a reception featuring live Irish music along with Irish-themed food and alcoholic beverages, immediately followed at 8 p.m. with feature readings by Blank, Bunting, Ni Chonchuir, and Rooney.

According to Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner Kwame Dawes, this collection edited by Stephen Behrendt, “constitutes one of the best gatherings of contemporary Irish fiction and poetry in print today. Professor Behrendt has managed to bring together an amazing list of authors and it is our good fortune that we have been able to bring some of these brilliant writers to our campus to be part of this celebration.”

Please encourage your friends and students to attend this lively international event!

Trey Moody
Publicity Associate Prairie Schooner

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Saturday, February 11th - 7pm -
Please join us at 7pm on Saturday, February 11, for this semester’s first installment of The Clean Part Reading Series! Come hear poets Lily Brown, author of Rust Or Go Missing, and Benjamin Paloff, author of The Politics. Encourage your friends, colleagues, and students to attend this free, open-to-the-public event at Drift Station Gallery, located at 1746 N Street (corner of 18th St.) in downtown Lincoln. Feeling lucky? Then you should definitely come for the free raffle! Find more information, including links to the readers’ work, on our blog:

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Saturday, February 11th -- 7:30pm, the OM Center Poetry Slam and open mic (1216 Howard, Omaha). Tonight features Kait Rokowski from Saint Paul. It's the longest-running slam in Omaha, often featuring some of the best performance poets in the nation. Open mic starts at 7:30 followed by the slam; sign up BEFORE 7:30 as signup is limited and will only be allowed after 7:30 if less than 8 are in the slam. Hosted by Matt Mason. $7 suggested donation. Call 345-5078 or go to OmahaSlam.com for more information.

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Monday, February 13th, at 7pm: Poetry at the Moon.

Reading tonite is Wesleyan Professor James Shea

Poet JAMES SHEA is the author of Star in the Eye, selected for the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series and named as a “Favorite Book of 2008” by the Chicago Sun-Times. His poems have appeared in various journals, includingAmerican Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Colorado Review, jubilat, and Verse. His translations of Japanese poetry can be found in The Iowa Review, Circumference, and Gin’yu. A former research fellow at Utsunomiya University in Japan, he received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and as a poet-in-residence in the Chicago public schools. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

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held every Monday at Crescent Moon Coffee, 8th & P sts, Lincoln
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Tuesday, February 14th - 7pm - open mike at Indigo Bridge Books, 7th & P sts, Lincoln (email AJA )

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Wednesday, February 15th - 8pm - at Meadowlark Coffee, 1624 South st -- open mike for poets and musicians

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Wednesday, February 15th, 8pm til -? -- POET-Show IT - at 1122D St, Lincoln::: Join Travis and Joe for fun, music, poetry, frivolity ...
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Friday, February 17th -- 4pm, the no name reading series, at Zen's Lounge (122 N. 11th Street, Lincoln).

the no name reading series is free and open to the public and is run by the graduate students in the english department of the university of nebraska-lincoln. it aims to support the creative talent that comes out of the department by promoting that talent throughout the greater lincoln community.

tonight's reading features Arden Eli Hill and Jennifer Bryan. for more information on the no name reading series, email Marianne at: mkunkel@huskers.unl.edu, or Nima at: nimakian@hotmail.com.

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Sunday, February 19th -- 2pm, the John H. Ames Reading Series Readings by Nebraska Authors in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors (3rd Floor, Bennett Martin Public Library, 136 South 14th St., Lincoln, NE, 402-441-8516).

This month features Susan Grace Dittman. Her interest in historical writing led her to write Abraham Lincoln's Shining Star: The Inspiring Story of Abraham Lincoln and Nebraska; in it, she connects Nebraska and Lincoln, the only U. S. state capital named after our 16th president with Abraham Lincoln's influence on the state's formation and development.

For more information, call 402-441-8516, email heritage@lincolnlibraries.org

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Monday, February 20th, at 7pm: Poetry at the Moon.

tonite , Jeff Alessandrelli and Trey Moody read:

Jeff Alessandrelli is a writer. He co-curates The Clean Part Reading Series. He lives in Lincoln, NE. His dog’s name is Beckett Long Snout.

