Tyler Jacobs will read at 2 p.m. in the Humanities Building Lounge, followed by Poetry Slam 52 at 7 p.m. at The Max Bar and Grill.
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 2025-26 Plains Writers Series, featuring Tyler Jacobs on Thursday, March 5.
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 livestreamed on the Plains Writers Series Facebook page.
Poetry Slam 52 will follow the Plains Writers Series readings. The slam will be held at the Max Bar and Grill in downtown Wayne at 7 p.m., with registration starting at 6:30 p.m. Slam participants need to bring three original poems and the $5 registration fee. All events are free and open to the public.
About Tyler Jacobs
Tyler Michael Jacobs is the author of “The Weight of Drought (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2025)” and “Building Brownville (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022).” His words have appeared or are forthcoming in Grist, Phoebe, Passages North, Quarterly West, Variant Literature, Sierra Nevada Review, Plainsongs, and elsewhere. His poems have also been featured on Nebraska Public Media’s “Friday LIVE.”
Jacobs earned his master of fine arts degree from Bowling Green State University.
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 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.