Welcome to Poetry at the Lion! All poets and poetry fans are welcome!

Each month, a featured poet will read from their works and shape the evening’s experience. Poetry lovers can stop on their way to eat out or bring a brown bag meal and stay for the whole evening. Light refreshments will be provided.

The featured poets for August will be Chad Christensen and JV Brummels.

Chad Christensen is a poet, teacher at Wayne State College, a Managing Editor at WSC Press, an advisor for the student literary magazine Judas Goat, and co-director of the Plains Writers Series at WSC. He is the author of Ground Bound: A Novel in Verse, and Shoot From The Hip: a Poetic Novel.

JV Brummels is a poet, former professor at Wayne State College,and Director Emeritus at WSC Press. He has among his credits, a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Elkhorn Prize and the Mildred Bennett Award for contributions to the state’s literature from the Nebraska Center in 2008, and the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. Besides being a poet, Brummels operates a ranch where he raises natural, grass-fed beef.