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, March 6, 2025. 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 Kiara Nicole Letcher, Todd Robinson, and Greg Kosmicki. 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 50. 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:
Kiara Nicole Letcher is the author of Oxblood, (Agape Editions, 2024) and the chapbook Scream Queen (Orchard Street Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in South Dakota Review, Green Mountains Review, Plainsongs Magazine, Solstice Literary Magazine, Querencia Press, Mulberry Literary, and Laurel Review, among other publications. She received her MFA from The University of Nebraska at Omaha and previously served as a Board Member for the Nebraska Writer’s Collective. She was the 2024 Keynote Speaker for the Nebraska Scholastic Writing Awards and a Nebraska State Poet Nominee. You can find her on her website, kiaranicoleletcher.com, or on Instagram at @kiaranicolebang.
Todd Robinson is the author of two poetry collections, Mass for Shut-Ins (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) and Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag Press, 2012). His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Rattle, The Adroit Journal, North American Review, and South Dakota Review. He is an Assistant Professor in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a caregiver to his partner, a disabled physician.
Greg Kosmicki is a retired Social Services Worker who lives with his wife, Debbie, in Omaha. He received a Master’s Degree in English with a Creative Thesis from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has been awarded two Artist’s Fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, and his 2016 book from Logan House Press, It’s as Good Here as It Gets Anywhere, was a Finalist for the 2017 High Plains Book Award. Several of his poems have been read on Writer’s Almanac. His poems have been published since the late 1970s in literary magazines such as Paris Review, New Letters, The Briar Cliff Review, North Dakota Quarterly, New York Quarterly, and many others. Author of eight chapbooks and six previous books of poetry, his seventh collection, The Dog Has No Answers, was published in the fall of 2024 by Main Street Rag Publishing. He founded The Backwaters Press and managed it for twenty years until it was passed along to The University of Nebraska Press as an imprint. As well as working in poetry, Greg is an abstract expressionist painter.
