Come join me as I host (for the third year in a row!), the 25/26 Opera Omaha Poetry and Music Project Concert.

In Fall 2025, Opera Omaha and the Nebraska Writers Collective invited students from Nebraska and Iowa to submit works of poetry on the theme “Memory.” Throughout the fall, over 200 elementary, middle, and high school students took part in NWC-led Poetry & Music writing workshops focused on helping students add musicality to their poetry.

While there were many outstanding poems submitted to the project, in the end, project composers Sidney Marquez Boquiren and James Schroeder selected 14 poems that inspired them to create original music with the poems as the lyrics. Four additional poems were selected by Opera Omaha's Holland Community Opera Fellows to be the inspiration for original pieces of visual art.