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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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Pictures, Pictures: Go to this address for many, many Readings pictures --
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051
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Ardiss Cederholm, Cathy Maasdam, Eileen Durgin-Clinchard, and Marilyn Dorf
Cathy Maasdam grew up in Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska. She is a life-long student and has earned bachelor’s degrees in education and music from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Maasdam is a musician, writer, and teacher whose poetry has appeared in Fine Lines. Cathy currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she is employed by Lincoln Public Schools as a teacher for English Language Learners.
Marilyn Dorf grew up on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded in Boone County, Nebraska where, as only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Plainsongs, Northeast, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, Plains Song Review, Timber Creek Review, Echoes, Avocet, 10x3 plus, and Platte Valley Review, as well as the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Crazy Woman Creek, Nebraska Presence, and the forthcoming Untidy Seasons. She has received several prizes for her short fiction in the Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of five chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend, Windmills Walk the Night, Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds, I Know That An Owl Owns This Sky, and This Red Hill (Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.
Ardiss Cederholm received her B.S. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and taught in Lincoln Public Schools for 19 years. She belongs to the Write Stuff writing group and often reads her poetry at 1st Tuesdays at the South Mill and at the Crescent Moon Coffee. Her book of poetry is "Seasons of the Heartland". Ardiss has participated in the Iowa Summer Writer’s Workshop with Michael Carey and audited a poetry class at UNL with Ted Kooser, and has been published in Nebraska Life magazine, Plain Songs Review and Times of Sorrow Times of Grace. Ardiss is a newlywed, and has only been married 7 months. Her married name is Ardiss Pfeifer, but she uses Ardiss Cederholm as her writing name.
for more info on Backwaters Press, see:
http://www.thebackwaterspress.org/ ..........
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Thursday, September 13th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter Nite - Open MIKE
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Friday, September 14th, 8 til 10pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter Gerado Meza
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Saturday, September 15th, 8 til 10pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Instrumentalist Tony Church
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RENGA: a collaborative poetry-writing afternoon -- get together wth the Fairchilds, and write a group poem, as well as what you can do on your own (don't forget the ice cream store nearby!!)
The 2012 Autumn Renga will be Sunday, September 16, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (or whenever participants want to quit), at Maxwell Arboretum, which is next to C. Y. Thompson Library (east of the UNL Dairy Store and west of the Dental College and a big faculty parking lot on the east) on East Campus (in Lincoln).
Public parking is on the south side of the street (East Campus Loop) that passes in front of the entrance to the arboretum.
There are picnic tables, but no grilling. Feel free to brown bag or bring a snack/soft drink. . . or all of the above!
MICHAEL CATHERWOOD is a Nebraskan and a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arkansas — Fayetteville, where he taught for four years. He's been published in the AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Borderlands, CQ, The Georgetown Review, Hawai'i Review, Kansas Quarterly, Mankato Poetry Review, Midwest Quarterly, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Kimera, Nebraska English Journal, Nebraska Review, Plainsongs (for which he serves as an essayist), and elsewhere. He is the author of the collection Dare (The Backwaters Press, 2006). He graduated from the University of Nebraska — Omaha with a BFA, working full-time as a truck driver for fourteen years, attending school at night until he received his degree. He has won an Intro Award in Poetry from AWP and the Holt Prize in Poetry. In 1994 he was one of fourteen national finalists for the Ruth Lily Collegiate Fellowship. He has also won the Lily Peter Fellowship from the University of Arkansas and was a finalist for the Pig Iron Press Poetry Book Award. He teaches English at Creighton University.
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Tuesday, September 18th, 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter Jim Wolf
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Friday and Saturday, October 19th & 20th ,
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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Pictures, Pictures: Go to this address for many, many Readings pictures --
https://picasaweb.google.com/110313286591675631051
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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 , 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 , UN - Kearney :
http://www.unk.edu/academics/english/UNK_Reynolds_Series/
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THE DAILY SCHEDULE:
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TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
Tuesday, September 4th -- 7pm, Tuesdays with Writers at The South Mill (4736 Prescott, just west of 48th and Prescott, Lincoln).
Featured readers
Grace Bauer and Laura Madeline Wiseman
Featured readers
Grace Bauer and Laura Madeline Wiseman
GRACE BAUER, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Nebraska by way of New Orleans, Montana, Massachussetts, and Virginia. She is the author of Retreats and Recognitions(Lost Horse Press, 2007), Beholding Eye (CustomWords, 2006) and The Women at The Well (Portals Press, 1997) as well as three chapbooks of poems: Where You've Seen Her(Pennywhistle Press), The House Where I've Never Lived(Anabiosis Press), and Field Guide to the Ineffable: Poems On Marcel Duchamp (Snail's Pace Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Arts & Letters, Colorado Review, Doubletake, Margie, Poetry, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, and others. She has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, Individual Artists Grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council, and Fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is co-editor (with Julie Kane) ofUmpteen Ways Of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press). She has taught at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln since 1994, where she serves as Coordinator of Creative Writing and as a senior book prize reader for Prairie Schooner.
