Laura Sims, Hadara Bar-Nadav, & Michael Dumanis at The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: Sat, April 14th, 7pm

Hadara Bar-Nadav's recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, The Journal, TriQuarterly, Verse, and other journals. Her book of poems A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight was chosen by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the MARGIE First Book Prize and is now available. Born in New York and former resident of Lincoln, she currently lives in Minnesota and is an Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University.

Read sample poems at her website.





Laura Sims's first book of poetry, Practice, Restraint, won the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize. She is also the author of the chapbooks Bank Book (Answer Tag, 2004), Paperback Book (3rd Bed, 2006), & Corrections (Bronze Skull, 2006). Her poems have appeared in First Intensity, 26, How2, 6X6, La Petite Zine, Columbia Poetry Review, jubilat, LIT, Boston Review, Indiana Review, & 3rd Bed & other journals. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Read sample poems here and here. Read interviews with Laura here and here.



Michael Dumanis' first collection, entitled My Soviet Union, will be available at the reading Saturday. Dumanis holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from the University of Houston. Currently an assistant professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University , he is coeditor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006).

Saturday

Sat. Mar. 24, 2007. 7pm: Joshua Poteat & Allison Titus

Allison Titus has poems in Caketrain, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly,
jubilat & Typo. Her manuscript Barter, Fasten was a finalist in the
2006 National Poetry Series competition. She is the co-editor of the
new journal Handsome. She lives in Richmond, VA where she is at work
on a novel.

Read some poems of hers:

here,
here,
& here.



Joshua Poteat's Ornithologies won the 2004 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, &
his chapbook Meditations won the Poetry Society of Americas 2004
National Chapbook Award. He has won awards from American Literary
Review, River City, Nebraska Review, Marlboro Review, Columbia,
Bellingham Review & others. He has new poems in Virginia Quarterly
Review & Ninth Letter.

Read some of his poems
here,
here,
& here.

Read an interview with him
here.

Sat. Feb. 10, 2007. 7pm: Sandy Florian, Sommer Browning & Julie Doxsee

Sandy Florian was born in New York and raised in Latin America. She is of Colombian and Puerto Rican descent. She holds an MFA from Brown University's Creative Writing Program in Fiction. At Brown, she was the recipient for the Francis Mason Harris Award for best book-length manuscript written by a woman. She was also the recipient of the New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize in Cambridge. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Her work appears in the following journals: Indiana Review, Bombay Gin, Shampoo, La Petite Zine, Washington Square Review, 14 Hills, elimae, New Orleans Review, eratio, Tarpaulin Sky, Gargoyle, 42 Opus, Copper Nickel, Upstairs at Duroc, Word For/Word, Segue, Versal, Horse Less Review, Identity Theory, The Encyclopedia Project, Elixir, dANDelion, The Brooklyn Rail, and others.

Read her poems
here,
here,
here,
& here.



Sommer Browning writes poems & draws comix in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems can or will soon be found at spork, The New York Quarterly, Forklift, Ohio, word for/word and elsewhere. Visit her comix at Asthma Chronicles &, if you're ever in Brooklyn, the poetry reading series she hosts at Pete's Candy Store.

Read her poems
here,
here
& here


Julie Doxsee received her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. After graduation she held adjunct positions at Columbia College and Loyola University Chicago before moving to Denver in 2004 to become an instructor and PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Denver. With the completion of two manuscripts in late 2005, her poems have appeared recently in over twenty-five journals, including Aufgabe, Fourteen Hills, and Tarpaulin Sky. A chapbook, The Knife-Grasses, and a book, Undersleep (Winter 2007/2008) are forthcoming from Octopus Books.

Read her poems
here,
here,
here
& here.

Saturday Nov. 18, 2006, 7PM: G.C. Waldrep, Kerri Sonnenberg & Kristi Maxwell

Saturday Nov. 18, 2006, 7PM: G.C. Waldrep, Kerri Sonnenberg & Kristi Maxwell

Kristi Maxwell, author of Realm Sixty-Four (forthcoming from Ahsahta Press), is pursuing her doctorate at the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have most recently appeared in 580 Split, Coconut, How2, Spinning Jenny & Tarpaulin Sky, & her poems are forthcoming in Backwards City Review, BirdDog, Lit, POOL & the tiny. In her non-language-related time, she likes to practice kung fu.

Read some of her work
Here
Here
Here
& Here


Kerri Sonnenberg lives in Chicago where she directs the Discrete Reading Series. In 2004 Litmus Press published her first book, The Mudra. Her chapbook, Practical Art Criticism (Bronze Skull Press, 2004), will be included in the forthcoming anthology The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab, 2008). Recent writings appear in MiPoesias, Magazine Cypress, Factorial & in the Unpleasant Event Schedule.

Read some of here work
Here
Here
Here
& Here


G.C. Waldrep's first book of poems, Goldbeater's Skin, won the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, judged by Donald Revell. His second full-length book, Disclamor, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2007. He is also the author of two chapbooks, The Batteries (New Michigan Press, 2006) & One Way No Exit (Burning Chair, 2006). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Georgia Review, American Letters & Commentary, Slope, Octopus, Tin House, New American Writing, & other journals. He teaches at Kenyon College in Ohio.

