BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Humanities Nebraska - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Humanities Nebraska
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Humanities Nebraska
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20220313T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20221106T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20230312T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20231105T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20240310T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20241103T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20250309T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20251102T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20260308T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20261101T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250222T110000
DTSTAMP:20250116T152930Z
CREATED:20250102T155400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T152930Z
UID:10004317-1740218400-1740222000@humanitiesnebraska.org
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250204T193000
DTSTAMP:20241127T205556Z
CREATED:20241127T205556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241127T205556Z
UID:10004301-1738693800-1738697400@humanitiesnebraska.org
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250125T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250125T110000
DTSTAMP:20250116T152040Z
CREATED:20250102T154037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T152040Z
UID:10004316-1737799200-1737802800@humanitiesnebraska.org
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240720T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240720T113000
DTSTAMP:20240628T165223Z
CREATED:20240612T163323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240628T165223Z
UID:10003623-1721469600-1721475000@humanitiesnebraska.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mason_Matt.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240702T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240702T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002216-1719945000-1719948600@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-2024/2024-07-02/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240615T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240615T110000
DTSTAMP:20240222T171242Z
CREATED:20240222T171203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T171242Z
UID:10002258-1718445600-1718449200@humanitiesnebraska.org
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240604T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240604T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002215-1717525800-1717529400@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-2024/2024-06-04/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240518T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240518T110000
DTSTAMP:20240222T170620Z
CREATED:20240222T170620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T170620Z
UID:10001429-1716026400-1716030000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Kelsey Bigelow: Bridging the Page & Stage Gap
DESCRIPTION:Too often\, poets segment our genre into “traditional page poetry” and “modern spoken word poetry\,” believing we are one or the other. This creates a divide and only grows the disconnect between page and stage poets. Join Kelsey Bigelow\, a poet living in the spectrum between both styles\, as she guides us through how to bridge this gap and learn how each style informs the other. \nKelsey Bigelow is a spoken word and page poet based in Des Moines. In her work\, she molds incredibly specific emotions into something human\, digestible\, and cathartic. She released her chapbook\, “Sprig of Lilac\,” in 2018 and released her spoken word album\, Depression Holders and Secret Keepers\, in 2021. Her work is published in or forthcoming with Central Avenue Publishing\, Pile Press\, Lyrical Iowa\, Backchannels Journal\, Spirit Lake Review\, and elsewhere\, and she is a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee. She’s the founder and leader of the Des Moines Poetry Workshop\, the chair for the Iowa Poetry Association Poetry Slam\, the co-tournament director for the BlackBerry Peach National Poetry Slam\, and more. \nRegistration 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/kelsey-bigelow-bridging-the-page-stage-gap/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240507T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240507T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002214-1715106600-1715110200@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-2024/2024-05-07/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240420T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240420T110000
DTSTAMP:20240222T165826Z
CREATED:20240222T165826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T165826Z
UID:10001428-1713607200-1713610800@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Eleanor Reeds: Using "You" in Poems
DESCRIPTION:Poems often address those who cannot be reached. We appeal to the west wind or reproach an absent lover\, knowing it is impossible for them to hear us and yet trusting in the power of poetic language to communicate. In this session\, we will explore poems that can be read by everyone except the “you” to whom they are addressed. We will then experiment with using techniques such as invocation and apostrophe in our own poems. \nEleanor Reeds (she/her) is a poet\, essayist\, critic\, and educator from the United Kingdom who has served as the Associate Editor for Plainsongs for the past five years. Her work has appeared in aurora journal and Long River Review. She received a PhD in English from the University of Connecticut and currently teaches at Hastings College. \nRegistration 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/eleanor-reeds-using-you-in-poems/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240402T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240402T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002213-1712082600-1712086200@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-2024/2024-04-02/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240309T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240309T110000