Jeff is the author of the little book Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound (Ravenna Press, 2011) and the chapbook Don’t Let Me Forget To Feed the Sharks (Poor Claudia, forthcoming).

A 19th and 20th century French avant-garde composer, Erik Satie was a weird dude. He once wrote a song that was 18 hours long. He was one of John Cage’s favorite composers. He claimed to only eat foods that were colored white. He refused to wash his hands with soap. He wrote music that is still trés haunting over 8o years later. The final words he spoke during his lifetime were “Ah! The cows...”

About Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound some people said:

“Jeff Alessandrelli fractures the idea of Eric Satie into pieces as comforting & ever-strange as the music. Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound is a pastiche of voices & innovative forms, by turns clever, raw & lyric, that shows the inherent variousness of great art & the artist. This is a stunning & challenging book about what it means to love stunning & challenging music.”--Mathias Svalina

“Satie’s compositions transmit the sensation of speaking, and these poems are a great letter inside that speech, a musical philology, speech wrested from rests."--Arda Collins

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Trey Moody, a PhD student, earned a BA and an MFA from Texas State University-San Marcos. He is the author of two chapbooks, Climate Reply (New Michigan Press, 2010) andOnce Was a Weather (Greying Ghost Press, forthcoming), and his writing has been or will be published in Best New Poets 2009, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Sonora Review, and Washington Square. At UNL, he has been awarded a Gaffney/Academy of American Poets Prize and a Susan Atefat Peckham Fellowship. With Jeff Alessandrelli, he co-curates The Clean Part Reading Series.

held every Monday at Crescent Moon Coffee, 8th & P sts, Lincoln

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Tuesday, February 21st -- 7-8pm, Poetry Downtown On The Bricks at Book Ends Used and Collectible Books (2218 Central Ave., Kearney). Tonight features 2 poets, Terry Schifferns and Steve Warren. Admission is free to the public, but come early - we can only seat about 30 folks comfortably. Call Book Ends at 308-293-0031 or email bookends@rcom-ne.com................................................

Tuesday, February 21st - 7pm - open mike at Indigo Bridge Books, 7th & P sts, Lincoln (email AJA )

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Wednesday, February 22nd - 8pm - at Meadowlark Coffee, 1624 South st -- open mike for poets and musicians

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Monday, February 27th, at 7pm: Poetry at the Moon.

a reading tonite by the F Street Writers Workshop --

open mike follows ........
held every Monday at Crescent Moon Coffee, 8th & P sts, Lincoln
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Tuesday, February 28th -- 7pm, The Great Plains Writers Tour at Mount Marty College presents poets David Lee and Neil Harrison in Black Box Theatre (Bede Building, Mt. Marty campus, Yankton, SD).

Lee has published twenty books of poetry, was named Utah’s First Poet Laureate and was finalist/runner-up for Poet Laureate of the United States. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award and was named one of twelve outstanding writers in Utah literary history and received the Utah Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts and a Governor’s Merit Award in the Humanities.

Harrison’s poems have been collected in Story (Logan House, 1995 & 1996), In a River of Wind (Bridge Burner’s, 2000), Into the River Canyon at Dusk (Lone Willow, 2005), and Back in the Animal Kingdom (Pinyon Publishing, 2011), and in 2004 he won the Western Reading Series Editor's Choice Award for poetry.
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Tuesday, February 28th - 7pm - open mike at Indigo Bridge Books, 7th & P sts, Lincoln (email AJA )

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Wednesday, February 29th -- 7-8pm, Utah's 1st Poet Laureate, David Lee, reads at Northeast Community College (Hawks Landing in the Student Center, Norfolk).

Lee has published twenty books of poetry, was named Utah’s First Poet Laureate and was finalist/runner-up for Poet Laureate of the United States. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award and was named one of twelve outstanding writers in Utah literary history and received the Utah Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts and a Governor’s Merit Award in the Humanities.

