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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Garrett Peck - The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, June 9th\, we welcome author and historian Garrett Peck\, from New Mexico\, to Francie & Finch Bookshop! He will be presenting his book\, The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop. The book explores Cather’s travels to the Southwest that inspired her to write her “best book” (her words)\, Death Comes for the Archbishop. We can’t wait to see you there!\nCall or visit our website to order your copy now! \nAbout the Book:\nAuthor and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book. Six months before she died\, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop her “best book.” The Atlantic magazine concurred\, including Archbishop on its Great American Novels list in 2024. A perennial favorite for people who love New Mexico\, the novel tells an unusual story of two French priests and best friends serving on the American frontier before the arrival of the railroad. This Western work of fiction is loosely based on two historical figures\, Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Bishop Joseph Machebeuf. \nIn The Bright Edges of the World\, Garrett Peck explores how Cather’s travels to the Southwest inspired her writing. She visited the Southwest six times between 1912 and 1926\, and from these journeys came three novels\, the last of which was Death Comes for the Archbishop. Through Cather’s letters\, postcards\, articles\, and interviews\, Peck traces how integral travel was to Cather’s imagination while highlighting the vital contribution that Cather’s longtime partner\, Edith Lewis\, made to the story. The Bright Edges of the World is richly illustrated to highlight Cather and Lewis’s extensive Southwestern adventures. \nThough Archbishop is a work of fiction\, Peck explores how Cather wove some of the most legendary people in New Mexican history into her novel\, such as Archbishop Lamy\, Kit Carson\, and Padre Antonio José Martínez\, while subtly hinting toward the complexity of Pueblo Indian and Navajo (Diné) faith. Archbishop is a multicultural novel that reflects the diversity of New Mexico’s people. \nDeath Comes for the Archbishop remains a timeless book of friendship on the American frontier and an inspiration for people who\, as Cather wrote\, “have gone a-journeying in New Mexico on the trail of the Archbishop.” \nAbout the Author:\nGarrett Peck is an author\, independent historian\, and tour guide in Santa Fe\, specializing in adventure travel and historic and cultural interpretation. He leads the Willa Cather’s Santa Fe tour\, teaches stargazing\, and leads many other tours. \nThe author of nine books about American history\, Garrett’s latest is The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop (University of New Mexico Press\, March 2026). The book explores Cather’s travels to the Southwest that inspired her to write her “best book” (her words)\, Death Comes for the Archbishop. \nGarrett has lectured for the Library of Congress\, the National Archives\, Smithsonian Associates\, the New Mexico History Museum\, historical societies\, and literary clubs. A native Californian\, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and George Washington University and is a U.S. Army veteran. \nPraise for The Bright Edges of the World:\n“The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop is both a deep dive into one of Cather’s most beloved classics and also an exhilarating guided trek through a rugged slice of Southwestern literary history.” – Kali Fajardo-Anstine\, author of Woman of Light: A Novel\n\n“A well-researched and timely synopsis of the genesis of Cather’s Archbishop. The contextualization of her ‘best book’ through historical analysis and biography is refreshing. Peck thoughtfully traverses the captivating landscape and diverse cultures of the Southwest alongside Willa Cather\, her partner Edith Lewis\, and an assemblage of real and fictionalized characters.” – Ashley Olson\, executive director of the National Willa Cather Center \n“An entertaining and informative popular history of New Mexico as well as a strong work of literary scholarship.” – Gary Scharnhorst\, author of Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-garrett-peck-the-bright-edges-of-the-world-willa-cather-and-her-archbishop/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Lisa Knopp -  Ravelings: Essays on Love\, Loss\, and Wonder (American Lives )
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome author Lisa Knopp on June 13th at 4:30! She will read from her recent book of essays\, Ravelings\, published by the University of Nebraska Press.\nTo order a copy of the book\, follow the link HERE.\n\nAbout the Book: \n\nIn Ravelings\, Lisa Knopp takes up an older\, opposing meaning of the verb “ravel”—“to entangle”—as she explores the deaths and departures of loved ones and the rituals by which we mourn and honor them\, while contemplating her relationships with writing\, spirituality\, sense of home\, aging\, desire\, and the relationship between body and mind. Entangled in these losses and changes\, Knopp experiences wonder\, joy\, connectivity\, and wholeness. \n\nIn these nimble and companionable essays\, Knopp considers hunger and fullness through ethical\, disordered\, and mindful eating; awakens to common magic through two chance encounters with a magician; and finds humility and empowerment as an unpartnered sixty-year-old woman in a ballroom dance class filled with young couples. Knopp comprehends her experiences with nuance\, revealing time and again that the same ravel of text can encompass the blending in a single moment of the exotic and mundane\, of fullness and want\, of love and abhorrence\, of desire and contentment\, of freedom and bondage\, of severance and connection\, and of the creative act as both an evocation and an imposition.