Tomorrow the NEA "Poetry Out Loud" state championship is from 1:00-3:30 p.m. at the Sheldon Museum of Art. The Nebraksa champion recieves $200 and an all-expense paid trip to the national contest in Washington D.C. where winners from around the nation compete for a $20,000 college scholarship. UNP is a proud sponsor of the event and it is free and open to the public. So go show your support to the young Nebraska poets! Continue reading Poetry Out Loud championship
Tonight at 7 p.m. in the UNL bookstore you can meet Jeff Kurrus, author of the new children's book Have You Seen Mary? and editor of NEBRASKAland Magazine! Kurrus will read from and sign copies of Have Your Seen Mary? in the University Bookstore, in the lower level of the Nebraska Union at 14 and R streets in Lincoln. Have You Seen Mary? is a fictional account of one sandhill crane’s faithful search during spring migration for his lost mate. The book includes photographs by Nebraska wildlife photographer Michael Forsberg. So come out to the book store to meet a … Continue reading Book signing
Tonight Professor and Rabbi Elliot Dorff will be hosting a free telewebinar on business ethics. He will be sharing his perspective on an individual’s right to have a profitable business as well as methods for ethically correct decision making when it comes to tough business situations. Dorff is the editor for the 6 volume set, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices. Every volume in this series presents hypothetical cases on specific topics, like money, power and social justice, and then is followed by traditional and contemporary sources that encourage developing moral choices in a new light. The telewebinar begins at 6 p.m. … Continue reading Free telewebinar
The Prairie Schooner is bringing three prize-winners to the UNL campus this week! Greg Hrbek, James Crews and Shane Book will participate in a meet and greet and Q&A today from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Dudley Bailey Library in Andrews Hall. Tomorrow night, the three authors will also read from their books at 8 p.m. in Anderson Hall, room 15. Both events are free and open to the public. Greg Hrbek is the author of Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories (2011), James Crews is the author of The Book of What Stays (2011) and Shane Book is … Continue reading Meet prize-winning authors
Get hungry because Zester Daily is having a “Nosh like a Pro” contest! Enter to win a box of Israeli foods from the company Negev Nectars. Five readers will also be picked to receive a copy of Jewish American Food Culture. Click here to enter now. Zester Daily is an award-winning online publication produced by an international collection of experienced journalists, food writers and wine experts who want to engage food and drink enthusiasts. Continue reading Win food from Negev Nectars
A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee) by Jack B. Martin, has been selected to receive the Linguistic Society of America’s prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Book Award! The Bloomfield Award was established to recognize the volume which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics. Creek (or Muskogee) is a Muskogean language spoken by several thousand members of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations of Oklahoma and by several hundred members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. This volume is the first modern grammar of Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the languages of the … Continue reading Leonard Bloomfield Book Award
This past week, two UNP books were reviewed by Necessary Fiction and the Omaha World-Herald. In Necessary Fiction, Steve Himmer reviewed Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda. He said that “…self-invention and renewal it offered is at the heart of Bohemian Girl.” Click here to read the full review. And in the Omaha World-Herald, David Hendee called Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer a tool that could “…help save your life.” The Atlas of the Great Plains has more than three hundred original full-color maps, accompanied by extended explanatory … Continue reading UNP books in the media
Tonight at Indigo Bridge Books, in the Haymarket, from 6-7 p.m. author Wendy Call will give a presentation on her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy. Her slideshow presentation will include both English and Spanish portions. To find more information on this event, click here. In other exciting author news, Shane Book was selected as a “New American Poet” by the Society of America. Book is the author of Ceiling of Sticks which was published in 2010 and was the Prairie Schooner Book Prize winner in Poetry. Click here for the full list … Continue reading Friday round up
Tune into NET Radio's Friday Live tomorrow morning for music from the new musical, Local Wonders. The show was adapted by Theatre Professor Virginia Smith, who will be on tomorrow's program, along with musicians Paul Amandes and the Turtle Island String Quartet. You can catch the show on at 91.1 FM at 9 a.m. tomorrow, or visit netnebraska.org, for streaming, webcast and podcasts of previous shows. For a description of the whole show click here. Another local artist is being featured in Nebraska this month. Terese Svoboda was interviewed by blog Les Femmes Folles about her work as a Nebraska … Continue reading Local Wonders
Congratulations to Susan Kushner Resnick for winning the Best Woman Writer award at the 2011 High Plains Book Awards on Oct. 15. The winners were announced at a banquet held at Montana State University in Billings. Resnick’s book, Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, tells the 1943 story of an explosion in the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana, which killed all but three of the men in the mine at the time of the blast. The book unfolds that tragic day and its aftermath through the eyes of the family members — mostly wives and children — of those miners. Lisa … Continue reading Women winners
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