Laura Madeline Wiseman has a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. She is the author of several chapbooks, including the recent collections She Who Loves Her Father (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), Branding Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Ghost Girl (Pudding House Publications, 2010), and My Imaginary (Dancing Girl Press, 2010). She is also the editor of the anthology Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence forthcoming from Blue Light Press in 2013.
Her poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in Margie, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Arts & Letters, Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, Thirteenth Moon, American Short Fiction, Cream City Review, and elsewhere.
She has received an Academy of American Poets Award, a Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Award, a Will P. Jupiter Award, a Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship, a Louise Van Sickle Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and grants from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Focus for the Arts, and the Center for the Great Plains Studies.
Laura Madeline Wiseman has a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. She is the author of several chapbooks, including the recent collections She Who Loves Her Father (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), Branding Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Ghost Girl (Pudding House Publications, 2010), and My Imaginary (Dancing Girl Press, 2010). She is also the editor of the anthology Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence forthcoming from Blue Light Press in 2013.
Her poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in Margie, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Arts & Letters, Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, Thirteenth Moon, American Short Fiction, Cream City Review, and elsewhere.
She has received an Academy of American Poets Award, a Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Award, a Will P. Jupiter Award, a Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship, a Louise Van Sickle Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and grants from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Focus for the Arts, and the Center for the Great Plains Studies.
There is an open mic following the feature. For more information, contact Deborah McGinn at dmcginn@inebraska.com (new email)
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Tuesday, September 4th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Tony Church, Instrumental 12-string guitar
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On Wednesday, September 5th, at 7:30 p.m. in the Milo Bail Student Center (MBSC) Dodge Room, Richard Duggin, founder of the UNO Writer’s Workshop and fiction author, will read from his new collection of short stories called “Why Won’t You Talk to Me?” Duggin has taught at UNO for 40 years and his work has honored by Best American Short Stories, Pushcart prize Anthology and Playboy Magazine.
MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Tuesday, September 4th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Tony Church, Instrumental 12-string guitar
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Tuesday, September 4th -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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Wednesday, September 5th -- 6-8pm, Naked Words Open Mike
---CANCELLED THIS MONTH ----
Hosted by Heidi Hermanson, email prairie.sky (at) gmail.com for more information.
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Wednesday, September 5th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Jive Merchant
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Wednesday, September 5th -- 6-8pm, Naked Words Open Mike
---CANCELLED THIS MONTH ----
Hosted by Heidi Hermanson, email prairie.sky (at) gmail.com for more information.
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Wednesday, September 5th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Jive Merchant
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Wednesday, September 5th -- 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 5th -- 8pm, Travis Davis invites you to "Poet Show It" at 1122 D St. (Lincoln). Local writers come and read. Local people come and drink. Coffee, Booze, Poetry, Fiction. Discovery. Discovery. Discovery. Go here for the FaceBook link: Facebook.com.
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Thursday, September 6th -- 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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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Thursday, September 6th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriters Night Open Mike
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Friday, September 7th - 6 til 8 pm -
at Deer Springs Winery,
NE of Lincoln at east Adams and NE 162nd
BABY NEEDS SHOES, an acapella trio,
and Nick Dahlquist!!
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Friday, September 7th , 8 til 10 pm - Music at the Moon:
Dr. John Walker, music-maker extrordinairrie, at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P sts, Lincoln
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FRIDAY, September 7th ========
What: "True Stories -- Live!" An evening with eight storytellers, including Kwakiutl Dreher, Jerry Johnston, Ron Hull, Heidi Ore, Chris May, Carmen Easley, Renee Sans Souci and AJ Milana-Gengler
When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7
Where: The Haymarket Theatre, Eighth and Q streets
Tickets: $10, at the door or in advance at www.truestorieslive.com
MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Saturday, 8 til 10pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter
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Saturday, September 8th -- 7:30pm, the OM Center Poetry Slam and open mic (1216 Howard, Omaha). 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. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Poetry at the Moon
Monday, September 10th, 7pm: Poetry at the Moon presents:
Thursday, September 6th -- 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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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Thursday, September 6th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriters Night Open Mike
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Friday, September 7th - 6 til 8 pm -
at Deer Springs Winery,
NE of Lincoln at east Adams and NE 162nd
BABY NEEDS SHOES, an acapella trio,
and Nick Dahlquist!!
