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Praise for Inventions of Love: In our former Nebraska State Poet’s newest collection, one can’t help but resonate with subtle presence of the elements—earth, air, and water—that emanate throughout. A book as much about childhood lost as it is found, the speaker skillfully embodies spaces between mourning for the once-vast prairie ecosystem and the joy...
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Praise for Objects Are Closer to You Than They Appear It’s not a surprise when Gailmarie Pahmeier, a poet with a long and distinguished track record, reveals herself in Objects Are Closer to You Than They Appear as a master of her craft. The poems here imbue her subjects—the ordinary tools of other crafts—with a celebratory significance....
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Praise for Objects Are Closer to You Than They Appear It’s not a surprise when Gailmarie Pahmeier, a poet with a long and distinguished track record, reveals herself in Objects Are Closer to You Than They Appear as a master of her craft. The poems here imbue her subjects—the ordinary tools of other crafts—with a celebratory significance....
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Praise for Inventions of Love: In our former Nebraska State Poet’s newest collection, one can’t help but resonate with subtle presence of the elements—earth, air, and water—that emanate throughout. A book as much about childhood lost as it is found, the speaker skillfully embodies spaces between mourning for the once-vast prairie ecosystem and the joy...
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The Judas Goat 2025-2026 literary magazine is finally here! It will be unveiled at the Judas Goat 2025-2026 Open Mic & Release Party on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at The Max Bar & Grill in Wayne, NE. The festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. Contributors to the Judas Goat are encouraged to attend and read from their newly published...
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Praise for Much Needed Rain: Much Needed Rain is a masterful and soulful collection, rich in Japanese-style poems, that extols nature’s wonders with soothing, artistic imagery…Stinson has written a remarkably sensitive and generous book, with rare grace and eloquence, demonstrating his consummate facility with the English language. —Charlotte Digregorio, aut
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October 2026 How did the idea for Cord Blood develop into a collection? Cord Blood is a collection of poems that span decades. I didn’t realize how much I’d written about “motherhood” until Maureen Kingston, one of the people I workshop with, noticed. At that point, I started looking to write poems that filled in...
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MIKE STINSON is a poet from Nebraska, and his first full-length book of poetry is Much Needed Rain (2026). On a wintry day in Nebraska, while sitting at his second-grade desk, Mike looked out the window and became rapt with a glorious red Northern Cardinal perched against a backdrop of fresh fallen snow. A few...
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