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 poet for September is Stacey Waite.

Notes about Waite from Wikipedia:

Stacey Waite is a poet and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She focuses on both slam and written verse. Waite's poetry often explores themes of the body, typically intersections of gender, sexuality, place and relationships. She has published four collections of poetry over the past several years.

Waite attended her first live slam poetry performance in New York City as a teen. Since moving to Nebraska, Waite has worked as a teaching artist with the Nebraska Writers Collective and its slam-poetry program Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB). LTAB allows high school students from around the state of Nebraska to write, practice, perform and compete in slam poetry bouts around the state.

Waite has also published a significant book, Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing, in the field of Composition Studies about pedagogy and the teaching of writing with the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2017, a project that aligns with Waite's role as a writing professor and her interest in the how’s and why’s of teaching writing and composition to first-year college students