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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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

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.

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.

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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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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

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.