TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS

2012-01-09T12:59:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays with Writers

at the South Mill, 48th & Prescott, Lincoln:

February 7th at 7pm:

Deola A. Thompson, and the WRITE STUFF writing group

Deola Morrell-Thompson is a PH.D. student, formerly completing her Bachelor of Science in Speech/Theatre, Bachelor of Arts in English, and Master of Arts in English w/ a Creative Writing Emphasis at the University of NE at Kearney. She has written a collection of poetic works entitled The Beggar’s Wheel, which includes formal poetry exploring the structures of the sestina, villanelle, pantoum, and sonnet. Her work, Burial Societies, a response sestina to Washington Irving’s English Sketches, is published in The Reynolds Review. Her current interest is 19 c. Literature Studies, with a focus on American writers. She plans to complete her Historical Fiction piece based on Stephen Crane’s visit to NE incorporating research of the families, towns, and experiences he encountered here in the late 1800’s.

Mar. ... Nancy Savery, Rex Walton, Charlene Neely, and Marilyn Dorf

REX WALTON has been writing poetry for nearly twenty years, beginning in the mid 80s as a student of UNL English professors Greg Kuzma, Marcia Southwick, Mordecai Marcus and Warren Fine. He co-edited the English Department's LAURUS undergraduate annual magazine with Season Harper, and has infrequently sent off packets of poems to publications, and has (infrequently) seen some of those poems in print, such as Plainsong, and the Plains Song Review. A poem of his was used as the lyics for Color of Silence, a musical piece by Anthony Lanman (http://www.thenewstyle.org/catalogue.php?id=54). Lately, he has been working on the Crescent Moon Reading Series. At this moment he is probably sitting down at the Crescent Moon, drinking an iced coffee and reading, or thinking about doing same. Look around — do you see him

Poet CHARLENE NEELY has spent most of her life in Lincoln except for a short time spent in small towns in SouthEast Nebraska and a five-year stint across the river in Iowa. Her poems have appeared in such publications asMuse, Celebrate, Plains Song Review, Plainsongs and Up Against the Wall, Mother among others. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Nebraska Presence; Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace; Perceptions from Nowhere; Dreams for our Daughters and Songs for the Granddaughters. She has participated in presenting programs to schools for twelve years. She has participated in many readings including the John H. Ames Reading Series for the Lincoln City Libraries.

MARILYN DORF grew up near Albion, Nebraska, on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded. An only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her poetry and other writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Whole Notes, Bitterroot, Elkhorn Review, Nebraska Territory, Plainsongs, Nostalgia, Northeast, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, 100 Words, Bison Poems, Plainsong Review, and the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace and Crazy Woman Creek. She received third prize in the First Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of four chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend (1985), Windmills Walk the Night (1992),Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds (1998), and This Red Hill(Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.

NANCY SAVERY has been writing poetry since attending College of St. Mary, Omaha and has 85 hours towards a BS in English at UNL. She enjoys poetry about nature and people. She has self-published two chapbooks, has been published in the Anthology of American Poetry and will be published in the forthcoming Anthology “Untidy Seasons”.

Her poetry has appeared a number of times in Nebraska Life, including a piece about William Kloefkorn, and she is a docent and a Board member at the Bess Streeter Aldrich Home in Elmwood. She grew up roaming the timbers and pastures of Otoe County.

April ... Marge Saiser and Lucy Adkins

APRIL - Marge Saiser, Lucy Adkins, & Pam Barger

MARJORIE SAISER is a poet living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received an MA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, winning the Vreelands Award and the Academy of American Poets competition. Her work has been published in literary journals including Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Zone 3, CrazyHorse, and Cream City Review. Her poems have been finalists for the Robert Penn Warren Prize, the New Letters Literary Awards, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a 2000 recipient of the Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council and in 1999 received the Literary Heritage Award from the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. Saiser is a speaker for the Nebraska Humanities Council. Her first full-length collection, Bones of a Very Fine Hand, won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her second book, Lost in Seward County, was published in 2001 by Backwaters Press, 3502 N 52nd St, Omaha, NE 68104, and is available there or from Lee Booksellers 888-665-0999. She is co-editor ofTimes of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press, 2002), an anthology of poetry and prose by women of the Great Plains, which was named Poetry Honor Book in 2003 by the Nebraska Center for the Book, and also co-editor of a book of interviews, Road Trip: Conversations with Writers(Backwaters Press, 2003). Her most recent collection isBeside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press, 2010)

LUCY ADKINS grew up on a farm in Nance County, Nebraska, attended country schools, the University of Nebraska, and received her bachelors degree at Auburn University in Alabama. Her poetry has been published in journals which include Owen Wister Review, Nebraska Territory, Plainsongs, Potpourri, Northeast, South Dakota Review, and the anthologies Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace (The Backwaters Press, 2002), The Poets Against the War, edited by Sam Hamill (2003), and Crazy Woman Creek. Lucy lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she works at an insurance company and besides writing, spends a great deal of time on hands and knees in her garden.

