Barbara Schmitz • How Much Our Dancing Has Improved

• The Nebraska Book Award for Poetry 2005 •

Barbara has a huge mind--it took her a long time on her own arduous path to capture its extent from ground to heaven. But never fear, she was a midwesterner--she stubbornly continued until the paper reflected her true self...she launched a rocket all the way to eternity.
   • Natalie Goldberg - Author of Writing Down the Bones

Barbara Schmitz is the Lucinda Williams of the poetry world.
   • Paul Zarzyski - Author of Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat

Schmitz's newest collection is a beautiful dance of words, of imagery, of spiritual testament, but finally and most of all: love.
   • Nebraska Center for the Book News

About the Author:

Barbara Schmitz has had her poems published in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Laurel Review, Nebraska Review, and Kansas Quarterly. In 1997, she won the Encouragement Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program. How Much Our Dancing Has Improved is her fourth collection of poetry.