TUESDAYS WITH WRITERS

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

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.

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