A Lincolnite, Pam Barger holds a degree in music from UNL. She is
a poet, a piano teacher, and a musician. Her work has appeared
in Platte Valley Review, Nebraska Territory, West Branch, Weber
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal and other publications as well. She is working on several projects; the first is a
book for middle and high school music students called (at least
for now) You Can Have Music AND a Life and the second is the
revision of a poetry manuscript entitled This Deliberate Theft of
Silence. Because she really enjoys both writing and music, Pam
finds that music is a recurring theme in her writing. She also has published a book of poetry, "The Pinball God Let Fly"

May ... Jen Davis Korn, Deborah McGinn, Karla Decker and Becky Faber

Jen Davis-Korn

Jennifer was first set free to write whatever she wanted by her third grade teacher Mrs. Kruse. Ever since then, she's been lucky enough to land a string of great teachers, like Deborah McGinn, and mentors, like Rex Walton, to encourage and coax her writing whims into their present fiction state. She is fortunate to have earned the trust of the good people of Tuesdays With Writers where she has made a nice and comfortable writing home. Now she promises to bring you danger, excitement, and thrills with a sampling from her collection of chapters from a long work titled "Parks and Recreation."Poet DEBORAH T MCGINN has been published in The Iowa Review, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, The Poets Voice, Plains Song Review, Poetic Voices, Free Focus Nebraska English Journal, New York City, Fine Lines, Whole Notes, Celebrate, Lincoln Review, Richmond Award in Poetry, The South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Self Unbound, To Go From Privacy.

Becky Faber has been writing since the 20^th Century. Her poems have appeared in Small Brushes (forthcoming), So to Speak, The Blue Collar Review, The Plains Songs Review, Plainsongs, the Nebraska English Counselor, and the anthologies Nebraska Voices and Lyrical Iowa. In 1987 she won first place in the Poetry division of the Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest, and in 2003 placed second in the same division. She placed second in the 2003 Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest in the Short Story category and went on to win second in national competition. She earned a PhD in English from UNL.

Karla Decker was born in Greeley, Colorado a million years ago. She has no memory of living in Omaha for about six months before the age of two though her picture appeared in the Omaha World Herald feeding a lollipop to her grandfather’s German Shepard. By age two she made her home in Wisconsin. She became enamored of Abstract Expressionism and majored in art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There she became enamored of the young writers on campus and married one of them and moved to Minneapolis and then back to Omaha. She divorced the writer and moved to Lincoln. Three gorgeous daughters and a passion for writing came out of this marriage. Her publishing history is skimpy. At Marilyn Dorf’s urging she entered the Bess Streeter Aldrich contest last year and won 2nd place. She was July in the first issue of the Nebraska Poets calendar. That’s about it.

2011-09-05T13:55:00.001-07:00

Tuesdays With Writers
presents:
January 3rd, 7 pm, at the South Mill
4724 Prescott, Lincoln:

Andrew Ek and his slam team from Omaha, plus Eric Holt

the 2011 Omaha Slam Team:
Steven Evans
Jake Narofsky
Patrick Sather
Tessie Stednitz
Ben Wenzl

Andrew Ek - Teacher. Writer. Performer. Host of the Encyclopedia Show: Omaha. President of the board of directors of the Nebraska Writers Collective. Coach of the Omaha poetry slam team. Soon-to-be architectural engineer. Stoic. Secular Humanist. List-maker, magic-maker, efficiency-optimizer.

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and, coming up:

Feb. ... Deola A. Thompson, and the WRITE STUFF writing group

Deola Morrell-Thompson is a PH.D. student, formerly completing her Bachelor of Science in Speech/Theatre, Bachelor of Arts in English, and Master of Arts in English w/ a Creative Writing Emphasis at the University of NE at Kearney. She has written a collection of poetic works entitled The Beggar’s Wheel, which includes formal poetry exploring the structures of the sestina, villanelle, pantoum, and sonnet. Her work, Burial Societies, a response sestina to Washington Irving’s English Sketches, is published in The Reynolds Review. Her current interest is 19 c. Literature Studies, with a focus on American writers. She plans to complete her Historical Fiction piece based on Stephen Crane’s visit to NE incorporating research of the families, towns, and experiences he encountered here in the late 1800’s.

Mar. ... Nancy Savery, Rex Walton, Charlene Neely, and Marilyn Dorf

REX WALTON has been writing poetry for nearly twenty years, beginning in the mid 80s as a student of UNL English professors Greg Kuzma, Marcia Southwick, Mordecai Marcus and Warren Fine. He co-edited the English Department's LAURUS undergraduate annual magazine with Season Harper, and has infrequently sent off packets of poems to publications, and has (infrequently) seen some of those poems in print, such as Plainsong, and the Plains Song Review. A poem of his was used as the lyics for Color of Silence, a musical piece by Anthony Lanman (http://www.thenewstyle.org/catalogue.php?id=54). Lately, he has been working on the Crescent Moon Reading Series. At this moment he is probably sitting down at the Crescent Moon, drinking an iced coffee and reading, or thinking about doing same. Look around — do you see him

April ... Marge Saiser and Lucy Adkins

May ... Jen Davis Korn, Deborah McGinn, Karla Decker and Becky Faber

Jen Davis-Korn

June (in pencil) Matt Mason & Sarah McKinstry-Brown

July ... The 13th Birthday reading of Tuesdays With Writers for everyone who wants to read

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2011-09-02T13:12:00.001-07:00

Tuesdays With Writers
presents:
September 6th, 7 pm, at the South Mill4724 Prescott, Lincoln:
writer Lisa Knopp ...

Lisa Knopp is the author of four collections of essays: Interior Places ; The Nature of Home; Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape, & Field of Vision, each of which explores the concepts of place, home, nature, and spirituality. Her recently completed collection of essays, Three Rivers: Journeys at Home and Beyond, about the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte Rivers, is forthcoming from the University of Missouri Press in the spring of 2012.

Knopp's essays have appeared in many publications, including Shenandoah, Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Connecticut Review, Creative Nonfiction, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Yoga Journal, and Northwest Review. Six of her essays have received Notable Essay citations in the Best American Essays series (1991, 1994, 2001, 2001, 2008, 2010).

