The 2021 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition will be open April 1 through May 1. The winner will be awarded a $2,000 cash prize and the honorable mention will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize. Both winners will be awarded … Continue reading The Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition Opens April 1!
Steven Wingate is the author of several books, including Of Fathers and Fire (Nebraska, 2019), the award-winning Wifeshopping, and Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations. He is an associate professor of English at South Dakota State University. The following is an excerpt from his newest novel, … Continue reading Excerpt: The Leave-Takers
Introducing our fifth virtual book tour, the Edible West! COVID-19 is proving to be a harsh taskmaster, providing an education on concerns great and small, but one of the earliest lessons it taught us as a nation is the vulnerability … Continue reading Virtually Bison Books: Edible West
Dr. Harry Franqui-Rivera is an Associate Professor of History at Bloomfield College, New Jersey. He is also a public intellectual, political analyst, cultural critic, blogger and NBC, Latino Rebels, and Huff Post contributor. His book Soldiers of the Nation is … Continue reading From the Desk of Harry Franqui-Rivera: My Lisa Simpson Moment
Books The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel Praise from the Jerusalem Report: “As a history, The Star and the Scepter delivers a matter-of-fact account of Jewry’s international relations; it concerns itself with praxis, not theory (and … Continue reading News and Reviews
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Huascar Medina, the current Poet Laureate of Kansas, will be the judge for the 2021 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 1. … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2021 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
Betsy Wing is the translator of Édouard Glissant’s novel Mahagony (Nebraska, 2021). Her previous translations include Glissant’s The Fourth Century (Bison, 2001), The Overseer’s Cabin (Nebraska, 2011), Poetics of Relation, and Black Salt, among the works of many other writers. “I wrote it once. … Continue reading From the Desk of Betsy Wing: Translating Édouard Glissant
UNP Staff members are always reading books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. January Staff Reading List “I finished All You Can Ever Know, … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Monteagle Stearns (1924-2016) was an American diplomat and a U.S. ambassador to Greece. He is the author of Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus and Talking to Strangers: American Diplomacy at Home and Abroad. Below is an … Continue reading Excerpt: Gifted Greek
Diane Kiesel is the author of She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer (Potomac Books, 2015). She Can Bring Us Home is the winner of the 2015 Richard Slatten Award for excellence in Virginia biography … Continue reading From the Desk of Diane Kiesel: Another Alpha Kappa Alpha Who Made an Impact Before Vice President Harris
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