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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Workshop: Kinsale Drake and Maritza N. Estrada
DESCRIPTION:Join poets Kinsale Drake and Maritza N. Estrada for a reading and discussion\, followed by an ekphrastic poetry workshop in conjunction with Raven Halfmoon’s exhibition Flags of Our Mothers. Poems written during this workshop will be collected into a chapbook available for download.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/poetry-reading-and-workshop-kinsale-drake-and-maritza-n-estrada/
LOCATION:Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts\, 724 S 12th St\, Omaha\, NE 68102\, Omaha\, NE\, 68102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Carolina Hotchandani
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nHotchandani’s poems interrogate what it means to be full or empty (of words\, of the past\, of another human being). She examines shifts in identity due to Partition\, immigration\, illness\, and birth. \nCarolina Hotchandani is the author of The Book Eaters\, 2023 Perugia Press Prize Winner\, which was one of the ten debut poetry books featured in Poets & Writers Magazine’s 2024 debut poets issue and winner of the Nebraska Book Prize in the Poetry Honor category. Hotchandani’s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic\, AGNI\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Missouri Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and various other journals. She is a Goodrich Assistant Professor of English in Omaha\, Nebraska\, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-carolina-hotchandani/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Community Open Mic feat. Huascar Medina
DESCRIPTION:An Open Mic begins at 7 p.m. followed by a reading from Kansas Poet Laurate Emeritus Huascar Medina at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Registration is requested at bit.ly/nwc-register\n\nThis event is part of the Nebraska Writers Collective’s Visiting Writers Series.\n\n\nKansas Poet Laureate emeritus (2019-2022) and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow\, Huascar Medina has authored two books of poetry: Un Mango Grows in Kansas and How to Hang the Moon. He is the Lit editor for seveneightfive magazine\, a staff editor at South Broadway Press in Denver\, CO\, an op-ed writer at Kansas Reflector\, a founding member and former Chair of TopekaUnited.org\, the founder of wordssavelives.org\, and co-founder of latinidad.us. Huascar was born in Killeen\, TX\, and has lived artfully in Kansas for over two decades. He considers himself a special kind of Kansan—a helianthus. Huascar took roots in Kansas\, grew there\, and blossomed. As a second-generation immigrant living in the Heartland\, Huascar pushes the boundaries between identity and location\, focusing on cultural empathy\, social cohesion\, class structures\, first-generation trauma\, minority mental health\, and internalized diasporic longing and belonging. His work has appeared in the Flint Hills Review\, Gasconade Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Kansas Magazine\, Latino Book Review\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/poetry-reading-and-community-open-mic-feat-huascar-medina/
LOCATION:UNK Thomas Hall Atrium\, 2404 11th Ave\, Kearney\, Nebraska\, 68849
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Writers Collective":MAILTO:info@newriters.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Lisa Fay Coutley
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nThese readings explore parasitic relationships — between men and women\, sons and mothers\, and humans and the earth — and considers their consequences. How much control do we have over our lives? To what extent are we being controlled? \nLisa Fay Coutley is the author of HOST (Wisconsin Poetry Series\, 2024)\, tether (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020)\, Errata (Southern Illinois University\, 2015)\, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition\, In the Carnival of Breathing (BLP\, 2011)\, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition\, Small Girl: Micromemoirs (Harbor Editions\, 2024)\, and she is the editor of In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (BLP\, 2023). Her poetry has been awarded an NEA Fellowship\, an Academy of American Poets Levis Prize\, chosen by Dana Levin\, and the 2021 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize\, selected by Natalie Diaz. Recent prose & poetry appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, Barrelhouse\, Brevity\, North American Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and on The Slowdown. She is an Associate Professor of Poetry & CNF in the Writer’s Workshop at UNO.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-lisa-fay-coutley/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Elizabeth Clark Wessel
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nWessel unspools layers of mythology—of places\, people\, historical and ahistorical time—and finds their entanglements with everyday life\, revealing marvelous influences encoded in the ordinary. \nOriginally from rural Nebraska\, Elizabeth Clark Wessel now lives in Stockholm\, Sweden and works as a translator of Swedish literature. She’s the author of four chapbooks of poetry\, and her poems have appeared widely in journals\, including Fence\, Boston Review\, and the American Poetry Review. None of It Belongs to Me (Game Over Books\, 2024) is her first full-length collection.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-elizabeth-clark-wessel/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Steve Langan
