Episode 21: Bare Bones: Place-Based Teaching Through Stories of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Episode 24: Gabrielle Owen and Timothy Schaffert

Gabrielle Owen discusses her recently published book, A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures, with colleague Timothy Schaffert. This episode is taken from a March 23, 2021 virtual event celebrating the new book.

Episode 23: Saddiq Dzukogi and Jessica Poli

Saddiq Dzukogi, Nigerian-born poet and Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, talks with friend and fellow poet Jessica Poli about his new book, YOUR CRIB, MY QIBLA. Published by the University of Nebraska Press in March 2021, YOUR CRIB, MY QIBLA is a collection of poems dedicated to his daughter, Baha, who passed away only 21 days after her first birthday.

Episode 22: Writing the River: Nebraska Writing Project and Niobrara Scenic River Partnership

This episode explores the most recent collaboration between the National Park Service and the Nebraska Writing Project: a planned river float for area high school students to allow them to experience the Niobrara River in a way they may not have before.

Episode 21: Bare Bones: Place-Based Teaching Through Stories of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

A partnership between the Nebraska Writing Project and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument has developed the park's paleontological, geological, and early history of the plains stories into a series of workshops designed for teachers. In this episode, teacher-participants share how the workshop series evolved and impacted them as place-based writers and educators.

Episode 20: Place-Conscious Experiential Writing for Students and Teachers

The Nebraska Writing Project and Homestead National Monument have partnered together to host the Prairie Visions Writing Festival, and annual workshop for middle and high schoolers. In this episode, educators and rangers discuss using place-based writing to give students a greater appreciation of place, writing, history, and the Homestead Act.