Mary K. Stillwell Poetry Reading & Discussion
Tue, Oct 07
|Virtual, on Zoom
One of Stillwell's poetry collections explores the murder of two women, another celebrates the power of imagination. Her work covers a broad range of topics, from lyrical to narrative, and always captivating.
Time & Location
Oct 07, 2025, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
Virtual, on Zoom
About the Event
Mary K. Stillwell has studied with William Packard and Erica Jong in New York and Ted Kooser and Hilda Raz on the plains. She earned her PhD in plains literature from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Her poems and criticism has appeared in The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Midwest Quarterly, South Dakota Review, The New York Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, Book of Re-reading of Recent American Poetry II, Women’s Studies, More in Time, and numerous anthologies. Most recently, her poem, “Open Door, Green and Pine,” was published in the spring 2023 issue of Prairie Schooner.
She is the author of The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2013. Her books include Reasonable Doubts (Finishing Line Press, 2020), Maps & Destinations (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2018), Fallen Angels (Finishing Line Press, 2013), and Moving to Malibu (Sandhills Press, 1990). Nebraska Presence, an anthology of Nebraska poetry, co-edited by Stillwell and Greg Kosmicki, was the 2018 One Book One Nebraska selection.
Stillwell is a native Nebraskan. She was raised in Omaha and on a farm in southeast Nebraska. Parents of two adult children, Stillwell and her partner, Frank Edler, live in Lincoln.
FREE and Open to the Public