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Friday, September 7th , 8 til 10 pm - Music at the Moon:
Dr. John Walker, music-maker extrordinairrie, at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P sts, Lincoln
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FRIDAY, September 7th ========
What: "True Stories -- Live!" An evening with eight storytellers, including Kwakiutl Dreher, Jerry Johnston, Ron Hull, Heidi Ore, Chris May, Carmen Easley, Renee Sans Souci and AJ Milana-Gengler
When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7
Where: The Haymarket Theatre, Eighth and Q streets
Tickets: $10, at the door or in advance at www.truestorieslive.com
MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Saturday, 8 til 10pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter
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Saturday, September 8th -- 7:30pm, the OM Center Poetry Slam and open mic (1216 Howard, Omaha). 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. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Poetry at the Moon
Ardiss Cederholm, Cathy Maasdam, Eileen Durgin-Clinchard, and Marilyn Dorf
Marilyn Dorf grew up on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded in Boone County, Nebraska where, as only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Plainsongs, Northeast, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, Plains Song Review, Timber Creek Review, Echoes, Avocet, 10x3 plus, and Platte Valley Review, as well as the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Crazy Woman Creek, Nebraska Presence, and the forthcoming Untidy Seasons. She has received several prizes for her short fiction in the Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of five chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend, Windmills Walk the Night, Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds, I Know That An Owl Owns This Sky, and This Red Hill (Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.
Ardiss Cederholm received her B.S. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and taught in Lincoln Public Schools for 19 years. She belongs to the Write Stuff writing group and often reads her poetry at 1st Tuesdays at the South Mill and at the Crescent Moon Coffee. Her book of poetry is "Seasons of the Heartland". Ardiss has participated in the Iowa Summer Writer’s Workshop with Michael Carey and audited a poetry class at UNL with Ted Kooser, and has been published in Nebraska Life magazine, Plain Songs Review and Times of Sorrow Times of Grace. Ardiss is a newlywed, and has only been married 7 months. Her married name is Ardiss Pfeifer, but she uses Ardiss Cederholm as her writing name.
Eileen Durgin-Clinchard, PhD, is a retired teacher who has written long-term and extensively, and who has sparked an interest in writing by hosting writing groups in her home, most recently the Write Stuff writing group.
Also, Eileen worked long-term to organize and educate Nebraskans about Family and Friends relationships concerning Gay, Transgender, and Lesbian family members, as well as starting and heading up the first Nebraska chapter of PFLAG.
Eileen had tried for several months to find a Parents FLAG group in Nebraska when her son came out in the late 70s. “People were extremely closeted then. It was hard to even find a chapter in the first place,” she recalls. Finally, in the early 1980s, she was in a beauty parlor and heard about the Federation. “That taught me that all you have to do is say something, and it makes a difference,” she said. From 1987 until 1992, Durgin-Clinchard volunteered as Northern Plains Regional Director, helping start and nurture chapters in Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
(some info from http://community.pflag.org/page.aspx?pid=279 )
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Tuesday, September 11th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter Nick Dahlquist
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Tuesday, September 11th -- 7pm, September 11, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg reading from The Divorce Girl at Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue (3219 Sheridan Blvd., Lincoln).
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Tuesday, September 11th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter Nick Dahlquist
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Come hear the poet laureate of Kansas read from her acclaimed debut novel, "The Divorce Girl ", a book of art and soul.
More at carynmirriamgoldberg.com.
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Tuesday, September 11th -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Wednesday, September 12th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Jazzocracy
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Wednesday, September 12th -- 11:45am-1pm, "Wednesday Words," at The KANEKO's KANEKO-UNO Library (1111 Jones St., Omaha) featuring award-winning NE poets and fiction writers as well as the winners of the Individual Artist's Fellowship Awards from the The Nebraska Arts Council, as part of our "Braided River" series. 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 novelist and newspaper columnist Rainbow Rowell.
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Saturday, Sept 15th, 7-10 p.m., at the Hot Shops in Omaha, 1301 Nicholas Street, OMAHA -- a Reading, a playing, a fun(d)raiser
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Tuesday, September 11th -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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Wednesday, September 12th -- 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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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Wednesday, September 12th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Jazzocracy
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Saturday, Sept 15th, 7-10 p.m., at the Hot Shops in Omaha, 1301 Nicholas Street, OMAHA -- a Reading, a playing, a fun(d)raiser
for Backwaters Press of Omaha: A Celebration of 15 Years!
So far, the event has commitments for the silent auction by artists Bill Hoover, Jim Scholz, Bud Cassidy, Jaime Lee Hackbart, Catherine Ferguson (of New Mexico-- she did the retablos in Lisa Sandlin's book about the saints, ), Rodger Gerberding, and Barbara Salvatore, to name a few, to donate artworks for the silent auction, but there are more to follow. Also we have several rare letterpress books donated by Kathleen West.
Todd Robinson, Omaha writer, is host for the evening ---
We have committments to read so far from Brent Spencer, Twyla Hansen, Marge Saiser, Don Welch,and Matt Mason, to read, and Greg K, editor, has asked a couple other Backwaters Press authors but hasn't heard back yet.
