Poetry Reading – Julie Paschold, Amy Haddad, and Bonnie Johnson-Bartee

Saturday, June 7th at 4:30 PM brings three prize winning poets to Francie & Finch Bookshop! Learn more about these writers below!

Julie S. Paschold (Tansy Julie the Soaring Eagle) is a poet and artist from Nebraska.  They have their BS and MS in agronomy from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. They have published three poetry books. Horizons (Atmosphere Press: paperback & audiobook) honors soil through family, identity, and nature, and won a Nebraska Book Award in 2024. Their chapbook You Have Always Been Here (Bass Clef Books: paperback) is an unconventional love story.  Human Nature (WSC Press: paperback & Atmosphere Press: audiobook) explores humanity’s ecological and environmental connection to nature and the planet earth. Julie has been published in a wide range of publications. Their poem “Multitudes of Blue Arrows” was a semi-finalist in the first Kate Sommers Memorial Prize in 2023, and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in contests by Writer’s Digest in 2021 and 2022. They volunteer as a human book with the international Human Library Organization. For more, read their blog on https://medium.com/@jpaschold or their author website at https://jpaschold.blogspot.com/. Their book Horizons won the Nebraska Book Award for Design.

Amy Haddad is a poet, nurse and educator whose poetry has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Janus Head, Journal of Medical Humanities, Touch, Bellevue Literary Review, Aji, Oberon Literary Journal, Abandoned Mine, Rogue Agent, Rinky Dink Press, Intima, Red-Headed Stepchild, and several anthologies. Her chapbook, The Geography of Kitchens, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her first poetry collection, An Otherwise Healthy Woman, was published by Backwaters Press, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press in 2022. An Otherwise Healthy Woman won first place in the Creative Works category of the American Journal of Nursing Book Awards 2022. Read more about her poetry at www.amyhaddadpoetry.com.

Bonnie Johnson-Bartee is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, Bildungsroman 38 (2004) and Named, but Unknown (2006), and Cord Blood (Sandhills Press, 2023) which won the Nebraska Book Award, Poetry Honor Award. Bonnie is also the editor of Teachers College: Essays on the Art of Education (WSC Press, 2007). Her work can be found in Words Like Rain (WSC Press, 2005) and editions of Voices Out of Nowhere, Judas Goat and Nebraska Life. She teaches creative writing and literature courses at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska, and at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska, where she also serves as the director of the Visiting Writers Series and is the faculty editor of Northeast Community College’s annual student magazine, Voices Out of Nowhere.