Barbara Schmitz’s poetry is perhaps unique among midwestern Nebraska poets in that it has been informed significantly by Sufi mysticism—there are several of glancing references to “whirling” in the poems of Sundown at Faith Regional—Buddhist chanting, and Hindu meditation. She has also pursued...

How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing? I don’t remember my first piece of writing, but I very much remember why I am writing and my first piece that mattered. My English professor in college, David Martin, thought a piece I wrote about my dad and me and how baseball...

Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this Spring’s Plains Writers Series on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of...

The annual English Festival returns to Wayne State College Thursday, April 15 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. This event is free and open to the public. Last year’s English Festival was cancelled due to COVID, so the WSC Writing Club is excited to sponsor the 2021 event, aptly themed “New Beginnings.” Prior...