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.
simple way to writing: First Tuesday, 7 pm, the South Mill, Lincoln: could it be? YES!! Tuesdays with Writers!
The facts, and nothing..
Looking for a get-together of Lincoln-area writers? Once a month, the first Tuesday at 7 pm, come to the South Mill Coffee Shop, at 4736 Prescott, Lincoln, NE. We'll be here, with readers and coffee, and conversation .....
to learn more, email Deborah at dmcginn@lps.org
to learn more, email Deborah at dmcginn@lps.org
TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS BRINGS WRITERS TO WRITERS
(from the Daily Nebraskan, February 2nd, 2005)
The scent of coffee filled the air and welcomed spectators to a poetry reading. The Mill’s south location at 4736 Prescott Ave. hosts a poetry reading for poets called Tuesdays with Writer’s the first Tuesday of every month.
“I went to a poetry reading in Boulder, (Colo.) and then one in Minnesota and later in New York,” said Deborah McGinn, teacher of creative writing at Lincoln High School and organizer of Tuesdays with Writer’s. “Poetry has a real performance quality to it,” she said. Tuesdays with Writer’s started six years ago this July and promotes the poetic talent of the Lincoln area. McGinn has had to move her project to several areas to find the right fit, but said she feels she has found a great place with the Mill’s southern location. A selected poet reads his or her poetry for about 40 minutes and then the microphone is open to the public. “There seems to be a few writers who get all the attention and I know there’s more talent in Lincoln,” McGinn said. “I like to be all inclusive. I believe in the young voice, they work just as hard.”
Although McGinn encourages younger generations to perform their poetry and express their talents, she also gives older writers the opportunity to have their voice heard. Tuesday’s performance served as a perfect example.
Edgar Clemens, a retired University of Nebraska-Lincoln animal science professor, performed his “cowboy” poetry to a full Mill crowd. “I started writing poetry after I went to a cowboy poetry reading in Valentine,” Clemens said. “I went to a poetry workshop at Gere Library and Rex Walton said he liked my stuff and asked if I’d be interested.” Walton is an avid supporter and some-time reader at Tuesdays with Writer’s. Clemens played a harmonica before reciting his poetry and wove his tales of boys getting into mischief and cowboys on the trail, taking his audience back to the Old West Nebraska once knew. His poetry represented Midwestern values, as his narrative remained straightforward and honest. The warmth and hometown feel of The Mill provided a perfect atmosphere for the event and complimented Clemens poems nicely. “I really like having it at The Mill,” said McGinn. “Its such a non-pretentious environment.”
Tuesdays with Writer’s will have an anniversary special in July and welcomes poets of any kind to come and share their creativity. “You have a chance to come here and be recognized,” said Walton.
The scent of coffee filled the air and welcomed spectators to a poetry reading. The Mill’s south location at 4736 Prescott Ave. hosts a poetry reading for poets called Tuesdays with Writer’s the first Tuesday of every month.
“I went to a poetry reading in Boulder, (Colo.) and then one in Minnesota and later in New York,” said Deborah McGinn, teacher of creative writing at Lincoln High School and organizer of Tuesdays with Writer’s. “Poetry has a real performance quality to it,” she said. Tuesdays with Writer’s started six years ago this July and promotes the poetic talent of the Lincoln area. McGinn has had to move her project to several areas to find the right fit, but said she feels she has found a great place with the Mill’s southern location. A selected poet reads his or her poetry for about 40 minutes and then the microphone is open to the public. “There seems to be a few writers who get all the attention and I know there’s more talent in Lincoln,” McGinn said. “I like to be all inclusive. I believe in the young voice, they work just as hard.”
Although McGinn encourages younger generations to perform their poetry and express their talents, she also gives older writers the opportunity to have their voice heard. Tuesday’s performance served as a perfect example.
Edgar Clemens, a retired University of Nebraska-Lincoln animal science professor, performed his “cowboy” poetry to a full Mill crowd. “I started writing poetry after I went to a cowboy poetry reading in Valentine,” Clemens said. “I went to a poetry workshop at Gere Library and Rex Walton said he liked my stuff and asked if I’d be interested.” Walton is an avid supporter and some-time reader at Tuesdays with Writer’s. Clemens played a harmonica before reciting his poetry and wove his tales of boys getting into mischief and cowboys on the trail, taking his audience back to the Old West Nebraska once knew. His poetry represented Midwestern values, as his narrative remained straightforward and honest. The warmth and hometown feel of The Mill provided a perfect atmosphere for the event and complimented Clemens poems nicely. “I really like having it at The Mill,” said McGinn. “Its such a non-pretentious environment.”
Tuesdays with Writer’s will have an anniversary special in July and welcomes poets of any kind to come and share their creativity. “You have a chance to come here and be recognized,” said Walton.