In partnership with Nebraska Arts Council, Jewel Rodgers will launch Homegrown, a decentralized, grassroots poetry initiative that brings poetry into the most personal and familiar spaces—people’s homes, porches, and backyards. Through small, informal gatherings cohosted with Nebraska residents, Rodgers will foreground and reinforce poetry’s communal roots through small-scale conversations, readings, and performances. Rodgers will cohost at least fifteen of these gatherings across Nebraska’s three congressional districts, reaching rural, suburban, and urban communities. Rodgers will also document the project through photos, video clips, and recorded conversations and will make the documentation publicly accessible, offering insight into how poetry fosters connection across Nebraska.