Author plans Nebraska presentations
Poet-author Joy Harjo will give two Nebraska presentations this month.
She will give the Reynold Series reading at the University of Nebraska at Kearney on Nov. 15. She will follow that with a program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha on Nov. 17.
Harjo is a native of Tulsa, Okla.; a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She also played alto sax with the band Poetic Justice.
Her books include "How We Became Human — New and Selected Poems," "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky," "The Good Luck Cat," "In Mad Love and War" and "She Had Some Horses."
She is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, the American Book Award, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
The UNK program begins at 8:30 p.m. in the Merryman Performing Arts Center. Her UNO appearance will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Milo Bail Student Center and will conclude with a book signing.
Both programs are free and open to the public.
Swanson Library holds Thursday book sales
Friends of the Omaha Library book sales now holds books sales from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Thursday except holidays at the Swanson Library, 90th Street and West Dodge Road.
Friends memberships are available for $15.
On the Calendar
Author presentation: Dennis Vossburg, author of "Santee Sorrow" and "Hector's Bliss," 2 p.m. Sunday, Neihardt State Historic Site in Bancroft, Neb.
Book discussion: I Should Have Read That in School classics group, "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie, 6:30 p.m. Monday, the Bookworm in Countryside Village, 87th and Pacific.
Author presentation: Reza Aslan, "The Future of the New Middle East," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Drake Theatre.
Literary presentation: "What Makes (Maurice) Sendak Stick: A Discussion of Text and Pictures," 7 p.m. Wednesday, Millard Library, 13214 Westwood Lane.
Book discussion: Amiable Adult Readers Discussing Books Almost Always Read by Kids, "A Season of Gifts" by Richard Peck, 6 p.m. Thursday, the Bookworm.
Book signing: Gary Thrasher, author of "Phantom Letters," 6 p.m. Friday, the Bookworm.
Book discussion: Sherlock Holmes Book Club, "The Naval Treaty," 10 a.m. Saturday, the Bookworm.
Discussion: Jane Austen Society of Nebraska's review of North American Society's general assembly, 2 p.m. Saturday, Countryside Community Church, 87th and Pacific Streets.
Kids' book discussion: Golden Sowers Book Club, "War Horse," 3 p.m. Saturday, the Bookworm.
Books and Bagels: "Still Missing" by Chevy Stevens, 11 a.m. Nov. 13, the Bookworm. (Register at the store.)
— Events are free and open to the public.
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