Three authors featured at Wayne State’s Plains Writers series

WAYNE – Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are will host the Plains Writers Series, featuring Julie S. Paschold, Kelly Weber, and Neil Harrison on Thursday, Feb. 29, at Wayne State.

The reading, free and open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. in the second-floor lounge of the Humanities Building. This event will be live-streamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.

Poetry Slam 48 will follow the Plains Writers Series reading. The slam will be held at 7 p.m. at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. for slam participants who need to bring four original poems and the $5 registration fee. The slam is also free and open to the public.

Julie S. Paschold (Tansy Julie the Soaring Eagle) is a queer disabled poet and artist from Nebraska. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agronomy from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Her first book, “Horizons (Atmosphere Press),” is a collection of poetry honoring soil, one of our nonrenewable resources. Paschold has been published in several publications, including “Plainsongs,” “The Awkward Review,” “Nebraska’s Writers Guild,” “The Raven’s Perch,” “The Radical Teacher.”

Kelly Weber 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). Weber has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and their work has appeared in or is forthcoming in “AGNI,” “Pleiades,” “Waxwing,” “Gulf Coast Online,” Electric Literature’s “The Commuter,” “Southeast Review,” and elsewhere.

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).”