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With wit and vulnerability, Brandel France de Bravo explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath…

R. F. McEwen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1962 he has been a professional logger and tree trimmer, and he has taught English in Chadron, Nebraska, since 1972. McEwen is the author of several books, most recently The Big Sandy, Bill’s Boys and Other Poems, and And There’s Been Talk . . . His newest poetry collection, Old Rags and Iron: New and Selected Poems…

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Brandel France de Bravo is the author of the poetry collections Provenance and Mother, Loose and the editor of Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2024, 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Conduit, Diode, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Her newest poetry collection, Locomotive Cathedral (Backwaters Press, 2025) was published in March.

The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list. NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community here! Peruse the forthcoming titles that are available on the platform this month: Georgia and Anita LIZA BENNETT Based on extensive research, including their fifty-year correspondence, …

The 2025 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is accepting submissions now through May 1! The winner will be awarded a $2,000 cash prize and the honorable mention will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize. Both winners will be awarded the publication of the book by the University of Nebraska Press under its imprint, Backwaters Press. The judge for the 2025 contest is Maggie Smith, the 

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For someone to slow down and read your book and to feel a connection with you, it's kind of ineffable how that makes you feel. It's overwhelming and it's super humbling.

"Thank You for Staying With Me" is the debut essay collection from Columbia writer Bailey Gaylin Moore.

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Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate (2004–2006) and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, is a retired presidential professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of dozens of books, including Cotton Candy (Nebraska, 2022); Kindest Regards: Poems, Selected and New; Red Stilts; Splitting an Order; and Delights and Shadows.

The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Maggie Smith will be the judge for the 2025 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition.  Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. Her next book is…

Before winning the 2022 Sillerman Prize, the Nigerian poet Tares Oburumu faced seemingly interminable hardship in his personal life.

Connections, too often, mean relinquishing control, and none of the women in THANKS FOR THIS RIOT have enough to spare.