Riverfront Readings with Franklin K.R. Cline, Alex Tretbar, & Ruth Williams

Please join us for our March 14th for reading at Flagship Books featuring Franklin K.R. Cline, Alex Tretbar, and Ruth Williams.

Franklin K.R. Cline is the author of SO WHAT (2017) and THE BEATLES’ SECOND ALBUM (2021), both from V.A. Press. You can find his poems in Poetry Magazine, Passages North, FENCE, and elsewhere. An enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, he is an educator in Kansas City, MO, where he lives with Six and Olivia.

Alex Tretbar is the author of multiple chapbooks, including most recently toofarwandered (Tilted House, forthcoming 2026). He works in the Center for Digital and Public Humanities at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where he is currently studying the archive of early issues of New Letters and assisting with the Kansas City Monuments Coalition. Recent writing has appeared in Annulet, Cleveland Review of Books, Works & Days, and elsewhere. Alongside UMKC students, alumni, and faculty, he teaches creative writing at Chillicothe Correctional Center, a women’s prison in Missouri.

Ruth Williams is the author of a poetry collection, Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press), and two poetry chapbooks, Nursewifery (Jacar Press) and Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press). Currently, Ruth is a Professor of English at William Jewell College.