Nebraska poet Marjorie Saiser will deliver the William C. Kloefkorn Nebraska Writers Series lecture on Thursday, April 28 at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University.
Saiser is the author of five books of poetry, co-editor of two anthologies, and has been published in American Life in Poetry and The Writer's Almanac among other journals. She is a recipient of the WILLA Award and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her first full-length collection, Bones of a Very Fine Hand, won the Nebraska Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her most recent collection is Beside You at the Stoplight.
Saiser’s reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in Callen Conference Center, located on the lower level of the Smith-Curtis Administration Building, located one block east of 50th Street and St Paul Avenue. A reception and book signing will follow the reading. The William Kloefkorn Nebraska Writers Series is free and open to the public.
William Kloefkorn taught English at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ for 35 years from 1962 to 1997. He died in May 2011.