The REYNOLDS SERIES brings fine literary arts events to UNK, Kearney, and Central Nebraska
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List of Reynolds Readers 2007-2011
For information, please contact
Paul & Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair, Series Director,
Recent Reynolds Series (2007-2011)
& Literary CraneFest Guests:
Chris Abani
Cris Apache
Fred Arroyo
Makalani Bandele
Jan Beatty
Marvin Bell
Sherwin Bitsui
Tim Black
Robert Olen Butler
Fredy Chicangana
Eddie Chuculate
Billy Collins
John Davis
Kwame Dawes
Natalie Diaz
Michael Dumanis
Cristina Eisenberg
Lise Erdrich
Kate Gale
Diane Glancy
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Sam Hamill
Joy Harjo
Linda Hogan
Lee Ann Howe
Hugo Jamioy (Juagibiouy)
Aty Jeney
Stephen Graham Jones
Greg Kosmicki
Greg Kuzma
Bret Lott
Rick Marlatt
Janet McAdams
Lenelle Moise
Carol Moldaw
Nancy Morejon
Judith Nault
Glenn North
Wang Ping
James Riding In
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Matthew Shenoda
Johnathan Skinner
Patricia Smith
James Thomas Stevens
Terese Svoboda
Arthur Sze
Laura Tohe
Natasha Trethewey
Margaret Troupe
Quincy Troupe
Miles Waggener
Ann Waldman
Rex Walton
Don Welch
Ofelia Zepeda
and others
Other Recent Kearney Area & UNK Poets & Writers reading in series in
past four years, include:
Sam Stecher
Kevin Nenstiel
Laura Jensen
Robert Ficociello
A B Emrys
Susanne Bloomfield
Travis Hedge Coke
Terry Lee Schiffrens
John Damon
Chuck Peek
Charles Fort
James Hawley
Jan Thompson
Kristi Bryant
Kurt Brochard
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REYNOLDS SCHOLARS – Winners of the Reynolds Poetry & Creative Writing Scholarship
November 11, 2010 3:00 p.m. in the Choral Room, Fine Arts Building, UNK Campus – Kearney
First Place: Sandra Anthony
Second Place: Lacey McPhillips
Third Place: Nicole Peters
Fourth Place: Ryan DeMoss
Honorable Mention: Steve Warren
Honorable Mention: Jacob Titus
Honorable Mention: Rachel Einspahr
Sandra Anthony teaches English, reading, and geography at Sunrise Middle School here in Kearney, NE. She is currently working on her master's degree in creative writing. Her writing often reflects a fascination with metaphysical quests, the power of music to persuade, and the constantly changing face of today's youth culture. Sandra is originally from Lexington, NE.
Lacey McPhillips is from Lindsay, NE and is a sophomore majoring in English and minoring in Multimedia. She works as a writing consultant at UNK’s Writing Center. In her freshman year, she received the ‘Outstanding Essay in an Introductory Course’ at the Student Conference in Language and Literature 2010.
Nicole L. Peters is a senior 7-12 Language Arts major from Cairo, NE, and plans to graduate in December 2010. Although fairly new to the world of poetry writing, she has been writing in some form since before she could actually write down sentences, ever since she told her kindergarten teacher a story and that teacher transcribed it. Her poetry has been published in the 2009 and 2010 Carillon and the Future Earth Magazine. Nicole’s paper “Transformation, Life’s Realities, and the Pastoral Convention: Shakespeare’s As You Like It” was published in UNK’s 2009 Undergraduate Research Journal. In addition, her paper “Letters from an American Farmer: The Captivity of American Freedom” was published in the 2010 Undergraduate Research Journal. Her literary goal is to someday see a book of her stories or poems in print.
Ryan DeMoss is an English graduate student. He was originally from Wichita, KS, but grew up in Erie, PA. He earnedhis undergraduate degree at Penn State before moving to Kearney. He has had worked published in the Carillon and is currently an editor for the Reynolds Review. He also teaches English 100A and is a research assistant for the Platte Valley Review.
Steve Warren is working on his master's degree in English with a creative writing emphasis at UNK. Over the past few years he has been an editor for the Reynolds Review and a member of Sigma Tau Delta. He currently holds a graduate assistantship and teaches two English composition courses. Someday, he would like to teach full time.
Jacob Titus is going for a major in English education and a broadcasting minor. He is from a small town in Nebraska no one has ever heard of. He transferred to Kearney after getting his associate of art degree from McCook Community College. He has had work published in Paper Wasp and has performed a live poetry reading at The Bieroc in McCook.
Rachel Einspahr is working on both an English major and studio art major at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Raised in Kearney, Nebraska, she has also lived in Boise, Idaho and Houma, Louisiana. Her hobbies include writing poetry and nature photography. She is a volunteer at the Kearney Area Humane Society. She has a four-year-old daughter, who is the motivation for much of her work.
Reynolds Series Sponsors include the Endowed Reynolds Chair, UNK English Department, Platte Valley Review, Country Inn and Suites, The Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Alley Rose, Barista’s, Pane Bello, NET Radio, KGFW Radio, Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Humanities Council, Kearney Area Community Foundation, Park 5th Ave. B & B, UNK Ethnic Studies/Women’s Studies/Democracy Project/Office of Multicultural Affairs, UNK Artists and Lecturers Grants, UNK Young Democrats, Antelope Bookstore, AWP, and many other generous sponsorship entities, authors, and wonderful volunteers.
Contact Allison Hedge Coke, Reynolds Chair, for information, for ways your group/business may become a Reynolds Series Sponsor, or to volunteer:
hedgecokeaa@unk.edu (308) 865-8672
The University of Nebraska Kearney is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution.
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Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration
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2010 UNK Literary Crane Fellows
Lee Ann Roripaugh Lise Erdrich Margaret Porter Troupe Quincy Troupe Sherwin Bitsui Greg Kosmicki Greg Kuzma LeAnne Howe
Brunch with a Literary Crane Fellow, Lee Ann Roripaugh.
To kick off the series of events for this year's crane season, please join us for a brunch with poet Lee Ann Roripaugh. Brunch is from 10:15 to 11:45 am at Panebellos on Monday March 22nd. Please join us for an up close and personal debriefing of her crane residency this season.
Lee Ann Roripaugh’s third volume of poetry, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, was recently released by Southern Illinois University Press. A second volume, Year of the Snake, also published by Southern Illinois University Press, was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004. Her first book, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books, 1999), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series, and was selected as a finalist for the 2000 Asian American Literary Awards. The recipient of a 2003 Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, she was also named the 2004 winner of the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, the 2001 winner of the Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing awarded by the Western Literature Association, and the 1995 winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Roripaugh is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota.
