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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Women’s Week displays Matilda poems
This is late in coming, so I apologize. In early March I submitted three poems (one on the clairvoyant Victoria Woodhull, another on Grant, and a third on Susan B.) from my dissertation on Matilda Fletcher to be included in the “Visions of Sisterhood” display for Women’s Week in the Rotunda Gallery at the Nebraska Union, March 14-18, 2011. The Women’s Center/Gender Programs work so tirelessly to produce wonderful events like Women’s Week, that I’m remiss to to say that I did not post about all they had organized. That being said, yesterday I received a wonderful thank you note from them thanking me for my poems and congratulating me for being awarded the Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship in poetry. I just want to say, thank you for including my poems! I felt honored to be part of such an important event during women’s history month. I think, as her scion, Matilda would’ve been glad to know that nearly 140 years after her lionized speech to “Farmers’ Wives and Daughters” in the 1873 Nebraska State Fair here in Lincoln, she’s was remembered in 2011.
Unhook Press reading - South Mill 5/3
On May 3rd at 7 p.m I will be reading in the Tuesdays with Writers series at the South Mill (48th & Prescott). I’ll read from two recent anthologies from Unhook Press and from Branding Girls.
I’m very excited to join another writer from the area. I hope to see you there!
Yesterday, was the exciting awards reading from the English Department at UNL where I was awarded the Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship in poetry. I feel so honored and thankful for the time and energy the judges and coordinator put into selection of winners and the organizing of the event. I heard such wonderful winners read vignettes of their prose or a tittle of their poems, both undergraduate and graduate students, reminding me again what a stellar place UNL is to bring in such amazing writers and poets who continue to produce fresh and exciting work.
Amazon - Whoot!
Branding Girls is now available through Amazon. Yeah! Though, I think, cost-wise, it’s $3.99 shipping via Amazon and $1.49 via Finishing Line Press. (But heck, if you see me personally, shipping is free.)
It just feels suddenly more official to be Amazon. How’s that for an Easter Sunday?
readings and news
I have two up and coming readings where I hope to see you. On May 3rd at 7 p.m I will be reading in the Tuesdays with Writers series at the South Mill (48th & Prescott). I’ll read from two recent anthologies from Unhook Press and from Branding Girls. I’m very excited to join other contributors in this reading Unhook Press set up. I’m also reading at Poetry on the Moon at Crescent Moon, 7 p.m., May 9, 2011 (140 N 8th St #10). I’ll read from Branding Girls.
In other news, I have a poems in the current issue of Blue Unicorn and in the anthology Flashlight Memories.
A little earlier this month, I made a poster for the UNL Research Fair for Branding Girls. The fair was super fun. I got to speak to friends and colleagues, as well as talk about my new collection of poetry from Finishing Line Press. Dr. Ruth Brown, who teaches a wonderful course this term (that I would love to take if I was an undergrad) called Mad Men Revisited, even stopped by to take my picture.
What else? Well, if you happen to be at the Devaney Center at 3pm May 6th, I’m getting my PhD that day. I’ve got my outfit picked out and everything.
a reading, a fellowship, and a publication or two
This past Saturday, April 9 at 9 a.m., I read from my dissertation at the Rawley Conference. Dr. Jeannette Jones was the commenter for my panel. She gave me the best critical reading of and offered the most astute questions for my work on the suffragist, lecturer, and poet, Matilda Fletcher, that I’ve yet to have at a conference. It was so nice to be asked such smart questions from such a great scholar. Wow. Thanks, Dr. Jones!
Upcoming reading-wise, I’ve been awarded the Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship in poetry for UNL. Yeah! There’s an award reading in Bailey Library (228 Andrews Hall) on April 27 from 3-4 p.m. I’ll be reading more on Matilda Fletcher. The award ceremony is April 29 at 3 p.m. I hope you’ll be there!
Finally, I have a poem in the current issue of Blue Collar Review and a poem in the anthology Knocking at the Door, edited by Lisa Sisler and Lea C. Deschenes (Birch Bench Press, 2011).
Whoever said April was the cruelest month? That guy, something Prufrock, he’s wrong.