Knopp is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where she teaches courses in creative nonfiction, and is visiting faculty in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Nonfiction at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Her website is: www.lisaknopp.com .

open mike to follow --
for more info on Tuesdays with Writers, contact Deborah, at dmcginn@lps.org

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and, in coming months at Tuesdays with Writers ----

Oct. ... Amy Plettner, featuring her new book, Undoing Orion's Belt

AMY PLETTNER's poetry has appeared in the anthologiesNebraska Presence and Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace. Other publications include Plains Song Review, Omaha World-Herald's "Everyday Poetry" series, Nebraska Life, andCelebrate: A Collection of Women’s Writing. She lives south of Denton with her family, and enjoys bicycling, taking baths, and life in Nebraska.

Nov. ... Shoshana Sumrall Frerking & Heidi Hermanson

Shoshana Sumrall Frerking grew up on a farm in western Nebraska, and now enjoys a career as a technical writer. Shoshana’s short fiction has been published in Deviant Minds, LAURUS Magazine, Plains Song Review, Fine Lines Journal, Paradigm, LITnIMAGE, and SNReview. A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Shoshana lives in Lincoln with her husband, Todd, oldest stepson, Drew, and their three cats, Misery, Granger, and Mac.

HEIDI HERMANSON has been published in Backroads, Mental Horizons, Midwest Compilation, Slamma Lamma Ding Dong: An Anthology of Nebraska Slam Poets, and other places. She has been in many public art projects such as "8 counts/24" (writers had 24 hours to write on a theme pulled from a bag) "OmaHome" (writers wrote inspired by a piece of artwork; the writing was then interpeted by a local actor), and the benchMarks project, which featured brief inspirational quotes on benches thoroughout the city. In 2003 she organized the first Poets' Chautauqua at the State Fair and also that year released her first chapbook, Midwest Hotel. Her second chapbook, Missouri Joyride, is forthcoming. She runs a monthly open mike, "Naked Words." In her spare time she hopes to open a library of maps to towns that do not exist and learning dialects of the seven-year cicada. She recently received her MFA from the University of Nebraska.

Dec. ... The Holiday Reading for everyone who wants to read - please limit your reading to two poems or one moderate length prose piece.

Jan. ... Andrew Ek and his slam team from Omaha, plus Eric Holt

the 2011 Omaha Slam Team:
Steven Evans
Jake Narofsky
Patrick Sather
Tessie Stednitz
Ben Wenzl

Andrew Ek - Teacher. Writer. Performer. Host of the Encyclopedia Show: Omaha. President of the board of directors of the Nebraska Writers Collective. Coach of the Omaha poetry slam team. Soon-to-be architectural engineer. Stoic. Secular Humanist. List-maker, magic-maker, efficiency-optimizer.

Feb. ... Deola A. Thompson, and the WRITE STUFF writing group

Deola Morrell-Thompson is a PH.D. student, formerly completing her Bachelor of Science in Speech/Theatre, Bachelor of Arts in English, and Master of Arts in English w/ a Creative Writing Emphasis at the University of NE at Kearney. She has written a collection of poetic works entitled The Beggar’s Wheel, which includes formal poetry exploring the structures of the sestina, villanelle, pantoum, and sonnet. Her work, Burial Societies, a response sestina to Washington Irving’s English Sketches, is published in The Reynolds Review. Her current interest is 19 c. Literature Studies, with a focus on American writers. She plans to complete her Historical Fiction piece based on Stephen Crane’s visit to NE incorporating research of the families, towns, and experiences he encountered here in the late 1800’s.

Mar. ... Nancy Savery, Rex Walton, Charlene Neely, and Marilyn Dorf

REX WALTON has been writing poetry for nearly twenty years, beginning in the mid 80s as a student of UNL English professors Greg Kuzma, Marcia Southwick, Mordecai Marcus and Warren Fine. He co-edited the English Department's LAURUS undergraduate annual magazine with Season Harper, and has infrequently sent off packets of poems to publications, and has (infrequently) seen some of those poems in print, such as Plainsong, and the Plains Song Review. A poem of his was used as the lyics for Color of Silence, a musical piece by Anthony Lanman (http://www.thenewstyle.org/catalogue.php?id=54). Lately, he has been working on the Crescent Moon Reading Series. At this moment he is probably sitting down at the Crescent Moon, drinking an iced coffee and reading, or thinking about doing same. Look around — do you see him

NANCY SAVERY has been writing poetry since attending College of St. Mary,Omaha and has85 hours towards a BS in English at UNL. She enjoys poetry about nature and people. She has self-published two chapbooks, hasbeen published in the Anthology of American Poetry and will be published in theforthcoming Anthology “Untidy Seasons”.

Her poetry has appeared a number of times in Nebraska Life, including a piece aboutWilliam Kloefkorn, and she is a docent and a Board member at the Bess StreeterAldrich Home in Elmwood. She grew uproaming the timbers and pastures of Otoe County.
April ... Marge Saiser and Lucy Adkins

May ... Jen Davis Korn, Deborah McGinn, Karla Decker and Becky Faber

Jen Davis-Korn

Jennifer was first set free to write whatever she wanted by her third grade teacher Mrs. Kruse. Ever since then, she's been lucky enough to land a string of great teachers, like Deborah McGinn, and mentors, like Rex Walton, to encourage and coax her writing whims into their present fiction state. She is fortunate to have earned the trust of the good people of Tuesdays With Writers where she has made a nice and comfortable writing home. Now she promises to bring you danger, excitement, and thrills with a sampling from her collection of chapters from a long work titled "Parks and Recreation."

Poet DEBORAH T MCGINN has been published in The Iowa Review, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, The Poets Voice, Plains Song Review, Poetic Voices, Free Focus Nebraska English Journal, New York City, Fine Lines, Whole Notes, Celebrate, Lincoln Review, Richmond Award in Poetry, The South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Self Unbound, To Go From Privacy.