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Spoken Word
at the Public School (Free of charge)
in the Experimental Theater, Fine Arts Building (Free and Open to the Public)
Lise Erdrich was born in Minnesota, lives in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and has worked in Indian health and education for over twenty years. A graduate of the University of North Dakota and of Minnesota State University-Mankato, she is the author of the children’s picture books Sacagawea and Bears Make Rock Soup. Stories from Night Train, her first book for adults (Coffee House Press), has received many awards including the Minnesota Monthly Tamarack Award, the Many Mountains Moving Flash Fiction Contest, and Best of Show at the North Dakota State Fair, where “Zanimoo” was exhibited between a pig and the pickles, jams, jellies and preserves. Erdrich’s work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community, and Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours. Lise Erdrich offers a sharp-humored and powerful glimpse into rural communities and contemporary American Indian life and culture.
: Constructing an American Poetic Voice: A Personal Odyssey $40 general public and $30 for students. A great price for a wonderful workshop. Recommended highly. Program Room MONA. PLEASE CONTACT hedgecokeaa@unk.edu TO PREREGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS
Brick Gallery at MONA. (Free and Open to the Public)
- Youth oriented (Free and Open to the Public), Brick Gallery at MONA.
Reynolds Series Reader (fall 2008) Quincy Troupe
Quincy Troupe, professor emeritus from the University of California, San Diego, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on July 22, 1939. Quincy Troupe is the author of 17 books, including eight volumes of poetry, two books for children, a New York Times best-selling book, The Pursuit of Happyness, made into a film starring Will Smith; a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and is editor of Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, a literary journal published by the Institute of Africana Studies at New York University. Troupe has won two American Book Awards, was the first official Poet Laureate of California, “The Living Language” segment of Bill Moyers The Power of the Word series, won an Emmy Award; and Troupe earned a Peabody Award for co-producing and writing the Miles Davis Radio Project, which aired, on NPR.
And the phenomenal Margaret Porter Troupe, Gallery owner, Arts Organizer, Chief Director of Harlem Textiles.
Margaret Porter Troupe has achieved distinction as an arts organizer, producer of cultural events, and community activist in a career that spans more than two decades in New York City and in San Diego, California. She was a founding member of New Bones, a coalition of women poets who produced literary events in New York City, the ownere of Porter Troupe Gallery in San Diego, which was called “one of the best galleries” in California because of its outstanding roster of contemporary artists and as a forum for poets, writers, and musicians to read and perform. She founded and was director of VeVe: Visual Environments for Visual Education an after-school that promoted Cultural Agility among youth, and upon her return to New York City, she was the executive director of Harlem Textile Works, a community-based nonprofit arts education program and social enterprise that trained youth in silkscreen printing and graphic design. At the same time Troupe opened the Harlem Arts Salon, a place for prominent writers (Maryse Condé, Ishmael Reed, John Edgar Wideman, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez), musicians including Ron Carter and Hugh Masekela, and visual artists to meet and engage their audiences in a setting that recalls the historic salons of the Harlem Renaissance.
Ms. Troupe has published articles on the arts in magazines and journals including The Green Magazine, Code, Black Renaissance Noire, and Artists & Their Influences, among others.
Born and raised in Gloster, Mississippi, Margaret Porter Troupe graduated from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, with a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in English. She lives in New York City with her husband, the poet, Quincy Troupe.
in Experimental Theater, Fine Arts Building (Special Rate $30 General Public and $25 Students)
PLEASE CONTACT hedgecokeaa@unk.edu TO PREREGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS
In this workshop we will attempt to enter the creative space by removing ourselves from the written work and letting the poetic image speak for itself. In this way we can get outside our drives for individual gain and into areas of articulation that reflect what is inherent in Diné language and thought as /nihi’/ the collective “we” “the belonging to us.” In this space we may discover something, besides the economic, that binds us together.
Sherwin Bitsui is originally from the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona. He currently lives in Tucson. He is the recipient of the 2000-2001 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writers’ Residency, a 2006 Whiting Writers’ Award and, more recently, a 2008 Tucson Local Genius Award. Sherwin has published his poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Lit Magazine, Ahani: Poetry International and Narrative Magazine. He is the author of Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press 2003) and Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press 2009).
in the Cedar Room of the Nebraskan Student Union
LeAnne Howe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, creative non-fiction, plays and scholarship that primarily deal with American Indian and Native American experiences.
Her first novel Shell Shaker (Aunt Lute Books, 2001) received an American Book Award in 2002 from the Before Columbus Foundation. The novel was a finalist for the 2003 Oklahoma Book Award, and awarded Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year, 2002. Equinoxes Rouge, the French translation, was the 2004 finalist for Prix Medici Estranger, one of France’s top literary awards. Evidence of Red (Salt Publishing, UK, 2005) won the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry in 2006, and the Wordcraft Circle Award for 2006. Her most recent novel is Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story (Aunt Lute Books, 2007). She is a Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
in the Sandhills Room the Nebraskan Student Union
Greg Kosmicki is a poet whose works have appeared in more than a hundred magazines, including Poetry East, Cimarron Review, Paris Review, New Letters, Briarcliff Review, Pebble, Whole Notes, Connecticut Review, Sojourners, and New York Quarterly. Greg has had 3 books and 6 chapbooks of poems published since 1998, the most recent of which is Marigolds from Black Star press in Lincoln. In 2006, Garrsion Keillor chose two poems from his book, Some Hero of the Past, to read on Writer’s Almanac.
Greg founded The Backwaters Press in 1998, a non-profit 501-( C )-3 corporation, which has published more than 60 books, with a concentration on poetry. Books from the press have won numerous awards from the Nebraska Center for the Book, with Aaron Anstett’s collection, No Accident, winning the Backwaters Prize, The Nebraska Book Award for Poetry, the Balcones Award from Austin Community College for the best book of poems in the country that year from a small press, as well as being a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.
Greg has won two fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council for his poetry. He and his wife Debbie live in Omaha where they are both involved in social work. They are the parents of three mostly-grown children.
Greg Kuzma has been teaching at the University of Nebraska since 1969. Author of more than 30 books and chapbooks of poetry, he has devoted the last ten years to the writing of screenplays. Good News, originally published by Viking Press, was reissued by Carnegie-Mellon Press in its Classic Contemporaries Series. His wife, Barbara, has been the Enrichment Teacher for the Crete Public Schools for 31 years. They have two children, Jacquelyn, a teacher in Crete, Nebraska, and Mark, a free-lance computer programmer presently working for the city of Seattle. Jacquelyn has a daughter, Alexis.
