The following announcement is from the University of Nebraska Press Spring 2021 newsletter, i.e. Few people have been as supportive of the University of Nebraska Press as Ted Kooser, who retired from teaching at the university in December of 2020. … Continue reading Ted Kooser Retires from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ann C. Christensen is a professor of English at the University of Houston. She is the author of Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in Early Modern England (Nebraska, 2017) and the editor of A Warning for Fair Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare’s Theater … Continue reading Excerpt: A Warning for Fair Women
Books Your Crib, My Qibla Review in the Kenyon Review: “I have not encountered a poet more attuned to the movement of emotion through the body or whose poems move so surprisingly. This collection is especially suited to a reader … Continue reading News and Reviews
UNP Staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. April Staff Reading List “This month I’ve discovered Samantha Irby, … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Alan P. Marcus is a professor of geography and environmental planning at Towson University. He is the editor of Transnational Geographers in the United States: Navigating Autobiogeographies and author of several academic journal articles about Brazil and immigration. His new book, Confederate Exodus: … Continue reading Excerpt: Confederate Exodus
Congratulations to Edward J. Driving Hawk and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, authors of Too Strong to Be Broken (Bison Books, 2020)! Their book is a finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. Each year the Center for Great … Continue reading Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Finalist
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of three other poetry collections, including Little Spells, How to Live on Bread and Music, and Salt Memory. The recipient of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Pushcart Prize, she teaches at the … Continue reading From the Desk of Jennifer K. Sweeney: On Lyric Space During the Pandemic, and a Poetry of In-betweenness
The Backwaters Press is now accepting submissions for this year’s Backwaters Prize in Poetry contest. The winner and honorable mention will receive cash prizes and book publication with the University of Nebraska Press. The judge for the 2021 contest is Huascar Medina, Poet … Continue reading From the Desk of Kim Garcia: Agency as a Gift
Join Tom Shieber, Senior Curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and UWM Professor Emeritus Lawrence Baldassaro, author of Beyond DiMaggio and Baseball Italian Style, for a virtual conversation via Zoom hosted by Boswell Book Company about his major … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Larry Baldassaro in conversation with Tom Shieber
Indigo Moor is poet laureate emeritus of Sacramento and an author, scriptwriter, and integrated circuit layout engineer. His other works include Tap-Root, Through the Stonecutter’s Window (winner of the Northwestern University’s Cave Canem Prize), and In the Room of Thirsts and Hungers: The Mirrored Tragedies … Continue reading From the Desk of Indigo Moor: Lost and Found in the World Machine