Music is by old-school blues harmonica genius Dr. Spit and his backup band, The Blues Mechanics.
ALSO: the winner of the Backwaters Prize will be announced, winning $1000 and publication!!
Todd Robinson, Omaha writer, is host for the evening ---
We have committments to read so far from Brent Spencer, Twyla Hansen, Marge Saiser, Don Welch,and Matt Mason, to read, and Greg K, editor, has asked a couple other Backwaters Press authors but hasn't heard back yet.
Music is by old-school blues harmonica genius Dr. Spit and his backup band, The Blues Mechanics.
ALSO: the winner of the Backwaters Prize will be announced, winning $1000 and publication!!
Cost is $40 per person, $70 for two .....
(the cover fee includes snacks and drinks --- )
(the cover fee includes snacks and drinks --- )
for more info on Backwaters Press, see:
http://www.thebackwaterspress.org/ ..........
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Thursday, September 13th , 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter Nite - Open MIKE
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Friday, September 14th, 8 til 10pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter Gerado Meza
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Saturday, September 15th, 8 til 10pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Instrumentalist Tony Church
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RENGA: a collaborative poetry-writing afternoon -- get together wth the Fairchilds, and write a group poem, as well as what you can do on your own (don't forget the ice cream store nearby!!)
The 2012 Autumn Renga will be Sunday, September 16, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (or whenever participants want to quit), at Maxwell Arboretum, which is next to C. Y. Thompson Library (east of the UNL Dairy Store and west of the Dental College and a big faculty parking lot on the east) on East Campus (in Lincoln).
Public parking is on the south side of the street (East Campus Loop) that passes in front of the entrance to the arboretum.
There are picnic tables, but no grilling. Feel free to brown bag or bring a snack/soft drink. . . or all of the above!
We hope you can come....
Mark & Sarah Fairchild
Mark & Sarah Fairchild
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Monday, September 17th - 7pm Poetry at the Moon -- Rebecca Faber and Michael Catherwood read tonight
Becky Faber has been writing since the 20th Century. Her poems have appeared in Small Brushes (forthcoming), So to Speak, The Blue Collar Review, The Plains Songs Review, Plainsongs, the Nebraska English Counselor, and the anthologies Nebraska Voices and Lyrical Iowa. In 1987 she won first place in the Poetry division of the Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest, and in 2003 placed second in the same division. She placed second in the 2003 Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest in the Short Story category and went on to win second in national competition. She earned a PhD in English from UNL.
Monday, September 17th - 7pm Poetry at the Moon -- Rebecca Faber and Michael Catherwood read tonight
Becky Faber has been writing since the 20th Century. Her poems have appeared in Small Brushes (forthcoming), So to Speak, The Blue Collar Review, The Plains Songs Review, Plainsongs, the Nebraska English Counselor, and the anthologies Nebraska Voices and Lyrical Iowa. In 1987 she won first place in the Poetry division of the Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest, and in 2003 placed second in the same division. She placed second in the 2003 Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest in the Short Story category and went on to win second in national competition. She earned a PhD in English from UNL.
MICHAEL CATHERWOOD is a Nebraskan and a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arkansas — Fayetteville, where he taught for four years. He's been published in the AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Borderlands, CQ, The Georgetown Review, Hawai'i Review, Kansas Quarterly, Mankato Poetry Review, Midwest Quarterly, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Kimera, Nebraska English Journal, Nebraska Review, Plainsongs (for which he serves as an essayist), and elsewhere. He is the author of the collection Dare (The Backwaters Press, 2006). He graduated from the University of Nebraska — Omaha with a BFA, working full-time as a truck driver for fourteen years, attending school at night until he received his degree. He has won an Intro Award in Poetry from AWP and the Holt Prize in Poetry. In 1994 he was one of fourteen national finalists for the Ruth Lily Collegiate Fellowship. He has also won the Lily Peter Fellowship from the University of Arkansas and was a finalist for the Pig Iron Press Poetry Book Award. He teaches English at Creighton University.
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MUSIC AT THE MOON:
Tuesday, September 18th, 7 til 9pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee, SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln:
tonite: Songwriter Jim Wolf
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Tuesday, September 18th -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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Tuesday, September 18th -- 7-8pm, Poetry Downtown On The Bricks at Book Ends Used and Collectible Books (2218 Central Ave., Kearney). Tonight features 2 poets. 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.
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Tuesday, September 18th -- 7-8pm, Poetry Downtown On The Bricks at Book Ends Used and Collectible Books (2218 Central Ave., Kearney). Tonight features 2 poets. 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.
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Wednesday, September 19th -- 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 19th -- 8pm, Travis Davis invites you to "Poet Show It" at 1122 D St. (Lincoln). Local writers come and read. Local people come and drink. Coffee, Booze, Poetry, Fiction. Discovery. Discovery. Discovery. Go here for the FaceBook link: Facebook.com.
