Poet James Cihlar will present Ames Reading on Sunday, April 17th

Poet and writer James Cihlar is the author of the chapbook Metaphysical Bailout (Pudding House Press, 2010) and the poetry book, Undoing (Little Pear Press, 2008). Cihlar's poems have also appeared in Prairie Schooner, Bloom, Minnesota Monthly, Northeast, The James White Review, Water-Stone Review, Mankato Poetry Review, Plain Songs, and many other magazines and reviews. His work has been included in the anthologies Aunties (Ballentine, 2004), Regrets Only (Little Pear Press, 2006), and Nebraska Presence (Backwaters Press, 2007). Cihlar is also the former editor of Nebraska Humanities. He is the recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Poetry. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The program begins at 2:00 PM Sunday, April 17th in the Heritage Room on the 3rd floor of Bennett Martin Public Library in downtown Lincoln. Please join us. We look forward to an interesting reading.

Marilyn Dorf will present Wednesday, April 6 Lunch at the Library

Marilyn Dorf writes poetry, short stories and essays. She grew up on a farm near Albion, Nebraska, and acquired a lasting appreciation of nature, wildlife and rural life that is reflected in her writing. Her chapbooks include: A Tribute to Buttons (1985), Of Hoopoes and Hummingbirds (1998), Windmills Walk the Night (1992), This Red Hill (2003), I Know That An Owl Owns This Sky (2009). Her poems have been published widely in periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas Quarterly, Wholenotes, Poet, Plainsongs, Bitterroot, and Nebraska Life Magazine, among others. She lives in Lincoln and is the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association's Author Member for 2010-2011.

The Program will begin at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6th , in the auditorium on the fourth floor of Bennett Martin Public Library at 14th and N Streets in downtown Lincoln. Coffee provided by The Mill. Please join us for an interesting program.

Brent Spencer Presents Sunday, March 20 Ames Reading

Brent Spencer is a writer of novels, short stories, screen plays and memoirs. His publications include a novel, The Lost Son (Arcade Publishing) and a collection of stories, Are We Not Men? (Arcade Publishing), which was chosen by the editors of The Village Voice Literary Supplement as one of the best books of the year. His most recent work is a memoir, Rattlesnake Daddy, published by Nebraska's own Backwaters Press, that works through the legacy of his father's cruelties and absence. Spencer directs the Creative Writing Program at Omaha's Creighton University. He is a recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, where he was also a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing, and the James Michener Award at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he earned his MFA. He has also been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and The Millay Colony. He and his wife, Jonis Agee, have won awards for their screenplays. Spencer's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The American Literary Review, Epoch, The Missouri Review, GQ, and Writers Digest, among others.

The program begins at 2:00 PM Sunday, March 20 in the Heritage Room on the 3rd floor of Bennett Martin Public Library in downtown Lincoln. Please join us.

56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

The Willa Cather Foundation will host the 56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, Willa Cather and her Popular Culture, April 29-30, 2011 in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Their poster, right, shows Willa dressed as Peter Paragon in "The Fatal Pin," a Union Girls Dramatic Club production in October, 1892.

Lois Lewandowski presents Lunch at the Library on Wednesday, March 2

Nebraska born writer and Lincoln resident Lois Lewandowski writes the Gillian Jones Mystery Series. Lois is a long time member of the Lincoln Chapter of Sisters in Crime. Both The Fatal Heir (2008) and The Burden of Truth (2010) received honorable mention in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Check Lois's reviews out on Good Reads. Lois will present our next NLHA sponsored Lunch at the Library.

The Program will begin at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2nd, in the auditorium on the fourth floor of Bennett Martin Public Library at 14th and N Streets in downtown Lincoln. Coffee provided by The Mill. Please join us for an interesting program.