DTSTAMP:20240222T164756Z
CREATED:20240222T164756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T164756Z
UID:10001427-1709978400-1709982000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey: Using Spoken Word Techniques
DESCRIPTION:When a poet steps to the microphone\, truth on the tip of their tongue and vulnerability in their voice\, you listen. But what writing techniques does a performance poet use to hook their audience? From the syntax of the first line\, to the structure of the whole poem\, spoken word artists have found multiple ways to keep the audience’s attention. You may be a master at creating images\, a poet that can capture passion and pain\, even a talented storyteller\, but if you cannot hook your audience they won’t stick around long enough for you to prove it. This workshop\, designed for novice and experienced poets\, will focus on the hook by examining the spoken word artists that have found a way—in just a minute—to capture the attention of millions of viewers online. The artists include names such as Neil Hilborn\, Javon Johnson\, Sabrina Benaim\, Blythe Bard\, and many others. \n​Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey is an author\, performer\, and producer. His debut book\, “Look\, Black Boy\,” was awarded first prize in the North Street Book Prize\, and his second book\, “Heart Notes” was published in 2019. He released two spoken word albums\, a studio version of Look\, Black Boy\, and a performance album titled\, Heart Notes Live! For three years in a row he was named Best Poet/Spoken Word Performer in Cedar Rapids & Iowa City. He is the winner of several slams across the United States\, has shared the stage with spoken word titans such as Siaara Freeman\, Javon Johnson\, Ebony Stewart\, Anthony McPherson\, and Patricia Smith. Videos of his performances can be found on his YouTube channel\, Write About Now\, and Button Poetry. When he is not writing and performing he is actively curating a community of spoken word poets in Iowa City through his high school program\, IC Speaks\, and producing events like the Mic Check Poetry Fest. \nRegistration 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/caleb-the-negro-artist-rainey-using-spoken-word-techniques/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240305T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240305T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002212-1709663400-1709667000@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-2024/2024-03-05/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240224T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240224T113000
DTSTAMP:20231213T215120Z
CREATED:20231213T215120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T215120Z
UID:10002156-1708768800-1708774200@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society: Tyler Michael Jacobs\, A Nature Poem is an Elegy
DESCRIPTION:To write a nature a poem is to grieve nature. We already have poems that capture the beauty of nature and how it once was. The importance of capturing nature today is to see it as it is and how it might one day be. Naturally\, we must move away from the traditional pastoral that romanticizes nature to some perversion of it as only we can experience\, feel\, and understand. In this workshop\, we will explore the contemporary pastoral from contemporary writers to see how the past and the present blend so well that it captures\, possibly\, a bleakness moving forward into some stark future only we can imagine. At the end of the workshop\, we will meditate on our own relationship with nature as we’ve moved through time. We will sit and write from an imagined future that pulls from our current experiences. Then\, we’ll share our work. We’ll end the workshop with some time for questions. \nTYLER MICHAEL JACOBS is the author of “Building Brownville” (Stephen F. Austin State University Press\, 2022). His words have appeared in Variant Literature\, Plainsongs\, Pidgeonholes\, Sierra Nevada Review\, Thin Air Magazine\, White Wall Review\, Funicular Magazine\, and elsewhere. His poems have also been featured on Nebraska Public Media’s Friday LIVE! He is a second-year poetry MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University where he serves as an assistant editor and Blog Co-Editor for Mid-American Review. \nRegistration 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/nebraska-poetry-society-tyler-michael-jacobs-a-nature-poem-is-an-elegy/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240206T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T203422Z
CREATED:20240201T161143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T203422Z
UID:10002211-1707244200-1707247800@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-2024/2024-02-06/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240127T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240127T113000
DTSTAMP:20231213T214919Z
CREATED:20231213T214245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T214919Z
UID:10002155-1706349600-1706355000@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society: Ramya Ramana\, Grace and Wonder
