Nov 08, 2018 11:58AM ● By Tara Spencer
Subscribe to this free weekly newsletter here.Thursday, Nov. 8: It's here. The celebration everyone's been talking about—the Best of Omaha S...
Oct 24, 2018 10:31AM ● By Elizabeth Kottich
Nebraska poetry is not all about farms and cornfields (although some of it is). The state has inspired a wide variety of poets and poems, as...
Aug 19, 2018 11:31AM ● By Leo Adam Biga
Award-winning poet, journalist, editor, and author Ted Genoways of Lincoln, Nebraska, has long been recognized for his social justice writin...
Dec 09, 2017 10:29AM ● By J.D. Avant
When Shanketta Newsom describes the National Poetry Slam, she speaks of intense bouts in front of a panel of judges and a lively crowd.In my...
Aug 03, 2015 01:17PM ● By Kim Carpenter
This article appears in August 2015 Her Family.It seems like the stereotypically idyllic life of a poet: a gravel path leading to a house in...
May 04, 2015 08:44AM ● By James Walmsley
Article originally published in The Encounter May/June 2015 edition.Somewhere along the continuum of every poem and scrap of prose that ever...
Feb 19, 2015 08:00AM ● By Lindsey Anne Baker
Zedeka Poindexter has had a good year.In the spring, the Omaha-born performance poet was named slam master of the Om Center Poetry Slam, a m...
Feb 24, 2014 03:11PM ● By David Williams
Iggy Sumnik is a noted artist. Bryan Allison is a young man with intellectual disabilities. Their worlds may seem galaxies apart, but the tw...
Dec 16, 2013 09:00AM ● By Chris Wolfgang
Lydia Kang has delicate, tiny hands. A long ponytail. She wears simple jewelry: a couple bracelets and some earrings.That’s nearly as much d...
Apr 25, 2013 05:05PM ● By Chris Wolfgang
Felicia Webster’s voice produces chills up the spine. “And then he kiiiiissssssed me, and I melted. Like buttah.”Her friend, Michelle Troxcl...
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