The free monthly Nebraska Poets Reading Series highlights the talent of Nebraska poets and invites discussion with audience members. All events are free online, but registration is required to receive an event link. Registration links for each poet’s event and additional details about each poet are available on the Nebraska Poetry Society’s website.

Chuck Peek is a Great Plains poet whose work is pastoral, funny, and sharp as the Nebraska wind. He captures the quirks and truths of Great Plains life with wit and warmth.

Chuck Peek is a Provincetown storyteller who musician Zoe Lewis called “one of the magic people we have met on the road of life,” and some witty guy once dubbed him “the Johnathan Winters of Willa Cather Scholars.” His curriculum vita began by citing driving the Etoile in Paris at morning rush hour and holding the liquor license for the Cather Foundation. One book, two chapbooks, and dozens of individual poems later (one of them in Ted Kooser’s This American Life in Poetry,) someone decided he was a poet. All that while he taught at four universities as academia in America crumbled.