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Lenora Castillo: La Nebraska, Poetry From The Plains

January 25, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Learn more about art in one-hour presentations by regional experts. Free and open to the public.

Lenora Castillo: La Nebraska, Poetry From The Plains
Wednesday: January 25 • 2:00 p.m.
Poet Lenora Castillo, born in Lyman, Nebraska, received her B.A. degree in English from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a M.A. from Iowa State University. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Nebraska Poets Calendar, American Nile, Voces: Latina/Chicana Emerging Issues, Poets in the Gallery, and is featured in a cooperative book On This Land with Nebraska printmaker Karen Kunc which won the first prize book award from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Recently Castillo became one of five poets to be featured on the new Poetry from the Plains website which is hosted by UNL’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. In 2017, her poem La Nebraska, will appear in Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867-2017.

This program is funded in part by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, presented in conjunction with MONA’s Mujeres exhibition. Media sponsors: University of Nebraska at Kearney Office of Multicultural Affairs and Women’s and Gender Studies Programs.

Details

Date:
January 25, 2017
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Organizer

Museum of Nebraska Art
Phone
308-865-8559
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Venue

Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave
Kearney, NE 68847 United States
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Learn more about art in one-hour presentations by regional experts. Free and open to the public.

Lenora Castillo: La Nebraska, Poetry From The Plains
Wednesday: January 25 • 2:00 p.m.
Poet Lenora Castillo, born in Lyman, Nebraska, received her B.A. degree in English from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a M.A. from Iowa State University. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Nebraska Poets Calendar, American Nile, Voces: Latina/Chicana Emerging Issues, Poets in the Gallery, and is featured in a cooperative book On This Land with Nebraska printmaker Karen Kunc which won the first prize book award from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Recently Castillo became one of five poets to be featured on the new Poetry from the Plains website which is hosted by UNL’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. In 2017, her poem La Nebraska, will appear in Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867-2017.

This program is funded in part by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, presented in conjunction with MONA’s Mujeres exhibition. Media sponsors: University of Nebraska at Kearney Office of Multicultural Affairs and Women’s and Gender Studies Programs.