As youthfully seductive as it is disturbingly woeful, few collections have captured nostalgic grief with the lyric eloquence of Traci Brimhall’s Saudade. A 2017 publication of Copper Canyon Press, Brimhall’s collection is stylistically distinctive, a cocktail of verse novel and lyric play, reminiscent...

Join us for our first Judas Goat Open mic of the Fall Semester at the Blue Cat Gallery and Studio, celebrating the release of the 2017-2018 Judas Goat. This event is free and open to the public. Free copies of the newest Goat will be available at the event. There will be a fabulous raffle prize available...

How did your latest book, What Bob Says (Some More) come about? I wrote the first Bob poem at the Elkhorn Cabin with my writing buddies—Cabin Girls—we meet once a season at Kehm's beautiful cabin on the Platte, write, often Lucy Adkins gives us prompts, read, discuss, eat, drink some wine—for...

What is a cowboy? In the twenty-first century world of glowing screens and averted eyes, have we lost appreciation for “red-grass hills,” “Old skinny cows / bellies round with calf” and manure on scuffed boots? Published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2017, JV Brummels’...