Nebraska

In 1921, Nebraska established a state poet laureate position, which is currently held by Jewel Rodgers, who was appointed in 2025 for a five-year term.

Type	Title	State
Festival	Nebraska Book Festival	Nebraska
Literary Magazine	The Platte Valley Review	Nebraska
Reading Series	The Poetry Menu	Nebraska
Literary Magazine	Prairie Schooner	Nebraska
Conference	Nebraska Writers Guild Conferences	Nebraska
Small Press	Sandhills Press	Nebraska
Festival	Write Across Nebraska	Nebraska
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	A Novel Idea Bookstore	Nebraska
Writing Program	University of Nebraska, Kearney, Creative Writing Program	Nebraska
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	Indigo Bridge	Nebraska

Alas, that June should come when thou didst go;

I think you passed each other on the way;

And seeing thee, the Summer loved thee so

That all her loveliness she gave away;

Her rare perfumes, in hawthorn boughs distilled,

Blushing, she in thy sweeter bosom left,

Thine arms with all her virgin roses filled,

Yet felt herself the richer for thy theft;

Beggared herself of morning for thine eyes,

Hung on the lips of every bird the tune,

Breathed on thy cheek her soft vermilion dyes,

And

Willa Cather

1903

A bitter doom they did upon her place:
She might not touch his hand nor see his face
The while he led her up from death and dreams
Into his world of bright Arcadian streams.
For all of him she yearned to touch and see,
Only the sweet ghost of his melody;
For all of him she yearned to have and hold,

Willa Cather

1903

Behind the arch of glory sets the day;

The river lies in curves of silver light,

The Fields Elysian glitter in a spray

Of golden dust; the gilded dome is bright,

The towers of Notre Dame cut clean and gray

The evening sky, and pale from left to right

A hundred bridges leap from either quay.

Pillared with pride, the city of delight

Sits like an empress by her silver Seine,

Heavy with jewels, all her splendid dower

Flashing upon her, won from shore and main

By shock of combat, sack

Willa Cather

1903

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