If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll consider attending this reading at Mo Java. I’ve posted the press release from Rex Walton below. Thanks, Rex, this should be great fun!
A November Evening at Mo Java
Come to Mo Java Coffee on November 5th, 7pm!
Tonight, we have music, plus three fantastic writers from the Lincoln and Omaha areas:
Our songwriter for November is Jim Pipher, a very busy musician around Nebraska!!
A versatile bass and guitar player, Jim Pipher has been performing in Nebraska and throughout the Midwest for more than 40 years, in bands covering musical styles from the jazz standards of the 1930s to 1970s country rock, Motown/Stax soul to traditional gospel and bluegrass.
Jim has two solo recordings: THE LAST TALL TREE and TORMENTED GENIUS. Jim’s original songs take listeners to places of stark beauty, creating a musical portrait of Great Plains life that is unparalleled in contemporary recordings.
Jim is perhaps most in his element on stage and can be seen performing regularly with The Fab-Tones (rock, soul, R & B), The Lightning Bugs (a Mills brothers inspired jazz trio specializing in “Moonbeam Swing”), The Toasted Ponies (award winning traditional and contemporary bluegrass) and The Melody Wranglers (old school country that would make Hank Williams proud).
our three writers are:
Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Karen Gettert Shoemaker is a writer, teacher and business owner living in Lincoln NE. Her first collection of short fiction, Night Sounds and Other Stories, was published in the United States by Dufour Editions in 2002 and republished in the United Kingdom by Parthian Books in 2006. Her novel, The Meaning of Names, will be published in 2014 by Red Hen Press.
Her fiction and poetry have appeared in the London Independent, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Fugue, Foliage, West Wind Review, Kalliope, Arachne, The Nebraska Review, and has been anthologized in A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers; Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry; and Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace.; An Untidy Season.
She is currently a writing mentor with the University of Nebraska’s MFA in Writing Program. She has taught literature and writing at the University of Nebraska, both Lincoln and Omaha campuses, and has conducted writing workshops through Hastings College, Chadron State College and the Nebraska Humanities Council.
She received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 1997.
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of the full-length poetry collections Drink (BlazeVOX Books, 2015), Wake (Aldrich Press, 2015),American Galactic (Martian Lit, 2014),Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience (Lavender Ink, 2014),Queen of the Platform (Anaphora Literary Press, 2013), and Sprung(San Francisco Bay Press, 2012). Her dime novel is The Bottle Opener (Red Dashboard, 2014). She is also the author of two letterpress books, nine chapbooks, and the collaborative books The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2015) with artist Lauren Rinaldi and Intimates and Fools (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2014) with artist Sally Deskins. She is the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013).
She has a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in English and a M.A. from the University of Arizona in women’s studies. Currently, she teaches poetry in Writing in the Schools and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska.
Britny Cordera Doane
Britny Cordera Doane is the youngest author to have a book published in the history of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her poetry has been featured in UNO’s 13th Floor literary magazine, the Mythic Poetry Series by Silver Birch Press, the Women for Women international publication: Forget Me Not, and most recently in both the Fall 2014 and May 2015 Pinyon Reviews. Her maiden voyage, Wingmakers, was published by Pinyon Publishing in February 2015. Known locally as the Old Market Poet, she is often set up with her typewriter, in Omaha’s Old Market district, sharing her work with others.