Becky Faber has been writing since the 20^thCentury. Her poems have appeared in Small Brushes (forthcoming), So to Speak, The Blue Collar Review, ThePlains Songs Review, Plainsongs,the Nebraska English Counselor, andthe anthologies Nebraska Voices and Lyrical Iowa. In 1987 she won first place in the Poetrydivision of the Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest, and in 2003 placedsecond in the same division. She placedsecond in the 2003 Nebraska Mothers Association Writing Contest in the Short Storycategory and went on to win second in national competition. She earned a PhD in English from UNL.

KarlaDecker was born in Greeley, Colorado a million years ago. Shehas no memory of living in Omahafor about six months before the age of two though her picture appeared in theOmaha World Herald feeding a lollipop to her grandfather’s German Shepard. Byage two she made her home in Wisconsin.She became enamored of Abstract Expressionism and majored in art at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There she became enamored of the youngwriters on campus and married one of them and moved to Minneapolisand then back to Omaha.She divorced the writer and moved to Lincoln.Three gorgeous daughters and a passion for writing came out of this marriage.Her publishing history is skimpy. At Marilyn Dorf’s urging she entered the BessStreeter Aldrich contest last year and won 2nd place. She was July in the firstissue of the Nebraska Poets calendar. That’s about it.

also check here for updates:

Prairie Moon Reading & Music News
www.moonreading.blogspot.com
Tuesdays with Writers
www.tuesdayswithwriters.blogspot.com Brownville Writers
www.brownvillewriters.blogspot.com

2011-08-22T12:04:00.000-07:00

September 6th, 7pm, at the South Mill

4724 Prescott, Lincoln:

writer Lisa Knopp ...

Nonfiction writer LISA KNOPP grew up in Burlington, Iowa. She is the author of Interior Places (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), The Nature of Home, and Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape, Field of Vision. Her essays have appeared in many places, includingShenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review and ISLE(Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. She has taught at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale and is currently on the faculty of the English department at the University of Nebraska — Omaha, as well as the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Nonfiction at Goucher College. She lives in Lincoln.

..................... and, in coming months ----

Oct. ... Amy Plettner, featuring her new book, Undoing Orion's Belt

Nov. ... Shoshana Sumrall Frerkling

Dec. ... The Holiday Reading for everyone who wants to read

Jan. ... Andrew Ek and his slam team

Feb. ... Deola A. Thompson

Mar. ... Nancy Savery, Rex Walton, Charlene Neeley, and Marilyn Dorf

April ... Marge Saiser and Lucy Adkins

May ... Jen Davis Korn, Deborah McGinn, (Karla Decker and Becky Faber pending)

June

July ... The 13th Birthday reading of Tuesdays With Writers for everyone who wants to read

2010-09-27T17:04:00.000-07:00

Here's the March reading news for

Tuesdays with Writers

7 pm every month, the first Tuesday

at the South Mill

48th & Prescott, Lincoln

February - SNOW DAY ...

March -- Lisa Roberts

Lisa Roberts writes, “In 2006, I was careening toward the age at which my mother had died. When I crashed into that barrier—and came out the other side, heart thumping, cheeks huffing—poems started to pulse in me. And pour out. Now I write to keep being amazed I’m alive.”

Born in Michigan, Lisa studied English at Princeton and The University of Virginia. She has taught literature and writing in Hong Kong, Charlottesville, Las Vegas, and, after 1993, Lincoln, Nebraska, where she lives today with her daughter and husband. Her work is forthcoming in The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets.

April -- Chaparral Poets writing group

Lincoln Chaparral Poets meets regularly at Eastmont Towers on the third Monday evening of the month except July and August. It was organized in the 1940’s as part of a national organization known as the Edna Neeley Chapter of The Midwest Federation of Chaparral Poets. The name was changed to Lincoln Chaparral Poets after contact eventually was lost with the parent organization. The publish Poetry Pages, an in-house newsletter featuring members’ new and in-process poetry which is critiqued at the meetings.

May -- Laura Wiseman and Lynn Samsel

Laura Madeline Wiseman is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. She is the author of the bookSprung, forthcoming from San Francisco Bay Press, and three chapbooks of poetry, including Ghost Girl (Pudding House, 2010).

June -- Marge Saiser & Barbara Schmitz

July -- Tuesdays With Writers 12th Birthday,

with Jen Davis-Korn

read the article about Tuesdays with Writers online: http://www.lmagazinelincoln.com/articles/2010/08/23/general/doc4c4ee7eb89c61112299057.txt

2010-08-30T13:05:00.000-07:00

Tuesdays with Writers:

September 7th, at 7 pm

at the South Mill, 48th & Prescott, Lincoln:

reading tonight:

Omaha writer Heidi Hermanson

HEIDI HERMANSON has been published inBackroads, Mental Horizons, Midwest Compilation, Slamma Lamma Ding Dong: An Anthology of Nebraska Slam Poets, and other places. She has been in many public art projects such as "8 counts/24" (writers had 24 hours to write on a theme pulled from a bag) "OmaHome" (writers wrote inspired by a piece of artwork; the writing was then interpeted by a local actor), and the benchMarks project, which featured brief inspirational quotes on benches thoroughout the city. In 2003 she organized the first Poets' Chautauqua at the State Fair and also that year released her first chapbook, Midwest Hotel. Her second chapbook, Missouri Joyride, is forthcoming. She runs a monthly open mike, "Naked Words." In her spare time she hopes to open a library of maps to towns that do not exist and learning dialects of the seven-year cicada. She recently received her MFA from the University of Nebraska.

