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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: m. mick powell
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nWriting About the Dead and the Dying \nThis workshop invites writers to consider how we grieve\, honor\, and remember\, and how we celebrate life and legacy even as violence shapes our world. \nM. MICK POWELL is a queer Black Cabo Verdean femme\, poet\, artist\, Aries\, and the author of DEAD GIRL CAMEO (One World Books\, 2025) and the chapbook threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks\, winner of the 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize. An assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut\, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-m-mick-powell/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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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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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Alison Lubar
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nAlthough one of the most famous writers of the sonnet was Shakespeare\, the form has existed since the 13th century. In this history-meets-poetry workshop\, participants will explore classic and contemporary sonnets\, from poets like Petrarch\, Edna St. Vincent Millay\, Terrance Hayes\, and Nicole Tallman. We’ll look at the way that poets use the sonnet form to address the issues of their time and how this “little song” has evolved over its long existence. Participants will walk away with a broad understanding of the Sonnet\, the way its conventions both draw on and continually inspire other forms of poetry\, and ways to try writing their own “little songs.”​ \nAlison Lubar is a queer biracial Nikkei poet and educator who teaches literature to teenagers\, writing to adults\, and yoga to all ages. They’re the author of two full-length poetry books\, The Other Tree\, winner of Harbor Editions’ 2023 Laureate Prize\, and METAMOURPHOSIS (fifth wheel press\, 2024)\, four chapbooks\, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West\, 2022)\, queer feast (Bottlecap Press\, 2022)\, sweet euphemism (Mouthfeel Press\, 2023)\, and It Skips a Generation (Stanchion\, 2023)\, and a forthcoming microchap\, American Kintsugi (Bull City Press\, 2026). Alison is also a board member for Philadelphia’s Blue Stoop.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-alison-lubar/
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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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Aly Acevedo
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nDesire is one of the oldest subjects of human art\, not just romantic desire but the deep longing to be seen\, understood\, and connected. In this workshop\, we’ll explore how poetry gives voice to that yearning and how language becomes a bridge between isolation and intimacy. Through discussion and guided writing\, participants will consider what it means to reach for another person\, to be known\, and to find meaning through connection. \nAly Acevedo is a Puerto Rican and Vietnamese poet\, educator and speaker living in the Kansas City area. Her debut collection\, My Dear Cult Leader (Button Poetry\, 2026)\, examines the long shadows of a toxic relationship and the aftermath of sexual assault\, weaving personal history with persona poems that explore power\, trauma and reclamation. Her writing has been featured in Frontier Poetry\, TRASH MAG\, Ink and Marrow\, Anti-Heroin Chic and elsewhere. She lives with her husband\, two cats and dog.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-aly-acevedo/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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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 Poetry Society Workshop: Tatiana Johnson-Boria
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nHow can we truly unearth the depths and sensations at the core of our memories to generate new poems? How can we talk about the unspeakable or the things that we have not quite been able to write into? This workshop will focus on working with writers to find different ways of excavating the self and leaning into the work that can come through this experience. We’ll also explore work by writers like Joy Harjo\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, Porsha Olaywiola\, and others. \nTatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023)\, winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry. As an educator\, artist\, facilitator\, and mother; she uses her writing practice to dismantle racism\, reckon with trauma\, cultivate healing\, and to explore the complex magic of mothering. She has received fellowships and awards from Tin House\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, MacDowell\, the Brother Thomas Fellowship\, and St. Botolph Club Foundation\, among others. Tatiana is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee\, teaches at GrubStreet\, and has been on faculty at Emerson College\, among other institutions. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review Online\, and more. She is represented by Lauren Scovel at Laura Gross Literary.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-tatiana-johnson-boria/
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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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Todd Robinson
