Great Plains Writers' Tour
Mount Marty College is home to the Great Plains Writers' Tour, which brings award-winning professional writers to campus for readings and class workshops. Previous authors include former United States poet laureate Ted Kooser, American Book Award winner Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, David Lee, and William Kloefkorn, amongst others.
The Great Plains Writers' Tour is comprised of a series of readings and discussion programs that explore various arts and humanities components - poetry, performance poetry and storytelling. Through poetry and prose presentations authors carry on a tradition of storytelling that is rooted in Midwestern and Plains culture.
| Past Presenters | ||
| Feb | 2013 | Dan O'Brien |
| Sept | 2012 | William Trowbridge |
| Apr | 2012 | George Bilgere |
| Feb | 2012 | David Lee & Neil Harrison |
| Nov | 2011 | Lisa Sandlin & Barbara Schmitz |
| Oct | 2011 | Sarah McKinstry-Brown & Marge Saiser |
| Mar | 2010 | Neil Harrison & Don Welch |
| Oct | 2010 | Daryl Farmer |
| Feb | 2010 | Kent Meyers |
| Oct | 2009 | Vivian Shipley |
| Mar | 2008 | Maria Mazziotte Gillan |
| Oct | 2007 | Dave Pichaske & Patrick Hicks |
| Sept | 2007 | Brian Bedard & John Price |