(sign up with Deborah to READ sometime later this year!! Deborah, at dmcginn@lps.org )

2010-07-12T14:16:00.000-07:00

Tuesdays With Writers

for August:

August 3rd, 7 pm, the South Mill:

Rex Walton, Becky Faber, Amy Plettner, Jen-Davis-Korn, Deborah McGinn

be there or be rhombOhedral ....

ALSO: August 12th is Bill Kloefkorn's Birthday --

please send him a card, drawing, and/or Magic Bubblegum-- to

2636 S. 46th, Lincoln, NE 68506

2010-05-05T11:00:00.000-07:00

the May 4th TUESDAYs With WRITERS group read was a SUCCESS!! We had 19 different writers ( or maybe 18 different writers, and one with two VERY clever disguises!!) read short stories, poems, and essays !! Thanks to ALL who came out!!

for June,

or more particularly,

Tuesday, June 1st, at 7pm --

we will have

the writing group Chaparral Poets

-- come out for a fine time, and open mike after!!!!

and, on July 6th-- the 12th birthday of Tuesdays With Writers - a group read - get your name in to Deborah ( dmcginn@lps.org ) to read with us!

August 3rd: Rex W, Becky F, Amy P, Jen-DK, Deborah M.

and on September 7th -- Heidi Hermanson, of Omaha, reading for us!!

2010-03-27T09:58:00.001-07:00

April is National Poetry Month:

the writers group

Tuesdays with Writers

is pleased to have

Nebraska writer Marge Saiser

with us on

Tuesday, April 6th, @ 7 p.m.

at our monthly get-together

@ the South Mill

48th & Prescott, Lincoln:

come!!

MARJORIE SAISER is a poet living in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received an MA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, winning the Vreelands Award and the Academy of American Poets competition. Her work has been published in literary journals including Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Zone 3, CrazyHorse, and Cream City Review. Her poems have been finalists for the Robert Penn Warren Prize, theNew Letters Literary Awards, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a 2000 recipient of the Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council and in 1999 received the Literary Heritage Award from the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. Saiser is a speaker for the Nebraska Humanities Council. Her first full-length collection,Bones of a Very Fine Hand, won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her second book, Lost in Seward County, was published in 2001 by Backwaters Press, 3502 N 52nd St, Omaha, NE 68104, and is available there or from Lee Booksellers 888-665-0999. She is co-editor of Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace(Backwaters Press, 2002), an anthology of poetry and prose by women of the Great Plains, which was named Poetry Honor Book in 2003 by the Nebraska Center for the Book, and also co-editor of a book of interviews,Road Trip: Conversations with Writers (Backwaters Press, 2003).

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2010-02-26T13:03:00.001-08:00

Tuesday, March 2nd -- 7 pm - Tuesdays with Writers at the South Mill, 48th & Prescott Lincoln: this month,

the F Street Writers Workshop

comes out in force for a spring reading!

The voices of the F. St. Community Center Writing Workshop are varied.From Kenneth Langness's dark humor to Paul Mehling's poetry for children, from Jeffrey Roth's iconoclastic flash-fiction to Jill Carpenter's Rock and Roll Romances and exquisite poetry for her family. And, finally, myself, Terrance Oberst, facilitator of the workshop, whose third full collection, SUN, was published in December, 2008.

for more info on the Tuesdays with Writers series, contact Deborah at dmcginn@lps.org

for more info on the F Street Writers workshop, contact Terry, at terranceoberst@gmail.com

2010-01-29T07:10:00.000-08:00

Tuesday, February 2nd, 7pm,

Tuesdays with Writers

at The South Mill

(4736 Prescott, just west of 48th and Prescott, Lincoln)

Featured readers:

Lincoln High School

and

East High School

with their teachers

Miss McGinn and Ms. Sarah Thomas

There is an open mic following the feature.

For more information, contact Deborah McGinn at dmcginn@lps.org

2010-01-07T09:47:00.000-08:00

TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS

Every first Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m.

@ the South Mill

48th & Prescott, Lincoln, NE

a message from Deborah McGinn:

Tuesdays With Writers is going strong at eleven years and as a community of writers, we are thrilled about it. We meet the first Tuesday of every month at The South Mill in the College View area on South 47th and Prescott. Time is 7-8 p.m. Host Reader(s) and an open mic until near 9 p.m. Perhaps you love to read and yearn for a creative outlet of your own. Perhaps you also write and are willing to shed the fear of sharing with others. Perhaps you do not have a writing community and you'd like a source of inspiration. Come see what's happening and make yourselves at home

... Spread the word to others if you can.

Deborah McGinn, Founder

Here is the latest list for Tuesdays with Writers:

Feb. 2: Lincoln High and East High reading poetry. Come hear some talented youth who will make you proud and happy!!

March 2: "F" Street Writers Group (c/o Terry Oberst), with open mic.

April 6: Marge Saiser, with open mic.

May 4: Maureen and her group called "Writers Block", with open mic.

June 8: the Chaparral Poets

July 6: 12th Birthday for Tuesdays With Writers and a group read! Everyone who wants to reads 1-2 poems or 3-4 minutes worth, PLEASE contact Deborah at dmcginn@lps.org ( It can be short prose as well ) !!

August 3: A Gaggle of Writers Coming! As soon as they gaggle!

Sept. 7: Heidi Hermanson from Omaha, with open mic.

Deborah McGinn

dmcginn@lps.org

2010-01-05T14:42:00.000-08:00

TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS

JANUARY 5TH, 2010

7 PM

THE SOUTH MILL

48TH & PRESCOTT, LINCOLN

TONITE: Michelle DeRusha

Beginning November 27th, 2009 , Michelle DeRusha began writing a monthly religion and spirituality column for The Lincoln Journal-Star's (402) 411 section. A Massachusetts native, DeRusha has lived in Lincoln for eight years and is a member of Southwood Lutheran Church. She is also mom to two young boys, Noah and Rowan, and wife to Brad. She works part time for NET Television/NET Radio and writes a daily blog, "Graceful," about finding faith in the everyday.

