On Tuesday, November 14, the Peru State Creative Writing Series and Campus Activities Board (CAB) sponsored Nebraska Merit Award winning poets Rich Wyatt and Greg Kosmicki.
(To see a slide show of the visit, click on the picture of the poets.)
Associate Editor of Backwaters Press, Rich Wyatt's poems have appeared in Diner, Ninth Letter, Carolina Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, and Nebraska Review and Poetry. Crying Dime Press will soon publish Rich's collection of poems, Approaching a Diner in Potsdam.
This year, Rich Wyatt won a Distinguished Merit Award--$5,000--for excellence in Literature. Click here to read more about these prestigious awards sponsored by the Nebraska Arts Council (NAC) for special achievements in literature and in film in Nebraska.
This link will take you to Rich's poem dedicated to Toney McCrann, "The Soul, Addressing Itself, Wanders Around Right After Death,"
The press release announcing the winners of the 2006 Individual Artist Fellowship competitions reads:
OMAHA, NE) April 25, 2006: The Nebraska Arts Council (NAC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2006 Individual Artist Fellowship (IAF) competition. This year's competition included both the regularly-scheduled competition in literature, as well as a pilot competition in film. Both were juried out of state, in a "blind" process where the applicants remain anonymous to the panelists. The recommendations for awards were recently ratified by the NAC Board.
As the awards list indicates, Greg Kosmicki won a Merit Award ($2,000) as well for his work. Greg is the editor of Backwaters Press, one of Midwest's finest small presses.
Greg read from his most recent publication, Some Hero of the Past published by Word Press this past year. This link will take you to some of Greg's poems. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including New Works Review, Pudding Magazine, Corduroy Magazine, Paris Review, New Letters, , Kansas Quarterly, Cimmaron Review, Whole Notes, and Pebble.
In addition to Some Hero of the Past, two poems from which Garrison Keillor recently read on his radio program, The Writer's Almanac, Greg Kosmicki is the author of a number of poetry collections, including the following titles:
when there wasn’t any war (The Backwaters Press, 1987)
How Things Happen (bradypress, 1997)
nobody lives here who saw this sky (Missing Spoke Press, 1998)
For My Son in a Motel Room (Sandhills Press, 1999)
tables, chairs, wall, window (Sandhills Press, 2000)
Greatest Hits, 1975-2000 (Pudding House Publications, 2001)
The Patron Saint of Lost and Found (Lone Willow Press, 2003)
The Sandhills Press will soon publish We Have Always Been Coming to This Morning.
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