Past Performances

Date City Venue
11/30/11 - 12/01/11 Jim Reese in Norfolk, NE Northeast Community College
Northeast Community College Creative Writing Evening Class Workshop Norfolk, NE 1:00-1:50pm on Thursday, December 1, in Hawks Landing, NECC Student Center
11/29/11 Jim Reese in Sioux City, IA Buck’s Cafeteria, Morningside College
Time: 7:30pm. Tuesday, Nov. 29th 7:30-8:00 Poetry Slam to Follow
11/17/11 Jim Reese in Yankton, SD Yankton Federal Prison Camp
Time: 1:00pm. 4PM Count and Paddlefish Reading Series Open to General Population 1- 3pm Gymnasium
10/21/11 - 10/22/11 Jim Reese in San Francisco, CA Alcatraz Island
Arts in Corrections, Reading and Workshop
10/07/11 - 10/09/11 Jim Reese in Deadwood, SD South Dakota Festival of Books
Friday, 6:00pm – “Literary Feast” – Keynote Speakers: Lori Armstrong, CJ Box, Margaret Coel, Craig Johnson, Jim Reese
Saturday, 11:00am – “Selections from ghost on 3rd” – Jim Reese
Saturday, 2:00pm – “Literature & the Law” – Jim Reese, CM Wendleboe, & David Wolff
08/03/11 - 08/06/11 Jim Reese in Gregory, SD Gregory’s Oscar Micheaux Film and Book Festival
Workshop and Reading
06/21/11 Jim Reese in San Luis Obispo, CA California Polytechnic State University
Time: 7:00pm. Cal Poly campus, “Science North” (Bldg 53) – Rm TBD.
The creative writing program of Cal Poly’s English Department is excited to announce this year’s annual reading series. On Tuesday June 21st Nebraska poet Jim Reese and former Cal Poly undergrad poet and singer Ephraim Sommers will read. Both readings will take place at 7pm on the Cal Poly campus. The venue for each will be announced shortly.

Author of the well received volume ghost on 3rd, Reese teaches at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota, where he is Director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour and Editor-in-Chief of the national journal Paddlefish. “Jim Reese catches the dying fire of the small town wasteland that staggers on with meth, desire, and neglect,” says Charles Bowden, author of Murder City. “And I’d add that’s his work is surprisingly funny,” said poetry writing Professor Kevin Clark. “When I heard him read last year, the audience was highly entertained and I knew I wanted to bring him to Poly. We’re lucky that he can come so far for us.”

Having grown up in Atascadero, Sommers is a much-accomplished singer and poet who graduated from Cal Poly’s English Department and went on to receive an MFA in creative writing from San Diego State. Local fans of the band Siko will remember Sommer’s alt/soul singing style. According Clark, “When Ephraim was at Poly, his persona poems kept us on edge and in suspense. They’re brilliant explorations of the human psyche at moments of intense personal crisis.”
05/21/11 Jim Reese in Lincoln, NE Nebraska Book Festival
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04/15/11 - 04/16/11 Jim Reese in Akron, Iowa Akron Iowa Poetry Festival
Workshop and Readings
03/17/11 Jim Reese in Aberdeen, SD Northern State University
Time: 7:30pm. ghost on 3rd and Other Poems
Sponsored by the South Dakota Humanities Council and Northern State University
NSU, Beulah Williams Library
03/15/11 Jim Reese in Marshall, MN Southwest Minnesota State University
Workshop and Reading
02/21/11 Jim Reese in Sioux Falls, SD Augustana College
Time: 7:00pm. Humanities Center, Rm 123
Free and open to the public
02/12/11 Jim Reese in San Francisco, CA San Quentin Prison
Workshop and Reading
02/11/11 Jim Reese in Sacramento, CA New Folsom Prison
Workshop and Reading
12/04/10 Jim Reese in Paterson, New Jersey The Poetry Center Distinguished Poets Series
Poetry Workshop and Reading
12/03/10 Jim Reese in Paterson, New Jersey High School Presentations
11/09/10 Jim Reese in Detroit, MI Macomb Community College
2010 Poetry Festival featuring South Dakota Poet & Editor Jim Reese, M.L. Liebler & The Just In Biebers featuring Moby Grapes’s Peter Lewis & Jef Reynolds, The Macomb College Poetry Club & others. Two Shows at Center Campus and The South Campus
05/17/10 Jim Reese in New York City Cornelia Street Cafe
Time: 6:00pm. Admission: 7. Age restrictions: No Minors. Monday | May 17, 2010; 6 p.m. George Held, Jim Reese, Jackie Sheeler $7 cover gets you a free drink

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