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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Erin Belieu - Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 10th at 5:30 to welcome poet and author Erin Belieu! She will be reading from her works of poetry titled Come-Hither Honeycomb and Slant Six. We’ll see you there!\nAbout the Author: \n\nErin Belieu’s poetry collection\, Come-Hither Honeycomb\, was published in February 2021. \nBelieu‘s other poetry collections are Infanta\, winner of the National Poetry Series\, and chosen one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post\, National Book Critics Circle\, and Library Journal; One Above & One Below\, winner of the Midland Author’s and Ohioana Poetry Prizes; Black Box\, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and Slant Six\, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly\, and was named by the New York Times’s book critic’s one of their 10 Favorite Books of 2014. All of Belieu’s poetry collections are published by Copper Canyon Press. \nBelieu has received admiring reviews for her poetry throughout her writing career. Book critic Dwight Garner in the New York Times says “Belieu is a poet who can’t abide pretension\,” and “She’s a comedian of the human spirit\, in league with poets from Frank O’Hara\, to Deborah Garrison\, to Tony Hoagland.” \nBelieu’s poetry has appeared in many magazines and anthologies\, including the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, Poetry\, Atlantic Monthly\, Slate\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, the Academy of American Poets Poem a Day\, and the American Poetry Review. Her poems have been selected for multiple appearances in the Best American Poetry anthology series. Her prizes include the Rona Jaffe Foundation fellowship\, and she was recently honored with the Barnes and Noble “Writers For Writers Award\, recognizing Belieu’s long career of literary activism\, as well as AWP’s George Garrett Prize\, honoring her “outstanding literary citizenship” in service to the national writing community. Belieu also founded the resistance network\, Writers Resist\, the organization that\, in January 2016\, hosted more than 100 simultaneous events in different cities worldwide to promote the tenets of democracy\, diversity\, and freedom of speech. \n\nStop by or call the shop today to get your copy of Erin’s books!
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Cynthia J. Sylvester with Timothy Schaffert - The Half-White Album
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 8th\, Francie & Finch Bookshop will be welcoming author Cynthia J. Sylvester! Cynthia will be joined in conversation with Timothy Schaffert about her debut novel The Half-White Album\, published by the University of New Mexico Press.\nPurchase a copy of The Half-White Album HERE\nAbout the Book:\nThe Half-White Album – This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction to give readers a poignant though fractured view of her characters’ lives\, their loves\, and their struggles. Told from the perspective of an urban Native\, the work details a journey led by the nomadic band\, the Covers. It is an experience meant to heal generational trauma and bring back into the light people who may otherwise be forgotten. At its heart\, The Half-White Album is a healing ceremony of the author’s own creation\, a process grounded in music that celebrates what it is to be human and imperfect and to love imperfectly. \nAbout the Author:\nCynthia J. Sylvester is an enrolled member of the Diné\, born into the Kiyaa’áanii Clan for the Bilagáana Clan. She is a native of Albuquerque\, New Mexico. Her flash fiction and short stories have appeared in ABQ in Print\, Leon Literary Review\, Lunch Ticket\, As Us Journal\, and Bosque–The Magazine\, among others. \nPraise:\n“The Half-White Album is an astounding healing performance of soulful losses and strong-hearted connections within Diné families\, friends\, and a people. Told through a multitude of carefully curated genres\, Cynthia Sylvester’s debut collection shares a song of restoration and grounding\, of humor and tragedy\, of ancestors and the individuals who live through them today.”–Natanya Ann Pulley\, author of With Teeth \n“The Half-White Album is a stunning powerhouse of literary music! Sylvester writes with deep heart and compassion\, introducing us to characters we can’t help but love\, even as they fall. Her lush\, gorgeous language is a song that heals not only the story but also the reader.”–Susan Power\, author of Sacred Wilderness \nThis compelling debut collection explores liminal spaces\, love\, trauma and healing through poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Sylvester’s writing is radiant\, the musicality is visceral and the voices are captivating and prismatic.\n—Karla Strand\, Ms. Magazine
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SUMMARY:Book Launch -  Timothy Schaffert - The Titanic Survivors Book Club with Pat Leach\, former director of Lincoln City Libraries.