DESCRIPTION:Whether it is the arduous nature of looking\, or the radical possibility of silence\, wonder is always following us. At one moment\, what appears as the vast sky\, or a simple cup of coffee\, on a second look becomes a miracle—a container of some wondrous secret. In this class\, we’ll explore poems that contain and investigate wonder. We’ll exit realism and delve into prompts that search out childlikeness\, examine and define what wonder means to us and wander through the maze of gentle introspection. We will investigate what it means to write without metaphor and write with metaphor. We’ll visit the texts of the ancient Persian poets\, and maybe poems by Mary Oliver\, Ada Limon\, Marie Howe\, Wendell Berry and more. We’ll consider different forms of short and long poems and find the structures that resonate with us. \nRAMYA RAMANA is an award-winning American author\, poet\, lyricist and writer. She was born\, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam\, which awarded her a full tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after\, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open\, Tribeca Film Festival\, TV One’s “Verses and Flow\,” Pharrell’s Adidas Campaign\, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards\, the Immigrant Gala\, Apollo Theatre Slam Finals\, Celebrate Bklyn!\, the Source Magazine Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books\, which was released at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing\, Ramana has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She recently received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana is currently working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explain truth sincerely through her work and her life. \nRegistration 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/nebraska-poetry-society-ramya-ramana-grace-and-wonder/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231205T193000
DTSTAMP:20230525T195820Z
CREATED:20230209T185904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T195820Z
UID:10000827-1701801000-1701804600@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The 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 are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nFebruary 7 Amy Haddad\nAmy Haddad is a poet\, nurse and educator who taught in the health sciences at Creighton University where she is now a Professor Emerita. Her poetry and short stories have been published in several periodicals including the American Journal of Nursing\, Janus Head\, Journal of Medical Humanities\, Touch\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Pulse\, Persimmon Tree\, Annals of Internal Medicine\, Aji Magazine\, DASH\, and Oberon Poetry Magazine. Her first chapbook\, “The Geography of Kitchens” was published by Finishing Line Press in August\, 2021. Her first poetry collection\, “An Otherwise Healthy Woman\,” was published by Backwaters Press\, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press in March\,  2022. It presents the intimate experiences of a nurse\, the vulnerable perspective of a patient\, and the lessons of caring for family. \nMarch 7 Marjorie Saiser\nMarjorie Saiser’s eighth book\, The Track the Whales Make: New & Selected Poems\, is published by University of Nebraska Press in Ted Kooser’s series of Contemporary Poets and won the High Plains Book Award. Saiser’s Losing the Ring in the River (University of New Mexico Press) won the Willa Award in 2014.\nShe has received four Nebraska Book Awards and is co-editor of Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace\, a collection of writing by women of the Great Plains\, and also co-editor of Road Trip\, interviews with a dozen Nebraska writers. Saiser’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner\, Alaska Poetry Review\, Nimrod\, Midwest Quarterly\, and American Life in Poetry. Ted Kooser said of Saiser’s work that “no poet in this country is better at writing about love\, and . . . all her poems are in some way about love.” \nApril 4 Shyla Shehan\nShyla Shehan is an analytical Virgo from the Midwest. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Nebraska where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in over 25 journals and anthologies\, including The Decadent Review\, Heartwood Literary\, Gyroscope Review\, Plainsongs\, and elsewhere and her debut poetry collection\, Unsuspecting Cinderella\, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2022. It tracks a female persona through the losses of love and the strangeness of life when one moves through it alone. The second section follows that same persona into a world of new love and the oddly haunting burden of unexpected affluence. Throughout\, the poems are rich with vibrant language\, surprising reversals\, and insights into the difficulties of surviving emotionally in our stressful culture. The collection is both entertaining and moving\, not to mention philosophically engaging. Shyla lives in Omaha with her husband\, children\, and four cats and currently splits her time between managing a healthy household and running a nonprofit literary journal\, The Good Life Review. Her full bio and an account of her published work are available at shylashehan.com. \nMay 2 Tyler Jacobs\nTyler Michael Jacobs is the author of Building Brownville (Stephen F. Austin State University Press\, 2022). It explores forms of grief through the internalization of experience and wanders further to wonder if the past is too far away to fix the present while also serving as a love letter to Nebraska. This collection offers a millennial voice within poetry––a voice that not only subverts the norm of what poetry is but defies the stereotypes of a region\, offering connection through grief\, love\, and place––to experience a somewhere which we have never been.\nHis poems have been featured on Nebraska Public Media’s Friday Live! His poetry has also appeared in Sierra Nevada Review\, Pidgeonholes\, Thin Air Magazine\, White Wall Review\, Funicular Magazine\, and elsewhere. Tyler is an MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University\, where he is also a graduate assistant teaching English and Creative Writing. \nJune 6 Chad Christensen\nChad M. Christensen is the managing editor of the WSC Press\, director of the Plains Writers Series\, and an associate professor at Wayne State College\, where he teaches publishing and creative writing.