Riverfront Readings Friday, June 13th

Please join us for our June 13th reading featuring Effy Winter, Pat Lawson, Kathy Allen, and Carl Bettis.

Effy Winter is an American poet and scholar specializing in literary studies with a concentration on the lives and work of German writer Assia Wevill and English poet Ted Hughes. She has published her poetry in numerous publications and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2022, she began pursuing her academic work in England, dividing her time between London and West Yorkshire, where she studies confessional poetry at The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre for Creative Writing.

Pat Lawson’s fiction has appeared in many journals, including New Letters, Nimrod, The Dalhousie Review, and Big Muddy. A collection of her stories, Odd Ducks, was published by BkMk Press in 2020, and a collection of poems, The Little Book of Me (Spartan Press) was published in 2021. Odd Ducks won the Byron Caldwell Smith Award for Fiction by a Kansas Author (Center for Humanities at K.U.) She likes to read, garden, walk her dog, and see her grandkids.

Kathy Allen is a long-time Kansas City, Kansas resident, and a Kansas City, Kansas Community College and Kansas University graduate. After leaving many customer service jobs, she is now working as a home health aide. She has a chapbook, End of Front St., and has poems in several publications, including the anthology In the Red: In the Black (Helicon Nine Editions). Kathy is a member of the Diversifiers and Collaborators writers’ groups.

Carl Bettis is a writer and software engineer in Kansas City, Missouri. He co-founded the literary magazines The Same and Thorny Locust. His work has been published there and in other periodicals, including 1-70 Review, The Pink Hydra, Chewers by Masticadores, Moonday Mag, and Bright Flash Literary Review. His work has also appeared in the anthologies Chance of a Ghost, Quick Shivers from the Midwest, In the Red: In the Black, and the 365 Days anthologies. Carl and his imaginary friends hang out in the fictional town of Bedrieger Junction, and their Humid Light blog can be found at bedriegerjunction.com.

Suggested donations: $5 non-members, $4 members, $3 students

All suggested donations go to the artists.