Visiting Author - Bruce E. Whitacre - The Elk in the Glade

Join us on Thursday, April 6th at 5:00 as Bruce E. Whitacre presents his book The Elk in the Glade:The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks!

About the Book:
This debut collection from Bruce E. Whitacre receives strong reviews in advance of its official publication date, November 1, 2022. Released to align with a show of Jennie Hicks paintings at the Dawson County Historical Society and Museum, Lexington, Nebraska, in 2023, The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks chronicles the life and times of a pioneer girl who went on to become a thriving landscape painter in 20th century rural Nebraska.

About the Author:
His debut poetry collection, The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks, from Crown Rock Media is a Publishers Weekly editors pick. His next collection, Good Housekeeping, will be out in 2023 from Poets Wear Prada. His poems have appeared in Big City Lit, RFD, Impossible Archive, North of Oxford, Pensive Journal, Poets Wear Prada’s The Rainbow Project (nominated for Best of the Net), and World Literature Today. His work is included in the anthologies American Graveyard, Brownstone Poets 2021, and I Wanna be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, as well as the craft book, The Strategic Poet. More at www.brucewhitacre.com

Book Review:
“Bruce E. Whitacre’s collection, The Elk in the Glade, is a lovely and loving celebration of his remarkable great grandmother, Jennie Hicks’s, life and art, and an inspiring example of how a woman’s artistic discipline gave her the courage and insight to transcend the hardships of the Nebraska frontier.” Ladette Randolph, Editor in Chief, Ploughshares

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