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Kooser Dawes

Kooser stepping away from ‘American Life in Poetry,’ names Dawes as successor

September 8, 2020

Nebraska to celebrate writing, leadership of Dawes

March 4, 2020

Society & Culture

Mark Sanders

Alum Mark Sanders will deliver reading from new poetry collection

September 9, 2019

Natasha Trethewey

Reading series continues with Pulitzer-winning poet

March 28, 2019

Society & Culture

A new publishing agreement will add one journal to the University of Nebraska Press' publication list while expanding the reach of another.

NU Press acquires Backwaters Press

March 21, 2019

Kwame Dawes delivered his Nebraska Lecture on Nov. 10, 2016. The university's Research Council is seeking faculty nominees to deliver the prestigious talks.

Dawes' poetry earns Windham-Campbell Prize

March 18, 2019

Society & Culture

Prairie Schooner cover

Lincoln artist among those featured in new Prairie Schooner

October 5, 2017

Creative Writing Month activities begin Oct. 5

October 2, 2017

Poetry month celebration is April 5

April 5, 2017

In the upper left corner of a 19th century newspaper is an example of poetry UNL's Elizabeth Lorang is researching. She is collaborating with Leen-Kiat Soh, Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and undergraduate students Spencer Kulwicki and Maanas Varma Datla who have developed software to search out and recognize the poetry from digitized newspapers.

Project mines 8 million news pages for poetry

October 13, 2014

Brandon Thornton, Xplicit poet

Slam poet Xplicit performs Feb. 18

February 17, 2014

Kwame Dawes

Dawes writes on the spirit of Sochi

February 10, 2014