Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to hold this Fall’s Plains Writers Series on Thursday, November 16, 2023. The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year to bring attention to the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences.
This Plains Writers Series will feature Charlene Pierce and Tom C. Hunley. The reading will begin at 2 p.m. in the lounge on the second floor of the Humanities Building at Wayne State College. This event will be live-streamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.
Following the Plains Writers Series will be Poetry Slam 47. The slam will be held at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne, NE, starting at 7:00 p.m., with registration beginning at 6:00 p.m. Slam participants need four original poems and $5 registration fee. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please go to wscpress.com.
ABOUT THE READERS:
Tom C. Hunley’s eighth full-length poetry collection, The Loneliest Whale in the World, is forthcoming in 2024 from Terrapin Books. His eighth chapbook, Abridged, is forthcoming in 2024 from Kelsay Books. His first short film, You’re Not Alone, is currently in postproduction with Forerunner TV, Inc. Tom is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003. He divides his time between Kansas and Oz.
Charlene Pierce founded the Nebraska Poetry Society, a non-profit organization, to make poetry accessible to all. It is an essential mission to her as one with a disability who overcame poverty. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the Nebraska anthologies How it Looks from Here, Voices of the Plains, and Misbehaving Nebraskans. Her poetry is forthcoming in The Good Life Review and has appeared in Page and Spine, BlazeVOX, and Literary Yard. She published The Poet’s Journal: A Beginner’s Workbook for Writing Poetry. By day, she is a freelance writer appearing on websites and blogs across the country and local magazines.