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On Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m., Poet Art Homer will read from his book “Blind Uncle Night” in the MBSC Dodge Room. Art was born in the Missouri Ozarks in 1951. He spent his childhood there and in the Pacific Northwest of California and Oregon. He worked on forest trail crews, as an animal caretaker, and as a journeyman ironworker before finishing his education at Portland State University (BA, 1977) and the University of Montana Graduate Program in Creative Writing (MFA in 1979) where he studied with Richard Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, and Tess Gallagher. He worked for two years in the Montana Poets in the Schools. He has been editor of Portland Review, CutBank, and SmokeRoot Press, and has taught at several colleges and universities. At the University of Nebraska at Omaha Writer's Workshop since 1982, and its current chair, he teaches creative writing (poetry and nonfiction) and edits The Nebraska Review. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
A NOVEL IDEA BOOKSTORE'S 21st BIRTHDAY PARTY
Thursday, September 20
at the Ross Film Theater, 13th & Q sts, LINCOLN
On Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m., Poet Art Homer will read from his book “Blind Uncle Night” in the MBSC Dodge Room. Art was born in the Missouri Ozarks in 1951. He spent his childhood there and in the Pacific Northwest of California and Oregon. He worked on forest trail crews, as an animal caretaker, and as a journeyman ironworker before finishing his education at Portland State University (BA, 1977) and the University of Montana Graduate Program in Creative Writing (MFA in 1979) where he studied with Richard Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, and Tess Gallagher. He worked for two years in the Montana Poets in the Schools. He has been editor of Portland Review, CutBank, and SmokeRoot Press, and has taught at several colleges and universities. At the University of Nebraska at Omaha Writer's Workshop since 1982, and its current chair, he teaches creative writing (poetry and nonfiction) and edits The Nebraska Review. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
A NOVEL IDEA BOOKSTORE'S 21st BIRTHDAY PARTY
Thursday, September 20
at the Ross Film Theater, 13th & Q sts, LINCOLN
5:30 p.m. reception / 7:00 p.m. screening of Fahrenheit 451
Join A Novel Idea and The Ross in celebrating the bookstore's 21st birthday. Starting at 5:30 p.m. there will be a free reception in the great hall with a cash bar and appetizers from Grateful Greens. A free screening of Fahrenheit 451 will follow at 7:00 p.m.
If you sign up for The Friends of The Ross leading up to this event (September 1-20, 2012) you will receive a free canvas tote bag compliments of A Novel Idea featuring their 21st birthday logo.
Fahrenheit 451
(1966, directed by François Truffaut)
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task. Based on the novel by Ray Bradbury.
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Sunday, September 23rd-“Poetry Sandwiches: Community at Work” presents noted Nebraska poets Marjorie Saiser and Greg Kosmicki on Sunday, September 23rd, at 1:00 p.m. at Holy Family church at 17th and Izard Streets. Marjorie and Greg have graciously consented to present their poetry in order to raise funds for the social ministries of the parish, including the lunch-making program,the food and clothing pantry, and the emergency assistance program. The lunch program alone served more than 173,000 sack lunches to the poor and homeless last year, and the Door Ministry helps with food pantries and shutoff notices, as well as operating a clothing pantry that operates a yearly sock and underwear-giving program for schoolchildren.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 is Beside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press, 2010).
GREG KOSMICKI is a poet and social worker living in Omaha, Nebraska. He is also the Editor and Publisher of The Backwaters Press. He received his BA and MA in English from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln. His poetry has been published in Paris Review, New Letters, New Works Review, Kansas Quarterly, Cimmaron Review, Whole Notes, andPebble. His books include How Things Happen (bradypress, 1997), For My Son in a Motel Room (Sandhills Press), and Nobody Lives Here Who Saw This Sky (Missing Spoke Press), and We Have Always Been Coming to This Morning (Sandhills Press). His most recent book is New Route in the Dream (Pudding House Publications). He is a 2000 and 2006 recipient of the Nebraska Arts Council's Merit Award. Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace, a collection of poetry he co-edited, was named Poetry Honor Book by the Nebraska Center for the Book in 2003. The book also won for Cover Design/Illustration. Two of the poems from Some Hero of the Past have been read by Garrison Keillor on his radio program The Writer's Almanac.
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Poetry at the Moon
Monday, September 24th - Poetry at the Moon
presents Joy Castro and Jennifer Gray
JOY CASTRO'S fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, and North American Review, among other journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Truth Book (Arcade, 2005), a memoir about growing up in a family of Jehovah's Witnesses, and Hell or High Water, a literary thriller (U of Missouri Press, 2012).
Her latest work is Island of Bones, a memoir of culture, life, family, and teaching, due out late August, 2012, from U of Neb. Press.... We will hear some of this!!
She has taught English at Wabash College in Indiana and now teaches at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.
