search articles:     from the issue of April 12, 2007         Plains Song writers offer April 18 reading The Center for Great Plains Studies will host a reading by writers and exhibit by photographers whose work appears in Volume 9 of Plains Song Review at 7 p.m. April 18 in the Great Plains Art Museum. The evening will feature readings by authors whose work is published in this new issue. Plains Song Review publishes poetry, prose, photographs and artwork by undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Nebraska's campuses as well as other writers and artists from Nebraska and surrounding Plains states. It will include the third-annual exhibit of photographs from the journal and will present the Christine Pappas Award for best work by an undergraduate student. The award is a cash prize of $200. Shoshana Sumrall, editor of the review and an award-winning writer and an undergraduate English major at UNL, headed a student and community editorial board that was responsible for reviewing and selecting the final entries from more than 250 submissions. Members of the board included DeAnn Allison, Deborah Derrick, Sarah Mast, Adryan Mallory, Ember Schrag, Rex Walton and Amy Winkenwerder. Charles A. Braithwaite, editor of Great Plains Quarterly, served as consulting editor. Plains Song Review, founded in 1999 by Pappas, is an interdisciplinary literary journal, published by the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies. Volume 9 will be for sale at the reading. The reading and a 6:30 p.m. reception are free and open to the public. For more information, call 472-3082. GO TO: ISSUE OF APRIL 12 ARTS HEADLINES FOR APRIL 12 Film festival to explore race, identity, revolution American Life in Poetry Chamber Orchestra presents April 13 jazz performance MFA THESIS Plains Song writers offer April 18 reading Scarlet and Cream show is April 15 Updated 'Aida' to play Lied, April 20-21 732778S36967X