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Winter 2002

Hot Spring

Spring 1963

A Painting by Breughel

Spring 1987

Two Trees in Kathmandu

Fall 2002

Litany for the Last Days

Pickled Heads: St. Petersburg by Susan Blackwell Ramsey

Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s “Pickled Heads: St. Petersburg” was selected for The Best American Poetry 2009, but was first published in the Winter 2007 edition of Prairie Schooner. 2007 was Lincoln’s fourth-hottest year on record, with an average temperature of 48 degrees Celsius. In contrast, St. Petersburg, Russia, experienced snowfall on two-thirds of the days from …

Fall 2006

Ghost Town Choir

Summer 1989

Peonies

Spirit Flesh by Reynolds Price

After Lincoln hit a record high of 75 degrees in January of 1990, the following fall was also quite warm. An average temperature around 57 degrees over September, October, and November put the fall of 1990 over five degrees warmer than normal. Reynolds Price’s icy “Spirit Flesh” was featured in Prairie Schooner that fall, providing …

Spring 1984

The House Dress