Featured Reader
Featured Reader
for August 8, 2025
JV Brummels
(with Featured co-Reader Chad Christenson)
reading at 6 PM.
1309 R streets: west side of St. Marks on the Campus.
Door open and refreshments are served beginning at 5:30 PM. Feel free to come sit, veg out, study or visit with a friend until 6 PM.
JV Brummles, poet, former professor at Wayne State College, Director Emeritus at WSC Press. 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 9in 20080, and the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. He was a writer for A Local Habitation and A Name, a series on Great Plains Poets produced by Nebraska Educational Television Network in 1981.
In 1984 he began a horseback cattle outfit to raise natural, grass-fed beef, which he still operates. A longtime professor at Wayne State College, he’s also written and published short fiction and a novel. For the last 20 years he’s served as publisher of Logan House, co-founded with Jim Reese, which specializes in contemporary American poetry. In 2006 he was named director of the newly created WSC Press. He lives in western Wayne County where his family runs a horseback cattle ranch.
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