\nHis books of lo-fi poetry are Ground Bound and Shoot from the Hip (Pseudo Poseur Productions)\, both poetic novels dealing with addiction and the search for truth no matter hard life becomes. His latest poems have appeared in Sugar House Review and Plainsong. He also writes a column for The Big Smoke called “Boy with Shovel.” \nJuly 11 Lin Brummels\nLin Marshall Brummels grew up on a quiet farm at the edge of the Nebraska Sandhills. She now boards horses with a little help from family. Brummels earned a Psychology BA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a MS in Rehabilitation Counseling from Syracuse University. Brummels is a Nebraska licensed mental health counselor in private practice. Her poem “Jerry’s Hands” was selected as an Honorable Mention poem in the 2021 Nebraska Poetry Society’s poetry contest. She’s published poems in journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. Her poetry chapbooks are “Cottonwood Strong” and “Hard Times\,” a 2016 Nebraska Book Award winner. Her 2021 full-length collection is “A Quilted Landscape.” Her work sings a plaintive song about family dynamics set in an atmosphere of moonlit pastures and whispered secrets. She relates both the light and darker nuances of family life in rural Nebraska. Her poems explore the significance of place in the development of character. \nAugust 1 Kelly Weber\nKelly Weber (she/they) is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press\, forthcoming December 2022) and You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis\, winner of the 2022 Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize (forthcoming October 2023). Her work explores the non-binary experience. She reveals self as world\, self as community in poems that situate an inherited tradition in conversation with postmodern innovation and undertheorized\, urgently important concepts of identity. She is the reviews editor for Seneca Review. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in a Best American Poetry Author Spotlight\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Southeast Review\, Salamander\, The Journal\, Passages North\, Foglifter\, and elsewhere. She was born and raised in Nebraska and holds an MFA from Colorado State University. More of their work can be found at kellymweber.com. \nSeptember 5 Jessica Poli\nJessica Poli is the author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press\, 2023)\, which was chosen by Patricia Smith as a finalist for the Miller Williams Prize. The wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss. It is an ecopoetics that explores the cyclical natures of love and grief while holding space for the sacred. Along with Marco Abel and Timothy Schaffert\, she co-edited the collection More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser\, which won the Special Poetry Award in the 2022 Nebraska Book Awards. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets\, North American Review\, Poet Lore\, and Salamander\, among other places. Originally from Pennsylvania\, she is currently a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. \nOctober 3 Stephanie Marcellus\nStephanie A. Marcellus is a professor of English at Wayne State College. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and a PhD in Nineteenth-Century British Literature from The University of South Dakota. Her work has appeared in Plainsongs\, Three Drops from a Cauldron\, Alligator Juniper as well as in other journals and anthologies. Her chapbook\, What Is Left Behind: Garden Elegies\, was published by Finishing Line Press. The poems are grounded in the past\, using skillful language to convey grief and the temporality of life. Generations of women expressed their need to create art and beauty in the world through the gardens they planted\, the flowers they loved. As a descendant of such women\, Marcellus knows this is especially true of the prairie women who often had no other way to find expression in a harsh climate. What is Left Behind evokes the beauty of the gardens as well as the spirit of the women who planted them. The poems strike a still point between breathless vision and respect-filled hindsight. \nNovember 7 Lucy Adkins\nLucy Adkins’ poetry has been published in many journals including Poet Lore\, Red Wheelbarrow\, South Dakota Review and the anthologies Crazy Woman Creek\, Women Write Resistance and the Poets Against the War anthology. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize\, and she has also co-authored two books of non-fiction\, Writing in Community\, recipient of an “Ippy” in the Independent Publishers Book Awards; and The Fire Inside. Her poetry chapbook\, Two-Toned Dress\, was a winner of the 2019 Blue Light Press chapbook contest\, as well as a Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. Two-Toned Dress shows us good times\, times of abundance\, but does not shy away from showing the lonely times. Dig in! This well-crafted collection expertly deals with relationships\, and does so with beautiful honesty. This poet helps us to remember our own times of being in love and leads us toward a compassionate view of others\, including our parents\, who have also known what it is to negotiate what life throws at us. Her first full-length poetry collection\, A Crazy Little Thing is forthcoming from Wayne State College Press. \nDecember 5 Matt Mason\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. 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 4th book\, At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland\, Midlife and Churros\, was released by The Old Mill Press in 2022. It’s about how our heart is sometimes more reliable than our memory and how places that are touchstones in our lives stay with us in ways that don’t always seem to make sense. Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife\, the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown\, and daughters Sophia and Lucia. Find more at: https://matt.midverse.com/
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series/2023-12-05/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231202T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231202T113000
DTSTAMP:20230504T162449Z
CREATED:20230503T185015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T162449Z
