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2012 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 14:15

Congratulations to this year's Pushcart Prize Nominees! Best of luck to these contributors--stay tuned for the results!

"'The Killing State'/The Murdering State," a poem by John Kinsella from Summer 2012
"God, God," a poem by Fleda Brown from Summer 2012
"Choice," a poem by Sudeep Sen from Winter 2012 (forthcoming)
"It Takes Nine Lives to Cross Nebraska," a poem by Daniel Wideman from Winter 2012 (forthcoming)
"Wars of Attrition," a poem by Laura Da' from Winter 2012 (forthcoming)
"If Gold is Drilled in Bristol Bay," a poem by dg okpik from Winter 2012 (forthcoming)

Meet Your Senior Reader: Creative Nonfiction

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Mon, 11/26/2012 - 16:20
This series introduces you to the people who are reading your stuff

Sarah Fawn Montgomery holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from California State University-Fresno and is currently a PhD student in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays and her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in various magazines including DIAGRAM, Fugue, The Los Angeles Review, New South, North Dakota Quarterly, The Pinch, Puerto del Sol, South Dakota Review and others.

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Briefly Noted

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Fri, 11/23/2012 - 15:28
A monthly book review in brief from PS staff and associates

Volume 1, Issue 6. November 2012.
Dawes on Sadie Jones' Small Wars
Moritz on Eddie Chuculate's Cheyenne Madonna
Orsi on John Brandon's Citrus County
Parms on Amy Leach's Things That Are

"I just want to be in love with everything."

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 14:44
Blog Editor Claire Harlan Orsi interviews CNF Contest Winner Natalie Vestin on her essay, "How To Own a Building"

Natalie Vestin, a writer and health researcher based in St. Paul, won Prairie Schooner's first Creative Nonfiction Contest. We're releasing this interview as a preview to her essay, which will appear in the Spring 2013 Issue of Prairie Schooner.

This essay goes so many different places, literally and metaphorically: Minnesota, Hiroshima, Hamburg, New York City; anecdotes and abstract reflections, past and present meditations. I’m curious about your composition process. Did you know you were going to bring together these disparate elements in the way you did? From where did the form of the essay emerge?

Charlene Spearen Recap!

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Tue, 11/20/2012 - 13:33
PS Intern Alex Barrett describes the poet's visit

Indigo Bridge Books hosted the third installment of Prairie Schooner's Visiting Writer Series on Thursday, November 15. Guest poet Charlene Spearen read selections from her first poetry collection, A Book of Exquisite Disasters, as well as some new work. Introducing Spearen’s reading was Kwame Dawes, once her mentor, who called her poetry "at once moving if even at times disturbing."

Spearen’s witness of the illness and eventual death of her brother, Charlie, was the inspiration for the first segment from her book. Charlie coined the title that became the first poem she read, “Magic Inside a Hell Box.” Helplessness and pain wove through all her “Charlie poems.”

Veterans Writing War

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Sun, 11/18/2012 - 14:02
Dispatches from Blog Editor Claire Harlan Orsi

As the troop drawdown in Afghanistan continues (albeit amid internecine conflict, an uncertain Afghan government and security force and a recently and ignominiously-departed CIA director), it’s worth reflecting on a fascinating offshoot of our country’s 10-year involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan: the growth of creative writing programs specifically catering to veterans.

Winter Cover Preview!

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 11:54

 

Check out this arresting cover image, titled "Downwind from Hanford." It's by the Pawnee/Yakama artist Bunky Echo-Hawk, an Oklahoma-based, internationally known artist who has exhibited in major galleries worldwide.

Find out more about Echo-Hawk's work at www.bunkyechohawk.com. And stayed tuned to the Prairie Schooner website for the upcoming unveiling of our Winter 2012 Issue, which includes a special Native American writing portfolio curated by Sherman Alexie.

 

 

 

Nebraska Library Tour Dates!

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 14:12

Last week we announced an exciting effort by Prairie Schooner to reach out to Nebraska readers: the 2012 Nebraska Library Tour!
Here are the dates, times and locations Prairie Schooner Editor in Chief Kwame Dawes and Managing Editor Marianne Kunkel will be visiting in December.

Saturday, Dec. 8, 2 p.m.
Keene Memorial Library
1030 N Broad St
Fremont, NE 68025

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m.
Potter Public Library
333 Chestnut
Potter, NE 69156

Wednesday, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.
Broken Bow Public Library
626 South D. St.
Broken Bow, NE 68822

Thursday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m.
Alliance Library
1750 Sweetwater Avenue
Alliance, NE 69301

"A Book is Not Like a Baby"

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Mon, 11/12/2012 - 15:57
An Interview with Poet Anindita Sengupta

This is the ninth in a series of blog posts by guest contributor Nabina Das, who writes about Indian books and authors.

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Anindita Sengupta is a poet, writer, journalist and consultant whose first collection of poems, City of Water, was published by Sahitya Akademi in February 2010.

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How do you see yourself as a new mother and writer? I’m getting very personal here.

 

The image is a bit blurry. There has been—and continues to be—a period of calibrating. Personal goals and dreams, mundane or magnificent, have to be weighed on the scale of how they will affect her.

 

Elliott Woods Recap

Submitted by Prairie Schooner on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 13:37
PS Intern Charles Hiebner describes the visiting writer's talk

On Tuesday, Oct. 30, Prairie Schooner and the University of Nebraska's College of Journalism and Mass Communications co-sponsored a visit from the Iraq-war-veteran-turned-reporter Elliot D. Woods. Woods' presentation was geared primarily toward the use of digital media in the new journalism paradigm. It didn't take long to see parallels between the print-to-digital/integrated multimedia crisis that journalism is facing and the issues facing the world of publishing as a whole. Many of his innovative solutions push the limits of all media, such as a "living website." Woods demonstrated how to be an effective multimedia communicator in an age where old and new are in a state of flux. He is not shy to embrace new technology, nor is he unaware that print media still has a place in the grand scheme of things.

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