First Friday Book Talk & Reading is an opportunity to meet authors with a national audience, a Nebraska connection, and a recent literary production. The reading is presented via Zoom from 12:00pm - 1:00pm on the first Friday of each month. There is no charge for this event. Registration is required to obtain the Zoom link. https://larksongwritersplace.org/Event/C...
Jim Peterson's poems have won multiple awards and his plays have been produced in regional and college theaters. Until his retirement in 2013, he was Coordinator of Creative Writing at Randolph College and later the Pearl S. Buck Writer-in-Residence there in 2017. Years earlier, he founded the poetry journal Kudzu and was editor of The Devil’s Millhopper poetry magazine and press. He taught for fifteen years in the University of Nebraska Omaha Low-Res MFA Program in Creative Writing. His newest poetry collection is Towheaded Stone Thrower, his tenth book overall, including eight collections of poetry, a novel, and a collection of short stories.