February:

Tuesday, February 2nd, 7pm, Tuesdays with Writers at The South Mill (4736 Prescott, just west of 48th and Prescott, Lincoln). Featured readers Lincoln High School and East High School with teachers Miss McGinn and Ms. Sarah Thomas. There is an open mic following the feature.

March:

the F Street Writers Workshop

April:

Lincoln writer Marge Saiser

2009-08-03T19:05:00.000-07:00

Tuesdays With Writers
August 4th, 7 pm
@ the South Mill
48th & Prescott
Lincoln, NE

this month: writer Taylor Mignon

Taylor Mignon is a member of Japan's most aesthetically progressive poetry groups: Sei-en (Blue flame) and gui.

Taylor wrote for the website Poetry/About Museletter as Japan correspondent from 2001 - 2003. He was consulting editor for Prairie Schooner’s Contemporary Writing from Japan issue and wrote the column “Poetry Mignette” for The Japan Times from August 1999 to April 2001. He published a bilingual book of mostly poetry called Poesie Yaponesia in 2001, has been establishing his reputation as a translator, and as poet is serving under the tutelage of Japanese works.

His translations of poems by Torii Shozo can be found online at sendecki.com, generator press, milk magazine and assemblylanguage.com. Papyrus-based publications containing Torii translations are Poetry Kanto and Faces in the Crowds: A Tokyo International Anthology, (ed. Hillel Wright, Printed Matter Press, 2002). He is advising for a special section on Japanese poetry in an upcoming issue of the Canadian journal Vallum.

Taylor currently lives in Japan with his wife and 7-year old daughter. He is a graduate of Lincoln Southeast High.
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The September 1st reading for Tuesdays with Writers will be a trio of Lincoln writers: Amy Plettner, Becky Faber, and Deborah McGinn

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2009-05-12T21:00:00.000-07:00

June is bustin' a move, daddy-o -- mixed-up meta-4s and so on, dude ( & dudettes)

JUNE 2nd - 7 pm Writer/herdsman/horse persuader Ben Gotschall

BEN GOTSCHALL grew up on a cattle ranch and dairy in the Sandhills of Holt County, Nebraska. http://www.holtcreekjerseys.com/

He earned a degree in English from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Idaho. He is the author of Where It Happened (Lewis-Clark Press/Sandhills Press, 2008).

His work has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses, Meridian, Nimrod, South Dakota Review, Cimarron Review, Poetry Southeast, and The MeadoW. Currently a Visiting Professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University, he is also the herdsman on Branched Oak farm near Raymond.

Ben also plays in Trigger town, a local group playing bluegrass, rated by Journal-Star as awesome! http://www.myspace.com/triggertown

2009-03-18T19:35:00.000-07:00

Celebrating National Poetry Month— Plus
Tuesdays With Writers Group Reading
April 7, 2009 at The South Mill from 7:00-8:45 p.m.

· It might be fun to come with pocketsize poems or stories in your shirt pockets or stuffed into jean pockets. Little tales are like poems, right? My students and I wrote six-word memoirs this week. Many wrote several more than the five required. What fun those would be for adults! If this idea doesn’t suit you, bring in your own treasures. Please bring in poetry you admire but did not write.

Examples of six-word memoirs found online:

Fight, work, persevere—
Gain slight notoriety.

Big hair, big heart, big hurry.

Bespectacled, besneakered, ran and danced around.

Still make coffee for two.

Gone dreaming, leave message at tone.

Couldn’t cope so wrote songs.

· There is a 5-minute limit per reader. Please be respectful to other writers by staying at 5 minutes please. We like to fill the house and do not want to leave anyone out or shorten his or her reading experience. Let us be kind and mindful of many voices. Perhaps some of you might want to read as a team. Imagine a choral reading of two or more. What fun.

· Contact Deborah McGinn now to reserve a spot to participate. dmcginn@lps.org

AND, future events:

MAY: The Chaparral Poets (seven readers!) ...

JUNE: Nebraska writer/teacher/musician/whisperer-of-poetry-to-horses BEN GOTSCHALL ... BEN grew up on a cattle ranch and dairy in the Sandhills of Holt County, Nebraska. He earned a degree in English from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Idaho. He is the author of Where It Happened (Lewis-Clark Press/Sandhills Press, 2008). His work has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses, Meridian, Nimrod, South Dakota Review, Cimarron Review, Poetry Southeast, and The MeadoW. Currently a Visiting Professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University, he is also the herdsman on Branched Oak farm near Raymond.

He has a book out, WHERE IT HAPPENED, in February, 2009:

" Here is the voice of a young writer whose connection with the Nebraska Sandhills rings vibrant and true. And here is an eye that sees the remarkable clarity. "A sparrow perches// on the leg of an upturned milkstool." Yes. "...she chewed sunflower/ seeds and spit the shells/ at my boots." Again, yes. Ben Gotschall's poems are free verse that sings, and each song is a tribute to the land no less than to those who serve as its caretakers-father, mother, sister, grandparents, and especially his brother Marcus, whose skill and commitment as a calf roper are extensions of his family history. And it is our family history also, because Gotschall's treatment of the Sandhills embodies the complex environments of innocence, initiation, passion, and death, universal subjects he treats as surely as his brother handles a rope-with undaunted honesty and grace." — William Kloefkorn, NE State Poet

"The poems in Benjamin Gotschall's elegiac debut collection, Where it Happened, are deeply rooted in a language of place, of work, and of a rough-hewn life. The vision here is direct and unflinching as it measures loss and takes stock of what is left. Gotschall is a poet who knows well the possibility of poetry to "find, gather [and] replace what we've lost in vivid, reverent words." — Natasha Trethewey

Ben's website: http://www.holtcreekjerseys.com/

JULY: Tuesdays With Writers celebrates 10 years! Another Famous GROUP reading! ...

