After Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather, renowned for her depictions of prairie life, died in 1947, her life partner of 38 years was reduced to an inconsequential footnote. Nebraska author Melissa Homestead restores Edith Lewis to her rightful place in Cather’s life and literary legacy in her new book, The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative… Continue reading Cather and Lewis: Capturing a Creative Partnership
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Creating Global Access to African Poetry
Since 2017, the African Poetry Digital Portal at Nebraska has opened the work of African poets to readers and scholars around the world. “The fact is that rich and sophisticated poetic practices and traditions have always existed in African societies and continue to thrive,” said Kwame Dawes, George Holmes Professor of English, Glenna Luschei Editor… Continue reading Creating Global Access to African Poetry