All events are in Central time unless specified.

Saturday, September 7

Reading - Fiction/poetry

Kwame Dawes at the Nebraska Book Festival

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3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union
Poet, essayist, professor, editor and novelist Kwame Dawes will read from his most recent work and discuss themes and ideas that are recurring in his most recent works of prose and poetry.
Reading - Nonfiction

English alum Carson Vaughan at the Nebraska Book Festival

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4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Nebraska Union
Carson Vaughan & Ted Genoways — Following the 2016 presidential election, national media refocused—however briefly—on middle America. Freelance journalists Ted Genoways and Carson Vaughan, both writing from and about Nebraska and the Great …