\n\nAbout the Author:\nLisa Knopp is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She is the author of eight books\, including From Your Friend\, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row\, Interior Places (Nebraska\, 2008)\, and The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays (Nebraska\, 2002).\n\nPraise for Ravelings\n“When I finished this book\, I just wanted to write as my book review\, ‘Buy this book. Read it.”’1\,200 times on the page. ” — Carolyn-Roy Bornstein Hippocampus Review\n\n“[Knopp is] well-read\, offering perspectives from other writers\, and she’s at home in the world of nature after years of writing essays on that topic. Her metaphors and insights are apt and moving\, making this collection a joy.”—Booklist\n\n“Lisa Knopp’s essays invite us to notice the things of daily life while pointing us to what shimmers just beyond our line of vision. Knopp is clear-eyed and reverent as she harnesses examples from art and etymology\, memory studies and theology\, to explore loss\, aging\, and the rich layers of human appetite. These essays embody the holy work of paying attention\, of forging connection\, and of letting go. A luminous\, tender collection by a master of the form.”—Sonja Livingston\, author of The Virgin of Prince Street\n\n“You want to go deep into Lisa Knopp’s essays. They’re not meant for a quick read. Detail is all. Like the impressionists she refers to\, each one is itself\, often without need for a story. Yet the rich story of her life runs through like a stream—the death of a beloved cat\, the death of parents\, eating doves\, the comfort of a giant sweet potato\, consulting the almanac\, finding a lost car. These beautifully written essays are a record of a life lived with sensitivity and wisdom. Her essay ‘Still Life with Peaches’ is a map for how to see\, how to find words for close-seeing. I couldn’t put this book down.”—Fleda Brown\, author of The End of the Clockwork Universe\n\n“Ravelings beautifully knits together the complexities of the head\, the entanglements of the heart\, and the all-too-human hungers that hit us right in the gut. These essays delve into the rich contradictions of singleness and connection\, balance and chance\, fullness and lack—always with a sense of wonder and intellectual grace. Thoughtful\, poignant\, and beautifully written\, this is a book I will return to again and again.”—Randon Billings Noble\, author of Be with Me Always: Essays\n\n“In this collection of virtuoso essays\, Lisa Knopp puzzles and ravels topics ranging from encountering her mother’s dead body to dancing with a broom. The lowly sweet potato\, the exalted peach\, the art of Renoir and Lassnig\, all warrant her probing consideration. The essay on a familiar feeling with the little-known name of velleity is one of many startling discoveries lifted from the ordinary. With every deep dive into these streams of her life\, we vibrate like a tuning fork\, resonating and enriching our understanding of the intricate balances and delicious contradictions of everyday life.”—Pamela Carter Joern\, author of At the Corner of Past and Future: A Collection of Life Stories
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SUMMARY:Book of Poetry Launch - Nicole Lachat in conversation with Ber Anena - The Red We Silk
DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming poet Nicole Lachat as she presents her new book of poetry The Red We Silk. Nicole will be joined in a special conversation with fellow writer\, Ber Anena. This event will be held on Tuesday\, June 30th and is open to the public!\nTo order your copy of The Red We Silk\, follow the link HERE! \nAbout the Book:\nThe Red We Silk collects inherited migrations and the weight of familial journeys into a lyric investigation of displacement and longing. Memory abides in the body and the body in memory\, propelling the speaker through geographical and spiritual landscapes\, desires\, and griefs toward the transformative work of discovery. Tender\, attentive\, and multivocal\, these are poems of belonging beyond borders. \nAbout the Author:\nNicole Lachat was born in Edmonton\, Canada\, to a Peruvian mother and a Swiss father. She holds PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. Her debut collection\, The Red We Silk\, was the recipient of the 2024 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, Ruminate Magazine\, One by Jacar Press\, Birdfeast Magazine\, The Puerto Rico Review\, and Poets.org\, among others. She was awarded the 2022 Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize through the Academy of American Poets and received a 2024 Individual Arts Fellowship through the Nebraska Arts Council. She is a mentor for Adroit Journal’s 2026 Summer Mentorship Program. Nicole currently resides in Canada. