The Elk in the Glade

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Synopsis

"Bruce E. Whitacre's collection, The Elk in the Glade, is a lovely and loving celebration of his remarkable great grandmother, Jennie Hicks's, life and art, and an inspiring example of how a woman's artistic discipline gave her the courage and insight to transcend the hardships of the Nebraska frontier." Ladette Randolph, Editor in Chief, Ploughshares

Based on personal memories and family oral history, Whitacre’s debut collection of sixteen poems traces the life and legacy of a family matriarch, his paternal great-grandmother, Jennie Hicks. The daughter of American pioneers, she marries a successful farmer, bearing him three girls, seeing them all married, only to outlive him and the farm. Once again alone and facing hardship, she transforms an almost forgotten hobby, her young girl dream, into a brilliant thirty-year career as a successful landscape painter, the future pride of her hometown, Farnam, Nebraska, and an important figure in American art. Lovers of American history, art, and strong female characters will enjoy these chronicles in verse.

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Author Biography

Bruce E. Whitacre is the author of The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks, which was a BookLife Editors Pick, and won 2nd Place in Contemporary Poetry from The BookFest 2023. His poems appear in such anthologies I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, The Wonders of Winter, Castles and Courtyards, and the craft book, The Strategic Poet, as well as numerous journals and magazines. His book, Good Housekeeping, will be published by Poets Wear Prada in 2024. More at www.brucewhitacre.com

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Author Insight

Jennie won a BookFest Prize!

I just learned that The Elk in the Glade has won second place in the contemporary poetry category from BookFest. This is the first award my writing has ever received and I am grateful to BookFest and all my readers for their support. I am on a Nebraska tour, appearing in Lincoln, Lexington, McCook, Red Cloud and Omaha over the coming days. See more at www.crownrockmedia.com.

Book Excerpt

The Elk in the Glade

“I will now tell about my hobby . . .”

Thus Jennie described her remarkable career as a landscape painter, working and selling her paintings out of her tiny Farnam, Nebraska home for over thirty years. This book is inspired by the many stories I heard growing up, told by Jennie and her daughters, who thrived on the Hi-Line, a string of towns along Highway 23 in southwest Nebraska. Their lives, mostly in the twentieth century, spanned horse power to nuclear power, boom and bust, war and peace. They knew people who had fought the Civil War, and a couple of them lived to watch 9/11 on television.

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Bruce E Whitacre

The Elk in the Glade

Synopsis

Author Biography

Author Insight

Jennie won a BookFest Prize!

Book Excerpt

The Elk in the Glade

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