Nebraska Presence - by Greg Kosmicki & Mary K Stillwell (Paperback)

About the Book

Poems by more than 80 contemporary Nebraska poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, are included in this volume.

Book Synopsis

2008 Nebraska Book Award
2018 One Book One Nebraska selection

Edited by Greg Kosmicki and Mary K. Stillwell, Nebraska Presence includes poems by more than 80 contemporary Nebraska poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, several poets who have had their poems read on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac including Greg Kuzma, Marjorie Saiser, Twyla Hansen, Grace Bauer, and Greg Kosmicki, as well as widely noted poets Hilda Raz, Roy Scheele, Steve Langan, and many others.

Review Quotes

"My personal criteria for any poem is that it does what Emily Dickinson says a poem does--that it takes the top of your head off. Naturally, this is a messy process, and I spent a lot of time in the ER having my head fixed, but we got a good anthology out of it, so it was worth it."--Greg Kosmicki, coeditor of Nebraska Presence


"What Nebraska Presence provides, like my hometown's café on Stone Street, is an intergenerational meeting place for readers and poets--for whom writing is a solitary art--to gather side by side and talk. There is a real pleasure in knowing such a community exists and in belonging to it; it allows us to swap stories and ideas, find out what everyone's been doing, and maybe even catch a glimpse of what the future might hold."--Mary K. Stillwell, coeditor of Nebraska Presence