Today in Lincoln the weather seems to be less than dreary with high chances of rain soaking your morning newspaper. (Not that it happened to me or anything…) But it’s nothing that a good collection of poetry can’t fix. Swallowing the Soap is the newest collection by Nebraska’s poet, William Kloefkorn. It contains new and selected poems that span his forty-year career. The poems inside include limited editions and hard-to-find books along with some of his most popular poems. It is filled with the panoramic landscapes of Kansas and Nebraska, the stories of the rough and tender people who live there, and the moments of heartache, brutality, loss, and redeeming joy that shape their lives.

Tomorrow, Sept. 24, Kloefkorn will be on Friday Live, which is NET Radio’s Friday arts program, during the second half of the show. Tune in at about 9:30 a.m. At 7 p.m. he will be at Nebraska Bookstore for an appearance and signing. It doesn’t stop there though! If you can’t see him then, he will be at the University Bookstore on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. for a reading and signing.