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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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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 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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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
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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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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 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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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 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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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
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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
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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 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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250125T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250125T110000
DTSTAMP:20250116T152040Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Jessica Poli
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 do the landscapes we’ve lived in shape the way we think\, feel\, and create? In Crossing Open Ground\, Barry Lopez suggests that “the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes.” There is a profound connection between our inner lives and the physical spaces we inhabit. In this generative workshop\, we will consider the ways the physical world influences our interior landscapes\, and how those interior landscapes\, in turn\, might shape our poems. Through guided prompts\, reflective discussion\, and close readings of place-inspired poems\, you’ll learn to translate your experiences of land — whether wide-open spaces\, urban corners\, or intimate settings — into vivid\, textured poetry. \nJESSICA POLI is the author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press)\, which was a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Prize. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets\, North American Review\, Poet Lore\, and Salamander\, among other places. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\, where she is an Associate Editor for Prairie Schooner.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-jessica-poli/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250106T193000
DTSTAMP:20241126T205157Z
CREATED:20241126T205157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T205157Z
UID:10004300-1736188200-1736191800@humanitiesnebraska.org
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241214T233000
DTSTAMP:20240612T170806Z
CREATED:20240612T170806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T170806Z
UID:10003628-1734170400-1734219000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Julia Guez
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. \nDecember 14\, Julia Guez “Mapping Our Poems” In “The Archaeology of Knowledge\,” Michel Foucault writes\, “The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title\, the first lines\, and the last full stop\, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous forms\, it is caught up in a system of references to other books\, other texts\, other sentences: it is a node within a network.” In this generative writing class\, we will begin with a word or phrase\, line or lines from another book of poetry. After mapping out ideas\, feelings\, rhythms\, syntaxes and words we associate with the line or lines we have brought in\, we will start work on our own poems. (Throughout\, we will engage in mini-breaks that can be incorporated into people’s everyday writing rituals in the future\, to spur our creativity and collaboration as a workshop). The lines we begin with may be embedded in the poem we write\, or turn out to serve as the seed\, scaffold or prompt. The process of building a poem in conversation with other poets and poetry\, is one that will hopefully prove to be a rewarding approach for you to take in your writing practice moving forward. \nJULIA GUEZ is a writer and translator based in the city of Houston. “The Certain Body” (Four Way Books\, 2022) is her second collection of poetry\, written while she was recovering from COVID in the spring of 2020. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-julia-guez/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241203T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002221-1733250600-1733254200@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series 2024
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. \nFebruary 6\, AA Monet\nAA Monet is a poet\, author\, book publisher\, editor\, and space creator for emotions to freely and safely exist. AA Monet’s poetry book\, Lost And Found\, can be found in local stores in the Omaha area. \nMarch 5\, Barbar Schmitz\nBarbar Schmitz taught writing and literature at Northeast College for 30 years; two of her books have won the Poetry Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book\, and she received an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nApril 2\, Katie Schmid\nKatie Schmid is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in creative writing for 2023 and an Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College in PA with a debut book entitled “Nowhere.” \nMay 7\, J.V. Brummels\nJ.V. Brummels is a poet\, novelist\, short-story writer\, editor\, and rancher. His collection “Book of Grass” was awarded the 2008 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. \nJune 4\, Veronica Torraca-Bragdon\nVeronica Torraca-Bragdon is a poet\, singer/songwriter\, and special educator\, with a degree in K-12 Vocal/Instrumental