Read some of his work
Here
Here
Here
& Here

Sat. Oct. 28. 7 PM. Karla Kelsey, Matt Hart, and Aaron McCollough

Saturday Oct. 28, 7PM: Matt Hart, Karla Kelsey & Aaron McCollough

Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collection, Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and the chapbooks, Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005) & Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006). His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including The Canary, Coconut, Lungfull! & Octopus . A co-founder and editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Ohio with his wife & daughter & teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

2 Poems in Coconut #5
5 Poems in Siren #1
2 Poems in Alice Blue Review #1
3 Poems in Konundrum Engine Literary Review
Sonnet collaborations w/Ethan Paquin in Tarpaulin Sky

The website for his band Travel (all the tracks can be downloaded for free)


Karla Kelsey is a graduate of the University of Denver (PhD) & the Iowa Writer's Workshop (MFA). Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, her first book of poems, won the 2005 Sawtooth Poetry prize judged by Carolyn Forche & is out from Ahsahta Press. She has recently finished a book-length manuscript based on the sonnet called Iteration Nets; poems from this book can be found in recent issues of the Denver Quarterly, Bird Dog, & the New Review of Literature. Along with her husband Peter & dog Jessa-Belle she lives on the Susquehanna River.

An Introduction & Poems in The Boston Review
1 Poem in GutCult
6 Poems in Drunken Boat


Aaron McCollough's third book of poems, Little Ease, was released in September by Ahsahta Press. His other books include Double Venus (Salt, 2003) and Welkin (Ahsahta, 2002). McCollough lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the editor of the online poetry magazine GutCult.

2 Poems on Jacket
1 Poem on Typo
4 Poems on Word/For Word
2 Longer Poems on Slope

Friday, Sept 22, 7pm at The Sheldon Art Gallery: Grace Bauer, Gabriel Gudding & Nathan Bartel

Nathan Bartel grew up in the Colorado Rockies, & recieved his MFA at the University of Montana, where he was a Richard Hugo scholar. Hewas a 2004 Ruth Lilly Fellow, & a 2005-2006 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He has published poems & reviews in Cutbank, The Common Review & Shankpainter. He teaches at his undergraduate alma mater, Bethel College, & lives in Newton, KS.

Grace Bauer’s is the author of Beholding Eye (CustomWords, 2006) and The Women At The Well (Portals Press, 1997), as well as three chapbooks of poems: Where You’ve Seen Her (Pennywhistle Press), The House Where I’ve Never Lived (Anabiosis Press), and Field Guide To The Ineffable: Poems On Marcel Duchamp (Snail’s Pace Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including: Arts & Letters, Colorado Review, Doubletake, Margie, Poetry, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, and others. She has received an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, and Individual Artist Grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council, as well as fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is co-editor (with Julie Kane) of the anthology, Umpteen Ways Of Looking At A Possum: Creative And Critical Responses To Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press). In August 2006, her manuscript was chosen by Robert Pack as winner of the Idaho Poetry Prize. The winning manuscript, Retreats & Recognitions, will be published by Lost Horse Press in 2007. She teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002) and rhode island notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), the latter being a book he wrote entirely in his car during 25 roundtrips on the highways between Providence, RI and Normal, IL. A resident of Normal, Illinois since 2002, he is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Illinois State University. He is a trained mediator for the university and practices Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. A winner of the Starrett Prize, the Nation Discovery Award, his work appears in such venues as New American Writing, LIT, Fence, American Poetry Review, Sentence, Jacket, and in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). He serves on the Board of Directors for the internationalist magazine Mandorla: New Writing from the Americans/ Nueva Escritura de las Américas. He has begun two creative writing programs in prisons and maintains a blog, Conchology. And oh yeah: "Gudding" rhymes with pudding.

The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour

at The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
12 & R Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska
September 11th, 7-9PM

Joshua Beckman
Matthew Zapruder
Anthony McCann
Erin Belieu
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Anselm Berrigan
Michael Dumanis
Grace Bauer
Zachary Schomburg
Mathias Svalina


The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour will be stopping in Lincoln Monday Sept. 11th. Stopping at 50 cities in 50 days, the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour is the biggest literary event of 2006. Beginning September 4 and ending October 27, over one hundred poets, along with musicians, filmmakers and journalists, will participate as the bus traverses North America, bringing innovative poetry to big cities and small towns across the U.S. and Canada. Sponsored by Wave Books, the poetry bus will go more places with more poets reading more poems than was ever previously believed possible.

Touring poets Joshua Beckman, Matthew Zapruder, Anthony McCann, Erin Belieu, Joshua Marie Wilkinson & Anselm Berrigan are teaming up with local poets Michael Dumanis, Grace Bauer, Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina to bring you a night of fun-filled poetry antics.

In addition to the Sheldon the tour's venues include: The Space Needle in Seattle, WA; The Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD; The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN; The Bama Theater in Tuscaloosa, AL; James Turrell’s Roden Crater in AZ; Dia:Beacon in Beacon, NY; Dia Art Foundation in New York, NY; as well as bookstores, galleries, clubs, prisons and schools across the continent.

Participating poets throughout the entire tour include: Eileen Myles, James Tate, Cole Swensen, Dean Young, Joshua Beckman, Noelle Kocot, Matthew Zapruder, Tyehimba Jess, Hoa Nguyen, Richard Siken, Katy Lederer, Dara Wier, Arthur Sze, Catherine Wagner, Srikanth Reddy, Matthew Rohrer, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Bhanu Kapil and over 100 more.

This is going to be fun.

The Coming Year

We're almost done finishing the schedule--
we'll let you know as soon as it's ready.

The Clean Part is going to be rocking the Sheldon this upcoming year. See look.