at The Lion - Lucy Adkins 2025-03-14

Her guest reader is Dr. Becky Faber, author of One Small Photo and for over twenty-five years an assistant editor at Plainsongs Poetry Journal. She has received both the Mari Sandoz Award and the Mildred Bennett Award for her contributions to literary efforts in Nebraska.

Lucy's husband, Tom Adkins, will also play a couple of the songs that he and Lucy have co-written.

Q&A will follow, along with an Open Mic, time permitting.

Here is a video of the March 14th reading: https://www.facebook.com/smoc.unl/videos/995690955839498/.

BIOGRAPHY

(From Amazon.com)

Lucy Adkins is an award winning poet and co-author of two books of encouragement and inspiration for writers. These include WRITING IN COMMUNITY, which won an "IPPY" in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, and THE FIRE INSIDE. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies and has received nominations for Pushcart prizes. Her latest collections, TWO-TONED DRESS and A CRAZY LITTLE THING were named winners of Nebraska Book Awards for Poetry in 2021 and 2023. In addition, TWO-TONED DRESS was the winner of a Blue Light Press Poetry prize. For many years she has been a writing workshop leader and was named winner of a Lincoln Nebraska Mayor's Award for Artistic Excellence in Literature. Her undergraduate degree is from Auburn University and her MFA in creative writing is from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Lucy lives with her husband and Scottie dog in Lincoln, Nebraska where, in addition to writing, she spends a lot of time on her hands and knees in her garden.

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