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WAYNE — Wayne State College’s Language and Literature Department, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the WSC Press are pleased to host the next installment of the 2024-25 Plains Writers Series on Thursday, March 6. The event will feature Kiara Nicole Letcher, Todd Robinson, and Greg Kosmicki.
The reading, free and open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. in the second-floor lounge of the Humanities Building at Wayne State. This event will be livestreamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.
Poetry Slam 50 will follow the Plains Writers Series. 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 three original poems and the $5 registration fee. The slam is also free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.wscpress.com.
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 earned her master of fine arts degree from the University of Nebraska-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.
