Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Ted Kooser: More than a Local Wonder (Nebraska, 2023) by Carla Ketner. About the Book: … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Ted Kooser: More than a Local Wonder
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Two Open Doors in a Field (Backwaters Press, March 2023) by Sophie Klahr. About the Book: The poems … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Two Open Doors in a Field
Laura Reece Hogan’s Butterfly Nebula (Backwaters Press, 2023) is officially out now. Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea … Continue reading Upcoming Events for Laura Reece Hogan’s Butterfly Nebula
Jared Harél’s Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (Nebraska, 2023) is officially out now. Be sure to mark your calendars for some upcoming events celebrating this new book. Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong … Continue reading Upcoming Events for Jared Harél’s Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
Founded in 1997, the Backwaters Press has worked to produce award-winning books by some of America’s finest authors. UNP acquired Backwaters in 2018, adding an impressive backlist in poetry and prose that contributes to the cultural landscape of our state and region. … Continue reading Backwaters Press News: New Poetry Winner is Now Available
Ted Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former U.S. poet laureate, is Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska. Currently, he is hand-selecting books for his eponymous Contemporary Poetry series, which features poets he believes deserves greater recognition for … Continue reading From the desk of Ted Kooser: The Author’s Photograph
Jim Harrison—novelist and poet, hunter and outdoorsman, lover of good food and good wine—passed away this Saturday at 78. Called “Master of the novella” in the New York Times obituary, Harrison leaves behind twenty-one works of fiction, most memorably Legends of the … Continue reading Remembering Jim Harrison
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