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 Thursday, February 29, 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 Julie S. Paschold, Kelly Weber, and Neil Harrison. 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 48. 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 four original poems and $5 registration fee. All events are free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE READER:
Julie S. Paschold (Tansy Julie the Soaring Eagle) is a queer disabled poet and artist from Nebraska. They have their BS and MS in agronomy from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Their first book, Horizons (Atmosphere Press), is a collection of poetry honoring soil, one of our nonrenewable resources. Julie has been published in several publications, including Plainsongs, The Awakenings Review, the Nebraska Writer’s Guild, The Raven’s Perch, The Radical Teacher, and several publications on medium.com. Their poem “Multitudes of Blue Arrows” was a semi-finalist in the first Kate Sommers Memorial Prize in 2023, and two of their chapbooks won honorable mention in contests by Writer’s Digest in 2021 and 2022.
Kelly Weber (they/she) is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press, 2022), and You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis, winner of the 2022 Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize (December 2023). They have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Pleiades, Waxwing, Gulf Coast Online, Electric Literature’s The Commuter, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University.
Neil Harrison‘s poetry collections include In a River of Wind (Bridge Burner’s, 2000), Into the River Canyon at Dusk (Lone Willow, 2005), Back in the Animal Kingdom (Pinyon Publishing, 2011), Where the Waters Take You (Pinyon Publishing, 2018, winner of a Nebraska Center for the Book Honor Award), and For the Love of God (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2023). A former teacher of English and Creative Writing, he lives in northeast Nebraska.
