Public Information and Communication
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 23, 2017
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Mary Jo Ryan
402-471-3434
800-307-2665
Nebraska Presence: An
Anthology of Poetry Chosen as 2018 One Book One Nebraska
People across Nebraska are encouraged to read the work of
Nebraska poets in 2018—and then talk about the poems with their
friends and neighbors. Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of
Poetry (The Backwaters Press, 2007) edited by Greg Kosmicki
and Mary K. Stillwell was selected as the 2018 One Book One
Nebraska at the Nebraska Center for the Book’s Celebration of
Nebraska Books on October 21.
Poems by more than eighty contemporary Nebraska poets are
featured in the collection. This includes Pulitzer Prize winner
and former Poet Laureate of the United States Ted Kooser,
Nebraska State Poet Twyla Hansen, former State Poet William
Kloefkorn, several poets who have had their poems read on
Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac (Greg Kuzma,
Marjorie Saiser, Grace Bauer, and Greg Kosmicki), and widely
noted poets Hilda Raz, Roy Scheele, Steve Langan, and many
others.
Libraries across Nebraska will join other literary and
cultural organizations in planning book discussions, activities,
and events that will encourage Nebraskans to read and discuss
this book. Support materials to assist with local
reading/discussion activities will be available after January 1,
2018 at
http://onebook.nebraska.gov. Updates and activity listings
will be posted on the One Book One Nebraska Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/onebookonenebraska.
2018 will mark the fourteenth year of the One Book One
Nebraska reading program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for
the Book. It encourages Nebraskans across the state to read and
discuss one book, chosen from books written by Nebraska authors
or that have a Nebraska theme or setting.
One Book One Nebraska is sponsored by Nebraska Center for the
Book, Humanities Nebraska, and Nebraska Library Commission. The
Nebraska Center for the Book brings together the state’s
readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, publishers, printers,
educators, and scholars to build the community of the book,
supporting programs to celebrate and stimulate public interest
in books, reading, and the written word. The Nebraska Center for
the Book is housed at and supported by the Nebraska Library
Commission.
As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission
is an advocate for the library and information needs of all
Nebraskans. The mission of the Library Commission is statewide
promotion, development, and coordination of library and
information services, “bringing together people and
information.”
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