Education and a masters in Special Education from UNO whose poems have been set to music. \nJuly 2\, Bonnie Johnson-Bartee\nBonnie Johnson-Bartee teaches creative writing and literature at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College in Norfolk\, and her latest book\, “Cord Blood” won a 2023 Nebraska Book Award. \nAugust 6\, Hannah Wilkinson\nHannah Wilkinson has published two poetry collections: “Unto the Breach” and “Half Agony\, Half Hope.” \nSeptember 3\, Twyla Hansen\nTwyla Hansen is a HN Speaker’s Bureau member and the first female Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018. \nOctober 1\, Jon Volkmer\nJon Volkmer is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ursinus College in PA who has published several books and a poetry collection. \nNovember 5\, Kassandra Montag\nKassandra Montag holds a master’s degree in English Literature and won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nDecember 3\, Julie S Paschold\nJulie S Paschold has published “Horizons” – a poetry collection honoring soil – and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in Writer’s Digest contest. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series-2024/2024-12-03/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241105T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241105T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002220-1730831400-1730835000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series 2024
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. \nFebruary 6\, AA Monet\nAA Monet is a poet\, author\, book publisher\, editor\, and space creator for emotions to freely and safely exist. AA Monet’s poetry book\, Lost And Found\, can be found in local stores in the Omaha area. \nMarch 5\, Barbar Schmitz\nBarbar Schmitz taught writing and literature at Northeast College for 30 years; two of her books have won the Poetry Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book\, and she received an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nApril 2\, Katie Schmid\nKatie Schmid is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in creative writing for 2023 and an Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College in PA with a debut book entitled “Nowhere.” \nMay 7\, J.V. Brummels\nJ.V. Brummels is a poet\, novelist\, short-story writer\, editor\, and rancher. His collection “Book of Grass” was awarded the 2008 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. \nJune 4\, Veronica Torraca-Bragdon\nVeronica Torraca-Bragdon is a poet\, singer/songwriter\, and special educator\, with a degree in K-12 Vocal/Instrumental Education and a masters in Special Education from UNO whose poems have been set to music. \nJuly 2\, Bonnie Johnson-Bartee\nBonnie Johnson-Bartee teaches creative writing and literature at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College in Norfolk\, and her latest book\, “Cord Blood” won a 2023 Nebraska Book Award. \nAugust 6\, Hannah Wilkinson\nHannah Wilkinson has published two poetry collections: “Unto the Breach” and “Half Agony\, Half Hope.” \nSeptember 3\, Twyla Hansen\nTwyla Hansen is a HN Speaker’s Bureau member and the first female Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018. \nOctober 1\, Jon Volkmer\nJon Volkmer is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ursinus College in PA who has published several books and a poetry collection. \nNovember 5\, Kassandra Montag\nKassandra Montag holds a master’s degree in English Literature and won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nDecember 3\, Julie S Paschold\nJulie S Paschold has published “Horizons” – a poetry collection honoring soil – and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in Writer’s Digest contest. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series-2024/2024-11-05/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241102T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241102T113000
DTSTAMP:20240612T170117Z
CREATED:20240612T170117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T170117Z
UID:10003627-1730541600-1730547000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Erica Reid
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. \nNovember 2\, Erica Reid “Glorious Dailiness” As poet Mary Ruefle says\, “I did not always know authors were ordinary people living ordinary lives.” What do we lose when we fail to celebrate — or worse\, ignore! — the wondrous details of ordinary life? This generative workshop makes space for that celebration through conversation\, example poems\, and dedicated writing time with prompts to help capture the details of our own glorious dailiness. \nERICA REID’s debut collection “Ghost Man on Second” won the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was published by Autumn House Press earlier this year. Erica’s poems appear in Rattle\, Cherry Tree\, Colorado Review\, and more.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-erica-reid/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241026T113000
DTSTAMP:20240612T165508Z
CREATED:20240612T165508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T165508Z
UID:10003626-1729936800-1729942200@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Lisa Fay Coutley
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. \nOctober 26\, Lisa Fay Coutley “Infecting the Text: Letting Trauma Take its Necessary Shape” By now you’ve heard writers—especially poets and lyric essayists—suggest that you should let your content inform your form as often as you’ve heard them say show don’t tell\, though as it is with most things\, both are easier said than done. The former requires us to write from the body while letting go—a feat not easily mastered by any writer and complicated even more by difficult content. Often what we need most is permission and imaginative examples. This workshop will provide you with both. \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).