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \n“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.” —Czeslaw Milosz \nWith Milosz’s immortal wisdom as our lodestar\, we will take a tour through autobiographical poems ancient and modern\, studying the ways personal poems capture self and other\, place and purpose\, sound and sense\, framing the self as both mirror and window\, at once magnificent and minute. \nTodd Robinson affectionately known to acolytes as “Toddfather\,” is a poet and educator based in Omaha. He is the author of Mass for Shut-Ins (Backwaters Press\, 2018) and Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag Publishing\, 2012). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such epic venues as Prairie Schooner\, Flyway—Journal of Writing and Environment\, Kestrel\, North American Review\, Sugar House Review\, Cortland Review\, Natural Bridge\, Superstition Review\, Weber: The Contemporary West\, Chiron Review\, A Dozen Nothing\, and many others. Recipient of the 2011-2012 Thompson Learning Community’s Outstanding Faculty Award\, he has conducted writing workshops with The Seven Doctors Project\, The Naturalist School\, Nebraska Warrior Writers\, Nebraska Writers Collective\, and the CÚRAM center for research in medical devices. He is founder and host of the Kaneko Art Museum’s Bibliophilia reading series\, which is currently on a long pandemic pause. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Creighton University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He serves as vice president on the board of directors of Big Feels Lab.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-todd-robinson/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251108T100000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Courtney LeBlanc
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nHow can pop culture provide new and inventive ways to write poems\, present complex truths\, and provide an avenue into our deepest emotions? In this generative workshop\, poet Courtney LeBlanc will provide examples that effectively\, and creatively\, weave pop culture into their poems. How does an American Girl doll represent your childhood? How does Nirvana or Taylor Swift inspire you? How does your favorite horror movie reflect your own truth or trauma? We’ll read poems together\, discuss them\, and then Courtney will provide prompts to write your own pop culture-inspired poems. \nCourtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Dark Everything; Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody\, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat\, an independent poetry press. She is also the founder of the Poetry Coven\, a monthly generative poetry workshop. She loves nail polish\, tattoos\, and a soy latte each morning.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-courtney-leblanc/
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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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Melissa Fite Johnson
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nIn this workshop we’ll discuss how often poetry is perceived as something very serious—unsmiling writers wearing black and spouting purposefully obscure references. And while poetry is certainly sometimes that (or a version of that)\, it absolutely doesn’t have to be. There’s so much room for playfulness and joy and humor in poetry—and those qualities don’t mean the poems themselves are necessarily light or light-hearted. Humor can happen for many reasons\, one of which is that it can help make traumatic topics more palatable and accessible. Of course\, another reason to write with humor is just to give others something to read that moves them to tears of laughter rather than tears of despair\, and now more than ever that is as noble and necessary a purpose as any. Together we’ll read terrific humorous poems by writers like Erin Adair-Hodges\, Chen Chen\, and Luisa Muradyan—and then we’ll write and share our own. \nMelissa Fite Johnson is the author of three full-length collections\, most recently Midlife Abecedarian (Riot in Your Throat\, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, Pleiades\, HAD\, Whale Road Review\, SWWIM\, and elsewhere. Melissa teaches high school English in Lawrence\, KS\, where she and her husband live with their dogs.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-melissa-fite-johnson/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251007T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251007T193000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250913T113000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Abby E. Murray
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nParticipants in this workshop will consider several poems born in times of struggle to carry clarity and the doggedness of hope. We’ll explore the poetry of political upheaval and war\, as well as familial and personal grief; in doing so\, we’ll rediscover the techniques good listeners and writers have used for centuries to create poems that help us persevere. Prompts generated by the work at hand will get us writing\, and poets will leave with drafts to carry onward through the dark. \nAbby E. Murray (they/them) is the editor of Collateral\, a literary journal concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. Their first book\, Hail and Farewell\, won the Perugia Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award; their second book\, Recovery Commands\, recently won the Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Prize and will be published by Ex Ophidia Press in 2025. Abby served as the 2019-2021 poet laureate for the city of Tacoma\, Washington\, and currently teaches rhetoric in military strategy to Army War College fellows at the University of Washington. Their poems can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of One Art\, the Pushcart Prize 2025 Anthology\, Rattle: Poets Respond\, and Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to the Birds of Washington State.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-abby-e-murray/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250902T183000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250823T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250823T113000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Brad Modlin