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nThis reading features modern-day parables that take stock of our society at the turn of the century. \nSteve Langan lived in Omaha for many years and now he lives in Maine. He graduated from the University of Nebraska Omaha and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he received the James Michener Postgraduate Fellowship. Langan formed Seven Doctors Project (7DP)\, an ongoing creative writing workshop designed for mid-career physicians who were willing to claim job burnout and dissatisfaction\, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2008. He returned to his alma mater in 2019 to help form and lead UNO’s Major in Medical Humanities. He currently teaches classes at Baylor University Medical Humanities. Langan’s poems are in a variety of journals\, including Columbia\, Cutbank\, Diagram\, DoubleTake\, Fence\, Flyway\, MAKE\, Meridian\, Pool\, Shade\, Slope\, Sweet\, Make\, Verse\, and Witness. His books are Freezing\, Notes on Exile & Other Poems\, Meet Me at the Happy Bar\, What It Looks Like\, How It Flies\, and Bedtime Stories (Littoral Books\, 2024)
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-steve-langan/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Jeff Alessandrelli
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nJeff’s poetry interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. \nJeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the book And Yet (Future Tense Books\, 2024). The Kenyon Review called his 2019 poetry collection Fur Not Light an “example of radical humility…its poems enact a quiet but persistent empathy in the world of creative writing.” Recent work by Alessandrelli appears or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review\, Chicago Review\, and Buckmxn Journal. In addition to his writing Jeff also directs the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-jeff-alessandrelli/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: John Brehm
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nBrehm’s poems explore the darkest and brightest moments of our lives. Some show a path forward and others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are\, but all touch deep inside our hearts and into a greater connection with the world around us. \nJohn Brehm is the author of four books of original poetry: Sea of Faith\, Help Is on the Way\, No Day at the Beach\, and most recently\, Dharma Talk. He’s also the author of a book of essays\, The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy\, and the editor of the bestselling anthology The Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy\, both from Wisdom Publications. With his wife\, Felden­krais teacher Alice Boyd\, he leads mindfulness retreats that incorporate Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement lessons\, meditation\, and mindful poetry discussions. He lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-john-brehm/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Hadara Bar-Nadav
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nHadara Bar-Nadav’s latest book casts spells and confronts illusions\, ignites grief and awe\, and challenges our assumptions about what it means to heal our bodies\, our families\, and our shared histories. \nHadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry\, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America\, a fellowship from the Poetry Foundation\, and other honors. Her books include The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books\, 2024)\, awarded the Levis Prize in Poetry\, selected by Jericho Brown; The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books\, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books\, 2013)\, awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues\, 2012)\, Editor’s Selection/Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House\, 2007)\, awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks\, Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press\, 2015)\, awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize\, and Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press 2010)\, awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize.  In addition\, she is co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems\, 8th ed. (Pearson\, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, The Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and elsewhere.  A current reader for Poetry\, she is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-hadara-bar-nadav/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Janice N. Harrington
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nHarrington writes descriptive\, lyrical\, and experimental poems that speak to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity\, advocating for a future that celebrates pleasure and self-fulfillment within Black communities. \nJanice N. Harrington’s writing reflects her interest in cultural history\, the natural world\, visual arts\, and African American Life in the South and Midwest. Her latest book of poetry\, Yard Show (BOA Editions)\, grows out of her three earlier books of poems\, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone\, The Hands of Strangers\, and Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. Harrington is also an award-winning children’s author. She is a Cave Canem fellow and teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-janice-n-harrington/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Jewel Rodgers