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Wednesday, February 29th - 8pm - at Meadowlark Coffee, 1624 South st -- open mike for poets and musicians

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Monday, March 5th, at 7pm: Poetry at the Moon.
a night of poems and songs, written and peformed by Mississippi James Redd -
James Madison Redd, a preacher’s son with a voice booming just as loud. At Mississippi State University, he wove seven yarns into a thesis called Living Without: Stories from Vandler County. One thread was nominated for Best New American Voices 2008. 2010 marks his first year at the UNL creative writing Ph.D. program. Talk to him atjimmyredd66@gmail.com

held every Monday at Crescent Moon Coffee, 8th & P sts, Lincoln: open mike follows each reading ...
check with Rex at rexwalton@windstream.net
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Tuesday, March 6th - 7pm - open mike at Indigo Bridge Books, 7th & P sts, Lincoln (email AJA )

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Tuesday, March 6th, 7pm - Tuesdays with Writers presents:

Nancy Savery, Rex Walton, Charlene Neely, and Marilyn Dorf

at the South Mill 48th & Prescott, Lincoln

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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 - noon...
LUNCH at the Library: 4th floor, Bennett Martin Library, 14th & N sts, Lincoln
today: Amy Plettner, with her new book, "Undoing Orion's Belt"

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Wednesday, March 7th - 8pm - at Meadowlark Coffee, 1624 South st -- open mike for poets and musicians

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Monday, March 12th, 7pm - Poetry at the Moon,

at Crescent Moon Coffee, 8th & P sts, Lincoln:

tonite, Christine Stewart-NuÑez & Phil WeitL

CHRISTINE STEWART-NUÑEZ received her PhD in English (creative writing) with a certificate of specialization in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, her MA in English (literature) from Arizona State University, and her BA in English Education from the University of Northern Iowa. She has taught high school English at Tempe High (Arizona) and Tarsus American College (Turkey) and college classes at Arizona State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. At UNL she received a 2007 College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Her creative writing reflects her interdisciplinary work in history, identity, gender, and place. In her poetry manuscript, Syllables Rising, she weaves travelistic poems of landscape and culture with lyrics that engage the speaker’s experiences living in Turkey. InThe Love of Unreal Things (Finishing Line Press 2005), tensions between human need and spiritual calling in the life of Catherine of Siena, a fourteenth-century Italian visionary, become touchstones. The iconic image of supermodel Kate Moss is the focal point of Unbound & Branded (Finishing Line Press 2006). A more recent collection, Postcards on Parchment, won the 2007 ABZ Poetry Contest (ABZ Press, 2008). Her most recent collection is Keeping Them Alive(WordTech Communications, 2010). She is currently working on a series of creative nonfiction essays. A book proposal for Women Write Resistance, an anthology of emerging and established American women poets who bear witness to and resist violence against women, is currently under review. Her poems and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Calyx, Arts and Letters, North American Review, Rattle, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals and magazines. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies Coordinator at South Dakota State University.

Philip Weitl is an Associate Professor of English and Director of The Writing Center at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. He teaches creative nonfiction and various other writing courses, for which he was named the 2010 Doane College Teacher of the Year. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska, as well as a Master of Arts in English and a Graduate Certificate in Technical and Professional Communication from Kansas State University. His writing has appeared in The Briar Cliff Review, The Flint Hills Review, the Georgetown Review, Jelly Bucket, Limestone, and Next Text, a college writing anthology. He is also a regular contributor to Nebraska Life.

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Sunday, March 18th, -- 2pm, the John H. Ames Reading Series Readings by Nebraska Authors in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors (3rd Floor, Bennett Martin Public Library, 136 South 14th St., Lincoln, NE, 402-441-8516).

This month features Paul Dickey. Dickey has written poetry, fiction, short non-fiction and plays. His latest book is titled They Say This Is How Death Came into the World, published in 2011. For more information, call 402-441-8516, emailheritage@lincolnlibraries.org.

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Saturday, March 31st - NE BOOK FEST!!!

