Hey, Twitter! I'm looking for someone with a finger on the pulse of #Wichita , Kansas, especially the arts and culture scene! Any takers? DM me or email [email protected]. Thanks!

The tension in Elko, Nevada, between the larger Cowboy Poetry Gathering and its late-night underbelly, the Outside Circle, always fascinated me. I'm so glad to see Meg Bernhard report on it for High Country News: hcn.org/articles/is-it…

'From a reader’s point of view, the trouble with Deep Navel Gazing is that, if one zooms out slightly from that incredibly-close-and-yet-cosmically-distant vantage, the navel now resembles nothing so much as an anus.' lithub.com/the-crooked-ti… via Literary Hub

I wrote about how woodworking rejuvenated my creative life Literary Hub
lithub.com/want-to-write-… #WritingCommunity #writing #writing advice #woodworking

A must-read here by Eva Holland in Outside for all of you 'Into the Wild' fans:

For all you folks freezing your butts off tonight:

End of a long field work day, at a loess site looking north into the Sandhills. Fall 2000, I believe

Looking for artist #memoir recommendations. Extra points for photographer memoirs! Thank you!

I started reading 'The Black Tulip' for research -- an old cattle baron from the Nebraska Sandhills mentions reading it in one of his letters, calling it 'a perfect farce' -- but I finished it for myself. Guess I'm a sucker for mad horticulturists. What an unexpectedly fun ride!

Always a pleasure to read Lincoln's own Mary Pipher in the New York Times Opinion: 'In our darkest moments, art creates a shaft of light. There is light in a poetry book by Joy Harjo, a recording by Yo-Yo Ma, and in a collection of Monet’s paintings of snow.' nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opi…

Editorial by Carson Vaughan on Dec 7, #WillaCather ’s 150th, in New York Times Op Ed that combines a love of Willa Cather’s writing and prairie landscapes, with 2023 prairie ecology. Includes a visit to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in Red Cloud for a prairie burn. Thank you, Carson!

Always rewarding to see your work in print. Thanks for the Sunday real estate, The New York Times!

150 years ago yesterday, #WillaCather -- who so finely captured the surreal and beating heart of the #prairie -- was born. For the New York Times Opinion, I wrote about the steady dismantling of her spiritual homeland. I hope you'll give it a read: nytimes.com/2023/12/07/opi…

Obsessed with this bronze relief of Mercury at the Logan Square post office.

Good morning from Broken Bow, Nebraska. A rooster crowed just as I took this photo.

Join me online at the Larksong Writers Place today at noon CST for their last #FirstFriday book talk of the year! I'll be reading from 'Zoo Nebraska' and answering any questions you may have! See you there: larksongwritersplace.org/Events/Online-…

Thanks to all the #WillaCather devotees in #Lincoln who journeyed to campus on a Tuesday afternoon to hear me eulogize her spiritual homeland, aka, the American Prairie--and especially to Dr. Melissa J. Homestead for the invitation! I had a blast.

What's up, #Lincoln ? If you're in town this afternoon and looking for a little fun, the UNL chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society is posthumously inducting #WillaCather at 4:00, and they asked some dude from Chicago to deliver a few remarks. unl.edu/english/news/c…