Remembering William Kloefkorn

Remembering William Kloefkorn, a photo by BookGuide at LCL on Flickr.

Nebraska State Poet, and longtime friend of the Lincoln City Libraries, William "Bill" Kloefkorn, passed away on May 19, 2011.

A professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University for many years, in addition to teaching and mentoring positions at other schools, Kloefkorn has been a literary institution in Nebraska, and was named State Poet in 1982.

For a detailed report on Kloefkorn's life and letters, visit the following story on the local Lincoln Journal Star website: http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_bbf17247-5f2f-5334-876b-a8d8f2f311fa.html

Kloefkorn's passing marks the second recent death of a Nebraska Wesleyan faculty member with ties to the local literary community. Journal Star columnist Leon Satterfield, one of Kloefkorn's colleagues at NWU, died April 12th. He is remembered in the following story on the Journal Star site: http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_a232c09f-eda3-5ae3-bfc3-5811134f8ef6.html