Join the Nebraska Center for the Book (NCB) for the 2012 Nebraska Book Festival, Saturday, March 31, at nuVibe Juice and Java, 126 North 14th Street, and the Nebraska State Historical Society's Nebraska History Museum, 131 Centennial Mall North (15th and P Streets), in downtown Lincoln. This event is free and open to the public and will focus on Nebraska authors who published new works © 2011. Participating authors will answer questions from the audience, be available for book signings, and attend the concluding reception. The Nebraska Center for the Book will present the Mildred Bennett Award to an individual for significant contributions to fostering literary tradition in Nebraska. Joe Starita will discuss the 2012 One Book One Nebraska, "I Am a Man:" Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice.

The keynote presentation will be offered by novelist Ron Hansen, author of A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion. Born in Omaha, Hansen earned his B.A. in English from Creighton University, M.F.A. in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and M.A. in Spirituality from Santa Clara University in California. He is the Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara, where he teaches writing and literature.

Readings, question and answer sessions, and book signings will highlight the following Nebraska writers:

Twyla Hansen, poet, Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet
Neil Harrison, poet, Back in the Animal Kingdom
Allison Hedge Coke, poet and editor, Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas
David Philip Mullins, fiction, Greetings From Below
Frank O'Neal, poet, Fireside Chats: A Surrealist's View of the World
Ferial Pearson and Omaha South High students, anthology of personal essays, In My Shoes: Teen Reflections on Hope and the Future
Amy Plettner, poet, Undoing Orion's Belt
Rainbow Rowell, novelist and columnist, Attachments
Mark Sanders, poet, Conditions of Grace
Timothy Schaffert, novelist, The Coffins of Little Hope
Brent Spencer, creative non-fiction, Rattlesnake Daddy: A Son's Search for His Father
Joe Starita, non-fiction, "I Am a Man:" Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice
William G. Thomas, non-fiction, The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America
William Trowbridge, poet, Ship of Fool

William Trowbridge and Lisa Knopp will lead free poetry and creative non-fiction writing workshops, with opportunities to discuss writing techniques, share experiences, and receive expert feedback. Trowbridge's poetry explores the contemporary "Fool" with humor and reflection. Knopp's What the River Carries includes essays about the Mississippi, Missouri and Platte rivers and contemplates how people experience landscape.

The festival will conclude with a reception at the Museum of Nebraska History and an evening of readings at nuVibe Juice and Java. Mark Sanders, co-editor for a Nebraska issue of "The Midwest Quarterly" in 2011, will arrange readings by some of the 66 Nebraska poets who were included in the issue. We invite you to join us March 31, 2012. The Nebraska Book Festival is supported byNebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities Council,Nebraska Library Commission, Nebraska State Historical Society, and nuVibe Juice and Java. Keep up with the Festival atwww.facebook.com/NebraskaBookFestival.

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Wednesday, April 4th , 2012 - noon...
LUNCH at the Library: 4th floor, Bennett Martin Library, 14th & N sts, Lincoln
today: Ricardo Garcia - Spinning Tall TALES

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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 -- 7pm, The Great Plains Writers Tour at Mount Marty College presents George Bilgere at Marian Auditorium (Mt. Marty campus, Yankton, SD). Bilgere’s most recent book of poetry is The White Museum, selected in 2010 for the Autumn House Poetry Series. His other books include Haywire (winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award in 2006) and The Good Kiss (chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to win the University of Akron Poetry Prize in 2001). “In the house of contemporary poetry,” said Collins, “The Good Kiss is a breath of fresh American air.”

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Monday, April 16th - 7pm: Poetry at the Moon presents
members of the Literary League of UNL...
The Literary League - formerly known as the Undergraduate English Organization - is comprised of and open to any UNL student interested in reading, writing, joining an RSO/becoming more involved on campus, interacting with others with similar interests, looking for distinguishing additions to one's curriculum vitae, meeting new people, going to English-related events, and having a grand old time with the field of English in general. Some events we have hosted include philanthropic book drives, class reviews, guest speakers such as Pulitzer prize winner Ted Kooser, poetry slams, movies, and much more. Our meetings are held once a month, and food is always provided. One need not be an English major, or even an English minor, to join. More information available by joining the Lit. League Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/groups/litleague/) and via e-mail (literaryleague@unl.edu). Join us on Facebook and get connected today!