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nJewel Rodgers is an interdisciplinary spoken word poet\, performer\, and visual artist from North Omaha\, Nebraska. She is the 2025-2029 Nebraska State Poet\, a 2023 Union for Contemporary Art Fellow and Populus Fund Grantee\, and a 2022-2023 Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards nominee for Best Performance Poet in Omaha. Alongside her artistic practice\, she creates and maintains privately-held community amenities for public use while working professionally in commercial real estate.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-jewel-rodgers/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Mary K. Stillwell
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nMary K. Stillwell has studied with William Packard and Erica Jong in New York and Ted Kooser and Hilda Raz on the plains. She earned her PhD in plains literature from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her poems and criticism has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Midwest Quarterly\, South Dakota Review\, The New York Quarterly\, Midwest Quarterly\, Book of Re-reading of Recent American Poetry II\, Women’s Studies\, More in Time\, and numerous anthologies. Most recently\, her poem\, “Open Door\, Green and Pine\,” was published in the spring 2023 issue of Prairie Schooner.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-mary-k-stillwell/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Charles Fort
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nCharles Fort is the author of eight books of poetry and ten chapbooks including: The Town Clock Burning (St. Andrews Press)–We Did Not Fear the Father (Red Hen Press)–Darvil\, Prose Poems Book 1 (St. Andrews Press)—We Did Not Fear the Father (Carnegie Mellon University Press\, reprint\, Contemporary Classic)–Frankenstein was a Negro\, Prose Poems Book 2 (Backwaters Press)– Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz\, Book 3 (Backwaters Press) and appears in 43 anthologies and The Best American Poetry\, 2001\, 2003\, and 2016. Fort is Emeritus Distinguished Endowed Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Founder of the Wendy Fort Foundation Theater of Fine Arts.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-charles-fort/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251202T193000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nAllison Adelle Hedge Coke came of age working in fields\, factories\, and waters. A labor and environmental poet\, Hedge Coke was a sharecropper by the time she was mid-teens and continued manual labor until retraining for former fieldworkers nearing thirty years of age\, after disabilities precluded continuation. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke teaches for UC Riverside\, and is the author/editor of 18 books\, including Look at This Blue\, Burn\, Streaming\, Blood Run\, Off-Season City Pipe\, Dog Road Woman\, The Year of the Rat\, Effigies I\, II\, & III\, Ahani\, and Sing.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-allison-adelle-hedge-coke/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Gene Fendt
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nGene Fendt taught at UNK\, where he was Albertus Magnus Professor of Philosophy\, for about 40 years and was blessed to have Don Welch for a colleague through most of those decades. Besides the usual (and unusual) scholarly publications\, he also wrote and published poetry in numerous journals winning several awards including Gemini magazine’s open poetry competition (nominated for a Pushcart)\, the Princemere Poetry Prize\, and two Nebraska Individual Artist Fellowships. Together with Don Welch he authored The Cranes\, A Book of Hours which was written out by noted Nebraska calligrapher Arthur Pierce. His first book of poetry\, Eternal Life and other poems was published by Angelico Press of Brooklyn NY in 2025. ​
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-gene-fendt/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260203T193000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Maria Nazos
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nMaria Nazos grew up in Athens\, Greece\, and Joliet\, Illinois. Her work has been published in The New Yorker\, TriQuarterly\, World Literature Today\, and elsewhere. She’s the author of the poetry collection PULSE (Omnidawn\, 2026) and the translation collection The Slow Horizon that Breathes (World Poetry Books\, 2023) from the poet Dimitra Kotoula\, longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award. Maria has worked almost every job\, including as a whale watch boat attendant\, table dancer\, teacher\, barista\, sunglass salesperson\, bartender\, and probably the worst waitress in the entire history of the Eastern seaboard. If she spilled Pinot Noir on you\, she apologizes.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-maria-nazos/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Kim Sosin
