Riverfront Readings with Silvia Kofler, Gregg Primo Ventello, and Mary Silwance

Please join us May 8th for our reading at The Writers Place featuring Silvia Kofler, Gregg Primo Ventello, and Mary Silwance.

Silvia Kofler is a widely published poet, translator, and educator who has read her work in many places like the Yale Club and Poets House in New York City, and at Schokoladen in Berlin, Germany. Her latest book is Castles in the Air, by Spartan Press, 2026. Her book Gambol the World:  Eine Weltanschauung, by Spartan Press has been translated into Portuguese by Carlos Ramos and was published by Ghost Editions in Portugal, 2021. Currently, a small collection of her poems is being translated into Armenian at https://vogi-nairi.am/en/. 

Gregg Primo Ventello’s essays appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Chicago Quarterly Review, and New Letters, and are recognized as “Notable” in Robert Atwan’s Best American Essays of 2013, 2018, and 2022. His op-eds appeared in the Japan Times, the St Louis Post-Dispatch, the Kansas City Star, and McClatchy newspapers across the U.S. He teaches at Kansas City Kansas Community College.

Mary Silwance sees the imagination as emancipatory medicine uniting us with ourselves, others, and Earth. Born in Egypt, Mary lives in Kansas City and is the mother of three daughters. She currently works in Adult Education. She also conducts workshops on writing and spiritual ecology and is on Kansas City Voices’ editorial team. Mary is the co-editor of an anthology of women’s embodied experiences titled Of Our Own Accord. She co-created Poetry Jam, a festival for poetic voices, and has recently published her first poetry collection, We Remember Ourselves. Her full portfolio, including writing, presentations, and workshops, is at https://www.marysilwance.com. You can connect with Mary on FB and IG.