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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading - Julie Paschold\, Amy Haddad\, and Bonnie Johnson-Bartee
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 7th at 4:30 PM we will be joined by three prize winning poets at Francie & Finch Bookshop! Learn more about these writers below!\nJulie 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. \nAmy 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. \nBonnie 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. \n 
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Celebration - Kwame Gyamfi - Prism of Perspectives: The Life and Names of Kwame Gyamfi
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Francie & Finch Bookshop for a Juneteenth book launch celebration!\nAbout the Author and Book:\nKwame Gyamfi has lived several lives\, and very few people know all of them. With the help of four writers\, he tells his story of being abandoned as a child and experiencing foster care\, adoption\, gang violence\, and prison. Along the way\, he discovered sports\, music\, beauty\, and love\, which would shape him into the mentor and man he is today.
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder - Mother\, Creature\, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling
DESCRIPTION:Essayist Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder will be visiting Francie & Finch Bookshop on June 26th at 5:30! Steinauer-Scudder’s new book Mother\, Creature\, Kin\, described as “heartachingly beautiful” by writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh\, is a work of non-fiction that you don’t want to miss.\nPurchase your copy of Mother\, Creature\, Kin HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nLuminous nonfiction about the natural world from essayist Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder\, who asks: what can other-than-human creatures teach us about mothering\, belonging\, caregiving\, loss\, and resiliency? \nWhat does it mean to be a mother in an era of climate catastrophe? And what can we learn from the plants and creatures who mother at the edges of their world’s unraveling? \nBecoming a mother in this time means bringing life into a world that appears to be coming undone. Drawing upon ecology\, mythology\, and her own experiences as a new mother\, Steinauer-Scudder confronts what it means to “”mother”” to do the good work of being in service to the living world. What if we could all mother the places we live and the beings with whom we share those places? And what if they also mother us? \nIn prose that teems with longing\, lyricism\, and knowledge of ecology\, Steinauer-Scudder writes of the silent flight and aural maps of barn owls\, of nursing whales\, of real and imagined forests\, of tidal marshes\, of ancient single-celled organisms\, and of newly planted gardens. The creatures inhabiting these stories teach us about centering\, belonging\, entanglement\, edgework\, homemaking\, and how to imagine the future. Rooted in wonder while never shying away from loss\, Mother\, Creature\, Kin reaches toward a language of inclusive care learned from creatures living at the brink. \nWriting in the tradition of Camille Dungy\, Elizabeth Rush\, and Margaret Renkl\, Steinauer-Scudder invites us into the daily\, obligatory\, sacred work of care. Despair and fear will not save the world any more than they will raise our children\, and while we don’t know what the future holds\, we know it will need mothers. As the very ground shifts beneath our feet\, what if we apprenticed ourselves to the creaturely mothers with whom we share this beloved home? \nAbout the Author:\nChelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of MOTHER\, CREATURE\, KIN (Broadleaf Books\, 2025). She grew up in the Great Plains of Nebraska and Oklahoma. After receiving her masters of theological studies at Harvard Divinity School\, her writing became focused on the confluence of relationship to place with experiences of the sacred. From 2017-2022\, she worked as a staff writer and editor for Emergence Magazine\, an online and print publication exploring the intersection of culture\, ecology\, and spirituality. Her writing can also be found in The Atlantic\, The Common\, The Slowdown\, Decor Maine\, Crannóg Magazine\, EcoTheo Review\, From the Ground Up\, CooNoor&Co\, the edited poetry collection Writing the Land\, and in Katie Holten’s The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape. She lives with her family in Rochester\, Vermont. \nFor more information about the author\, visit her website HERE.