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nKim McNealy Sosin is a retired university professor of economics who eagerly took up writing poetry and photography in retirement\, making her a “new poet” in her seventies. She loves to create ekphrastic poetry using her own travel photographs. Her poems and photographs have appeared in publications including Raw Art Review\, Fine Lines (poems and several cover photos)\, Failed Haiku\, Voices from the Plains\, Verses from the Plains (several poems and cover design)\, Landscape Photography Magazine\, The Heron’s Nest\, The Good Life Review (poem and cover photo)\, Wanderlust Journal\, Ekphrastic Review\, and Sandcutters. She published her first poetry chapbook\, Not Quite on Grand Avenue: Poems of the Early Years\, which explores the challenges and joys of growing up as a young girl in a rural town in the forties and fifties. Her second chapbook is coming out in the fall with poems by a co-author Janet Rives and Sosin’s photographs of France. Reflections of France: Images and Poems.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-kim-sosin/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260407T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260407T193000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Todd Robinson
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nTodd Robinson’s work moves between tenderness and wit\, exploring love\, loss\, and the beauty of the Midwest. His poems draw on pop culture\, memory\, and faith\, revealing both humor and heart in the ordinary and extraordinary. \nTodd Robinson is the author of Mass for Shut-Ins (University of Nebraska Press\, 2018) and Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag\, 2012). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal\, Rattle\, North American Review\, and Rhino. He is an Associate Professor in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and caregiver to his partner\, a disabled physician. 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-todd-robinson/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260507T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260507T193000
DTSTAMP:20260219T204552Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Chuck Peek
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nChuck Peek is a Great Plains poet whose work is pastoral\, funny\, and sharp as the Nebraska wind. He captures the quirks and truths of Great Plains life with wit and warmth. \nChuck Peek is a Provincetown storyteller who musician Zoe Lewis called “one of the magic people we have met on the road of life\,” and some witty guy once dubbed him “the Johnathan Winters of Willa Cather Scholars.” His curriculum vita began by citing driving the Etoile in Paris at morning rush hour and holding the liquor license for the Cather Foundation. One book\, two chapbooks\, and dozens of individual poems later (one of them in Ted Kooser’s This American Life in Poetry\,) someone decided he was a poet. All that while he taught at four universities as academia in America crumbled.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-chuck-peek/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260602T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260602T193000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Reading Series: Judy Lorenzen
DESCRIPTION:The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online\, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nJudy Lorenzen’s poetry holds both joy and sorrow—family\, forgiveness\, and the quiet wonders of nature. Honest and tender\, her work has been praised for the way love threads through even life’s struggles. \nJudy Lorenzen is a poet\, writer\, and teaching artist. Her education includes a Doctorate of English\, Composition and Rhetoric\, December 2016\, University of Nebraska at Lincoln\, Dissertation: Teaching Place: Heritage\, Home and Community\, the Heart of Education; Master of Art in Creative Writing\, May 2008\, University of Nebraska at Kearney\, Thesis: Let Autumn Come; Doctorate of Theology\, May 2000\, Andersonville Theological Seminary; Master of Science in Community Counseling\, May 1998\, University of Nebraska at Kearney; and a Bachelor of Arts in English\, Emphasis in Writing\, Philosophy Minor\, May 1995\, University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her first book\, Turning Back to Her Love Pages\, was published in June 2025.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-reading-series-judy-lorenzen/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260905T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260905T200000
DTSTAMP:20260819T185937Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Homegrown Series from Jewel Rodgers - Chadron
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Nebraska State Poet Jewel Rodgers\, Homegrown is a traveling community arts series where everyone is welcome to listen\, connect\, or share original work. Enjoy a popcorn-style community reading\, performances by Jewel and other notable poets\, and an open share featuring poetry\, stories\, music\, visual art\, and more. Prefer to just listen? Come as you are. Snacks and light refreshments provided. Free and open to all. \nReadings by: Jewel Rodgers\, Stephanie E. Glass\, Robert McEwen\, and John L. Harmon. Hosted by Love is for All – Chadron\, a chapter of Panhandle Equality.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-homegrown-series-from-jewel-rodgers-chadron/
LOCATION:Chadron Open Art\, 223 Main St.\, Chadron\, NE\, 69337
CATEGORIES:Nebraska State Poet
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