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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
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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 Franklin K.R. Cline\, Alex Tretbar\, & Ruth Williams
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our March 14th for reading at Flagship Books featuring Franklin K.R. Cline\, Alex Tretbar\, and Ruth Williams. \n \n  \nFranklin 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. \n  \n  \n \nAlex 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. \n  \n \n  \nRuth 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.
URL:https://riverfrontreadings.com/event/riverfront-readings-with-franklin-k-r-cline-alex-tretbar-ruth-williams/
LOCATION:Flagship Books\, 510 N. 6th Street\, Kansas City\, KS\, 66101\, United States
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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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