Natalie G’Schwind
HPPR Poets on the Plains, Featured PoetNATALIE G’SCHWIND grew up in the canyons around Callaway, Nebraska. She makes her living managing Nebraska’s sandhills grasslands and helps out at the family ranch every chance she gets. She has two books Bays and Prairies and Ways of Bays. She had the honor to contribute poems to Sally Harper Bates’s Facing West: Voices of Western Women Volume II and Betty Lynne McCarthy’s REAL, which received the EQUUS AWARD and the Will Rogers Medallion Award. In 2024 she received the Della Johns Scholarship to attend and present at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada and was asked back for the 2026 gathering.
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My name is Jewel Rogers and I am your state poet of Nebraska. Today we are introducing some poetry from Natalie G’Schwind whom I met in Broken Bow, Nebraska during a Homegrown event. Anyway, Natalie was one of the readers at Homegrown – a series of intimate readings and art shares across the great state of Nebraska held in partnership with the Academy of American Poets.