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-lisa-fay-coutley/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241001T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241001T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002219-1727807400-1727811000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series 2024
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. \nFebruary 6\, AA Monet\nAA Monet is a poet\, author\, book publisher\, editor\, and space creator for emotions to freely and safely exist. AA Monet’s poetry book\, Lost And Found\, can be found in local stores in the Omaha area. \nMarch 5\, Barbar Schmitz\nBarbar Schmitz taught writing and literature at Northeast College for 30 years; two of her books have won the Poetry Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book\, and she received an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nApril 2\, Katie Schmid\nKatie Schmid is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in creative writing for 2023 and an Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College in PA with a debut book entitled “Nowhere.” \nMay 7\, J.V. Brummels\nJ.V. Brummels is a poet\, novelist\, short-story writer\, editor\, and rancher. His collection “Book of Grass” was awarded the 2008 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. \nJune 4\, Veronica Torraca-Bragdon\nVeronica Torraca-Bragdon is a poet\, singer/songwriter\, and special educator\, with a degree in K-12 Vocal/Instrumental Education and a masters in Special Education from UNO whose poems have been set to music. \nJuly 2\, Bonnie Johnson-Bartee\nBonnie Johnson-Bartee teaches creative writing and literature at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College in Norfolk\, and her latest book\, “Cord Blood” won a 2023 Nebraska Book Award. \nAugust 6\, Hannah Wilkinson\nHannah Wilkinson has published two poetry collections: “Unto the Breach” and “Half Agony\, Half Hope.” \nSeptember 3\, Twyla Hansen\nTwyla Hansen is a HN Speaker’s Bureau member and the first female Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018. \nOctober 1\, Jon Volkmer\nJon Volkmer is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ursinus College in PA who has published several books and a poetry collection. \nNovember 5\, Kassandra Montag\nKassandra Montag holds a master’s degree in English Literature and won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nDecember 3\, Julie S Paschold\nJulie S Paschold has published “Horizons” – a poetry collection honoring soil – and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in Writer’s Digest contest. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series-2024/2024-10-01/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240907T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240907T233000
DTSTAMP:20240612T165101Z
CREATED:20240612T165014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T165101Z
UID:10003625-1725703200-1725751800@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Javon Rustin
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. \nSeptember 7\, Javon Rustin “Bringing Home Metaphors – From Stars to Constellations” Every line of poetry is a star. In this class\, we will be making constellations. We will lay out our stars into a shape that will guide readers / listeners to a deeper meaning the same way stars have guided ship captains through nights at sea. All constellations are extended metaphors. We will be going through the process of beginning and editing poems in ways that make our extended metaphors clear to audiences and easy to create. Our constellations will be made of stories and the people we hold close. \nJAVON RUSTIN is a poet\, performer\, and programmer; a writer of stories\, stanzas\, and software. He started competing in poetry slams after graduating from North Carolina A&T in 2013. Since then Javon has been a National Poetry Slam finalist and Regional Slam champion. He ranked 5th in the 2023 National Blackberry Peach Poetry Slam and has worked as a teaching artist for youth in D.C. and Dallas Public School Districts.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/20222/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240903T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240903T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002218-1725388200-1725391800@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series 2024
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. \nFebruary 6\, AA Monet\nAA Monet is a poet\, author\, book publisher\, editor\, and space creator for emotions to freely and safely exist. AA Monet’s poetry book\, Lost And Found\, can be found in local stores in the Omaha area. \nMarch 5\, Barbar Schmitz\nBarbar Schmitz taught writing and literature at Northeast College for 30 years; two of her books have won the Poetry Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book\, and she received an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nApril 2\, Katie Schmid\nKatie Schmid is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in creative writing for 2023 and an Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College in PA with a debut book entitled “Nowhere.” \nMay 7\, J.V. Brummels\nJ.V. Brummels is a poet\, novelist\, short-story writer\, editor\, and rancher. His collection “Book of Grass” was awarded the 2008 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. \nJune 4\, Veronica Torraca-Bragdon\nVeronica Torraca-Bragdon is a poet\, singer/songwriter\, and special educator\, with a degree in K-12 Vocal/Instrumental Education and a masters in Special Education from UNO whose poems have been set to music. \nJuly 2\, Bonnie Johnson-Bartee\nBonnie Johnson-Bartee teaches creative writing and literature at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College in Norfolk\, and her latest book\, “Cord Blood” won a 2023 Nebraska Book Award. \nAugust 6\, Hannah Wilkinson\nHannah Wilkinson has published two poetry collections: “Unto the Breach” and “Half Agony\, Half Hope.” \nSeptember 3\, Twyla Hansen\nTwyla Hansen is a HN Speaker’s Bureau member and the first female Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018. \nOctober 1\, Jon Volkmer\nJon Volkmer is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ursinus College in PA who has published several books and a poetry collection. \nNovember 5\, Kassandra Montag\nKassandra Montag holds a master’s degree in English Literature and won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nDecember 3\, Julie S Paschold\nJulie S Paschold has published “Horizons” – a poetry collection honoring soil – and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in Writer’s Digest contest. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series-2024/2024-09-03/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240824T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240824T113000
