Join two of Nebraska's most beloved poets, Barbara Schmitz and Greg Kosmicki, for an evening reading from a variety of their works across the years.
Born and raised in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, poet and editor Barbara Schmitz earned a BA at Wayne State College and an MA at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her lyric free verse engages personal and spiritual journeys, and her poetry collections include "How to Get Out of the Body" (1999) and Nebraska Center for the Book Poetry Award–winner "How Much Our Dancing Has Improved" (2005). Schmitz’s poetry has been featured in the anthologies "The Plains Sense of Things: Eight Poets from Outstate Nebraska" (1997), "The Decade Dance" (1991), and "All My Grandmothers Could Sing" (1980). Her honors include a grant from the Nebraska Arts Council and a residency at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos. Former editor of Elkhorn Review, she is professor emerita at Northeast Community College. She teaches writing at the Caravan of the Beautiful, a center for spirituality.
Greg Kosmicki is a poet and retired social worker who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He founded The Backwaters Press in 1997, which he now serves as Editor Emeritus. Greg’s poetry has been published in numerous magazines since 1975, both print and online. Some of his earliest publications were in Poetry NOW in 1975 and the Paris Review in 1977. Greg has continued to publish poems in literary journals including Briar Cliff Review, Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, Connecticut Review, Cortland Review, Dacotah Territory, Green Hills Literary Lantern, New Letters, Nimrod, Paris Review, Poetry East, Poetry NOW, Rattle, Smoking Poet, SolsticeLitMag, Paddlefish, and Windless Orchard. He received artist fellowships for his poetry from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2000 and 2006. He is the author of four books and eight chapbooks of poems. Two of the poems from his book from Word Press, "Some Hero of the Past", and one poem from his chapbook from Pudding House Publications, "New Route in the Dream", have been selected by Garrison Keillor and read by him on The Writer’s Almanac on Minnesota Public Radio. His newest book, "It’s as Good Here as it Gets Anywhere", was published in November 2016 by WSC Press.
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