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Willa Cather Spring Conference: Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

Name: Willa Cather Spring Conference: Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
Start: 2024-06-08T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-06-08T14:30:00-05:00
Location: Willa Cather Childhood Home

June 8 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm CDT

Foreground is a pink-blooming bush, a white picket fence, and a historic marker sign titled Cather Childhood Home. Background is a small frame house with a front porch.

This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public, but free tickets must be reserved by May 31. See the event website for details on how to reserve tickets.

Join Willa Cather Foundation leadership, project partners and supporters, Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason, and Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate Miranda Davis for a dedication and ribbon-cutting at the Willa Cather Childhood Home. Tours of the home and other Red Cloud sites are available after the dedication.

Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and has run poetry workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department.

Miranda Davis is the 2024-2025 Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate and a senior at Norris High School in Firth, Nebraska.