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What Happens in Nebraska
Little Palace Adam J. Gellings
Cat Dixon
What happens in Nebraska? Follow Cat Dixon’s journey across the state as she explores misconnections, unrequited love, and longing. Dixon believes what happens in Nebraska doesn’t stay in Nebraska; instead, her poems wade into the Missouri River and then launch readers into the clouds above, the ancient stars light years away, and eventually they plummet to the heartland’s cornfields where the distance between people is simultaneously vast and fleeting. CAT DIXON is the author of Eva and Too Heavy to Carry (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2016 and 2014) and The Book of Levinson and Our End Has Brought the Spring (Finishing Line Press, 2017 and 2015), and the chapbook, Table for Two (Poet’s Haven, 2019). She was co-editor of Watching the Perseids: The Backwaters Press Twentieth Anniversary Anthology (BWP, 2017). She lives in Nebraska with her children, Pierce and Leven. 978-1-62288-933-4 paper $18.00 6x9. 88 pp. Poetry. Women’s Studies. October
In his debut poetry collection Little Palace, Adam Gellings gives readers a perfect example of that often-repeated but rarely achieved instruction: “show, don’t tell.” These sophisticated poems wander through the busy streets of Paris, past quiet courtyards full of flowers, into a kitchen that smells of fresh-baked bread. This metropolitan yet nostalgic collection brings the reader into new places and experiences while reminding them of familiar truths about human connection, the fugitive feeling of travel, and the universality of art. ADAM J. GELLINGS is a poet and instructor from Columbus, Ohio. The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the Marion Clayton Link Endowment at the State University of New York at Binghamton, his poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Atlanta Review, DIALOGIST and Salamander, and in the anthologies A Rustling and Waking Within: Poems Inspired By The Arts in Ohio, Best New Poets 2017 and New Poetry From the Midwest. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Ashland University and his PhD in English from SUNY Binghamton. 978-1-62288-926-6 paper $18.00 6x9. 88 pp. Poetry. October
