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SUMMARY:Riverfront Readings Saturday\, August 16th
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our August 16th reading featuring Tim Bascom and Danny Alexander. \nTim Bascom is the author of two prize-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth. His essays have been selected for the anthologies Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Travel Writing. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zone 3\, Front Range Review\, and Briar Cliff Review. Bascom directs the Kansas Book Festival. \n  \n  \nDanny Alexander is a longtime Kansas City music writer and former associate editor of Dave Marsh’s Rock & Rap Confidential. He’s the author of the book Real Love\, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige\, and he co-edited a collection of Dave Marsh’s work\, Kick Out the Jams: Jibes\, Barbs\, Tributes\, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing.
URL:https://riverfrontreadings.com/event/riverfront-readings-saturday-august-16th/
LOCATION:Flagship Books\, 510 N. 6th Street\, Kansas City\, KS\, 66101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Riverfront Readings with Aisha Sharif\, Melissa Ferrer Civil\, Waco Porter
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 13th\, 7:00 PM\nNerman Museum\, Hudson Auditorium\n12345 College Blvd.\nOverland Park\, KS 66210 \nRiverfront Readings\, The Johnson County Community College Student Literary Magazine Mind’s Eye and the Black Student Union co-host a reading featuring Aisha Sharif\, Melissa Ferrer Civil\, and Waco Porter. \nAisha Sharif is a Cave Canem fellow who earned her MFA at Indiana University\, Bloomington\, and BA in English at Rhodes College. Her poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review\, Tidal Basin Review\, Callaloo\, Calyx\, Rattle\, and other literary journals. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2019 and 2015. Aisha’s first book of poetry\, To Keep From Undressing\, was published by SparkWheelPress in 2019. Her 2nd book\, Black Diamonds\, was a finalist for the 2024 HubCity Press BIPOC Series. \n  \nMelissa Ferrer Civil (she/they) is a first-gen\, Haitian-Cuban\, queer poet\, organizer\, and educator living on Kaw\, Otoe\, and Osage lands (Kansas City\, MO). They are preoccupied with constructing new communication for the manifestation of a home we all hold in our hearts. Melissa’s first chapbook BIRTHING PAINS (Turnsol Editions\, 2020\, reprinted 2024). Their second chapbook is STENO PAD (Turnsol Editions\, 2024). Melissa received a MFA from Randolph College\, was a Charlotte Street Studio Resident\, Chrysalis Institute Alumni\, is the Director of B-REAL (Black Radical Education for Abolition and Liberation) Academy. She is the first Poet Laureate of Kansas City\, MO. Melissa is the founder of the abolitionist arts and organizing event series\, A Nation In Exile. Website\, www.melissaferrerand.com and instagram: @melissaferrerand \n  \nWaco Porter: living and writing in KC\, I have two books of poetry\, Total Eclipse and Bus Stop. I am married with three girls. I am the youngest of four\, the only boy: Daddy’s son\, mama’s joy. I really like writing poetry; it gives me peace of mind. I like being able to reread something I wrote and get right back in that space. I like being able to hear other people read their poetry\, hear their truth or perspective\, then feel motivated to write something of my own. Not to be better\, just responding to the inspiration of others’ voices.
URL:https://riverfrontreadings.com/event/riverfront-readings-with-aisha-sharif-melissa-ferrer-civil-waco-porter/
LOCATION:Nerman Museum\, Hudson Auditorium\, 12345 College Boulevard\, Overland Park\, KS\, 66210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Riverfront Events
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SUMMARY:Riverfront Readings featuring Colleen Maynard and Kevin Ridgeway
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our February 13th Zoom reading featuring Colleen Maynard and Kevin Ridgeway. \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tBXerDLqRV2JpW-RzQrwIA \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the meeting. \nColleen Maynard is a visual artist\, writer\, and arts administrator. Maynard writes poems and short fiction about the overlap of daily modern rituals and geological deep time\, regularly resulting in themes of ecological and societal absurdities or careful spells. Her writing has appeared in AGNI\, matchbook\, Sand Journal\, and Wayne State Review. She also makes highly detailed\, large-scale drawings of marine invertebrates\, prehistoric fossils\, and overlooked life forms using analogue drafting tools and collage. Maynard holds double majors from the Kansas City Art Institute. She is a proud founding member and alumna of Throughline\, an artist-run space and collective group of artists in Houston\, Texas. Maynard is an administrator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. \nKevin Ridgeway‘s books include Too Young to Know (Stubborn Mule Press)\, Invasion of the Shadow People (Luchador Press) and Death of the Coppertone Girl (Luchador Press). His work has been published in New York Quarterly\, Hiram Poetry Review\, Slipstream Magazine\, Paterson Literary Review\, Gargoyle\, Nerve Cowboy\, Chiron Review and Talking River Review\, among others. He lives and writes in Long Beach\, California.
URL:https://riverfrontreadings.com/event/riverfront-readings-featuring-colleen-maynard-and-kevin-ridgeway/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Kansas City\, MO\, United States
CATEGORIES:Riverfront Events
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SUMMARY:Riverfront Readings with Colleen Maynard and Kevin Ridgeway.
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 13th\, 7:00 PM\nOnline event \n\nTo attend\, please register for the reading here\, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.\n\nRiverfront Readings on Zoom featuring Colleen Maynard and Kevin Ridgeway.\n\n\n\nColleen Maynard is a visual artist\, writer\, and arts administrator. As a lifelong cyclist and pedestrian\, her writing and artwork are mired in the slowness of observations from a bicycle\, and the analogue mark making composed on a drafting table. \nMaynard writes poems and short fiction about the overlap of daily modern rituals and geological deep time\, regularly resulting in themes of ecological and societal absurdities or careful spells. Her writing has appeared in places such as AGNI\, matchbook\, Sand Journal\, and Wayne State Review. She also makes highly detailed\, large-scale drawings of marine invertebrates\, prehistoric fossils\, and overlooked life forms using analogue drafting tools and collage. A few laboratories she has collaborated with include the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary\, the University of Texas Medical Branch Pathology department\, and Emporia State University Geology Museum. \nMaynard holds double majors from the Kansas City Art Institute. She is a proud founding member and alumna of Throughline\, an artist-run space and collective group of artists in Houston\, Texas. Maynard is an administrator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. \nwww.colleenmaynard.com\n\n Kevin Ridgeway’s books include Too Young to Know (Stubborn Mule Press)\, Invasion of the Shadow People (Luchador Press) and Death of the Coppertone Girl (Luchador Press). His work has been published in New York Quarterly\, Hiram Poetry
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SUMMARY:Riverfront Readings with Silvia Kofler\, Gregg Primo Ventello\, and Mary Silwance
DESCRIPTION:Please join us May 8th for our reading at The Writers Place featuring Silvia Kofler\, Gregg Primo Ventello\, and Mary Silwance. \nSilvia 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/.  \n  \n \n  \nGregg 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. \n  \n  \n \nMary 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. \n 
URL:https://riverfrontreadings.com/event/riverfront-readings-with-silvia-kofler-gregg-primo-ventello-and-mary-silwance/
LOCATION:The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village\, 31 W. 31st Street\, Kansas City\, MO\, 64108\, United States
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