Reading. Craft. Conversation.

Teri Grimm & Dan Boster pulled back the curtain on their creative process and invited us to become part of the conversation. We gathered with a community of readers and writers on June 28 from 7 – 9 PM to listen and respond to readings from Grimm and Boster. We dove deeper into our creative process and improved upon our own at a free writing workshop on June 30 from 11:30 – 1:30 PM.

Presented by KANEKO and the Nebraska Writers Collective, feedback is an ongoing series that aims to enliven the conversation about the writing process providing novice and experienced writers an opportunity to collaborate and strengthen their work.

Reading

June 28 | 7 – 9 PM

Workshop

June 30 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Teri Youmans Grimm

Teri Grimm received her BFA in poetry at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and her MFA at Vermont College. Her poetry collection, Dirt Eaters, was chosen for the University of Central Florida’s contemporary poetry series and was published by the University Press of Florida. Her second collection, Becoming Lyla Dore, was published with Red Hen Press in the spring of 2016. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Green Mountains Review, The Rumpus, Indiana

Review, South Dakota Review, Connecticut Review, Sugar House Review, EAT and Homegrown in Florida: An Anthology of Florida Childhoods, among other journals and anthologies and she is a contributor for the podcast, Swamp Radio. She is the recipient of a Nebraska Arts Fellowship and has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Hambidge Center. She teaches in the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s low-res MFA program.

Dan Boster

Daniel Boster has been teaching English for 21 years, the last 15 at Ralston High School in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also teaches college writing classes. He is a former co-director of the Nebraska Writing Project at the University of Nebraska. His poetry has appeared in, among others, Cream City Review, Trajectory, and the Hiram Poetry Review.

The Nebraska Writers Collective

Founded in 2008, The Nebraska Writers Collective is an Omaha-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that fosters personal empowerment and community-building in the Midwest through creative writing and performance poetry. We pursue this mission through a variety of literary outreach programs, but primarily through hands-on, interactive workshops focused on the creation and performance of original writing.

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