![]() ![]() During his service, in 19, Berry was the chief defense counsel for II Field Force Vietnam, the largest general court martial jurisdiction for American forces in Vietnam. ![]() Berry attended Stanford University, Infantry Officer School at Fort Benning, GA, and the Judge Advocate General School in Charlottesville, VA. Stevens Berry: We visited Steve Berry in his offices in Lincoln where he regaled us with so many good stories we could have spent the afternoon there with him! We recorded two of his powerful poems about his time in Vietnam, which are included in his upcoming book "Foot Soldier." A well-known criminal defense attorney and founder of the Berry Law Firm in Lincoln, NE. Her work has been published in American Life in Poetry, Nimrod,, , RHINO, Chattahoochee Review, Poetry East, Poet Lore, and other journals. She earned her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at UNL and has received the WILLA Award and the High Plains Book Award. Marjorie Saiser is the author of eight books of poetry and co-editor of two anthologies. ![]() Her full-length collection of poetry, A Crazy Little Thing, was published by Wayne State College Press just this spring. Her chapbooks include One Life Shining: Addie Finch Farmwife from Pudding House Press, and Two-Toned Dress, which was the winner of the 2019 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize. Lucy is a writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Their place in the history of Nebraska literature cannot be understated. #ProspectStreetWritersHouse’s philosophy is embodied in poet Donald Hall’s maxim – “The friendship of writers is the history of literature.” These two poets have been friends of and to so many writers in the Nebraska writing community. Hansman, the founder of Prospect Street Writers House in North Bennington, Vermont. As I tried to say in the introduction, (which looks a lot like something that belongs on an outtakes reel!) the idea for pairing them came to me from V. Lucy Adkins and Marjorie Saiser: Today’s reading is a Daily Double treat featuring the poets Lucy Adkins and Marge Saiser. She is the Poet of Highway 81 where she lives with husband Bob (What Bob Says- Some More), writing to the sighing and whizzing of the traffic for over half her life. She has studied with John Neihardt, William Stafford and was an apprentice to Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University, helping him assemble his writing notebooks. She's had two poems selected for American Life in Poetry, newspaper column initiated by Ted Kooser, and one "Uniforms" was also performed in the nude (by an acting troupe) during the Omaha Writing Festival. Two of her books have won the Poetry Award from Nebraska Center for the Book and she is a recipient of an Individual Artist award from the Nebraska Arts Council. Barbara grew up not far from there, near the spot where "the Platte and the Missouri rivers meet and kiss.” She taught writing and literature at Northeast College for thirty years and initiated and ran the Visiting Writer Series there plus the student magazine Voices Out of Nowhere. There's even a playlist!Ī big thank you to all the poets involved!īarbara Schmitz: Today our poet joins us from her home in Norfolk NE. You can also find them on YouTube on Larksong's channel under 30 Poets in 30 Days. Once live the link will stay live so you can watch as many times as you like. To watch, click on the 30 Poets 30 Day thumbnail image. The link to each daily reading will become "live" at 3 am CST on the date they're listed. The poems range from heartbreaking to laugh-out-loud funny, and like such emotions in life they are all mixed up in this list, so you never know what you'll find when you click on a link and start watching. We recorded 30 poets for this event - 31 actually, there's a bonus double reading on April 6! We reached them via Zoom, visited them in their homes, found them at work, at the airport, and at the Associated Writing Program Conference in Seattle. Nebraska has a rich and active literary life and this 30 Poets program is designed to celebrate it. The mix of new and familiar allowed us to reach in this one program one of the primary objectives of all the programs we offer: to bring new voices to Nebraska audiences and help send Nebraska voices out into the world. Most of those were new acquaintances and this event was their introduction to Larksong. This year we asked Larksong members first to fill half the reading slots, and the other half we filled during a visit to the Associated Writing Program's Conference and Book Fair in Seattle. Welcome to Larksong's celebration of National Poetry Month - 30 Poets in 30 Days! This annual event brings together poets from all over the country with poets local to Nebraska. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |