What Happens

In What Happens these musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains. Readers will meet Raz's son, Aaron, and find themselves drawn to fundamental questions about identity and belonging.

Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Raz is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press, ABQ (in)Print, and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, Trans, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.