The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Matt Mason, the current Nebraska State Poet, will be the judge for the 2020 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 15. The … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2020 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
Congratulations to the following UNP authors who have been recently recognized for their work. Joyce Sutphen was a finalist for the “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020” program. Liz Breazeale was awarded a 2020 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
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. January Staff Reading List Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised … Continue reading What We’re Reading
UNP is closed today, January 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. If it’s cold where you are like it is in Lincoln, Nebraska—download a few digital galleys of select forthcoming spring books to keep warm. Visit our … Continue reading Forthcoming Spring Books on NetGalley
Books Hard Damage Aria Aber Praise from the LA Review of Books: “If documentary witness shows us what is, Aber’s is a lyric witness—summoning the conditional and counterfactual as constitutive components of the present. It is exile’s promise: missing what … Continue reading News and Reviews
Rosemary Sekora is the publicity manager at UNP. Follow her on Twitter for bookish content and photos of her puppy. Last month, I posted a little tweet consisting of seasonal catalog stats from the upcoming 2020 spring/summer season: Inside the @UnivNebPress … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: New Year, New Books
Books Nebraska Kwame Dawes On NPR‘s “A Book Of Poetry For Everyone.” All I Feel is Rivers by Robert Vivian Out of the Crazywoods by Cheryl Savageau Exodus by ‘Gbenga Adeoba Mentioned in Publishers Weekly Spring 2020 Announcements for Essays … Continue reading News and Reviews
Books The Greatest Upset Never Seen Jack Danilewicz Praise from the Wall Street Journal: “Entertaining, carefully researched. . . . Mr. Danielwicz has it right: The ‘sun has never set’ on Chaminade’s glorious win. Chances are, it never will.” The Jews Should … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following books are now available in paperback this month. April Twilights Before Willa Cather turned primarily to the fiction that made her reputation, she produced striking poems that were collected in April Twilights. It was her literary debut, preceding the … Continue reading New in Paperback!
Books When Dream Bear Sings Gus Palmer Jr. Review in the Journal of Folklore Research: “A diverse collection of texts from each linguistic family of the Native American Southern Plains, When Dream Bear Sings evokes a singular editorial freedom, and in juxtaposing … Continue reading News and Reviews
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