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Books and Publications NEWS is at the Bottom of the page!!!

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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 ...

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SEE PICS of recent writers' events, at the right>

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Come back here to see Lincoln area events,
or visit Matt Mason's regional reading site, Poetry Menu
at www.poetrymenu.com
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for more in-depth writer info for Nebraska, see Brent Spencer's
Nebraska Center for Writers, at
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/index.htm

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Wednesday, September 9th -- 8pm-12am, Acoustic Open Mic for musicians and poets at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso (1624 South St, Lincoln). Hosted by Spencer. For more information call 402-477-2007.

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Wednesday, September 9th - 11:45am-1pm, "Wednesday Words," at the Nebraska Arts Council, (Historic Burlington Place Bldg, 1004 Farnam Street, Lower Level, Omaha) featuring writers who have been awarded with the The Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artist Fellowships in Literature. Bring your lunch and enjoy the show. While you are here, drop by the Fred Simon Gallery to see some of artwork from our best Nebraska artists. Today features Norfolk writer Barbara Schmitz

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Thursday, September 10th -- 7pm, The Nebraska Writers Collective hosts The No Coast Poetry Slam at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso (16th and South Streets, Lincoln). Poetry: the full-contact Olympic sport. Open signup begins at 6:30pm. Show up early as we will be denoucing poet time and starting the slam promptly at 7pm. (I'm serious.) Admission is FREE - donations encouraged. Call 570-1619 or go to www.myspace.com/nocoastwriters for more information.

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SONGWRITERS SITUATION:

The LAFTA-sponsored "Prairie Dog Social" is set for Friday, September 11. The event opens LAFTA's 2009-2010 season. It will be at the 7th Street Loft, 7th and M, Lincoln, Nebraska and again feature artists on the Prairie Dog Music label: A new release by The Lightning Bugs (Steve Hanson, Reynold Peterson, and Jim Pipher), Jim Pipher with a new release of his own, John Walker (and an upcoming "Blakeslee, Morris, & Walker" release), Terri Jo, Terry Keefe, Chris Sayre, C. A. Waller, and Robert Kloefkorn. Plus, we hope, poems by Bill Kloefkorn.

There will also be the usual gumbo, chile, cornbread, and boysenberry cobbler pre-sermon dinner. Food at 6:30. Music starts at 7:30.

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Saturday, September 12th ... 7:30pm, the Omaha Healing Arts Center Poetry Slam and open mic (1216 Howard, Omaha). Tonight features NY poet Eboni Hogan. Eboni is a 24 year old poet/actress/teaching artist who has performed and facilitated workshops in over 25 U.S. cities, as well as internationally in Ghana, West Africa. She is 2008 Urbana Grand Slam Champion, and a member of the 2007 and 2009 Nuyorican Slam teams. She recently debuted her first collection of poetry entitled "Grits". It's the longest-running slam in Omaha, often featuring some of the best performance poets in the nation. Open mic starts at 7:30 followed by the slam; sign up BEFORE 7:30 as signup is limited and will only be allowed after 7:30 if less than 8 are in the slam. Hosted by Matt Mason and Zedeka. $7 suggested donation. Call 345-5078 or go to OmahaSlam.com for more information.

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Sunday, September 13th -- 2pm, The John G Neihardt Foundation presents Sunday Afternoon at the Museum at the Neihardt State Historic Site (306 W. Elm Street, Bancroft, NE). Nebraska author Jeff Barnes will discuss his travels documenting historic military posts across the northern Great Plains. East to west from Fort Des Moines in Iowa to Fort C. F. Smith in Montana and north to south from Fort Union in North Dakota to Fort Sidney in Nebraska, 51 forts in all, each with a role in the period now called the Indian Wars. Programs are free and open to the public. Reception following; author books available for purchase and signing. For information: 1-888-777-4667 or 402-648-3388

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Wednesday, September 16th -- 8pm-12am, Acoustic Open Mic for musicians and poets at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso (1624 South St, Lincoln). Hosted by Spencer. For more information call 402-477-2007.