DTSTAMP:20240612T164144Z
CREATED:20240612T164144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T164144Z
UID:10003624-1724493600-1724499000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Workshop: Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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 August 24\, Keisha-Gaye Anderson “Crafting Identity: How to Write Like Your Authentic Self” Who are we? Who are we told we are? Who do we know ourselves to be? This workshop will explore how identity—imagined\, imposed\, and re-imagined—is utilized in poetics to communicate and construct objective and subjective reality. Through close examination of language\, structure\, form and other devices used within selected poems\, workshop participants will become familiar with approaches to this craft that focus on powerfully probing and defining identity\, in ways that empower them and accurately reflect the themes or experiences they are exploring in their writing. To that end\, a series of writing prompts will be used so that participants may generate poems from different perspectives in order to move closer to the expression of their essential/hidden selves in their writing. We will also tackle basic elements of poetry and discuss workshop poems using select poetic forms. \nKEISHA-GAYE ANDERSON is a Jamaican-born poet\, writer\, and visual artist based in Brooklyn\, NY. Her poetry books include: Gathering the Waters (Jamii Publishing 2014) Everything Is Necessary (Willow Books 2019) and A Spell for Living (Agape 2020)\, which received the Editors’ Choice recognition for the Numinous Orisons\, Luminous Origin Literary Award. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-keisha-gaye-anderson/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240806T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240806T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002217-1722969000-1722972600@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series 2024
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. \nFebruary 6\, AA Monet\nAA Monet is a poet\, author\, book publisher\, editor\, and space creator for emotions to freely and safely exist. AA Monet’s poetry book\, Lost And Found\, can be found in local stores in the Omaha area. \nMarch 5\, Barbar Schmitz\nBarbar Schmitz taught writing and literature at Northeast College for 30 years; two of her books have won the Poetry Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book\, and she received an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nApril 2\, Katie Schmid\nKatie Schmid is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in creative writing for 2023 and an Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College in PA with a debut book entitled “Nowhere.” \nMay 7\, J.V. Brummels\nJ.V. Brummels is a poet\, novelist\, short-story writer\, editor\, and rancher. His collection “Book of Grass” was awarded the 2008 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. \nJune 4\, Veronica Torraca-Bragdon\nVeronica Torraca-Bragdon is a poet\, singer/songwriter\, and special educator\, with a degree in K-12 Vocal/Instrumental Education and a masters in Special Education from UNO whose poems have been set to music. \nJuly 2\, Bonnie Johnson-Bartee\nBonnie Johnson-Bartee teaches creative writing and literature at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College in Norfolk\, and her latest book\, “Cord Blood” won a 2023 Nebraska Book Award. \nAugust 6\, Hannah Wilkinson\nHannah Wilkinson has published two poetry collections: “Unto the Breach” and “Half Agony\, Half Hope.” \nSeptember 3\, Twyla Hansen\nTwyla Hansen is a HN Speaker’s Bureau member and the first female Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018. \nOctober 1\, Jon Volkmer\nJon Volkmer is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ursinus College in PA who has published several books and a poetry collection. \nNovember 5\, Kassandra Montag\nKassandra Montag holds a master’s degree in English Literature and won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nDecember 3\, Julie S Paschold\nJulie S Paschold has published “Horizons” – a poetry collection honoring soil – and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in Writer’s Digest contest. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series-2024/2024-08-06/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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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. \nJuly 20 – Matt Mason It’s Time for the Lightening Round! Poetry is always about concision\, about writing something small and quick with no excess of words or lines or ideas or lines like this way-too-long sentence. Let’s see what we can do with shorter poems\, fitting ideas into smaller spaces like snapshots or meditations. \nMATT MASON is the Nebraska State Poet and was 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-workshop-matt-mason/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants,Nebraska State Poet
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240702T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240702T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series 2024
