The Loess Hills Preservation Society will
hold it spring meeting 7PM April 24 at Council Bluffs Iowa Public
Library 400 Willow Ave.
We are pleased to present John Price writer and instructor of English at
University of Nebraska Omaha. The title of John’s presentation will be:
Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American
Grasslands. He will read sections from his memoir and talking about
his journey, as a Midwesterner and writer, toward a conscious commitment
to the prairie landscapes of home. The audience will be invited to ask
questions and share their own stories of learning to love the prairies.
BIO: John Price is the author of Not Just Any Land: A Personal and
Literary Journey into the American Grasslands (U. of Nebraska Press,
2004), and a forthcoming memoir, Man Killed by Pheasant (and other
kinships). He is a recipient of a creative writing fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts, and his nature essays have appeared
in such national publications as Orion, The Christian Science
Monitor, and Best Spiritual Writing 2000. He lives in Council
Bluffs, and teaches at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he is
the Jefferis Endowed Chair of English
For More information contact Glenn Pollock at
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6230.