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Special Guest- Don Welch has won seven poetry prizes in anonymous and open competition, including the Neruda Prize for Poetry, when judged by William Stafford. Among his books of poetry are Dead Horse Table (Windflower Press), The Keeper of Miniature Deer (Juniper Press), Carved by Obadiah Verity (The Press at Colorado College), Inklings (Sandhill Press), Gutter Flowers (Logan House Press), and When Memory Gives Dust a Face (Lewis-Clark Press).
He has been the Martin Professor of English and held the Reynolds Chair of Poetry, here, at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Please stay posted, other events to be announced.
Sponsors for the Sandhill Crane Migration Literary Retreat and Festival III include: the Endowed Reynolds Chair/Reynolds Series, UNK English Department, Platte Valley Review, The Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Country Inn & Suites, Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Humanities Council, UNK Artists & Lecturers Series, Alley Rose, Panebellos, Park 5th Avenue Bed and Breakfast, NET Radio, Cabellas, KGFW Radio, UNK Ethnic Studies Program . . . .
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2009-2010 Reynolds Series kicks off in a new home: Fine Arts Studio Theatre -- All are Welcome. Free of Charge.
(Experimental Theater in the SW corner basement of the Fine Arts Building. Now Wheel Chair Accessible and ADA approved.)
Season Opening--Reynolds Series Presents Outrider Poet Anne Waldman.
“[Waldman] is the fastest, wittiest woman to run with the wolves in some time”- Ken Tucker, The New York Times
Poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community for over 40 years as writer, sprechstimme performer, professor, editor, “magpie” scholar, infra-structure and cultural/political activist. She grew up on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village where she still lives part-time, and bi-furcated to Boulder, Colorado in 1974 when she co-founded The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired school in the West. She currently serves as Artistic Director of its celebrated Summer Writing program. Allen Ginsberg has called her his “spiritual wife.” She is the author of over 40 books of poetry including Kill or Cure, Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, and the poetic text: Outrider which includes an interview with Ernesto Cardenal. Her most recent book-length poem is Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets 2009). She is also the author of the legendary Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights, San Francisco), now translated into Italian, Czech and French, as well as the 800 page epic Iovis trilogy (Coffee House Press). She is editor of The Beat Book (Shambhala Publications) and co-editor of The Angel Hair Anthology (Granary Books), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action (Coffee House) and Beats at Naropa (Coffee House 2009). She has been a student of Buddhism since 1962, a feminist, and an ambassador for the oral revival of poetry, appearing on stages from Berlin to Caracas, from Mumbai to Beijing. She has been instrumental in encouraging poetry projects world-wide and has helped organize poetry programs in Vienna and Indonesia. She has worked extensively with her son, musician and composer Ambrose Bye, for whom and “out of” whom FIRST BABY POEMS was written 27 years ago. Their “her poetry-his music-collaborations” include the CDs In the Room of Never Grieve, Eye of the Falcon and Matching Half. He has been a ‘muse’ and inspiration.
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For American Library Association National Banned Books(awareness) Week In celebration of literature, an open student, staff, and faculty celebration of reading will occur on 9/28/09. Bring your owned copies of banned books, or check out a banned book from our great Calvin T. Ryan Library to read a selection with us. This event is open to all campus community and celebrates democracy and freedom and is sponsored by the Reynolds Chair & Series, Sigma Tau Delta, the Calvin T. Ryan Library...
For more information about the American Library Association Banned Books Weeks see:http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm
Sam Hamill was born in the spring of 1943. While in college, he worked in voter registration drives, ran for California State Assembly as an anti-war candidate, and began participating in poetry readings associated with Robert Bly’s and David Ray’s Poets Against the War in Vietnam.
In 1972, with Tree Swenson and William O’Daly, he founded and edited Copper Canyon Press, one of the most distinguished literary presses of the last 40 years, and where he edited the Selected Poems of Thomas McGrath; co-edited the definitive edition of McGrath’s epic Letter to An Imaginary Friend; co-edited The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth; edited Toward the Distant Islands: Selected Poems of Hayden Carruth; and edited untold numbers of younger (and elder) poets for 32 years.
Hamill served on the Board of Directors of the Jefferson County Domestic Violence Program in the early 90s, and in the 80s worked extensively with battered women and children. Invited to the White House by Laura Bush for an evening celebrating American poetry on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, the president having just outlined his plans for “shock and awe,” Hamill declined the invitation, extending his own invitation to fellow poets to “speak for the conscience of our country.” The result was Poets Against War and the compilation of over 20,000 poems.
Sam Hamill is the author of fourteen volumes of original poetry including Almost Paradise: Selected Poems & Translations (Shambhala, 2005), Dumb Luck (2002), Gratitude (1998), and Destination Zero: Poems 1970-1995 (1995). He has also published three collections of essays, including A Poet’s Work (1998), and two dozen volumes translated from ancient Greek, Latin, Estonian, Japanese, and Chinese, most recently, Tao Te Ching (2005), The Essential Chuang Tzu and The Poetry of Zen (with J.P. Seaton), Narrow Road to the Interior & Other Writings of Basho, and Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese.
The Reynolds Scholars represent the recipients of the PAUL & CLARICE REYNOLDS SCHOLARSHIP at UNK.
This scholarship is awarded by jury panel consideration of their ten-page creative writing manuscript submissions, including poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction essays, playscripts, or screenplay samples. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for this scholarship. A major or minor in English is required. Awards are made solely on the literary quality of the manuscript. Writing samples are required. All English-related majors/minors may apply.
The Selection of Reynolds Scholars recipients is based solely on the literary quality of the manuscripts that applicants submit. Identification is removed by Financial Aid staff before review by the Reynolds Chair and committee jurors (select English faculty members). All writing must be new samples of applicant's best current work. Writing may be submitted to current workshops following judging and announcement of Reynolds Scholars in Spring 2008, but may not have been previously workshopped until judging is complete.
These scholars demonstrate outstanding ability in creative writing and the Reynolds Chair and the Creative Writing Emphasis of English ask all of UNK to come celebrate their work during this afternoon reading event. A real treat. All are welcome and the event is free to attend.
2009-2010 Reynolds Scholars Named:
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First Place: Descent: Laura Jensen
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Second Place:
There's Dots in My Eyes: RachelEinspahr
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Third Place:
Memories: Ryan DeMoss
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Third Place:
Through the Glass: Sandra Anthony
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Honorable Mention:
Routine: Amanda Brabec
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Honorable Mention:
The Last Place You Look:Brittany Seawell |
Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian Mafia, polished propaganda in China, and belly danced with rumba queens in Cuba. These adventures inspired her award-winning memoirs Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (Villard/Random House, 2004), Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines (Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster, 2008), and the guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Travelers’ Tales, 2007). She won the 2007 Richard J. Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, got inducted into PEN in 2008, and was recently named editor of the 2010 volume of Best Women’s Travel Writing.