DESCRIPTION:With the launch of THE TITANIC SURVIVORS BOOK CLUB\, a novel about novels\, author Timothy Schaffert discusses seeking out the books that were on board the Titanic\, and other bookish obsessions\, with Pat Leach\, host of the radio show and podcast “All About Books.” Bring along your own book mania for some literary therapy.\nPRE-ORDER your book HERE\nABOUT THE BOOK:\nIn THE TITANIC SURVIVORS BOOK CLUB\, the library steward for the Titanic misses the ship’s launch; this twist of fate and luck leads him to follow his dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. Eventually\, he’s invited to a secret society of people who’d had tickets to the Titanic but didn’t board. And from this society emerges the book club of the title\, and discussion of the library that sunk to the ocean floor.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nAs the author of six previous novels (most recently 2021’s The Perfume Thief\, which the Los Angeles Times named one of their “10 best books for summer beach reading” and Oprah Daily called “a pulse-pounding thriller and a sensuous experience you’ll want to savor”) and founder of the Omaha Lit Fest\, Timothy Schaffert is leaning full tilt into his imaginative prowess. The beloved Nebraskan novelist returns to the cobblestone streets of Paris in his latest offering\, THE TITANIC SURVIVORS BOOK CLUB\, a queer historical novel operating as an ode to books and the transformative power of literature to spark collective remembrance and reconciliation with a secret book society foregrounding it all.  He is the Adele Hall Chair of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and coeditor of Zero Street\, a literary fiction series of the University of Nebraska Press.
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SUMMARY:First Friday Book Launch - The Nebraska Sandhills
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Francie and Finch Bookshop on April 5th at 5:30 as we celebrate the release of The Nebraska Sandhills published by Bison Books of The University of Nebraska Press! The Nebraska Sandhills features nearly forty essays about the history\, people\, geography\, geology\, ecology\, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills\, illustrated with hundreds of remarkable color photographs of the region. We will be joined by the editors! We’ll see you there!\nPre-order a copy of The Nebraska Sandhills HERE\nEdited by\nMonica M. Norby\nJudy Diamond\nAaron Sutherlen\nSherilyn C. Fritz\nKim Hachiya\nDouglas A. Norby\nMichael Forsberg \nAbout the Book:\n“Like a rumpled wool blanket\, the Nebraska Sandhills spreads out over twenty thousand square miles of north central Nebraska and is the largest stabilized dune field in the Western Hemisphere. It is also the largest intact mixed-grass prairie left on the continent.” \nThis description by photographer Michael Forsberg alludes to the exceptional physical geography of the Nebraska Sandhills\, a place of rolling grasslands\, rivers\, and wetlands created by the Ogallala Aquifer that underlies the region. Home to abundant wildlife\, from pronghorn antelope to sandhill cranes\, the Sandhills are an ecological treasure. Dotted with ranches and small towns\, the Sandhills are rich with deep cultural history\, including those of Indigenous peoples\, settlers\, Black homesteaders\, immigrants\, ecotourists\, and some adventurous golfers. \nThe Nebraska Sandhills features nearly forty essays about the history\, people\, geography\, geology\, ecology\, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills. Illustrated with hundreds of remarkable color photographs of the area\, this is the most up-to-date and illuminating portrayal of this remarkable yet largely unknown region of the United States.
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SUMMARY:Author Event - John Waters - River City One
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special author event on Tuesday\, November 14th at 5:30! We will be joined by author and Nebraska resident John Waters as he presents his novel River City One!\nJohn writes\, “I want people to know that war traumatizes everyone it touches.The feeling passes through marriages\, families and generations\, not just those who fight. Coming home is as complex and emotional as the conflict stories we so often tell. The only thing that redeems us is love.” \nAbout the Book:\nThe tale of a man and the memory that haunts him\, River City One is the poetic and compassionate story of John Walker\, a lawyer and ex-Marine adrift in a nameless city. Home from the war\, he has become a man on the edge\, quietly raging against the people he must now work for and live among—the kind of people incapable of understanding the terror he felt in combat and the guilt he carries in his heart. When he meets Ruth\, a beautiful\, famous singer traveling through the city\, John discovers a new passion for living. But as the lies pile up\, he takes more and more foolish risks to hold onto his family and the newfound love that threatens them both. Moving and lyrical\, River City One is the story of a man discovering that the hardest part of going to war is coming home to face yourself. \nAbout the Author:\nJohn J. Waters graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. He served in the Marine Corps as a scout sniper platoon commander and intelligence officer\, deploying to Afghanistan\, Iraq\, and East Africa. He lives with his family in Nebraska\, where he was born. \nPre-order a copy of the book HERE.
