Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska. In Nebraska, a beautiful and evocative collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his work—the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The poems, set against the backdrop of Nebraska’s discrete cycle of seasons, are meditative even as they search for a sense of place in a new landscape. While he shovels snow or walks in the bitter cold to his car, he is engulfed with memories of Kingston, yet when he travels, he finds himself longing for the open space of the plains and the first snowfall. With a strong sense of place and haunting memories, Dawes grapples with life in Nebraska as a transplant.
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Incarnate: The Collected Dead Man Poems will be released in October 2019 by Copper Canyon Press: The Dead Man, Marvin Bell’s brilliant poetic invention, is an overarching consciousness, alive and dead at once, defeating time. Mystical and anonymous, The Dead Man offers searing insight into the joys, as well as the catastrophes, of fluctuating cultural and political moments.
MFA faculty member and author Molly Gloss talked about writing with a former student at CraftLiterary.com.
Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of The Robot Scientist's Daughter, was featured in a Q&A discussion in Luna Station Quarterly.
Jamie Zerndt MFA '08, an instructor in Pacific University's English Language Institute, has published Jerkwater, a novel about racial tensions surrounding Native American fishing rights.
Timothy O'Leary MFA '15, whose short story collection "Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face" was published last year, has a new story, "Homeless Gary Busey," in Moon Magazine.
The literary site Belletrist has published "My Son is Trying to Forget Himself," a poem by Cynthia Neely MFA '13.
Rick Krizman MFA '16 had his short story, "The Second Coming" published by Belletrist.
Arthur Ginsberg, who received an MFA in creative writing at Pacific University in 2010, has had his poem The Journey published by "Pulse: Voices from the heart of medicine."
One of the country’s top low-residency literary programs welcomed 33 new alumni on Saturday, June 22.