A passionate activist, Griest co-founded the Youth Free Expression Network, an anti-censorship organization for teens that is a program of the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) in New York City, and is currently on the board of NCAC. She once logged in 45,000 miles on a 42-state journey across America, documenting history that is generally overlooked in classroom textbooks for a non-profit educational website called The Odyssey. She filed 50 articles, hundreds of photographs, and a dozen video documentaries for an audience of 100,000 K-12 students at www.ustrek.org
Griest was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and has won residencies at Can Serrat outside Barcelona, Spain; the Art Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York; the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas; the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska; and Ragdale in Lake Forest, Illinois. Around the Bloc was named “Book of the Year” by the Mayor’s Book Club of Austin, Texas; “Best Travel Book of 2004” by the National Association of Travel Journalists of America, and a “Best Book of 2004” by the San Francisco Chronicle. 100 Places Every Woman Should Go won the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation’s Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism’s “Gold Prize for Best Travel Book” in 2007 and the “Best Travel Book” in the International Latino Book Awards in 2008. Griest has been a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City since 2005 and a Macondista (of Sandra Cisneros’s Macondo Workshop) since 2009.
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Matthew Shenoda's poems and writings have appeared in a variety of newspapers, journals, radio programs and anthologies. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his work has been supported by the California Arts Council and the Lannan Foundation.
Shenoda's debut collection of poems, Somewhere Else (Introduction by Sonia Sanchez) was named one of 2005's debut books of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine and is the winner of the inaugural Hala Maksoud Award for Emerging Voice, as well as a 2006 American Book Award. His latest collection, Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone, will be released in October 2009 from BOA Editions. He has taught extensively in the fields of Ethnic Studies and Creative Writing and is currently Assistant Provost for Equity & Diversity and on the faculty in the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.
Dr. Ofelia Zepeda is a Regents' Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for her work in American Indian language education, maintenance and recovery. Dr. Zepeda is a member of the Tohono O'odham Nation of the southern Arizon, born and raised in Stanfield, Arizona. She is the series editor of Sun Tracks, a book series publishing Native American writers, published by the University of Arizona Press. Ofelia Zepeda is one in a small handful of Native authors writing and publishing in her first language. She currently has three books of poetry, Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert, Jewed I-hoi/Earth Movements and Where Clouds are Formed, and is the co-editor of Home Places a celebration of twenty years of publications in the Sun Tracks series. Her poetry has also appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including, Reinventing the Enemy's Language edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird, Fever Dreams, edited by Leilani Wright and James Cervantes, Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology, Alison Deming, editor and A Narrative Compass: Women's Writing Journeys, edited by Betsy Hearne and Roberta S. Trite.
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Eddie Chuculate's story, "Galveston Bay, 1826," was juror Ursula K. Le Guin's favorite in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 (Anchor Books).
Eddie Chuculate is Creek and Cherokee Indian fromMuskogee, Oklahoma. His debut collection of short stories, "CheyenneMadonna," is forthcoming in Spring 2010 from Black Sparrow Books/DavidR. Godine, Publisher in Boston. He has published stories in Weber Studies, Many Mountains Moving, The Iowa Review, Manoa and Blue Mesa Review.His story, "Galveston Bay, 1826," was juror Ursula K. Le Guin'sfavorite in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 (Anchor Books). He has astory forthcoming in Winter 2009-2010 the Kenyon Review. Hegraduated with a degree in creative writing from the Institute ofAmerican Indian Arts in Santa Fe and held a Wallace Stegner creativewriting fellowship at Stanford University.
"Galveston Bay, 1826" won me first, and last, by surprising me: every sentence unexpected, yet infallible. On rereading, both qualities remain.Where are we, among these coyote mirages, this endless herd of antelope? What is this beautiful place? Is it the land of magical realism? Not exactly. It's a bit north of that. It's nearer home. It's the way things were, and aren't. So, who are these fellows we're riding with, and where are they going? War party, no? No. They're tourists, off to see the Great Lake. Juror Favorite:Ursula K. Le Guin on "Galveston Bay, 1826" by Eddie Chuculate.
“My hat is off to Stephen Graham Jones, because he is the kind of author that makes the frustrated writer inside every book reviewer cringe with self-doubt.” -PopMatters“Jones has exploded the conventional rhythms of novelistic narrative.” -The Austin Chronicle
Stephen Graham Jones' most recent two novels are Ledfeather and The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. His next book is The Ones that Almost Got Away," collection of horror stories. He's been an NEA Fellow, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award, Literal Latte Short-short contest, Writer’s League of Texas Fellowship in Literature, Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and has more than a hundred stories published. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Other books include: All the Beautiful Sinners,Bleed into Me,Demon Theory,The Bird is Gone,and The Fast Red Road.
Ledfeather: Set on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, and spanning 125 years, this is a mesmerizing tale of characters bound by the mystical ties of familial love, death wishes, and survival.
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Robert moved recently to Nebraska after accepting a position (while visiting Las Vegas) in UNKs Department of English. Born and raised near Boston, he comes to Kearney via New Orleans, where he earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop, and Albany, NY, where they awarded him a PhD in American War Literature. Robert’s published both scholarly and creative work over the last decade. His fiction has appeared in South Dakota Review, New Orleans Review, Short Story, and Mobius. An analysis of post-colonialism, criticism, and Paul Bowles is published in a collection of work about Edward Said, Paradoxical citizenship: Edward Said. Forthcoming, “Steinbeck’s Civil War: War as Peace in the American 1930s” is included in The Grapes of Wrath: A Reconsideration. After finishing a homebrew keg system to get him through his first Plains winter, he will resume writing on a novel titled While Supplies Last, a satirical toy story about philosophy, Voodoo, and suicide.
Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration
Click here for the NET Radio News Release about the Retreat
Click here for Kearney Hub News Article about the Retreat
March 15-April 5, 2009
This year residents will add a new contemplation in Whooping Crane focus with the continuing Sandhill Crane focus.
Literary Crane Writers Sherwin Bitsui, Fredy Romeiro Campo Chicangana, Cristina Eisenberg, LeAnne Howe (UNK Literary Crane Fellow), Linda Hogan, Laura Tohe, and Wang Ping (UNK Literary Crane Fellow) will retreat with the Sandhill Cranes, Whooping Cranes, & other species, during the apex of migration at the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust and Rowe Sanctuary for Sandhill Cranes.
These distinguished literary residents will perform group presentations for UNK & the General Public as follows:
- Thomas Hall of the English Department from 10:00-11:00 am on March 23 rd. Crane Retreat Writers.
- Copeland Hall Room 131 of the Biology Department from 12:15-1:15 pm on March 23 rd. A very special presentation on wolf reclamation, songbirds and biodiversity by Cristina Eisenberg.
