Riverfront Readings with Brian Daldorph and Boyd Bauman

Friday, September 13th, 8:00 PM
The Writers Place
Nonprofit Village
31 W 31st Street, KCMO 64108

Please join us for our September 13th reading featuring Brian Daldorph and Boyd Bauman.

Brian Daldorph teaches creative writing, literature, and writing classes in the English department. He has also taught in Japan, Senegal, and England. His two books of poems, The Holocaust and Hiroshima: Poems, and Outcasts, were both published by Mid-America Press. His book Words is a Powerful Thing (UP of Kansas, 2021)  is the winner of the 2024 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Literary Nonfiction. He edits Coal City Review. His poems, stories, articles, and reviews have been widely published. From “Outcast”: On cold nights he wraps himself in his great white beard/and seals gather round him/to keep Jack O’Bones warm.

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.

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

All suggested donations go to the artists.