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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.
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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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