AUGUST: Taylor Mignon: Published poet in Hummingbird, Pearl, Light and online with Dust Books. She "may even have my first poetry volume published by then from Printed Matter Press, Tokyo." She is putting together a manuscript of poems by modernist/surrealist Torii Shozo, most likely from highmoon press. As an editor, she co-edited/ advised Japan theme issues with Prairie Schooner, Vallum: contemporary poetry and Atlanta Review.

2009-02-26T18:49:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays with Writers
March 3rd, @ 7 pm
the South Mill
48th & Prescott, Lincoln

Reading this evening will be Kirk Brown & Rex Walton . Kirk & Rex are two of the regular group of writers that hang out at the South Mill on those First Tuesdays, staying late, after the reading to talk writing, talk shop, talk about whatever can come up in writing. They've also been getting together to talk, and trade writing, for a year or more, with an increasingly larger group or writers. Still, the third original guy from the group, Carl Schneider, isn't in Lincoln anymore -- he's back home in Buffalo -- but I'm sure you will hear some of his poetry second-hand tonight, as well as original stuff by Kirk & Rex.

Don't FORGET __ OPEN MIKE immediately after the readers!!!

Deborah McGinn, Founder of Tuesdays With Writers
dmcginn@lps.org

AND, the Schedule for the rest of Spring (it will come.. ), and into summer:

APRIL: National Poetry Month -- and a GROUP READ!! ... MAY: The Chaparral Poets (seven readers!) ... JUNE: Nebraska writer/teacher/musician/whisperer-of-poetry-to-horses BEN GOTSCHALL ... JULY: Tuesdays With Writers celebrates 10 years! Another Famous GROUP reading! ... AUGUST: Taylor Mignon Published poet in Hummingbird, Pearl, Light and online with Dust Books. She "may even have my first poetry volume published by then from Printed Matter Press, Tokyo." She is putting together a manuscript of poems by modernist/surrealist Torii Shozo, most likely from highmoon press. As an editor, she co-edited/ advised Japan theme issues with Prairie Schooner, Vallum: contemporary poetry and Atlanta Review.

See more at http://www.tuesdayswithwriters.blogspot.com/
or http://www.moonreading.blogspot.com/

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2009-01-18T20:02:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays with Writers

February 3rd, @ 7 pm
the South Mill
48th & Prescott, Lincoln

Tuesday, Feb. 3rd, at The South Mill in Lincoln Features Young Writer Mark Gudgel.
Gudgel will read from his brand new book, " No Sixteenths ", from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. There is no open microphone when we have a feature writer, and this writer will take the house of The Mill down. Please join us for a cup of good coffee or tea and the creative energy of Mark Gudgel.

Mark Gudgel teaches English at Southwest High School in Lincoln, NE. He was inspired to write poetry through a class taught by Greg Kuzma at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
"I teach English and Literature at LSW, and have, in my opinion, the most wonderful students in the world. Much of what I have written is inspired by growing up 9 miles below the reservation in Valentine, NE. I'd rather be on the Rosebud than in Valentine any day."

His other writing influences include Hadara Bar-Nadav, Bill Kloefkorn, his travels, teaching, study of theology and faith in God.

"In his ambitious first book, Gudgel takes on race, class, and identity to explore the tragic events shaping our world—from the Holocaust to the genocide in Darfur to the atrocities committed against the Native American Peoples in the United States."

—Hadara Bar-Nadav, author of A GLASS OF MILK TO KISS GOODNIGHT.

Gudgel reminds us that we are not alone as we begin our slow crawl toward hope.

Deborah McGinn, Founder of Tuesdays With Writers
dmcginn@lps.org

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or www.moonreading.blogspot.com

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2009-01-07T18:59:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays with Writers
7 p.m. -- February 3rd, 2009
at the South Mill, 48th & Prescott:
Lincoln writer/teacher

Mark Gudgel

Tuesdays With Writers and Deborah McGinn

brings Mark Gudgel, featuring his new book,

no sixteenths

2009-01-07T18:57:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays with Writers
7 p.m. -- January 6th, 2009
at

the South Mill, 48th & Prescott:
the 1st meetup of
the MOO-tual Admiration Society

Tuesday With Writers January will feature

captivating readings from the MOO-tual Admiration Society

Charter Members
Charlene Neely and Jen Davis-Korn.

Be safe, warm and happy this holiday season and we will see you in January.

2008-11-17T14:42:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays With Writers Winter Group Reading
December 2, 2008 at The South Mill from 7:00-8:45 p.m.

Poetry and Shorter Prose are both welcome.

You may read from your own work

or that of someone you love. Music anyone?

· There is a 5-minute limit per reader this time. Please be respectful to other writers by staying at 5 minutes please. We like to fill the house and do not want to leave anyone out or shorten his or her reading experience. Let us be kind and mindful of many voices. Perhaps some of you might want to read as a team? Imagine a choral reading of two or more. What fun that might be.

· Contact Deborah McGinn now to reserve a spot to participate. dmcginn@lps.org
--Thanks to Rex Walton for all he does,
and Mike Pittz for making sure the sound system is lugged in and set up.

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Christmas is Coming

The geese are getting fat,
Please put a penny
In the old Mill’s hat.