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Ae Hee Lee\, Siwar Masannat and Kelly Weber
DESCRIPTION:Join us at F&F on Tuesday\, April 2nd at 5:30 for an evening with Ae Hee Lee\, Siwar Masannat\, Kelly Weber!\nAbout the Authors:\nAe Hee Lee – Born in South Korea and raised in Peru\, Ae Hee Lee is the author of ASTERISM (Tupelo Press 2024)\, selected by John Murillo for the Dorset Prize\, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed\, Dear Bear\, and Connotary (Frost Place Chapbook Competition Winner – Bull City Press 2021). Her work has been published in Poetry Northwest\, The Georgia Review\, New England Review\, and POETRY Magazine\, among others. For more information visit aeheeleekim.com \nSiwar Masannat is a Jordanian writer. Her debut collection of poetry\, 50 Water Dreams\, was selected by Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Competition and published in 2015. Managing editor of the African Poetry Book Fund and Prairie Schooner\, Masannat currently works at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Most recently\, Masannat’s writing has appeared in Bennington Review\, Cordite Poetry Review\, Jacket2\, Mïtra: Revue d’art et de littérature\, and 7iber\, among several other publications. \nKelly Weber (they/she) is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press\, 2022) and You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis\, winner of the 2022 Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize (forthcoming December 2023). They have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI\, Pleaides\, Waxwing\, Gulf Coast Online\, Electric Literature’s The Commuter\, Southeast Review\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University. More of their work can be found at kellymweber.com. \nAbout the Books:\nASTERISM by Lee – This book contemplates the wonders and challenges of transnational\, polycentric living. Moving between South Korea\, Peru\, and the United States\, the poems in the collection find luminous homes at the interstices of bridges\, flight layovers\, languages\, desires\, imperfect memories\, and mutable mouths. They blur the line between self and other: words are translated into connotations\, self-portraits become co-inhabited identities with family\, friends\, foods\, and cultural histories. As ASTERISM interrogates capitalist enactments of fixed and exclusive belonging\, each line seeks to unfurl towards a strangeness and beauty of its own making. \ncue by Masannat –  Jordanian poet considers the cultural nuances of the private-versus-public paradox. With cue\, Siwar Masannat follows up her prize-winning debut with poems that wrestle with intimacy and distance. Departing from love as a force of creation\, cue’s intertextual experiments and lyric poems map environmental relations and pose questions about privacy and visibility\, love and family\, gender\, and ecological agency. \nMasannat responds to artist Akram Zaatari’s excavation of studio portraits by Hashem El Madani. Captured between the 1940s and 1970s in the Lebanese town of Saida\, El Madani’s photographs are living artifacts of a transnational modernity. They archive performances of gender and romance that seek to circumvent respectability politics. The private-public\, then\, emerges as a paradox at the heart of cue’s composition. The desire to commune with and re-transmit the photographs and their stories is accompanied by the speaker’s understanding of how visibility may be coopted and how privacy\, at once essential and weaponized\, is unevenly enjoyed\, opportunistically deployed\, and systematically encroached upon. \nYou Bury the Birds in My Pelvis by Weber – Poems in a range of forms that consider the queer body\, chronic illness\, and love amid rural plains landscapes. Set against a rural plains landscape of gas stations\, wind\, and roadkill bones littering the highways\, You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis is a love letter to the nonbinary body as a site of both queer platonic intimacy and chronic illness. Looking at art and friendship\, Kelly Weber’s poems imagine alternatives to x-rays\, pathologizing medical settings\, and other forms of harm. Considering the meeting place of radiological light and sunlit meadows\, the asexual speaker’s body\, and fox skeletons\, these poems imagine possible forms of love. With the body caught in medical crisis and ecological catastrophe\, Weber questions how to create a poetry fashioned both despite and out of endings. \nYou Bury the Birds in My Pelvis explores forms with plainspoken prose poems with a mix of short poems and longer lyric sections that navigate insurance systems and complicated rural relationships to queerness. \nYou Bury the Birds in My Pelvis is the winner of the 2022 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest\, chosen by Mary Jo Bang.
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Gail Shaffer Blankenau - Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska Territory
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, March 26th we will be joined by author Gail Shaffer Blankenau! She will be discussing her book Journey to Freedom\, the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory published by Bison Books of the University of Nebraska Press.\nAbout the Book:\nIn late November of 1858 two enslaved Black women—Celia Grayson\, age twenty-two\, and Eliza Grayson\, age twenty—escaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson\, a man of African American and Cherokee descent from Iowa\, guided them through the dark to the Missouri River\, where they boarded a skiff and crossed the icy waters\, heading for their first stop on the Underground Railroad at Civil Bend\, Iowa. \nIn Journey to Freedom Gail Shaffer Blankenau provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of these two enslaved Black women from Nebraska City. Poised on the “frontier\,” the Graysons’ escape demonstrated that unique opportunities beckoned at the confluence of Nebraska\, Missouri\, Iowa\, and Kansas\, and their actions challenged slavery’s tentative expansion into the West and its eventual demise in an era of territorial fluidity. Their escape and the violence that followed prompted considerable debate across the country and led to the Nebraska legislature’s move to prohibit slavery. Drawing on multiple collections\, records\, and slave narratives\, Journey to Freedom sheds light on the Graysons’ courage and agency as they became high-profile figures in the national debate between proslavery and antislavery factions in the antebellum period. \nAbout the Author:\nGail Shaffer Blankenau is a professional genealogist\, historian\, speaker\, and author. She holds an MA degree in history from the\nUniversity of Nebraska–Kearney\, and in 2023 she received the James L. Sellers prize for her article about the Grayson sisters in a\nvolume of Nebraska History magazine. Blankenau is from Nebraska and currently lives in Lincoln. \nTo order a copy of Gail’s book from F&F\, click HERE
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