Kerry James Evans
@kerryjamesevans.bsky.social
Author of NINE PERSIMMONS (The Backwaters/UNL Press - forthcoming spring ‘26) and BANGALORE (Copper Canyon).
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NINE PERSIMMONS (The Backwaters/University of Nebraska Press, March 1, 2026) is now available for preorder:
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...
If you’re interested in reviewing, teaching, or arranging a reading, please reach out here or through the contact page at www.kerryjamesevans.com.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...
If you’re interested in reviewing, teaching, or arranging a reading, please reach out here or through the contact page at www.kerryjamesevans.com.
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News and Reviews featuring Richard Moves Camp, @abdourahmanwaberi.bsky.social, @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social, and more!
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ICYMI When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson was featured in LitHub's "Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation from University Presses." Reviews Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country Review in Journal of Arizona History: "Scholars who love the West in all its beauty, nobility, cruelty, and farce, particularly those frustrated with either simple nostrums or the bleak turn evident in much scholarship in recent years, may find themselves both delighted and enriched."
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December 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
News and Reviews featuring Richard Moves Camp, @abdourahmanwaberi.bsky.social, @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social, and more!
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Congrats to @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social on his new book Nine Persimmons, available for preorder from the University of Nebraska Press. So happy a couple of these poems lived in our pages first.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Congrats to @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social on his new book Nine Persimmons, available for preorder from the University of Nebraska Press. So happy a couple of these poems lived in our pages first.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/.../nine-per...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/.../nine-per...
Grateful to see Nine Persimmons included in the Publishers Weekly Spring 2026 poetry preview.
Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Poetry
Alongside collections confronting political upheaval and technological acceleration are works that celebrate place, art, and the enduring power of literature.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Grateful to see Nine Persimmons included in the Publishers Weekly Spring 2026 poetry preview.
Grateful for the opportunity to speak with Elena Kang of THE PINCH about the forthcoming collection, NINE PERSIMMONS. Interview available here: www.pinchjournal.com/blog-posts/k...
Poet Kerry James Evans on Gathering Fragments into Stillness — PINCH
Photo Credit: Jason Lee Brown
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November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Grateful for the opportunity to speak with Elena Kang of THE PINCH about the forthcoming collection, NINE PERSIMMONS. Interview available here: www.pinchjournal.com/blog-posts/k...
Grateful to have a new poem in New Ohio Review, Issue 36 (Fall 2025):
“Questions for the Lord in the Court of Divine Indifference.”
“Questions for the Lord in the Court of Divine Indifference.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Grateful to have a new poem in New Ohio Review, Issue 36 (Fall 2025):
“Questions for the Lord in the Court of Divine Indifference.”
“Questions for the Lord in the Court of Divine Indifference.”
NINE PERSIMMONS (The Backwaters/University of Nebraska Press, March 1, 2026) is now available for preorder:
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...
If you’re interested in reviewing, teaching, or arranging a reading, please reach out here or through the contact page at www.kerryjamesevans.com.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...
If you’re interested in reviewing, teaching, or arranging a reading, please reach out here or through the contact page at www.kerryjamesevans.com.
September 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NINE PERSIMMONS (The Backwaters/University of Nebraska Press, March 1, 2026) is now available for preorder:
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...
If you’re interested in reviewing, teaching, or arranging a reading, please reach out here or through the contact page at www.kerryjamesevans.com.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...
If you’re interested in reviewing, teaching, or arranging a reading, please reach out here or through the contact page at www.kerryjamesevans.com.
Grateful to Allison Joseph and the editors at Crab Orchard Review for giving these poems a lovely home.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Grateful to Allison Joseph and the editors at Crab Orchard Review for giving these poems a lovely home.
A couple of new poems forthcoming in the new collection, NINE PERSIMMONS, next spring. Thanks to the editors at APR for giving them a home. And shoutout to Barbara Hamby, who has five stunners in this issue!
April 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A couple of new poems forthcoming in the new collection, NINE PERSIMMONS, next spring. Thanks to the editors at APR for giving them a home. And shoutout to Barbara Hamby, who has five stunners in this issue!
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Today at 12:10pm! So pumped to talk about freedom and joy in writing sobriety! #awp25 #sobriety @natalielima09.bsky.social @paulhaney.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Today at 12:10pm! So pumped to talk about freedom and joy in writing sobriety! #awp25 #sobriety @natalielima09.bsky.social @paulhaney.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social
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Please join us Friday AWP!! :) Can't wait to hear from the audience <3
"Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way"
12:10pm-1:25pm, Room 518, Level Two #awp25
@paulhaney.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social
"Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way"
12:10pm-1:25pm, Room 518, Level Two #awp25
@paulhaney.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Please join us Friday AWP!! :) Can't wait to hear from the audience <3
"Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way"
12:10pm-1:25pm, Room 518, Level Two #awp25
@paulhaney.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social
"Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way"
12:10pm-1:25pm, Room 518, Level Two #awp25
@paulhaney.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social