Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to hold a second Spring’s Plains Writers Series on Tuesday, March 25, 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 Steve Langan. The reading will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the lounge on the second floor of the Humanities Building at Wayne State College. The event will be live-streamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.

ABOUT THE READER:

Steve Langan lived in Omaha for many years and now lives in Maine. He graduated from the University of Nebraska Omaha and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received the James Michener Postgraduate Fellowship. Langan formed Seven Doctors Project (7DP), an ongoing creative writing workshop designed for mid-career physicians who were willing to claim job burnout and dissatisfaction, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2008. He returned to his alma mater in 2019 to help form and lead UNO’s Major in Medical Humanities. He currently teaches at Colby College and Baylor University. Langan’s poems are in a variety of journals, including Columbia, Cutbank, Diagram, DoubleTake, Fence, Flyway, Jacket, MAKE, Meridian, Pool, Shade, Slope, Sweet, Make, Verse, and Witness. His books are Freezing, Notes on Exile & Other Poems, Meet Me at the Happy Bar, What It Looks Like, How It Flies, and Bedtime Stories (Littoral Books, 2024).