The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets

Poetry. Women's Studies. Edited by Heidi Hermanson, Liz Kay, Jen Lambert, and Sarah McKinstry-Brown. The four editors of THE UNTIDY SEASON, each an accomplished poet in her own right, searched for poems of clarity, honesty, passion, and brilliance. One of the editors writes: "We were drawn to work that both celebrated and subverted the 'typical' Nebraska experience, the 'typical' experience of motherhood, the 'typical' experience of womanhood. I suppose my own aesthetic leads me to be drawn to work that challenges 'typical,' but much of the work we experienced over that year of reading submissions forced me to engage with my own stereotypes and see inside them."