UPDATE: Unfortunately, Aliyah American Horse cannot attend this week’s Plains Writers Series. Instead, Bonnie Johnson-Bartee will be our reader on Nov. 21, 2024.
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 Bonnie Johnson-Bartee. 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.
Bonnie Johnson-Bartee is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, Bildungsroman 38 (2004), Named, but Unknown (2006), and Cord Blood (Sandhills Press, 2023) which won the Nebraska Book Award, Poetry Honor Award. She teaches creative writing and literature courses at Wayne State College and at Northeast Community College in Norfolk where she also serves as the director of the Visiting Writers Series and is the faculty editor of the annual student magazine, Voices Out of Nowhere. Bonnie grew up in northeast Nebraska, where she raised her children, and her children are now raising theirs. A grandmother to six, she appreciates the deep roots of her Nebraska home.