- Robert M. Merryman Performing Arts Center from 2:00-3:00 pm on March 23 rd. Special presentations for the Kearney Area Schools and General Public with educational and literary presentations by Don Welch, Susanne Bloomfield, Crane Retreat Resident Writers, Rowe Sanctuary, and the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust.
- The University of Nebraska at Kearney's Museum of Nebraska Art - MONA - Yanney Skylight Theater from 7:00-9:00 pm March 23 rd. Special presentations for UNK Community and General Public with educational and literary presentations by Barbara Emrys, Crane Retreat Resident Writers, Rowe Sanctuary, and the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha Departments of English and Native American Studies will host a UNK collaborative events with Fredy Romeiro Campo Chicangana and Allison Hedge Coke on March 13and with LeAnne Howe and Laura Tohe on March 24 th at UNO
- Wang Ping will present the closing for the Festival 7:00-8:00 pm Choral Room on April 3rd.
The Festival is Sponsored by: The Reynolds Chair, Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Humanities Council, Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, The Rowe Sanctuary, the University of Nebraska at Kearney Department of English, Department of Biology, International Studies Department, UNK Artists & Lecturer Series and Office of Multicultural Affairs, the University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of Native American Studies, Country Inn & Suites, the Robert M. Merryman Performing Arts Center, MONA, Alley Rose, Alley Rose, elements, Baristas, Terri Lee Schiffrens and the Dancing Crane A-Frame, & Anonymous Donors.
Sherwin Bitsui, Dine' of the Todich'ii'nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl'izilani (Many Goats Clan), author of Shapeshift, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Individual Poet Grant, Lannan Foundation Marfa Writers’ Residency, Whiting Writers Award, MOCA Tucson Local Genius Award, Medellin International Festival of Poetry Featured Poet, Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, Naropa Poetry Prize, Ford Foundation Fellow Sundance Film Institute, Pushcart Prize nominee, is a rotating visiting faculty member of the Naropa University Summer Intensive and a UNK Reynolds Series Reader.
Fredy Romeiro Campo Chicangana, Quechua-Yanakuna (Colombia), author of Taquinam Cuyaypa manchachipak huañuyman, (Songs of Love to Drive Away Death) and two other collections, whose Quechua name Wiñay Mallki means “root that remains permanently”, a poet and an oralitor, a word he created to express his self-appointed role in uniting the oral tradition of indigenous cultures with what is written, who, since childhood, has taken part in helping Indigenous peoples in the struggle to defend Mother Earth and is a founding member of a movement to strengthen “the places of knowledge and words” of his ethnic group. Awards include the National University Poetry Prize (Colombia) and the XXIVth Award of the Nosside International Prize, Itlay, 2008. Chicangana is a UNK delegate of the World Affairs Conference.
Cristina Eisenberg, Mexico/US, nonfiction writer, biologist, and internationally lauded leader in wolf reclamation whose current project is on trophic cascades involving wolves, elk, and aspen in Glacier National Park in Montana and in Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada. Continuing research involves Aldo Leopold’s work in the realm of wildlife ecology. Her groundbreaking book Landscapes of Hope: Trophic Cascades and Biodiversity is forthcoming. Awarded the 2008-2009 Mason Prize for Integrity and Moral Courage, a NSF Graduate Fellowship Semi-Finalist, and Richardson Fellow. Her work as a naturalist, environmentalist and biologist, heavily focused in wolves and eco-systems, includes ornithology. She is a Scholar Advisor for Black Earth Institute and a Boone and Crockett Club Fellow at Oregon State University.
Linda Hogan, Chickasaw, author of People of the Whale, Sightings - the Mysterious Journey of the Gray Whale, Rounding the Human Corners, Mean Spirit, Dwellings, Book of Medicines, Power, Solar Storms, and other books, editor of several nature and spirituality anthologies, scriptwriter for Everything Has a Spirit, a PBS documentary on American Indian Religious Freedom, Lannan, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Oklahoma and Colorado Book Awards, member of the Native Science Dialogues, the new Native American Academy and with the Graduate SEED Institute, an invited writer-speaker at the United Nations Forum (Allison Hedge Coke, facilitator), was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from Mountains and Plains, Wordcraft Circle and Native Writers Circle and inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame, Professor Emerita of the University of Colorado, is the inaugural Writer in Residence for The Chickasaw Nation and a UNK Reynolds Reader.
Leanne Howe, UNK Literary Crane Fellow, Choctaw, author of Miko Kings, Evidence of Red, Shell Shaker, A Standup Reader, Coyote Stories, screenwriter, 90-minute PBS documentary Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire, Playing Pastime: American Indian Fast-Pitch Softball, and Survival, founder and director of Wagonburner Theater Troop, American Book Award, Oklahoma Book Award, awarded Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year, Équinoxes Rouge finalist for Prix Medici Estranger, Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, John and Renee Grisham Writer in Residence Fellow, Oxford, MS, Smithsonian Institution - Native American intern, MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Arts, and Newberry Library Fellow, Iowa Arts Council Grant, Ragdale & Soul Mountain Resident, is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the American Indian Studies program, and the MFA program in Creative Writing in English.
Laura Tohe, Dine', author of Tseyi, Deep in the Rock, No Parole Today, and Making Friends With Water, and five children's plays, commissioned librettist for Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio the Phoenix Symphony, co-editor of Sister Nations: Native Women Writing on Community, and two other collections, Glyph Award for Best Poetry and Best Book - Arizona Book Association, Southwest Book of the Year - Tucson Pima Library, Who's Who in America, Pushcart Award nomination, Faculty of the Year Award, Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award, Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Award, Certificate of Recognition, Nebraska Humanities Council, Distinguished Service Award, Goodrich Program, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Dan Schilling Public Scholar for the Arizona Humanities Council, has taught Creative Writing for American Indian Communities and is an Associate Professor of American Indian Literatures and Film in the English Department of Arizona State University.
Wang Ping, UNK Literary Crane Fellow, China, The Last Communist Virgin & Foreign Devil (novels), The Magic Whip and Of Flesh & Spirit (poetry), American Visa (short stories), New Generation: Poems from China Today (anthology), Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (Cultural Study), The Dragon Emperor (Chinese Folklore, Children's Literature), Flames by Xue Di (translations by Wang Ping & Keith Waldrop), awarded Bush Artist, National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, The Loft Career Initiative Grant, Lannan Residency Program, Minnesota Book Awards, Associate for Asian American Studies Book Award, Eugene M. Kayden Book Award, New York Public Libraries, Best Book for Young Adults, University of St. Thomas, Department of Education City Ballet, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative Residencies, writer/photographer covering China's megaprojects, the Three Gorges Dam, developing the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, and water diversion efforts, is Associate Professor of Creative Writing of Macalester College.