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Wednesday, September 16th , 5 pm - at the F Street Rec Center, Lincoln: the Writers Workshop, hosted by Terry Oberst -- come visit, and for more info, terranceoberst@earthlink.net

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Thursday, September 13th -- 5pm, Ink Slingers' Slam (a poetry slam for high school students only) at McFoster's Natural Kind Cafe (302 S 38th St, Omaha). Sign-up starts at 5:00 and the slam starts at 5:30 p.m. Two rounds, 3 minute time limit, must be your own original work! If you have any questions, e-mail http://www.blogger.com/.

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Friday, September 18 at 1 pm, 5 poets will present "Pulp and Poetry" at Joslyn. The tour begins at the admissions desk and trails through Joslyn, stopping at a painting here and there to hear a poem inspired by artwork. The theme of the poems will be the themes of classic pulp genres: romance, westerns, crime, and sci-fi. Sounds like a hoot! It's all part of the(downtown) Omaha Lit Fest. The poets are: Matt Mason, Marge Saiser, SusanAizenburg, Katie F-S, and Todd Robinson.

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Friday-Saturday, September 18th - 19th -- the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest at the Kaneko, W. Dale Clark Library, Slowdown, Film Streams and other Omaha locations. The theme this year is "The Sordid Arts of the Cheap Paperback."

The event, to be held Sept. 18 & 19 at multiple venues, including the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Public Library (W. Dale Clark branch), KANEKO, and Nomad Lounge, features fiction and nonfiction authors and poets from the region and across the country. In addition to readings and panel discussions, the event includes art exhibits, parties, and performance.

Visit http://www.omahalitfest.com/ for more details.

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Sunday, September 20th - 2pm, the John H. Ames Reading Series Readings by Nebraska Authors in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors (3rd Floor, Bennett Martin Public Library, 136 South 14th St., Lincoln, NE, 402-441-8516). This month features Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Amelia Montes has been a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the past ten years. She writes fiction, critical literary theory, non-fiction, and criticism. Most recently, she edited a nineteenth-century text, Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton as well as written the introduction, notes and translated letters. For more information, call 402-441-8516, email heritage@lincolnlibraries.org.

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Thursday, September 24th -- 7-8:30pm, the Park Teen Center Underground Open Mike Coffeehouse Night. Open mic/slam poetry/hot cocoa/coffee/acoustic music for Grades 8 thru 12 at Park School (855 S 8th St (basement of the school), Lincoln). For more info, call 402/441-9471. $1 cover.

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Saturday, September 26th - the 8th Annual PLAINSONG FOLK FESTIVAL!!

This year, 1 pm til 9 pm, in the Sprague/Martell Community Center, Martell , NE, just 14 minutes south of Lincoln:

featured this year are Christine Lavin, Lou & Peter Berryman, Lye Soap, Michael Murphy, and the Basharaat Dancers.

Tickets are 15$ for Adults, 3$ for children 5 - 12, free under age 5 ... students with ID: $10. to order advance tickets, write PLAINSONG FESTIVAL TICKETS P.O. Box 92, Roca NE 68430-0092

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Sunday, September 27th -- 1pm, the Annual Teen Poetry Bash at the W. Dale Clark Library (215 S 15th St, Omaha). We encourage teens to express themselves by preparing their entries over the summer. Sponsored by the Friends of Omaha Public Library, the Bash awards cash prizes for online entries and live readings. More details will be available soon at www.omahapubliclibrary.org/teen/.

