“The job of the writer is to notice crickets before they hop away. Keep a notebook handy – I say to my grad students. We want to tell our readers – Quick see this with me. But we also know that spark …
Categories: Literature
Category: Literature
Jason writes about poet Langston Hughes in his recent biography of Langston Hughes: Critical Lives in which he makes the case of Hughes as an accomplished poet and international literary figure.
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“Most writers – and many readers – groove a particular channel of popular fiction, but some of us are magpies. For me, what holds all pop lit I have consumed, taught, critiqued, and written, is a cert …
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This title speaks to the variety of Chuck’s experiences, the difficulty of making something out of such a variety, the affections that prompted the chronicle from start to completion. “This poetry and …
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Nathan is able to research his interest in hobos, as an historian at the University of Nebraska-Kearney where he teaches courses on Nebraska history, digital and public history, and history of the Uni …
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In Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg you’ll find many classics, some of which you may remember from your childhood, including Young Bullfrogs, Shenandoah, Jazz Fantasia, Fog, and 31 more of Sandburg’s fa …
Categories: Art, Literature
On Kearney Creates website you’ll discover a full portrait of Kearney’s writing life from early times to today, including writers, writing organizations and reading venues.
Categories: Art, Literature
In this 2015 production of “Prayers for the People” Sandburg’s collection of poems in “Slabs of the Sunburnt West” demonstrate his love of that landscape and regional lifestyles. This last performance …
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Produced by Kate Benzel, this 2011 Sandburg performance, focuses on his Chicago Poems and blues songs from his American Songbag 1927.
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This is the first of the Prayers for the People performance produced by Kate Benzel. We celebrate Carl Sandburg’s songs, poetry, and proverbs from the Great Plains and Nebraska by bringing to the Nebr …
Categories: Literature, Music