The above writers are distinguished guests of UNK, serving as Writers in Residence of the Literary Crane Retreat & Festival 2009.
2009 Crane Retreat and Festival Poster
Quincy Troupe, poet & writer, was awarded a Reynolds Recognition for Career Achievement and Continuous Literary Excellence by the University of Nebraska at Kearney through the auspices of the Reynolds Chair and Creative Writing Committee on October 29th, 2008.
Marvin Bell, poet, was awarded a Reynolds Recognition for Career Achievement and Continuous Literary Excellence by the University of Nebraska at Kearney Reynolds Chair on October 24th, 2008
Anne Waldman, poet & writer, was awarded a Reynolds Recognition for Career Achievement and Continuous Literary Excellence by the University of Nebraska at Kearney through the auspices of the Reynolds Chair and Creative Writing Committee on September 9th, 2009.
The Reynolds Chair and Creative Writing Committee named the following poets & writers UNK Literary Sandhill Crane Fellows for their work with UNK and honoring the migration of 600,000 Sandhill Cranes in residency:
Wang Ping, LeAnne Howe, James Thomas Stevens, Janet McAdams, Hugo Jamioy & Aty Jeney.
Kassandra Montag, Rachel Jensen, and Steve Warren were selected as Reynolds Scholars. 2008-2009.
Anna Carr received a UNK Research Fellowship to mentor with the Reynolds Chair in Digital Poetics. 2008-2009.
Laura Jensen received a SSRP Fellowship to mentor with the Reynolds Chair in Poetry & Painting. 2009.
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February 12th, 2009 6-8:00 PM
Chicago American Indian Center, Trickster Gallery
Free and Open to the Public
190 S Roselle Road
Schaumburg, IL
(773) 275-5871
http://www.aic-chicago.org/trickster.html
www.aic-chicago.org
Contact Reading Organizers:
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke <hedgecokeaa@unk.edu> and LeAnne Howe <ileannehowe@gmail.com>
AWP participants will perform a joint reading and book signing at the Chicago American Indian Center Simon Ortiz; Kim Blaeser, Heid Erdrich, Gordon Henry, Molly McGlennan; Santee Frazier; Diane Glancy, Allison Hedge Coke, Travis Hedge Coke; Linda Hogan; LeAnne Howe, Lara Mann; Patricia Lear; Sherwin Bitsui, and Orlando White.
http://www.aic-chicago.org/trickster.htm
The REYNOLDS SERIES brings fine literary arts events to UNK, Kearney, and Central Nebraska.
All welcome, Free Admission.
Paul & Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair , Allison Hedge Coke faculty page
Don Welch, December 1, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Yanney Skylight Gallery, MONA
 
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Don Welch is a Nebraska native and the author of eighteen collections of poetry, including: Dead Horse Table, Handwork, The Rarer Game, The Keeper of Miniature Deer, The Marginalist, Every Mouth of Autumn Says Goodbye, The Breeder of Archangels /Requiem for Stanley Smith, Inklings: Poems Old and New, The Alley Poems, Gutter Flowers, and When Memory Gives Dust a Face. In 1980, he won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, judged by William Stafford. He holds a BA from Kearney State, MA from the University of Northern Colorado and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served as a consultant and participant in the ETV documentary Last of the One-Room Schools, televised in September of 1995, and worked for ten years in the Poets-in-the-Schools program in Nebraska. Welch is the Emeritus Reynolds Chair of Poetry and former Distinguished Martin Chair, is retired from the English Department and currently teaches the Philosophy of Poetry in the Philosophy Department. He lives in Kearney with his wife, Marcia, and is a long-time racer of homing pigeons. Please Join us for this splendid Book Launch Reading, Sale, Signing and Reception.
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Quincy Troupe, professor emeritus from the University of California, San Diego, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on July 22, 1939. Quincy Troupe is the author of 17 books, including eight volumes of poetry, two books for children, a New York Times best-selling book, The Pursuit of Happyness, made into a film starring Will Smith; a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and is editor of Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, a literary journal published by the Institute of Africana Studies at New York University. Troupe has won two American Book Awards, was the first official Poet Laureate of California, “The Living Language” segment of Bill Moyers The Power of the Word series, won an Emmy Award; and Troupe earned a Peabody Award for co-producing and writing the Miles Davis Radio Project, which aired, on NPR.
The event is free and open to the public.
Quincy Troupe, Reading 09/29/08, Reynolds Series, Kearney Hub Article
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Carol Moldaw was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.A. from Boston University, and lives in Pojoaque, New Mexico with her husband, Arthur Sze, and their daughter, Sarah.
Moldaw is the author of a lyric novel, The Widening, and four books of poetry: The Lightning Field, Through the Window, Chalkmarks on Stone, and Taken from the River. A recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer's Residency, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Moldaw's work is published widely in journals, including AGNI, Antioch Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Threepenny Review, and Triquarterly, among others, and in many anthologies, including Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (McGraw-Hill) and Under 35: A New Generation of American Poets (Anchor-Doubleday).Moldaw teaches at Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine's low-residency M.F.A. program, and has conducted residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, taught at the College of Santa Fe and in the MFA program at Naropa University. Books will be on sale and may be autographed. A short reception follows.
Carol Moldaw, Reading 09/25/08, Reynolds Series, Friday Live Podcast
Carol Moldaw, Reading 09/25/08, Reynolds Series, Kearney Hub Article
Born in New York City in 1950, Arthur Sze is a second-generation Chinese American. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, Sze is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), Quipu (2005), The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 (1998), and Archipelago (1995). Other collections by Sze include River River (1987), Dazzled (1982), Two Ravens (1976; revised, 1984), and The Willow Wind (1972; revised, 1981).
He is also a celebrated translator, and released The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese in 2001.
His own poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, Manoa, The Paris Review, Field, The New Yorker, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and have been translated into Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, and Turkish.
About his work, the poet Jackson Mac Low has said, "The word 'compassion' is much overused—'clarity' less so—but Arthur Sze is truly a poet of clarity and compassion."
He is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships, a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, three grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, and a Western States Book Award for Translation.
He was a Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University, a Doenges Visiting Artist at Mary Baldwin College and has conducted residencies at Brown University, Bard College, and Naropa University. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is the first poet laureate of Santa Fe. Books will be on sale and may be autographed. A short reception follows.
Arthur Sze, Reading 09/11/08, Reynolds Series, Hub Article
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Reynolds Series, 1st Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Tribute Retreat Welcomed these Esteemed Guests to UNK, March 7-15, 2008
Wang Ping, Chinese poet & prose author, Associate Professor of English, Macalester College
LeAnne Howe, Choctaw poet & prose author, Associate Professor of English, Interim Director American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana
Janet McAdams, Creek poet, Associate Professor of English, Robert P. Hubbard Endowed Chair of Poetry, Kenyon College
James Thomas Stevens, Mohawk poet, Associate Professor of English, Director American Indian Studies, SUNY Fredonia.
Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy, Kamentsa Nation, Colombia, poet and human rights activist
Fredy Chicangana, Yanacuna Nation, Colombia, poet and human rights activist
Johana Marcela Mestre Izquierdo—Aty Jeney, Arhuaca Nation, Colombia, weaver and human rights activist
(Last photo courtesy of International Poetry Festival of Medellin Prometeo´s archive: photographer Nidia Naranjo).
Frank House
*March 7: 7:30–Wang Ping Reading
MONA
*March 8: 8:00—A. B. Emrys, Leanne Howe & Janet McAdams Reading
WORLD AFFAIRS CONFERENCE UNK
*March 10: Ponderosa C & D Politics, Indigenous Rights and Poetry
9:05 – 9:55 AM & Fredy Chicangana
*March 11: Ponderosa C & D 2:00 Poetry Reading Hugo Jamioy & Fredy Chicagana
Keynote Address 7:30 PM Colombian Guests in procession
Thomas Hall English Department*March 11L UNK 11-11:30
--LeAnne Howe with Dr. Susanne Bloomfield's students (50) who have studied Mikko Kings
*TBA Crane Yoga & Writing—Janet McAdams
Global Scholars with Deb Murray: Ockinga Conference Room
*March 12: 12:20-1:10 –Hugo Jamioy & Aty Janay
Indigenous Colombian Community Arts Projects and Economic Sustainability
Drake Theater
*March 13: Noon to 2:00— Creative Writing Faculty and other Faculty Authors/Creative Writing Student Reading
Robert M. Merryman Performing Arts Center
*March 13: 2:00 Reading and Rowe Sanctuary Film for Children 7:00 Major Reading for General Public –Don Welch, Susanne Bloomfield, Charles Peek, James Thomas Stevens, Hugo Jamioy, Janet McAdams & Fredy Chicangana
Frank House Reading
*March 15th 1:30 Reading
--James Thomas Stevens, Hugo Jamioy, & Fredy Chicangana
Cranes do their thing; writers watch -- Reynolds 2008 Spring Sandhill Crane Retreat & Festival
Dual Migration -- Kearney Hub Article Reynolds 2008 Spring Sandhill Crane Retreat & Festival
In addition, the authors will be in residence studying the cranes at the Rowe Sanctuary and in the campus area, and local poets & authors may also make appearances in addition to the authors listed, possibly including: Distinguished Martin Chair Susanne Bloomfield, Kurt Brochard, John Damon, Barbara Emrys, Charles Fort (Reynolds Chair 1997-2007), James Hawley, Rick Marlatt, Kevin Nenstiel, Charles Peek, Terri Lee Schriffrens, Jan Thompson, and Emeritus Reynolds Chair Don Welch, CW Students, Allison Hedge Coke, Reynolds Chair, and others.
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Sponsored by: The Reynolds Chair, Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Humanities Council, Kearney Area Community Foundation, The Rowe Sancturay, Alley Rose, the University of Nebraska at Kearney Departments of English, Ethnic Studies, Modern Languages, Office of Greek & Residential Life, International Program, and Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Historic Frank House, Terri Lee Schiffrens and the Dancing Crane A-Frame, the Robert P. Merryman Performing Arts Center, MONA, Anonymous Donor. "Global Scholars Seminar" made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Business and International Education to the UNK College of Business & Technology.
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Aty Janay's photo (left) by Hugo Jamioy. Hugo Jamioy's photo (right) by Sherwin Bitsui.
Paul & Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair , Allison Hedge Coke faculty page
The Reynolds Trio
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 7:30
at the Drake Theater
Distinguished Paul W and Clarice Kingston Reynolds
Endowed Chairs in English, Poetry and Creative Writing
Professors at UNK
--Don Welch, Charles Fort, and Allison Hedge Coke--
will read and sign books. A reception will follow.
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Sherwin Bitsui and Michael Dumanis
on Campus Thursday, November 1, 2007
7:30PM, Drake Theater, Fine Arts Bldg
Explorations Series informal talk at 4PM in the Thomas Hall Atrium.
photo courtesy Phil Hall
Sherwin Bitsui is a 2006 Whiting Writers’ Award winner, recipient of an Individual Poet Grant from Witter Bynner Foundation, Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellow and Lannan Foundation Literary Residency Fellow. Bitsui has published his poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank (Paris), Lit Magazine, and anthologized in To Topos: Ahani and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Shapeshift is his first book.
Michael Dumanis is the author of My Soviet Union, winner of the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of the younger poets anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. His writing has appeared in such journals as Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Post Road, and Prairie Schooner, and has been recognized with a Fulbright Fellowship, a James Michener Fellowship in Fiction, residencies at Yaddo, Bread Loaf, and the Wesleyan Writers' Conference, and other honors. Born in the Soviet Union and raised in Western New York, he holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Houston. Until recently a professor of creative writing at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, he now teaches at Cleveland State University and serves as Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
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Kate Gale
on Campus Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Time and Location TBA
Kate Gale, PhD, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review, and President of the American Composers Forum, LA writes poetry, fiction and librettos. She is author of Rio de Sangre with composer Don Davis and co-author of Paradises Lost with Ursula K. LeGuin and composer Stephen Taylor. In addition, she is also the founder of Red Hen Press, an independent publishing company in Los Angeles which publishes writers from all over the nation. She's excited about finding the next Kafka, the next writer who finds himself or herself outside the pale. President of PEN USA (2005-2006), and current president of American Composers Forum/LA , Gale writes poetry, novels and librettos. She has taken the road less traveled. Rather than become a writer with a tenured track job, she became a writer with two small children. Rather than mourn the lack of literary community in her adopted city of Los Angeles, she decided to create one in the form of Red Hen Press, Los Angeles' literary jewel; The Los Angeles Review, a literary magazine; the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series; the Geffen reading series; and a Writers in the Schools program for underserved communities. At forty, she completed her Ph.D in literature from Claremont Graduate University, ran her first marathon and climbed Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower forty-eight. Kate Gale's Rio de Sangre, an opera with Don Davis was performed in part at Disney Hall November of 2005 and her opera Paradises Lost was performed in part at the New York City Opera in May of 2006. With publications including five collections of poetry a novel and a children’s book, for Kate, the journey has just begun. She has poetry, a novella and new librettos in process, a literary community to energize and new writers to mentor. May all the ink-stained wenches be so lucky.