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Speaker:\nBer Anena is a writer from Gulu\, Uganda. She attended the MFA Writing program at Columbia University and is finalizing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she has received the Vreeland Prize for Fiction and the Susan Atefat Peckham Prize for Poetry. Anena’s debut poetry collection\, A Nation in Labour\, won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2018. Her works appear in or are forthcoming from Transition Magazine\, Wasafiri\, Prairie Schooner\, The Atlantic\, adda\, Off  Assignment and Black Warrior Review. Her prose has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and nominated forthe Pushcart. Anena’s memoir\, THE LIES WE TELL FOR AMERICA is out on November 10\, 2026 from Flatiron Books by Macmillan. \nPraise for collection:\n“The Red We Silk is an impressive debut that captures with elegance and ease the truly twenty-first century phenomenon of multiple migrations and cultural intersections as they manifest in the body of a gifted poet. Nicole Lachat frames these considerations within the Peruvian myth of Chasqui\, who becomes for her a migrant voicing the poetic implications of uprooting and replanting in different spaces. Lachat’s brilliantly generous poems of deep sentiment and spiritual interrogation explore themes of family\, memory\, place\, and desire with resonant beauty.”–Kwame Dawes \n“Reader\, this is no ordinary debut. Nicole Lachat knows that all borders are lies. Citizen and immigrant. Land and body. Parent and child. The quick and the dead. Whatever lines you believe in\, whatever lines you draw\, prepare to have them dissolved. ‘Because you come / ready for war–swearing lightning\, swearing / thunder–I come light-footed. I become / leaf.’ Lachat is here to say that no onehas the right to divide us\, not even us\, that our survival depends on this: knowing we are each other\, knowing we can still become our softest selves. The Red We Silk will change you.”–Rebecca Gayle Howell \n“In this timely debut\, Nicole Lachat’s lyric verve shapes the very ground of ordinary living into a personal history that threads memory with an urgent desire for bonds that survive and transform the temporal\, emotional\, and otherwise disfiguring work of distance. Arresting and smashing.”–Canisia Lubrin
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/book-of-poetry-launch-nicole-lachat-in-conversation-with-ber-anena-the-red-we-silk/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Colleen Morton Busch in conversation with Judy Lorenzen - Smolder
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Ex Ophidia’s 2025 winner for the Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Prize\, Colleen Morton Busch\, as she presents her book of poetry Smolder. Colleen will be joined in conversation by writer Judy Lorenzen. We will see you there! \nAbout the Book:\nSmolder takes its title from a diagnosis my husband received 20 years ago\, of smoldering multiple myeloma—a treatable but incurable blood cancer we’d never heard of before. At that time\, the prescribed treatment was: Don’t do anything. Just watch and wait for myeloma to cause problems. Sometimes the title comes before the work. This lush word—smolder—plucked from the natural world and set down amid arid clinical terms and bewildering medical advice captivated me. I immediately wanted to write a collection of poems entitled Smolder. I did write some of the poems. But then I spent the next two decades working in prose. Eventually\, I found my way back to poetry and its ability to relate a story and accrue meaning the way only a poem can. I had my title\, Smolder\, but now I had the embodied experience of twenty years to spark and sustain the poems. Smolder explores the many kinds of fire blazing inside a life. Fires of rage\, grief\, lust\, loss\, uncertainty and acceptance. They’re love poems\, elegies\, prayers\, howls\, meditations. Together\, the poems reveal what it’s like to live with the open flame of a tender heart \nAbout the Author:\nColleen Morton Busch is the author of the nonfiction book Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire\, selected as a best book of the year by Publisher’s Weekly\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and Barnes and Noble. In Smolder\, winner of the Richard-Gabriel Rummonds prize in poetry\, forthcoming from Ex Ophidia Press\, she returned to her first writing language to explore the many kinds of fire blazing inside a life. Her poems and prose have been published widely\, from Willow Springs\, New Orleans Review\, and Poet Lore to Orion\, The Washington Post\, and Yoga Journal\, where she was a senior editor. She’s an alumna of Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, the Community of Writers\, and Tin House Writers Workshop. She grew up in the heartland and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nFor more about her work\, visit www.colleenmortonbusch.com \nAbout Guest:\nJudy Lorenzen\, a former children’s librarian and English teacher\, is a poet\, writer and teaching artist\, who lives on a farm in Central City\, where she enjoys the vast beauty of the Great Plains every day of her life. Her works appear in journals\, anthologies\, newspapers\, magazines\, and on calendars and websites. Her first book\, Turning Back to Her Love Pages\, was published in May 2025\, Kelsay Books. She is working with a publisher presently on her second book\, Seasons of Reverence\, a poetic memoir of her life on the Great Plains\, which should be out later in 2026.
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-colleen-morton-busch-in-conversation-with-judy-lorenzen-smolder/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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