UID:10000994-1701511200-1701516600@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poetry Society Poetry Workshops
DESCRIPTION:The Nebraska Poetry Society will offer monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops occurring on June 10\, July 15\, August 26\, September 23\, October 21. November 4\, and December 2. Each workshop will begin with a 60 minute presentation by the featured speaker. Afterwards participants will have 30 minutes to practice what they learned and share with the group. \nFeatured speakers include: \n\nJune 10\, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet “I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You”\nJuly 15\, Adrienne Christian “Writing the Elegant Sex Poem”\nAugust 26\, Meghan Sterling “Submerged in the Sublime”\nSeptember 23\, Matt Mason “Let’s Just Write a Sestina”\nOctober 21\, Kathryn Winograd “Discovering the Kintsugi”\nNovember 4\, Kelly Weber “Tongues in a Greening Field”\nDecember 2\, Freesia McKee “Tethering Poems to Place”\n\nRegistration 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.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poetry-society-poetry-workshops/2023-12-02/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231107T193000
DTSTAMP:20230525T195820Z
CREATED:20230209T185904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T195820Z
UID:10000826-1699381800-1699385400@humanitiesnebraska.org
SUMMARY:Nebraska Poets Virtual Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The 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 are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website. \nFebruary 7 Amy Haddad\nAmy Haddad is a poet\, nurse and educator who taught in the health sciences at Creighton University where she is now a Professor Emerita. Her poetry and short stories have been published in several periodicals including the American Journal of Nursing\, Janus Head\, Journal of Medical Humanities\, Touch\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Pulse\, Persimmon Tree\, Annals of Internal Medicine\, Aji Magazine\, DASH\, and Oberon Poetry Magazine. Her first chapbook\, “The Geography of Kitchens” was published by Finishing Line Press in August\, 2021. Her first poetry collection\, “An Otherwise Healthy Woman\,” was published by Backwaters Press\, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press in March\,  2022. It presents the intimate experiences of a nurse\, the vulnerable perspective of a patient\, and the lessons of caring for family. \nMarch 7 Marjorie Saiser\nMarjorie Saiser’s eighth book\, The Track the Whales Make: New & Selected Poems\, is published by University of Nebraska Press in Ted Kooser’s series of Contemporary Poets and won the High Plains Book Award. Saiser’s Losing the Ring in the River (University of New Mexico Press) won the Willa Award in 2014.\nShe has received four Nebraska Book Awards and is co-editor of Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace\, a collection of writing by women of the Great Plains\, and also co-editor of Road Trip\, interviews with a dozen Nebraska writers. Saiser’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner\, Alaska Poetry Review\, Nimrod\, Midwest Quarterly\, and American Life in Poetry. Ted Kooser said of Saiser’s work that “no poet in this country is better at writing about love\, and . . . all her poems are in some way about love.” \nApril 4 Shyla Shehan\nShyla Shehan is an analytical Virgo from the Midwest. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Nebraska where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in over 25 journals and anthologies\, including The Decadent Review\, Heartwood Literary\, Gyroscope Review\, Plainsongs\, and elsewhere and her debut poetry collection\, Unsuspecting Cinderella\, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2022. It tracks a female persona through the losses of love and the strangeness of life when one moves through it alone. The second section follows that same persona into a world of new love and the oddly haunting burden of unexpected affluence. Throughout\, the poems are rich with vibrant language\, surprising reversals\, and insights into the difficulties of surviving emotionally in our stressful culture. The collection is both entertaining and moving\, not to mention philosophically engaging. Shyla lives in Omaha with her husband\, children\, and four cats and currently splits her time between managing a healthy household and running a nonprofit literary journal\, The Good Life Review. Her full bio and an account of her published work are available at shylashehan.com. \nMay 2 Tyler Jacobs\nTyler Michael Jacobs is the author of Building Brownville (Stephen F. Austin State University Press\, 2022). It explores forms of grief through the internalization of experience and wanders further to wonder if the past is too far away to fix the present while also serving as a love letter to Nebraska. This collection offers a millennial voice within poetry––a voice that not only subverts the norm of what poetry is but defies the stereotypes of a region\, offering connection through grief\, love\, and place––to experience a somewhere which we have never been.\nHis poems have been featured on Nebraska Public Media’s Friday Live! His poetry has also appeared in Sierra Nevada Review\, Pidgeonholes\, Thin Air Magazine\, White Wall Review\, Funicular Magazine\, and elsewhere. Tyler is an MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University\, where he is also a graduate assistant teaching English and Creative Writing. \nJune 6 Chad Christensen\nChad M. Christensen is the managing editor of the WSC Press\, director of the Plains Writers Series\, and an associate professor at Wayne State College\, where he teaches publishing and creative writing.