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September 28-30 at the Land Institute, Salina , Kansas
the 34th Prairie Festival
Please mark your calendars for Sept. 28-30 and plan to join us for the 34th celebration of this amazing weekend!
We are thrilled to announce our speaker line-up: Mary Berry, Wendell Berry, Eric Gimon, Michelle Mack, David W. Orr, P. Sainath, and of course, Wes Jackson. Saturday evening's entertainment will be provided by the very talented singer/songwriter, Eliza Gilkyson. The featured gallery artist this year is Gesine Janzen, and we have a special art installation by sculptor Bill McBride as an accompaniment to our Friday night barn dance and bonfire.
Fees for this year are: Early Registration (received in our office by Sept. 10) for Friends of the Land: $16 for the weekend; others: $26. Registrations received after Sept. 10 for Friends of the Land: $20 for the weekend; others: $30. Students get in for $10 for the entire weekend. Optional Saturday night dinner: $14. As always, there is no charge for Friday evening's barn dance for those attending on Saturday or Sunday (free will donation otherwise), and Saturday evening's entertainment is also included with the weekend admission.
Join A Novel Idea and The Ross in celebrating the bookstore's 21st birthday. Starting at 5:30 p.m. there will be a free reception in the great hall with a cash bar and appetizers from Grateful Greens. A free screening of Fahrenheit 451 will follow at 7:00 p.m.
If you sign up for The Friends of The Ross leading up to this event (September 1-20, 2012) you will receive a free canvas tote bag compliments of A Novel Idea featuring their 21st birthday logo.
Fahrenheit 451
(1966, directed by François Truffaut)
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task. Based on the novel by Ray Bradbury.
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Sunday, September 23rd-“Poetry Sandwiches: Community at Work” presents noted Nebraska poets Marjorie Saiser and Greg Kosmicki on Sunday, September 23rd, at 1:00 p.m. at Holy Family church at 17th and Izard Streets. Marjorie and Greg have graciously consented to present their poetry in order to raise funds for the social ministries of the parish, including the lunch-making program,the food and clothing pantry, and the emergency assistance program. The lunch program alone served more than 173,000 sack lunches to the poor and homeless last year, and the Door Ministry helps with food pantries and shutoff notices, as well as operating a clothing pantry that operates a yearly sock and underwear-giving program for schoolchildren.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 is Beside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press, 2010).
GREG KOSMICKI is a poet and social worker living in Omaha, Nebraska. He is also the Editor and Publisher of The Backwaters Press. He received his BA and MA in English from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln. His poetry has been published in Paris Review, New Letters, New Works Review, Kansas Quarterly, Cimmaron Review, Whole Notes, andPebble. His books include How Things Happen (bradypress, 1997), For My Son in a Motel Room (Sandhills Press), and Nobody Lives Here Who Saw This Sky (Missing Spoke Press), and We Have Always Been Coming to This Morning (Sandhills Press). His most recent book is New Route in the Dream (Pudding House Publications). He is a 2000 and 2006 recipient of the Nebraska Arts Council's Merit Award. Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace, a collection of poetry he co-edited, was named Poetry Honor Book by the Nebraska Center for the Book in 2003. The book also won for Cover Design/Illustration. Two of the poems from Some Hero of the Past have been read by Garrison Keillor on his radio program The Writer's Almanac.
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Poetry at the Moon
Monday, September 24th - Poetry at the Moon
presents Joy Castro and Jennifer Gray
JOY CASTRO'S fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, and North American Review, among other journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Truth Book (Arcade, 2005), a memoir about growing up in a family of Jehovah's Witnesses, and Hell or High Water, a literary thriller (U of Missouri Press, 2012).
Her latest work is Island of Bones, a memoir of culture, life, family, and teaching, due out late August, 2012, from U of Neb. Press.... We will hear some of this!!
She has taught English at Wabash College in Indiana and now teaches at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.
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Tuesday, September 25th -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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Wednesday, September 26th -- 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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September 28-30 at the Land Institute, Salina , Kansas
the 34th Prairie Festival
Please mark your calendars for Sept. 28-30 and plan to join us for the 34th celebration of this amazing weekend!
We are thrilled to announce our speaker line-up: Mary Berry, Wendell Berry, Eric Gimon, Michelle Mack, David W. Orr, P. Sainath, and of course, Wes Jackson. Saturday evening's entertainment will be provided by the very talented singer/songwriter, Eliza Gilkyson. The featured gallery artist this year is Gesine Janzen, and we have a special art installation by sculptor Bill McBride as an accompaniment to our Friday night barn dance and bonfire.
