Dr. Kate Gale, Editor for the Los Angeles Review and instructor in UNO’s MFA in Writing program, will be reading selections from her most recent work The Side Door Lounge on Friday.
Gale says she sees a difference in writing styles between writers who live on the coasts versus those in the Midwest.
She says Midwest writers tend to have more of a sense of place in their work. Gale will read from her latest collection of poetry, Goldilocks Zone.
"It’s about four inventions that I feel changed the world. I am still into the idea of changing the world. And they are glass, fireworks, condoms and bridges. I became interested in the history of all those inventions. And it was an exciting book to write because I love the idea of the intellect meeting the imagination. So you are studying something and then you see what your imagination does with it.”
The other writers on Friday’s program are Liz Kay, founding editor of Spark Wheel Press, Steve Langan, founder and director of the Seven Doctors Project and Karen Shoemaker, faculty mentor with UNO’s MFA in Writing Program.
The free event takes place Friday at 6:30 p.m. at The Side Door Lounge, 3530 Leavenworth Street.