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This event is free and open to the public. Join us for literature and conversation! Hosted by Michael Skau.This month features:
Barbara Schmitz taught writing and literature at Northeast College for thirty years and initiated and ran the Visiting Writer Series there. She has six books of poetry and a memoir. Two of her books have won the Poetry Award from Nebraska Center for the book and she is a recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. Her poetry has been published in many literary journals such as Rattle, Prairie Schooner, River Styx and Midwest Quarterly and has also been included in several anthologies, for example: Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, Nasty Women, six Backwaters anthologies including Nebraska Presence and Watching the Perseids. She had two poems selected for American Life in Poetry, newspaper column initiated by Ted Kooser, and one, “Uniforms” was also performed in the nude (by an acting troupe) during the Omaha Writing Festival. She studied with John Neihardt, William Stafford and was an apprentice to Allen Ginsberg, helping him assemble his notebooks. She is the Poet of Highway 81 where she lives with husband Bob (What Bob Says—Some More) writing to the sighing and whizzing of the traffic for over half her life. Latest Book: Sundown at Faith Regional (Pinyon Publishing).
William Trowbridge’s tenth poetry collection, Father and Son, came out from Wayne State College Press in April. Over 550 of his poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and in more than 50 anthologies and textbooks. He is a faculty mentor in the University of Nebraska-Omaha Low-residency MFA in Writing Program and was Poet Laureate of Missouri from 2012 to 2016. For more information, see his website at williamtrowbridge.net.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mister Toad, 1006 Howard St, Omaha, NE 68102-2838, United States,Omaha, Nebraska
