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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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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 ...

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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