The reading will begin at 3:30 p.m. March 25 in the second floor lounge of the Humanities Building.
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 Tuesday, March 25, when Steve Langan will be the featured author. Admission is free and open to the public.
The reading will begin at 3:30 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.
About Steve Langan
Steve Langan lived in Omaha for many years and now he 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.
Langan 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” by Littoral Books in 2024.
About the Plains Writers Series
The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year at Wayne State and has been an integral part of the college’s history since 1977. This reading series generally features Great Plains authors and artists in a one or two-day event that is free and open to the public. The Plains Writers Series brings attention to the prose and poetry of Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences.
The Plains Writers Series provides a forum for Nebraska’s contemporary writers and poets to share their work with Nebraska readers. The content of the project is literature, especially that of rural Nebraska. Literature will be the entire focus of the series throughout the day in the form of readings, questions and answer sessions, one-on-one conversations between the audience members, and the authors presenting their work. Following the readings, a poetry or fiction slam is usually held in downtown Wayne.
For more information about the Plains Writers Series, contact Chad Christensen, managing editor of the WSC Press and director of the Plains Writers Series, at [email protected] or 402-375-7118, or visit the WSC Press website.