William Kloefkorn is a transplant from Kansas, having spent his early years growing up in the village of Attica - population somewhere in the neighborhood of 765. He and his wife Eloise moved to Lincoln in 1962, where he taught writing and literature at Nebraska Wesleyan University until his retirement in 2002. He has published more than twenty collections of poetry, two collections of short fiction, four memoirs and an assortment of children's Christmas stories. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and he has conducted workshops and given readings in a wide variety of venues across the country. in the early 1970s he initiated Nebraska's poets-in-the-schools program, talking and writing with young students throughout nebraska. "Not many things," he says, "are more important or more satisfying than are classrooms filled with wide-eyed, vibrant students who are eager to learn and to tell their stories by way of the written word." In 1982 the Unicameral by proclamation named him the Nebraska State Poet. He and Eloise have four children - two girls and two boys - eleven grandchildren, and two great-grandsons. This collection is the first to bring together, in a single volume, all of Kloefkorn's poems that have connections to Nebraska.