Fees for this year are: Early Registration (received in our office by Sept. 10) for Friends of the Land: $16 for the weekend; others: $26. Registrations received after Sept. 10 for Friends of the Land: $20 for the weekend; others: $30. Students get in for $10 for the entire weekend. Optional Saturday night dinner: $14. As always, there is no charge for Friday evening's barn dance for those attending on Saturday or Sunday (free will donation otherwise), and Saturday evening's entertainment is also included with the weekend admission.
more info at:
http://www.landinstitute.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2010/01/29/4b6357f88ae4e
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Monday, October 1st, 7pm - Poetry at the Moon presents the Lincoln reading of
100 Thousand Poets for Change
hosted by Grace Bauer & Rex Walton
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TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
Tuesday, October 2nd, 7pm - Tuesdays With Writers presents:
Shoshana Sumrall Frerking and Marilyn Dorf
Marilyn Dorf grew up on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded in Boone County, Nebraska where, as only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Plainsongs, Northeast, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, Plains Song Review, Timber Creek Review, Echoes, Avocet, 10x3 plus, and Platte Valley Review, as well as the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Crazy Woman Creek, Nebraska Presence, and the forthcoming Untidy Seasons. She has received several prizes for her short fiction in the Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of five chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend, Windmills Walk the Night, Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds, I Know That An Owl Owns This Sky, and This Red Hill (Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.
Shoshana Sumrall Frerking grew up on a farm in western Nebraska, and now enjoys a career as a technical writer. Shoshana’s short fiction has been published in Deviant Minds, LAURUS Magazine, Plains Song Review,Fine Lines Journal, Paradigm, LITnIMAGE, and SNReview. A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Shoshana lives in Lincoln with her husband, Todd, oldest stepson, Drew, and their three cats, Misery, Granger, and Mac.
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On Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, James McBride, a New York Times Bestselling author and screenwriter, will read from his works. McBride’s debut novel “Miracle at St. Anna” was turned into a major motion picture, which he adapted, and his memoir, “The Color of Water” is considered an American classic, and is read in schools and universities across the United States. His debut novel, "Miracle at St. Anna" was translated into a major motion picture directed by American film icon Spike Lee. It was released by Disney/Touchstone in September 2008. James also wrote the script for the film, now available on DVD. His novel, "Song Yet Sung," was released in paperback in January 2009. His new novel about American revolutionary John Brown will be released in Feb. 2013. His latest work is the August 2013 film "Red Hook Summer" which he co-wrote and co-produced with acclaimed director Spike Lee.
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Monday, October 1st, 7pm - Poetry at the Moon presents the Lincoln reading of
100 Thousand Poets for Change
hosted by Grace Bauer & Rex Walton
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TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
Tuesday, October 2nd, 7pm - Tuesdays With Writers presents:
Shoshana Sumrall Frerking and Marilyn Dorf
Marilyn Dorf grew up on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded in Boone County, Nebraska where, as only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Plainsongs, Northeast, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, Plains Song Review, Timber Creek Review, Echoes, Avocet, 10x3 plus, and Platte Valley Review, as well as the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Crazy Woman Creek, Nebraska Presence, and the forthcoming Untidy Seasons. She has received several prizes for her short fiction in the Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of five chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend, Windmills Walk the Night, Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds, I Know That An Owl Owns This Sky, and This Red Hill (Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.
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Tuesday, October 2nd -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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Wednesday, October 3rd -- 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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Thursday-Sunday, October 4th - 7th , the 21st Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Old West Days in Valentine, NE.
Enjoy the best cowboy poets and musicians in the West, an old time melodrama, a Western Art and trade show, trail ride and BBQ.
Find full information at:nebraskacowboypoetrygathering.com.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012, 7pm, at the Drift Station, 18th & N sts:
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Saturday, October 6, 2012, 7pm, at the Drift Station, 18th & N sts:
THE CLEAN PART READING SERIES:
:tonight : Graham Foust and Gina Myer
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Poetry at the Moon
Monday, October 8th, 7pm - Poetry at the Moon
presents fiction/poetry writer Thomas Ukinski,
and poet Micah Robinson
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Poetry at the Moon
Monday, October 15th, 7pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee
SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln
tonite, fiction writer David Philip Mullins
DAVID PHILIP MULLINS is the author of the forthcoming collection of short storiesGreetings from Below (Sarabande Books), which won the 2009 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Fiction, Ecotone, and Folio and have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has received awards from Yaddo and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and teaches writing and literature at Creighton University.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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On Oct. 17 at 7:30 in the MBSC Dodge Room, Essayist and Novelist Jo Ann Beard will read from her new novel “In Zainesville.” Beard is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in addition to teaching nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Rinebeck, N.Y.
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Poetry at the Moon
Monday, October 8th, 7pm - Poetry at the Moon
presents fiction/poetry writer Thomas Ukinski,
and poet Micah Robinson
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Tuesday, October 9th -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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Wednesday, October 10th -- 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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Poetry at the Moon
Monday, October 15th, 7pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee
SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln
tonite, fiction writer David Philip Mullins
Tuesday, October 16th -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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Wednesday, October 17th -- 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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Friday and Saturday, October 19th & 20th ,
The focus of this year’s fest is Women Writers. Authors will participate in panels, readings and discussions by authors, who, according to VIDA Women in the Literary Arts “Count 2011” are underrepresented as writers in publications and getting books reviewed (For example, The New York Review of Books shows a strong bias. Among authors reviewed, 83% are men (306 compared to 59 women and 306 men), and the same statistic is true of reviewers (200 men, 39 women)).