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MONDAY, September 28th -- 7pm, Naked Words Open Mike at the Benson Grind (6107 Maple Street, Omaha, 932-4040). Poetry, Frivolty, the Occasional Pop-Tart. Hosted by Heidi Hermanson, email prairie.sky@gmail.com for more information

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PLUM CREEK CHILDRENS' LITERARY FESTIVAL:

Registration is open for Children’s Day, Friday, October 2, 2009.
Sessions are held on Concordia University campus in Seward, Nebraska.
Descriptions of our visiting authors and illustrators and the registration form can be found online at www.cune.edu/plumcreek.
Each session is one hour in length, and we do our best to schedule two authors for every class that has registered. Sessions begin at 9:30 and continue until 2:00.
Please use one form for each class that you are registering, and be sure to include your e-mail address.

Registrations HAVE been received for some schools, so please don’t worry if you’ve already registered.

Please do plan to join us this fall. We have a great line-up!

Vikki Gremel, Festival Coordinator
Plum Creek Children's Literacy Festival
800 N. Columbia
Seward, NE 68434
(402)643-7483
FAX (402)643-3328

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Saturday, October 3rd - 6 pm til 8 pm: Writers at Deer Springs Winery

Come on out to Deer Springs Winery, East 163rd & Adams, near Prairie Home, and Lincoln, NE.

Tonight, the WRITE STUFF Writers Group is reading, PLUS a singer-songwriter to open and close the evening!!

Deer Springs Winery is at http://www.deerspringswinery.com/

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WOMEN At The SPRING workshops, at Spring Creek Prairie, Denton, NE

Workshop 2: "I am Moonrise" Saturday, October 3, 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. [Update: Class is full -- waiting list available.] -->Presenter Kelly Madigan Erlandson will lead a discussion of the mysterious processes that impact our ability to work creatively. She will share several ways of looking at creativity, explore barriers and catalysts, and engage the audience in questions designed to enhance their own relationship to the creative process. The day will encompass a combination of lecture, hands-on activities, a contemplation walk on the prairie, and writing. As the harvest moon rises, we will gather around the campfire to share and drum.Fee: $50/person. All materials will be provided, including lunch. Participants should dress for outdoor activities.
Registration:Fill out registration form or call (402) 797-2301. On-line registration is not available. Each workshop is limited to 30 participants.

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Tuesday, October 6th - 7pm, Tuesdays with Writers at The South Mill (4736 Prescott, just west of 48th and Prescott, Lincoln). Featuring writer Lynn Samsel .....There is an open mic following the feature. For more information, contact Deborah McGinn at dmcginn@lps.org

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Wednesday, October 7th - 12 noon, Lunch at the Library: Bring your lunch and enjoy coffee provided by The Mill in the 4th Floor Auditorium, Bennett Martin Public Library (14th & N Streets, Lincoln). Today features Christine Harris, author of The Gypsy in My Soul. Sponsored by the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. For more information, call 402-441-8516 or email heritage@lincolnlibraries.org.

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October 9-10, in Kearney - Nebraska Writers Guild Fall Conference -- see http://www.nebraskawriters.org/events.html for details
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Sunday, October 18th -- 2pm, the John H. Ames Reading Series Readings by Nebraska Authors in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors (3rd Floor, Bennett Martin Public Library, 136 South 14th St., Lincoln, NE, 402-441-8516).

This month features Amil Quayle. Quayle hails from Idaho, near the Snake River. He earned a degree in sociology from the University of Utah, ranched in Nebraska for seven years and then received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska. He has taught English at Utah State University and at Idaho State University. Grand Canyon and Other Selected Poems, which includes a photo of river rafting on the cover, is his latest work. For more information, call 402-441-8516, email heritage@lincolnlibraries.org.

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Wednesday, October 14th -- 11:45am-1pm, "Wednesday Words," at the Nebraska Arts Council, (Historic Burlington Place Bldg, 1004 Farnam Street, Lower Level, Omaha) featuring writers who have been awarded with the The Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artist Fellowships in Literature. Bring your lunch and enjoy the show. While you are here, drop by the Fred Simon Gallery to see some of artwork from our best Nebraska artists. Today features Omaha writer Anna Monardo..