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. \nFebruary 6\, AA Monet\nAA Monet is a poet\, author\, book publisher\, editor\, and space creator for emotions to freely and safely exist. AA Monet’s poetry book\, Lost And Found\, can be found in local stores in the Omaha area. \nMarch 5\, Barbar Schmitz\nBarbar Schmitz taught writing and literature at Northeast College for 30 years; two of her books have won the Poetry Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book\, and she received an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nApril 2\, Katie Schmid\nKatie Schmid is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in creative writing for 2023 and an Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College in PA with a debut book entitled “Nowhere.” \nMay 7\, J.V. Brummels\nJ.V. Brummels is a poet\, novelist\, short-story writer\, editor\, and rancher. His collection “Book of Grass” was awarded the 2008 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. \nJune 4\, Veronica Torraca-Bragdon\nVeronica Torraca-Bragdon is a poet\, singer/songwriter\, and special educator\, with a degree in K-12 Vocal/Instrumental Education and a masters in Special Education from UNO whose poems have been set to music. \nJuly 2\, Bonnie Johnson-Bartee\nBonnie Johnson-Bartee teaches creative writing and literature at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College in Norfolk\, and her latest book\, “Cord Blood” won a 2023 Nebraska Book Award. \nAugust 6\, Hannah Wilkinson\nHannah Wilkinson has published two poetry collections: “Unto the Breach” and “Half Agony\, Half Hope.” \nSeptember 3\, Twyla Hansen\nTwyla Hansen is a HN Speaker’s Bureau member and the first female Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018. \nOctober 1\, Jon Volkmer\nJon Volkmer is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ursinus College in PA who has published several books and a poetry collection. \nNovember 5\, Kassandra Montag\nKassandra Montag holds a master’s degree in English Literature and won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nDecember 3\, Julie S Paschold\nJulie S Paschold has published “Horizons” – a poetry collection honoring soil – and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in Writer’s Digest contest. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series-2024/2024-07-02/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240615T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240615T110000
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SUMMARY:Michael Broder: Working with Story\, Structure\, Music & Imagination
DESCRIPTION:In an influential 1988 essay\, poet Gregory Orr identifies story\, structure\, music\, and imagination as the four temperaments that define poets and their poetry. What is your poetic temperament? In this class\, we will explore Orr’s model\, delving into his ideas about the interaction of finite temperaments (story\, structure) and infinite temperaments (music\, imagination). Reading poems by Julia Alvarez\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, Audre Lorde\, Frank O’Hara\, Dorothy Parker\, James Wright\, and others\, we will observe how the four temperaments allow poets\, in the words of Orr\, “to forge language into the convincing unities we call poems.” This class is suitable for writers and readers alike. Poets will gain new insight into their own poetic temperament and how they can refine it to achieve their creative objectives. Readers will deepen their engagement with poetry by acquiring a new interpretive framework. A segment devoted to generative writing will allow writers and non-writers alike to explore their poetic temperament. \n​Michael Broder is the author of “Drug and Disease Free” (Indolent Books\, 2016) and “This Life Now” (A Midsummer Night’s Press\, 2014)\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His work has been published in Columbia Poetry Review\, The American Poetry Review\, The New York Times\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, and numerous others. He holds a BA from Columbia University\, an MFA from New York University\, and a PhD in classics from The Graduate Center\, CUNY. \n​Registration is required via the Nebraska Poetry Society website. 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/michael-broder-working-with-story-structure-music-imagination/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240604T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240604T193000
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series 2024
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. \nFebruary 6\, AA Monet\nAA Monet is a poet\, author\, book publisher\, editor\, and space creator for emotions to freely and safely exist. AA Monet’s poetry book\, Lost And Found\, can be found in local stores in the Omaha area. \nMarch 5\, Barbar Schmitz\nBarbar Schmitz taught writing and literature at Northeast College for 30 years; two of her books have won the Poetry Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book\, and she received an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nApril 2\, Katie Schmid\nKatie Schmid is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in creative writing for 2023 and an Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College in PA with a debut book entitled “Nowhere.” \nMay 7\, J.V. Brummels\nJ.V. Brummels is a poet\, novelist\, short-story writer\, editor\, and rancher. His collection “Book of Grass” was awarded the 2008 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. \nJune 4\, Veronica Torraca-Bragdon\nVeronica Torraca-Bragdon is a poet\, singer/songwriter\, and special educator\, with a degree in K-12 Vocal/Instrumental Education and a masters in Special Education from UNO whose poems have been set to music. \nJuly 2\, Bonnie Johnson-Bartee\nBonnie Johnson-Bartee teaches creative writing and literature at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College in Norfolk\, and her latest book\, “Cord Blood” won a 2023 Nebraska Book Award. \nAugust 6\, Hannah Wilkinson\nHannah Wilkinson has published two poetry collections: “Unto the Breach” and “Half Agony\, Half Hope.” \nSeptember 3\, Twyla Hansen\nTwyla Hansen is a HN Speaker’s Bureau member and the first female Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018. \nOctober 1\, Jon Volkmer\nJon Volkmer is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ursinus College in PA who has published several books and a poetry collection. \nNovember 5\, Kassandra Montag\nKassandra Montag holds a master’s degree in English Literature and won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. \nDecember 3\, Julie S Paschold\nJulie S Paschold has published “Horizons” – a poetry collection honoring soil – and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in Writer’s Digest contest. \n 
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series-2024/2024-06-04/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
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