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Poetry at the Moon
Monday, October 22nd, 7pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee
SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln
Poetry at the Moon presents the Clark Sistahs:
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Poetry at the Moon
Monday, October 22nd, 7pm
at Crescent Moon Coffee
SE corner, 8th & P, Lincoln
Poetry at the Moon presents the Clark Sistahs:
Liz Clark Wessel and Shelly Clark Geiser
SHELLY CLARK GEISER 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 in Times 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). Her latest is the Cockroach Monologues: Vol. 1
Elizabeth Clark Wessel’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, A Public Space, Guernica, Sixth Finch, Lana Turner Journal, and The Laurel Review, among others. Her chapbook, Whither Weather, was chosen by Dana Levin for the Midwest Chapbook Series. She lives in Brooklyn and is an editor at Argos Books & Circumference, a journal of poetry in translation.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Wednesday, October 24th -- 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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SHELLY CLARK GEISER 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 in Times 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). Her latest is the Cockroach Monologues: Vol. 1
Elizabeth Clark Wessel’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, A Public Space, Guernica, Sixth Finch, Lana Turner Journal, and The Laurel Review, among others. Her chapbook, Whither Weather, was chosen by Dana Levin for the Midwest Chapbook Series. She lives in Brooklyn and is an editor at Argos Books & Circumference, a journal of poetry in translation.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Tuesday, October 23rd -- 7-9:30, open mic poetry at Indigo Bridge Books (7th and P Sts., Lincoln). Contact Aja for info:aja@indigobridgebooks.com.
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On Oct. 24 at 7:30 in the Thompson Alumni Center, Essayist Dinty W. Moore will read from his recent works. Moore is a professor and director of the creative writing program at Ohio University in addition to being the author of several books.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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Saturday, November 3rd -- 3:30-6:30pm, A Celebration of Nebraska Books, featuring The Nebraska Book Awards and more.
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Monday, November 5th, 7pm -- Poetry at the Moon Presents:
Barbara Schmitz
Poet BARBARA SCHMITZ retired from her teaching position in English at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska, though she still teaches occasionally. She is a former editor of Elkhorn Review, and she has had poems published in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Laurel Review, Nebraska Review, Silverfish Review, Poetry Motel, Hurakan, River Styx, and Kansas Quarterly. Her chapbook,Making Tracks, was published by Suburban Wilderness Press in Duluth. She's also the author of The Lives of the Saints(Main-Travelled Roads #8, 1996), How to Get Out of the Body (Sandhills Press, 1999), The Upside Down Heart(Sandhills Press, 2003), and How Much Our Dancing Has Improved? (Backwaters Press, 2005). Her most recent collection is What Bob Says (Pudding House Publications, 2011). A resident of Norfolk, she gives psychic readings in the form of poems and is a winner of the Encouragement Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program (1997).
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TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
November 6th, 7pm
at the South Mill
48th & Prescott, Lincoln:
Prose reading, with Jen Davis-Korn, Karla Decker, and Deborah McGinn
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On Nov. 7 at 7:30 in the MBSC Dodge Room, Poet Tim Seibles will ready from his new book “Fast Animal.” Seibles is the recipient of an Open Voice award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Princetown Fine Arts Work Center.
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TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
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READING AND PUBLISHING NEWS:
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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.
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Monday, November 5th, 7pm -- Poetry at the Moon Presents:
Barbara Schmitz
Poet BARBARA SCHMITZ retired from her teaching position in English at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska, though she still teaches occasionally. She is a former editor of Elkhorn Review, and she has had poems published in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Laurel Review, Nebraska Review, Silverfish Review, Poetry Motel, Hurakan, River Styx, and Kansas Quarterly. Her chapbook,Making Tracks, was published by Suburban Wilderness Press in Duluth. She's also the author of The Lives of the Saints(Main-Travelled Roads #8, 1996), How to Get Out of the Body (Sandhills Press, 1999), The Upside Down Heart(Sandhills Press, 2003), and How Much Our Dancing Has Improved? (Backwaters Press, 2005). Her most recent collection is What Bob Says (Pudding House Publications, 2011). A resident of Norfolk, she gives psychic readings in the form of poems and is a winner of the Encouragement Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program (1997).
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TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
November 6th, 7pm
at the South Mill
48th & Prescott, Lincoln:
Prose reading, with Jen Davis-Korn, Karla Decker, and Deborah McGinn
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TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS at the South Mill
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READING AND PUBLISHING NEWS:
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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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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 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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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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