National Willa Cather Center News
Visit this page often for the latest Cather-related news as well as information about the Willa Cather Foundation's programs, collections, and events.
Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive
Our Real Stars—Get to Know Our Volunteers!
We are so grateful to our volunteers for the support and the joy that they bring!
Our volunteers are a large and growing number of dedicated people who want to give back to the National Willa Cather Center—and the Red Cloud community—by assisting at Red Cloud Opera House events, in the bookstore, gardening, tea towel embroidering, and in so many other ways.
This year we have begun to profile our diverse group of volunteers through our Red Cloud Opera House e-newsletter and our social media pages [those profiles are also listed—and linked—below].
National Willa Cather Center Selected to Appear in Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) Program
Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!
Despite the staffing difficulties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Willa Cather Center was able to reconfigure two summer internships to be entirely remote while still giving each intern valuable museum work experience. Our two interns this summer are Alise Perault and Braxton Benes, and they are working on assessing our educational resources, as well as revising our walking tour brochure, and prairie signage. Both Alise and Braxton have a passion for learning and museum work, and we thought it would be fun to share a little bit about them.
Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters
Erica J. Ryan Lecture Sets the Tone for Conference
Alex Ross to Keynote 65th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
Member Spotlight: Meet Frank Markley
Celebrate National Poetry Month
National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month
It isn’t widely recognized that writing poetry represented some of Willa Cather’s earliest literary endeavors. Even after establishing herself as a writer of significance, Cather continued to write poetry and to reshape the presentation of her earliest published poems. In efforts to share Cather’s poetry more broadly and deliver meaningful digital content to Cather fans during this unprecedented time of social distancing, the National Willa Cather Center is hosting virtual poetry readings beginning April 1 in honor of National Poetry Month.