Riverfront Readings with Victoria Garton, Serina Allison Hearn, and Boyd Bauman

Please join us June 13th for our reading at Flagship Books featuring Victoria Garton, Serina Allison Hearn, and Boyd Bauman.

Victoria Garton’s 4th book, Light Through a Cat’s Ear, came out in 2025 from Kelsay Books and is available there and on Amazon. Its three sections, Natura, Important Arguments, and Changing of the Gods, feature themes she’s explored since first publishing in 1978: our relationships to nature, the inner self, and higher powers. Her poetry has appeared in many journals including I-70 Review, Thorny Locust, Coal City Review, and previous Writers Place Yearbooks. She lives on a ranch in Nevada, MO, and is retired from teaching composition and literature for Crowder College.

Serina Allison Hearn is a Trinidadian-born poet, essayist, preservationist, and environmental activist based between Trinidad and Lawrence, Kansas. She is the author of Dreaming the Bronze Girl and Atlas of Our Birth, with essays published in Wired868 and the Trinidad and Tobago Express. Her work explores place, memory, ecology, exile, and inheritance. She is the founder and curator of the Garden with Wings, a butterfly and pollinator garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Port of Spain, Trinidad. In Lawrence, she provides Victorian homes for KU students and creates pollinator gardens that link historic preservation with ecological restoration.

Boyd Bauman grew up on a small ranch south of Bern, Kansas, his dad the storyteller and mom the family scribe.  His books of poetry are Cleave and Scheherazade Plays the Chestnut Tree Café, and his children’s book is The Heights of Love.  After stints in New York, Colorado, Alaska, Japan, and Vietnam, Boyd now is a librarian and writer in Kansas City.   Visit at boydbauman.weebly.com.