The Neihardt State Historic Site is pleased to present poets Jim Reese and Patrick Hicks for the September 12th Sunday Afternoon at the Museum at 2:00 P.M. Jim Reese is an Associate Professor of English; Director of the Great Plains Writers' Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota; and Editor-in-Chief of PADDLEFISH. Reese's poetry and prose have been widely published, most recently in New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Paterson Literary Review, Louisiana Literature Review, Connecticut Review, and elsewhere. His new book ghost on 3rd (New York Quarterly Books 2010) includes Pushcart Prize nominated poems. Reese has been the National Endowment for the Art’s Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp since 2008.
Patrick Hicks teaches creative writing at Augustana College and he is the author of several poetry collections, most recently, Finding the Gossamer (2008) and This London (2010) both published by Ireland's acclaimed press: Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in scores of international journals including, Ploughshares, The Utne Reader, Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, Christian Science Monitor, Virginia Quarterly Review, Natural Bridge, Commonweal, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, Briar Cliff Review, Nimrod and many others. Patrick has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for a variety of awards, and he recently won the Glimmer Train "Emerging Writer's Fiction Award". Aside from being a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he is the recipient of a number of grants including one from the Bush Foundation to support work on his first novel, which is about Auschwitz. He has lived in Northern Ireland, England, Germany, and Spain, but has returned to his Midwestern roots.
The program begins at 2:00 PM and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Authors’ books will be available for purchase and signing. The John G. Neihardt State Historic site is located at 306 W. Elm Street in Bancroft, Nebraska.