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SUMMARY:Visiting Poets - Tyler Michael Jacobs & Maria Nazos
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Tyler Michael Jacobs and Maria Nazos! Both of these talented poets will be reading from their newest works. We can’t wait to see you there!\nTo order a copy of The Weight of Drought\, follow the link HERE!\nTo order a copy of PULSE\, please call Francie & Finch Bookshop at 402-781-0459! \nABOUT THE BOOKS:\nPULSE cuts open arteries of a troubled world and inspects what makes us bleed\, suffer\, and perish. It demonstrates how we overcome difficulties\, even when it hurts to breathe. PULSE interrogates the personal\, from the loss of friends to cancer\, and the Republican party\, to hate crimes\, and mass shootings\, including that of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub. The poems examine the life force that continues to beat relentlessly through a fragmented world. It seeks out the tiny music of our bodies that continues to pulse\, breathe\, and regenerate\, even through grief and loss. From Provincetown beaches and Costa Rican crab shacks\, to Midwestern plains\, and a Tampa nightclub\, the collection rides a carousel of madness\, redemption\, and love. \nIn The Weight of Drought\, Jacobs reaches toward the natural world with compassion\, nudging the muzzle of a horse with the back of his hand\, bottle-feeding an abandoned calf\, and watching chickens take flight; to get there\, these poems must acknowledge the cruelty of the natural world\, the relationship between drought and flood\, and question what meaning lies behind dying. With landscapes and intimacy\, these poems capture what it means to connect by digging in the soil\, feeding another\, and holding. Through devotions\, pastorals\, and still lifes\, The Weight of Drought looks at the duality of beauty and ugliness\, love and violence to explore what it means to be whole. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nMaria Nazos is a Greek American poet raised in Athens. Kaveh Akbar chose her work as a Palette Poetry Contest winner. Her poetry\, translations\, and essays are published in The New Yorker\, Copper Nickel\, and elsewhere. She’s the author of PULSE (forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2026) and the translator of A Slow Horizon that Breathes (World Poetry Books\, 2023)\, a collection of poems from Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula. She has worked every job imaginable\, including a disastrous\, three-day stint as a table dancer in Mykonos. She quit after she realized she had lost too many friends. Find her at www.marianazos.com. \nTyler Michael Jacobs is the author of The Weight of Drought (Stephen F. Austin State University Press) and Building Brownville (Stephen F. Austin State University Press). His words have appeared or are forthcoming in Passages North\, Variant Literature\, Plainsongs\, Pidgeonholes\, Sierra Nevada Review\, and elsewhere. His poems have also been featured on Nebraska Public Media’s Friday LIVE. He received his MFA from Bowling Green State University. \nPRAISE FOR THE BOOKS:\nAdvance praise for “PULSE” and other works \n“I love the journey this poet takes me on\, the fullness of its vision. Granular to cosmic\, miraculous\, magical thinking to an egg balancing on a single nail. The poem feels subtly but densely peopled\, too. It’s its own ecosystem\, this love.”  —Kaveh Akbar\, New York Times bestselling author of the novel Martyr! and poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell \n“Luscious psalms to divine recklessness\, the poems in Maria Nazos’s PULSE wear their formal brilliance lightly\, leaping and pirouetting with raw\, gritty grace and a clear-eyed love of our human brokenness\, from which they never flinch. A marvel.”  –-Joy Castro\, author of One Brilliant Flame\, Flight Risk\, and Island of Bones \nMaria Nazos in PULSE has written for the world a seismic\, incandescent tribute to life. It is devotional with a ferocious tenderness. Here is a poet who can and has resurrected ghosts in our veins—the parents destined to drown in quiet despair\, and the lovers who linger like bruises. This collection doesn’t flinch from darkness or the suffocating weight of grief. Yet Nazos transforms pain into a strange\, stubborn grace. From the cliffs of Delphi to the cornfields of Nebraska\, she maps a world where history bleeds into the present. Her voice is both elegy and rebellion\, hymn and rhyme. To read PULSE is to touch the “dirty human sweetness” of existence itself: flawed\, forgiving\, and furiously alive.” —Saddiq Dzukogi\, author of Your Crib\, My Qibla and Bakandamiya: An Elegy \nAdvance praise for The Weight of Drought \n“The Weight of Drought is an exploration of emptiness as the prerequisite of creation. It is the place in which ‘idea’ (often synonymous with longing) acts as a generating force\, not unlike light\, water\, dirt. This is the bravest kind of poetry because it has to work with almost nothing—a whisper\, a gesture\, a world of shadows and dearth; it is a ‘drought’ aesthetic that can’t rely on the vivacity of words. The poet must find ‘weight’ in the barest semblance of song\, much as a mime must communicate solid\, technicolored structures with apparitions and signs. And yet\, as Jacobs’s labor unfolds across these pages like a blossom-cathedral\, we know we are floating with the divine\, receiving the first breath\, the starter seed of everything\, where ‘what you love takes shape/inside your chest’ and demands that you live.” —Larissa Szporluk\, author of Virginals \n“In The Weight of Drought\, Tyler Michael Jacobs reconsiders the word ‘landscape’ as relentlessly inclusive. Yes\, the reader will find the blurry fields of the horizon here\, but also the innumerable petals of previously unknown plants\, the spit from a grasshopper’s mouth\, the yearning ghosts of horses and fathers. Whether Jacobs is excavating a core memory or illuminating the silence of a present moment\, love and loss are bonded at the center of each poem\, and despite having a keen sense of place and human experience\, many of these poems float in the dreamlike realm of ‘if.’ Jacobs has the nerve to write about the ‘soul’ and of ‘God\,’ but always in the context of yearlings or flowers or Fords. This book is sinewy\, deeply observant\, heartfelt—and it has the rust and dirt and sky of the Great Plains and the Midwest planted in its bones.” —Dan Rzicznek\, author of Settlers \n“So much sky in this book\, so much earth and water. And what between? Snow\, rain\, their absence. The weight of drought is distance\, is loneliness\, is emptiness. In this book\, Tyler Michael Jacobs reminds us how to fill such silent spaces: with singing\, with dreaming\, with care\, with faith that our prayers will lead to green fields. Yes\, the world is burning and barren\, but these poems are an incantation against harm: a call to pay attention to the fragile beauty around us lest we lose it. In other words: look at the fucking flowers.” —Amorak Huey\, author of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy \n 
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-poets-tyler-jacobs-maria-nazos/
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