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Riverfront Readings features John Romagna, Maria Vasquez Boyd, and Wayne Courtois

February 7 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM CST

Please join us for our February 7th Zoom reading featuring John Romagna, Maria Vasquez Boyd, and Wayne Courtois.

To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf250707, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.

John RomagnaJohn Romagna learned to love poetry in high school when a teacher assigned the poetry of Yeats. He began writing after the death of his younger son, Tim, in 2012. Writing helps him stay connected with family, friends and other writers. He lives in Clinton, NJ, with his wife Karen, a landscape and seascape painter. His most recently published poem, “Stories of an Empire,” appears in River Heron Review, Issue 7.1.

 

Maria Vasquez BoydMaria Vasquez Boyd is producer/host of Artspeak Radio, a weekly live program on 90.1FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio. Since 2012, she featured local and world renowned artists, writers, poets, and playwrights. Boyd is a founding member of the Latino Writers Collective, a storyteller, poet, artist, designer, painter, and continues to exhibit her work across the country. Boyd’s poetry book, The Weight of Recognition, was published in 2023. Her poetry can be found in numerous anthologies; Primera Página, Cuentos Del Centro, Duende, Everyday Things, Toasted Cheese, and No One Sees The Irony.

Wayne CourtoisWayne Courtois is the author of the memoir A Report from Winter, the literary novel Tales My Body Told Me, and the gay erotic novels My Name Is Rand and In the Time of Solution 9. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including The Greensboro Review, I-70 Review, Chelsea Station, Hibernation and Other Poems by Gay Bards, and Assaracus (poetry) and Jonathan (fiction) from Sibling Rivalry Press. His first poetry collection, The Old Ambassador and Other Poems, was published by Spartan Press in March 2023.

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Date:
February 7
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM CST
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Website:
https://squoom.com/z/rf250707

Venue

Zoom
Kansas City, MO United States
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Riverfront Readings
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