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nA quiet painting of farmers except a tiny man falls from the sky. A poem with a commercial break. The childhood memory that lands on your head on your grocery store run. Some art insists the out of place actually belongs—as if it’s meant to be. We’ll explore such art\, fill some pages\, and build some creative bridges that may freshen our perspectives on the things we make and the days we live. \nBred MOdlin is The Paul and Clarice Reynolds Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and an associate professor. His book\, Everyone at This Party Has Two Names won the Cowles Poetry Prize. His Surviving in Drought (fiction stories) won the Cupboard Contest. His poetry has been the basis for orchestral scores\, a Brooklyn art exhibition\, and numerous speeches\, reflections\, meditations\, and podcasts. His poetry is featured in an episode of The Slowdown with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (American Public Media & The Poetry Foundation) and the premier episode of Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama (On Being Studios). He has been invited to read at the American School of Paris\, been commissioned for poetry by the art gallery of the University of Melbourne (Australia)\, and given the keynote at Philsophique Poetica’s World Poetry Conference in India. He coordinates the Reynolds Visiting Writers Series\, bringing writers from across the nation to share with us. On the other side of the equation\, he happily gives readings as the guest of other universities\, recently including University of Southern California\, Los Angeles; Monroe Community College in New York; Western Kentucky University; and Northern Arizona University. He likes laughing with his students.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-brad-modlin/
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:20250805T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250805T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250712T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250712T113000
DTSTAMP:20250604T145735Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Maria Zoccola
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nThis generative workshop will explore the enduring influence of mythology\, examining how ancient stories continue to shape our understanding of identity\, power\, beauty\, and human nature. We’ll begin by looking at how classical myth informs contemporary poetry\, starting with Helen of Troy\, 1993\, and expanding into works by poets like Rita Dove and Alice Oswald\, who reimagine myth through ancient and modern lenses. These texts will serve as a springboard for discussing how myth lives within literature\, poetry\, and art. Participants will then receive creative prompts to write their own myth-inspired poems\, whether drawing from ancient sources or reinventing archetypes to reflect today’s world. No prior knowledge of mythology is required—just curiosity and a love for creating stories with poetry. \nMaria Zoccola is a poet and educator from Memphis\, Tennessee. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University\, and has spent many years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth. Maria’s work has previously appeared in The Atlantic\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, The Sewanee Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere\, and has received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection\, Helen of Troy\, 1993 (Scribner\, 2025)\, earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice pick. \n​
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-maria-zoccola/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250701T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250701T193000
DTSTAMP:20250130T160959Z
CREATED:20250130T160959Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250614T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250614T110000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Matt Mason
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nSome songs have a magical way of transporting us through time. They evoke vivid memories\, stirring up feelings of nostalgia\, joy\, or reflection. In this workshop\, we’ll explore the songs that have shaped us and look at how music can serve as a powerful gateway to poetry. We’ll look at the songs that connect us to our past\, reliving moments of youth while discovering fresh insights in the present. Then\, we’ll discuss how to transform these emotional snapshots into poems. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or a newcomer to writing\, this workshop invites you to turn the soundtrack of your life into art. \nMATT MASON is the former Nebraska State Poet and was the Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective from 2009-2022. Through the US State Department\, he has run workshops in Botswana\, Romania\, Nepal\, and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in The New York Times\, on NPR’s Morning Edition\, in American Life in Poetry\, and more. Mason’s 5th book\, Rock Stars\, was released by Button Poetry in 2023.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-matt-mason-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250603T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250603T193000
DTSTAMP:20241127T212341Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250517T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250517T110000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Kiara Nicole Letcher
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nWriting from out of the ordinary in an exploration in peculiar poetry. In this workshop\, we will look at poems that deal with the supernatural — poems that peer beyond the veil and utilize a supernatural element. From Poe\, Keats\, Lorca\, and Rossetti\, among others\, we will explore these poems and what they say about the seen and unseen world. Through these works\, we’ll consider how the supernatural in poetry reflects deep-seated human questions about mortality\, reality\, and the limits of human understanding. By reading and discussing these pieces\, participants will engage with how different eras and cultures have expressed universal themes of fear\, mystery\, and fascination with the unknown. Participants will have the opportunity to ruminate and investigate poems of the paranormal\, gaining insights into how these eerie elements serve as a window into humanity’s beliefs and values. They will also craft their own poems with a twist of the eerie\, adding to a long-standing tradition of poetic exploration that bridges the tangible and intangible aspects of human experience. \nKIARA NICOLE LETCHER is the author of Oxblood\, (Agape Editions\, 2024) and the chapbook Scream Queen (Orchard Street Press\, 2019). Her work has appeared in South Dakota Review\, Green Mountains Review\, Plainsongs Magazine\, Solstice Literary Magazine\, Querencia Press and Mulberry Literary\, among other publications. Her work is also forthcoming in Laurel Review.      She received her MFA from The University of Nebraska at Omaha and previously served as a Board Member for the Nebraska Writer’s Collective. She was the 2024 Keynote Speaker for the Nebraska Scholastic Writing Awards and a Nebraska State Poet Nominee.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-kiara-nicole-letcher/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250506T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250506T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250405T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250405T110000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: ​Raena Shirali
