University of Nebraska, Lincoln [1]
Prairie Schooner [2], Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska Press, Zero Street Fiction [3]
Poetry: James Brunton, Saddiq Dzukogi, Hope Wabuke, Stacey Waite
Prose: Joy Castro, Timothy Schaffert, Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson
The program offers teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and fellowships.
The program accepts poetry and prose (fiction/nonfiction) in alternating years; the program is currently accepting applications in poetry with a deadline of December 1. Students complete a thesis or dissertation of analysis/scholarship based on original creative activity, usually a book-length work of poetry or prose.
Alumni have been offered research/editorial opportunities with Prairie Schooner/African Poetry Book Fund, the Cather Project, University of Nebraska Press, digital archives such as the Walt Whitman Archive, and other university/faculty projects and programs.