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 21, 2024. 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 Stephanie A. Marcellus and Aliyah American Horse. 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 49. 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 6:30 p.m. Slam participants need three original poems and $5 registration fee. All events are free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE READER:
Stephanie A. Marcellus is a professor of English at Wayne State College. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and a PhD in Nineteenth-Century British Literature from The University of South Dakota. Her work has appeared in Plainsongs, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Alligator Juniper as well as two other chapbooks, All That I Thought Was Light and What Is Left Behind: Garden Elegies. She lives in Wayne, Nebraska with her husband, two cats, and dog. She enjoys spending time on the family farm, being out in nature, and finding time to read in her hammock.
Aliyah American Horse, titled the Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate in 2023 and the Midwestern Youth Poet Laureate in 2024, is from the Oglala-Lakota tribe but was raised in the small town of Gordon, Nebraska. She is the author of Shed No Tears Unci and Warriors Within Words. Not only does she write and speak about love, life, and spirituality, but she is also an advocate for all Native American communities by raising awareness for issues such as the Land Back movement, mental health and substance abuse issues, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement. Through her poetry she hopes to not only inspire young indigenous people but also truly make an impact in the world. Aliyah is currently studying English and Writing at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