~Buy a cup of Jo or cocoa from The Mill! They are gracious to us and do not charge us rent, so please bring some pennies for refreshments and support The Mill who supports Tuesdays With Writers.

Dust of Snow By Robert Frost
from his winter poetry collection

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

Deborah McGinn
dmcginn@lps.org

2008-10-14T13:20:00.000-07:00

THIS Month ONLY!!

With Elections on Tuesday, November 4th,

Deborah has

RESCHEDULED

The November Reading for

MONDAY, November 3rd, at 7 p.m.!!

Tonight, MONDAY (remember), we host a reading by the editorial staff of Nebraska's PLAINSONGS Magazine, published by Hastings College. They will be here to read from the special edition of the Plainsongs Magazine, the Editors' Issue

2008-10-07T09:44:00.001-07:00

October 7, 2008, 7-8 p.m.
Tuesdays With Writers
@the South Mill
48th & Prescott, Lincoln

Deborah McGinn Announces:

Let us call our next reading VOICES. Won’t you bring original poetry or short prose to raise our voices at The South Mill? There will be no set reader this month. Perhaps you have written some season changing pieces, or love poems, un-love poems or fiction about goblins or mystery. Maybe there will be school poems, funny tales, political slams or Odes to Palin, Obama, Mac and Joe. There might even be a famous poem you carry in your pocket by Maya Angelou, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, or Charlene Neely. Email Deborah to reserve a time slot at dmcginn@lps.org.

THESE ARE THE WRITERS SO FAR SIGNED UP TO READ:

Marge Saiser, Amy Plettner, Rex Walton, JK Brown, Nancy Savery, Dee Thompson, Trena and Randy, Dwight Johns, Adryan Mallory ( & A's girlfriend ), Charlene Neely, John Johnson, Shoshana Sumrall, and Deborah McGinn.

Create new, revise old, polish, practice, let creative voices he heard.

Below is brand new Billy Collins to get you thinking. He is featured in POETS AND WRITERS this month.

Adage

When it’s late at night and branches
are banging against the windows,
you might think that love is just a matter

of leaping out of the frying pan of yourself
into the fire of someone else,
but it’s a little more complicated than that.

It’s more like trading the two birds
who might be hiding in that bush
for the one you are not holding in your hand.

A wise man once said that love
was like forcing a horse to drink
but then everyone stopped thinking of him as wise.

Let us be clear about something.
Love is not as simple as getting up
on the wrong side of the bed wearing emperor’s clothes.

No, it’s more like the way the pen
feels after it has defeated the sword.
It’s a little like the penny saved or the nine dropped stitches.

You look at me through the halo of the last candle
and tell me love is an ill wind
that has no turning, a road that blows no good,

but I am here to remind you,
as our shadows tremble on the walls,
that love is the early bird who is better late than never.

“Adage” from Billy Collin’s brand new book called Ballistics 2008.

COMING IN NOVEMBER: THE EDITORS FROM PLAINSONGS MAGAZINE, OF HASTINGS COLLEGE, WITH READINGS FROM THEIR SPECIAL EDITION HIGHLIGHTING WRITINGS FROM THE EDITORS!

2008-01-30T09:47:00.000-08:00

Tuesdays With Writers in September

September 2nd, Tuesday (Duh), at 7:00 PM

at the South Mill
48th & Prescott, Lincoln

Deborah McGinn brings you:

Karla Decker, Marilyn Dorf,
and Heidi Hermanson!

MARILYN DORF grew up near Albion, Nebraska, on the farm her great grandparents homesteaded. An only child, she spent much time reading and exploring nature. Her poetry and other writing has appeared in various publications, including Kansas Quarterly, Willow Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Whole Notes, Bitterroot, Elkhorn Review, Nebraska Territory, Plainsongs, Nostalgia, Northeast, Potpourri, The Christian Science Monitor, Nebraska Life, 100 Words, Bison Poems, Plainsong Review, and the anthologies Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace and Crazy Woman Creek. She received third prize in the First Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story competition, and is the author of four chapbooks: A Tribute to Buttons — A Beautiful Friend (1985), Windmills Walk the Night (1992), Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds (1998), and This Red Hill (Juniper Press, 2003). She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with her cat, dog, computer, and a houseful of books.

HEIDI HERMANSON has been published in Backroads, Mental Horizons, Midwest Compilation, Slamma Lamma Ding Dong: An Anthology of Nebraska Slam Poets, and other places. She has been in many public art projects such as "8 counts/24" (writers had 24 hours to write on a theme pulled from a bag) "OmaHome" (writers wrote inspired by a piece of artwork; the writing was then interpeted by a local actor), and the benchMarks project, which featured brief inspirational quotes on benches thoroughout the city. In 2003 she organized the first Poets' Chautauqua at the State Fair and also that year released her first chapbook, Midwest Hotel. Her second chapbook, Missouri Joyride, is forthcoming. She runs a monthly open mike, "Naked Words." In her spare time she hopes to open a library of maps to towns that do not exist and learning dialects of the seven-year cicada. She recently received her MFA from the University of Nebraska.

KARLA DECKER was born in Greeley, Colorado a million years ago. She has no memory of living in Omaha for about six months before the age of two though her picture appeared in the Omaha World Herald feeding a lollipop to her grandfather’s German Shepard. By age two she made her home in Wisconsin. She became enamored of Abstract Expressionism and majored in art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There she became enamored of the young writers on campus and married one of them and moved to Minneapolis and then back to Omaha. She divorced the writer and moved to Lincoln. Three gorgeous daughters and a passion for writing came out of this marriage. Her publishing history is skimpy. At Marilyn Dorf’s urging she entered the Bess Streeter Aldrich contest last year and won 2nd place. She was July in the first issue of the Nebraska Poets calendar. That’s about it.