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October 23 & 24 -- The 3rd Annual Great Plains Poetry Pile-Up at Midland Lutheran College in Fremont. 30 of the best slam poets in the world converge on Fremont, with National Poetry Slam champions as well as other talented individuals duking it out for prizes. Events include the competition bouts (7 and 8:30pm Fri, 4:30pm Sat, with the finals at 7:30 Sat) and workshops on Saturday from 12:30-4pm. More info up at poetrymenu.com/gppp.html. Sponsored by Midland Lutheran College, the Omaha Poetry Slam and PoetryMenu.com.

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Tuesday, November 3rd -- 7pm, Tuesdays with Writers at The South Mill (4736 Prescott, just west of 48th and Prescott, Lincoln). Featured reader is Steve Langan... There is an open mic following the feature. For more information, contact Deborah McGinn at dmcginn@lps.org

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Wednesday, NOVEMBER 4th -- 12 noon, Lunch at the Library: Bring your lunch and enjoy coffee provided by The Mill in the 4th Floor Auditorium, Bennett Martin Public Library (14th & N Streets, Lincoln). Today features Barbara Carlson and OLLI Writers. Sponsored by the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. For more information, call 402-441-8516 or email heritage@lincolnlibraries.org.

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Nebraska Writers:

Cultivating Creativity, 2009 Nebraska Book Festival, November 14, 2009

http://www.nebraskabookfestival.org/

will be held at the Nebraska State Historical Society’s Museum of Nebraska History, 15th and P Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska. The festival will include a variety of literary activities. An awards luncheon will honor the winners of the Center for the Book’s Mildred Bennett Award, Jane Geske Award, and Nebraska Book Awards. A selection of Nebraska writers will read from their 2009 works, along with readings from the winners of the Nebraska Book Awards. Writers Workshops will be offered free of charge. Teresa Lorensen of the Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation will lead a book discussion of Aldrich’s A Lantern in Her Hand, this year’s enormously popular One Book One Nebraska selection (http://www.onebookonenebraska.org/). A Conversation with Three Poets will give Nebraska poets Ted Kooser, Bill Kloefkorn, and Don Welch the opportunity to share insights on reading and writing poetry. Additional Nebraska author activities and plans for vendors are in the works. The Festival is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Humanities Council, and the Nebraska Library Commission.
Noted Nebraska Writers to Appear at the 2009 Nebraska Book Festival, November 14, 2009:
William Kloefkorn
Ted Kooser
Don Welch
JV Brummels
Sean Doolittle
Michael Forsberg
Harley Jane Kozak
The Loren Eiseley Society Readers
Mary Pipher
Hilda Raz
Joe Starita
Stephanie Grace Whitson
For more information see http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/publications/Archives-ncb/spring2009/NCBNewsSpring2009.pdf or contact Mary Jo Ryan, Nebraska Library Commission Communications Coordinator, 402-471-3434.

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Sunday, November 15th -- 2pm, the John H. Ames Reading Series Readings by Nebraska Authors in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors (3rd Floor, Bennett Martin Public Library, 136 South 14th St., Lincoln, NE, 402-441-8516).

This month features Jeff Barnes. A freelance writer and fifth-generation Nebraskan who lives in Omaha, Jeff Barnes has been a newspaper reporter and editor, the past chairman of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission, and the former marketing director of the Durham Western Heritage Museum. He has researched, photographed, and written his first book, a guide entitled Forts of the Northern Plains, published by Stackpole Books. For more information, call 402-441-8516, email heritage@lincolnlibraries.org.

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Tuesday, December 1st -- 7pm, Tuesdays with Writers at The South Mill (4736 Prescott, just west of 48th and Prescott, Lincoln). Featured tonight is the MIDwinter Group Reading -- There is an open mic following the feature. For more information, contact Deborah McGinn at dmcginn@lps.org

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Wednesday, December 2nd...12 noon, Lunch at the Library: Bring your lunch and enjoy coffee provided by The Mill in the 4th Floor Auditorium, Bennett Martin Public Library (14th & N Streets, Lincoln). Today features Vicki Wood – LCL’s Youth Services Supervisor speaking on "Good Books to Give as Gifts.” Sponsored by the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. For more information, call 402-441-8516 or email heritage@lincolnlibraries.org.

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