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nIn an era defined by turmoil\, poetry of witness is newly defined by resistance. Although anger is culturally maligned as immature\, reactionary\, hysterical\, and easily dismissed by the structures that be\, what connects us to seemingly insurmountable forces of oppression is our fury in the face of indignity. In this workshop\, participants will work in the lineage of poetry of witness\, considering the evolution and contemporary iteration of the response poem. Together\, we will work with\, not through\, righteous indignation at the state of the world. This is not fine. Let’s whine about it. \nRAENA SHIRALI is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book\, GILT\, was released by YesYes Books in 2017 and won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Published by Black Lawrence Press in October 2022\, her second book\, summonings\, won the 2021 Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022 Julie Suk Award. Winner of a Pushcart Prize & a former Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University\, Shirali is also the recipient of prizes and honors from VIDA\, Gulf Coast\, Boston Review\, & Cosmonauts Avenue. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day\, The Nation\, The Rumpus\, & elsewhere. Formerly Co-Editor-in-Chief of Muzzle Magazine\, Shirali now serves as Faculty Advisor for Folio—a literary magazine dedicated to publishing works by undergraduate students at the national level. She holds an MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University and is an Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-raena-shirali/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250401T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250401T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250308T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250308T110000
DTSTAMP:20250116T153022Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Anastacia Reneé
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nMemory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation. It is not an effort to find out the way it really was–that is research. The point is to dwell on the way it appeared and why it appeared in that particular way.\n-Toni Morrison \nIn this genre-bending workshop we will collectively and independently explore and interrogate stories\, communal folklore and our archival of memories. We will lay our memories (from multiple points of view) out and jigsaw them to create first drafts of The Haibun\, and The Nines poems. All class text will be provided by workshop facilitator. \nANASTACIA RENEÉ is a queer writer\, educator\, interdisciplinary artist\, playwright\, former radio host\, TEDX speaker\, and podcaster. She is the author of Here In The (Middle) Of Nowhere\, Side Notes From The Archivist\, (v.) and Forget It. Sidenotes from the Archivist was selected as one of “NYPL Best Books of 2023\,” and\, The American Library Associations (RUSA) “Notable Books of 2024.” She is a recipient of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award (Literary) and she was selected by NBC News as part of the list of “Queer Artist of Color Dominate 2021’s Must See LGBTQ Art Shows\,” for (Don’t Be Absurd) Alice in Parts\, an installation at Frye Art Museum. Renee served as Seattle Civic Poet (2017-1019) during Seattle’s inaugural year of UNESCO status. Renee has been\, Hugo House Poet-in-Residence\, and Jack Straw Curator. Their work has been published widely.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-anastacia-renee/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250304T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250304T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250222T110000
DTSTAMP:20250116T152930Z
CREATED:20250102T155400Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required\, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students\, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership. \nThis workshop will explore how hybrid poetry serves as a powerful tool for self-exploration and expression. By engaging with the fluid and transformative nature of hybrid forms\, we’ll delve into how our identities\, shaped by the intersections of various influences\, can be authentically reflected in our writing. We will examine how hybrid poems\, which blend elements of narrative\, memoir\, and cultural commentary\, allow us to navigate the complexities of our inner and outer worlds. Participants will have the opportunity to create works that capture the richness of their experiences\, exploring themes of identity\, place\, and the self in all its dimensions. This workshop invites writers to move beyond traditional forms\, using hybrid poetry as a way to express the multifaceted nature of their authentic selves. Whether you’re experienced in poetry or new to this form\, this workshop will provide a supportive space to explore the connections between our lived experiences and our creative expressions. \nMK CHAVEZ is a writer and educator whose work explores mixed-race identity\, social justice\, environmental resilience\, horror cinema\, magic\, ritual\, and the creative process. As founder of the Ouroboros Writing Lab\, MK Chavez provides a nurturing space for writers to grow. The Lab offers workshops designed to expand creative boundaries and individual and group creative coaching. Chavez’s work is recognized with the Pen Josephine Miles Award\, San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award\, and the Ruth Weiss Maverick Award. Chavez’s publications include Dear Animal\, Mothermorphosis\, the lyric essay chapbook A Brief History of the Selfie\, and Virgin Eyes. Recent work can be found as part of the art installation Manifest Differently. \n​
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250204T193000
DTSTAMP:20241127T205556Z
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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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