Jim Reese is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty University in Yankton, South Dakota. His latest books are Dancing Room Only: New and Selected Poems and the essay collection Bone Chalk. His next project, Coming to a Neighborhood Near You: The Business and Repercussions of Crime and Punishment (Fall 2025), draws on his extensive work with both the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the South Dakota Department of Corrections.

Featured title: Dancing Room Only

Website: https://jimreese.org/

JIM’S EVENTS:

• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 11:30 a.m. – Midwestern Life in Poetry – The Oscar, Multi-Use South (195A), Brookings
• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings
• Saturday, Sept 21 @ 2:00 p.m. – Writing Law Enforcement in Fiction and Nonfiction – Brookings Public Library, Cooper Rooms A & B
• Saturday, Sept. 21 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings

View the full schedule here!