\nHis books of lo-fi poetry are Ground Bound and Shoot from the Hip (Pseudo Poseur Productions)\, both poetic novels dealing with addiction and the search for truth no matter hard life becomes. His latest poems have appeared in Sugar House Review and Plainsong. He also writes a column for The Big Smoke called “Boy with Shovel.” \nJuly 11 Lin Brummels\nLin Marshall Brummels grew up on a quiet farm at the edge of the Nebraska Sandhills. She now boards horses with a little help from family. Brummels earned a Psychology BA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a MS in Rehabilitation Counseling from Syracuse University. Brummels is a Nebraska licensed mental health counselor in private practice. Her poem “Jerry’s Hands” was selected as an Honorable Mention poem in the 2021 Nebraska Poetry Society’s poetry contest. She’s published poems in journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. Her poetry chapbooks are “Cottonwood Strong” and “Hard Times\,” a 2016 Nebraska Book Award winner. Her 2021 full-length collection is “A Quilted Landscape.” Her work sings a plaintive song about family dynamics set in an atmosphere of moonlit pastures and whispered secrets. She relates both the light and darker nuances of family life in rural Nebraska. Her poems explore the significance of place in the development of character. \nAugust 1 Kelly Weber\nKelly Weber (she/they) is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press\, forthcoming December 2022) and You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis\, winner of the 2022 Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize (forthcoming October 2023). Her work explores the non-binary experience. She reveals self as world\, self as community in poems that situate an inherited tradition in conversation with postmodern innovation and undertheorized\, urgently important concepts of identity. She is the reviews editor for Seneca Review. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in a Best American Poetry Author Spotlight\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Southeast Review\, Salamander\, The Journal\, Passages North\, Foglifter\, and elsewhere. She was born and raised in Nebraska and holds an MFA from Colorado State University. More of their work can be found at kellymweber.com. \nSeptember 5 Jessica Poli\nJessica Poli is the author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press\, 2023)\, which was chosen by Patricia Smith as a finalist for the Miller Williams Prize. The wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss. It is an ecopoetics that explores the cyclical natures of love and grief while holding space for the sacred. Along with Marco Abel and Timothy Schaffert\, she co-edited the collection More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser\, which won the Special Poetry Award in the 2022 Nebraska Book Awards. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets\, North American Review\, Poet Lore\, and Salamander\, among other places. Originally from Pennsylvania\, she is currently a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. \nOctober 3 Stephanie Marcellus\nStephanie A. Marcellus is a professor of English at Wayne State College. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and a PhD in Nineteenth-Century British Literature from The University of South Dakota. Her work has appeared in Plainsongs\, Three Drops from a Cauldron\, Alligator Juniper as well as in other journals and anthologies. Her chapbook\, What Is Left Behind: Garden Elegies\, was published by Finishing Line Press. The poems are grounded in the past\, using skillful language to convey grief and the temporality of life. Generations of women expressed their need to create art and beauty in the world through the gardens they planted\, the flowers they loved. As a descendant of such women\, Marcellus knows this is especially true of the prairie women who often had no other way to find expression in a harsh climate. What is Left Behind evokes the beauty of the gardens as well as the spirit of the women who planted them. The poems strike a still point between breathless vision and respect-filled hindsight. \nNovember 7 Lucy Adkins\nLucy Adkins’ poetry has been published in many journals including Poet Lore\, Red Wheelbarrow\, South Dakota Review and the anthologies Crazy Woman Creek\, Women Write Resistance and the Poets Against the War anthology. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize\, and she has also co-authored two books of non-fiction\, Writing in Community\, recipient of an “Ippy” in the Independent Publishers Book Awards; and The Fire Inside. Her poetry chapbook\, Two-Toned Dress\, was a winner of the 2019 Blue Light Press chapbook contest\, as well as a Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. Two-Toned Dress shows us good times\, times of abundance\, but does not shy away from showing the lonely times. Dig in! This well-crafted collection expertly deals with relationships\, and does so with beautiful honesty. This poet helps us to remember our own times of being in love and leads us toward a compassionate view of others\, including our parents\, who have also known what it is to negotiate what life throws at us. Her first full-length poetry collection\, A Crazy Little Thing is forthcoming from Wayne State College Press. \nDecember 5 Matt Mason\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. 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 4th book\, At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland\, Midlife and Churros\, was released by The Old Mill Press in 2022. It’s about how our heart is sometimes more reliable than our memory and how places that are touchstones in our lives stay with us in ways that don’t always seem to make sense. Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife\, the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown\, and daughters Sophia and Lucia. Find more at: https://matt.midverse.com/
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-poets-virtual-reading-series/2023-11-07/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
CATEGORIES:Grants
ORGANIZER;CN="Nebraska Poetry Society":MAILTO:thepoets@nepoetrysociety.org
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR