Featured Reader
for April 11, 2025
Twyla Hansen
2013-2018 Nebraska State Poet
reading at 6 PM.
1309 R streets: west side of St. Marks on the Campus.
Refreshments are served beginning at 5:30 PM, feel free to sit, veg out, study or visit with a friend.
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BIOGRAPHY
Twyla M. Hansen’s newest poetry book is Feeding the Fire, 2023 Winner—Nebraska Book Award and Finalist—WILLA Literary Award. She is aLarksong Writers Place board member, Humanities Nebraska Speaker’s Bureau creative writing presenter, and was Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018.
Recent honors include the Nebraska Literary Heritage Award, Nebraska Center for the Book President’s Award, and Lincoln High School Distinguished Alumni Award. Her book Rock • Tree • Bird won both the 2018 Nebraska Book Award and WILLA Literary Award. Twyla’s writing is published recently in Briar Cliff Review, The Café Review, Oakwood, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser, Nebraska Poetry Sesquicentennial Anthology 1867-2017, and on the websites of Academy of American Poets, Poetry Foundation, and Poetry Out Loud, plus many more.
- Twyla Hansen, 2024
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