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Diane Glancy
on campus in Copeland 142
7PM September 12th Reynolds Series
DIANE GLANCY is a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she has taught Native American Literature and Creative Writing. Currently she is on a four-year sabbatical / early retirement program. She will hold the Richard Thomas Chair at Kenyon College in the spring semesters of 2008-09. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist, Professor Glancy has written over thirty volumes of award-winning work, including: Stone Heart and Pushing the Bear (novels); The Dance Partner and Monkey Secrets (short story collections); In-Between Places and Claiming Breath (essays); Asylums in the Grasslands and Rooms, New and Selected Poems (poetry); AmericanGypsy and Domes of Heaven (dramatic writings). Her critically acclaimed work represents a life-time of commitment to language and truth.
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LINDA HOGAN
on campus in Copeland 142
7PM September 7th Reynolds Series
Linda Hogan’s multiple award winning books include: The Book of Medicines (poetry); Mean Spirit (novel); Dwellings, A Spiritual History of the Land, and The Woman Who Watches Over the World: ANative Memoir (nonfiction). She has, with Brenda Peterson, written Sightings, The Mysterious Journey of the Gray Whale for National Geographic Books, edited several anthologies on nature and spirituality, and written the script Everything Has a Spirit, a PBS documentary on American Indian Religious Freedom. Linda has also been involved for thirteen years with the Native Science Dialogues and the new Native American Academy. She is a greatly distinguished UNK guest and recent inductee to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for Literary Excellence.
Reynolds Series/Literary Sandhill Cranefest Fall 2007-Fall 2011
Reynolds Series Fall 2011:
Kwame Dawes
Robert Olen Butler
Terese Svoboda
Patricia Smith
Joy Harjo
Reynolds Scholars 2011-2012
Rick Marlatt
Reynolds Series Readings Fall 2007-Spring 2011
*Natalie Diaz
*Jan Beatty
*Dallas Horsechief
*Crisostos Apache
*Lee Ann Roripaugh
*James Riding In
*Judi gaiashkibos
*Princella Parker
*Rheanna Wilde
*Stephanie
*Zach
*Cristina Eisenberg
*Jonathan Skinner
World Affairs: Matthew Shenoda, Don Welch
Spring Poetry Students
No Limits! *Lenelle Moise, *Lee Ann Roripaugh, Allison Hedge Coke
*Shelley Niro
Fall Poetry Students
Makalani Bandele
Glenn North
Timothy Black
Natasha Trethewey
Reynolds Scholars 2010-2011
Jon Davis
Billy Collins
Banned Book Reading
Bret Lott
Fred Arroyo
UNK AWP Sandhill CraneFest Panel: Allison Hedge Coke, Wang Ping, Cristina Eisenberg, Laura Tohe, Travis Hedge Coke, Sherwin Bitsui
Spring Poetry Students
*Greg Kuzma
*Greg Kosmicki
*Don Welch
*Lee Ann Roripaugh
*LeAnne Howe
*Margaret Porter Troupe
*Quincy Troupe
*Lise Erdrich
*Sherwin Bitsui
*Travis Hedge Coke
*Rick Marlatt
World Affairs Conference Nancy Morejon, Chris Abani, Don Welch
Spring Poetry Students
Anne Waldman
Jan Beatty
Banned Book Reading
Sam Hamill
Reynolds Scholars 2009-2010
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Matthew Shenoda
Ofelia Zepeda
Eddie Chuculate
Stephen Graham Jones
Robert Ficociello
Fall Poetry Students
Rick Marlatt
Sam Stecher
*Wang Ping
*LeAnne Howe
*Linda Hogan
*Sherwin Bitsui
*Cristina Eisenberg
*Laura Tohe
*Fredy Campos Chicangana
World Affairs Conference: Fredy Campos Chicangana
Don Welch
Anna Carr
Laura Jensen
Spring Poetry Students
AWP UNK Supported Reading: Simon Ortiz, Diane Glancy, Patricia Lear, Linda Hogan, LeAnne Howe, Allison Hedge Coke, Gordon Henry, Kim Blaeser, Heid Erdrich, Sherwin Bitsui, Molly McGlennen, Orlando White, Santee Frazier, Travis Hedge Coke
Fall Poetry Students
Don Welch
Quincy Troupe
Marvin Bell
Carol Moldaw
Arthur Sze
Reynolds Scholars 2008-2009
*Janet McAdams
*LeAnne Howe
*James Thomas Stevens
*Hugo Jamioy Juagibiouy
*Aty Jeney- Johana Marcela Mestre Izquierdo
*Wang Ping
World Affairs Conference: Hugo Jamioy Juagibiouy,Aty Jeney-Johana Marcela Mestre Izquierdo
Rick Marlatt
Kevin Nenstiel
James Hawley
Terry Lee Schifferns
Jan Thompson
A. B. Emrys
Susanne Bloomfield
John Damon
Chuck Peek
Charles Fort
Don Welch
Charles Fort
Allison Hedge Coke
Sherwin Bitsui
Michael Dumanis
Kate Gale
Diane Glancy
Linda Hogan
*Sandhill Cranefest
Reynolds Readings Fall 1997- Spring 2007
Charles Fort
Donald Hall
Tillie Olsen
Dana Gioia
Maxin Kumin
Ted Kooser
Charles Simic
Tillie Olsen
Major Jackson
Lucy Wang
Hilda Raz
Judith Ortiz-Cofer
Roland Merullo
Susan Aizenberg
Grace Bauer
J.V. Brummels
Ron Block
Ciaran Carson
Frank Conroy
Deborah Cummins
Jim Daniels
Matthew Mason
Sarah McKinstry-Brown
Teri Grimm
Steve Langan
Jim Reese
William Kloefkorn
Patricia Henley
Terrance Hayes
Nat Derickson
Dominique Garay
Dan LeamanH
Heidi Hermanson
Bruce Koborg
Erica Chu
Shannon Vessley
B.H. Fairchild
Gary Gildner
Eamon Grennan
Ron Hansen
Twyla Hansen
Allison Joseph
William Kloefkorn
Jose Kozer
Patricia Lear
David Lee
Leslie Adrienne Miller
John Montague
Elizabeth Wassell
Richard Murphy
Marilyn Nelson
Josip Novakovich
Dan O'Brian
Conor O'Callaghan
Robert Pack
Joseph Berry
Joseph Parisi
Remi Raji
Marjorie Saiser
Lisa Sandlin
Gerald Shapiro
Judith Slater
Mary Helen Stefaniak
Janet Sylvester
Eamon Wall
Cornelius Eady
Don Welch
A.B. Emrys
Samantha Lines
Terry Lee Schifferns
Anna Monardo
Joseph Marshall III
William Trowbridge
Berwyn Moore
Amy Hassinger