A Nebraska native, Mary K. Stillwell has studied writing in New York and, with Ted Kooser, on the plains and earned her PhD in plains literature from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She served as coeditor of Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of … Continue reading From the Desk of Mary K. Stillwell: 2018 One Book One Nebraska
As the largest and most diversified press between Chicago and California, the University of Nebraska Press is best known for publishing works in Native studies, history, sports, anthropology, geography, American studies, and creative works. In celebration of the press’s seventy-fifth anniversary, the staff has selected … Continue reading 75 Significant Books, Part Seven
Read the poem, "Eating Mulberries for Breakfast" from Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems by William Kloefkorn, edited and with an introduction by Ted Genoways: Eating Mulberries for Breakfast Mostly purple, purple becoming snowdriftas sugar falls from the small mouthof the dispenser, purple you gathered from the tree justyesterday, your little brotherabove you lost almost in branches of purple, purple risingin the bowl as the thick milkrises, and with a silver spoon you begin to eat what you knowyour buddy Gene will laugh atwhen you tell him, if you tell him, snowdrift sugar … Continue reading Off the Shelf: Swallowing the Soap by William Kloefkorn
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