Riverfront Readings

Riverfront Special: Feeling the Gap
2023-11-12 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village, 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Feeling the Gap
Through poetry, fiction, and music, artists Gena Bardwell, Angela Hagenbach, and Phyllis Becker feel their ancestral history and fill in the gaps between yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Gena Bardwell is a Kansas City native, New York actor, writer, professor, and chair of the Department of Speech and Communication at Touro University, NY. Her latest play, Just Before Sunrise, was written and produced for NYC New Perspectives Theater 2022 Short Lab Series. She wrote Irene Stories, a collection of early 20th century remembrances from her centenarian Aunt. She has written and performed numerous monologues for theater companies in New York and historical dramatizations for the Juneteenth Jubilee Heritage Festivals in Weston, MO.

Angela Hagenbach is the founder of the Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign, a Trustee of the Weston Historical Museum, and a fifth-generation descendant of Weston, Missouri’s historically Black forebears. She authors Resilience in the Face of Adversity, a column in the quarterly Museum Musings newsletter for the Weston Historical Museum. Jazz recording artist and two-term Cultural Jazz Ambassador for the USA, Hagenbach is a historical fiction novelist and student of ancestral research.

Phyllis Becker is the coordinator of the Riverfront Reading series in KC. She has a book, How I Came to Love Jazz and Other Poems (2008, Helicon Nine Editions). Her poems have also been set to jazz on the compact disc Poetry of Love produced by jazz vocalist, Angela Hagenbach. Her latest book, Proof of Existence, is forthcoming from Scapegoat Press. Phyllis is also a senior fellow with the Full Frame Initiative and a consultant in juvenile justice reform.

Also featuring special guest artist classical vocalist Cassie Leon.

Philip Miller Scholarship Reading & Open Mic
2023-10-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Zoom, Kansas City, MO, United States
Riverfront Readings
in collaboration with
tiny frights horror e-zine
presents the annual
Philip Miller Scholarship Reading & Open Mic
on lucky Friday the 13th of October, 2023, 8:00 PM

This is a Zoom event. To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf231013, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
To sign up to read, please email carl@riverfrontreadings.com. (You may sign up during the event if slots are still available.)
Themes: Halloween, horror, autumn
Guidelines: one or two short poems or very short pieces of prose. We won’t impose tiny frights length guidelines, but please be mindful that others also want time to read.
Who can sign up to read?

Anyone who knew Phil Miller
Anyone who has had work published in, or accepted by, tiny frights
Everyone else

In honor of Philip Miller’s dedication to students, young and new writers are encouraged to participate.
The scholarship benefits students at Kansas City Kansas Community College. If you can’t make the reading but want to contribute to the scholarship fund, find directions for donating at: https://riverfrontreadings.com/phil-miller-scholarship-fund/

Riverfront Readings features Lindsey Martin-Bowen, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Carlos Ramos
2023-09-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Zoom, Kansas City, MO, United States
Please join us for our September 10th Zoom reading featuring Lindsey Martin-Bowen, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, and Carlos Ramos.
To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf230910, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
Pulitzer and Pushcart nominee Lindsey Martin-Bowen’s 6 poetry books include CASHING CHECKS with Jim Morrison (Redbat Books 2023), The Book of Frenzies (Pierian Springs Press 2022), Where Water Meets the Rock (39 West Press 2017). Her CROSSING KANSAS with Jim Morrison won KAC’s 2017 “Looks Like a Million.” Her work has run in many lit mags, including New Letters, I-70 Review, Thorny Locust, and The Same, and she teaches writing and Criminal Justice classes at Blue Mountain College in Oregon.

Kalpana Singh-Chitnis is an Indian-American poet, filmmaker, and author of six poetry collections, including Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava (River Paw Press), a finalist at the 2023 International Book Awards, and Trespassing My Ancestral Lands, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Poems from her award-winning book Bare Soul and her poetry film River of Songs included in the Lunar Codex time capsules will go to the moon with NASA’s missions in 2023 and 2024. Website: www.kalpnasinghchitnis.com

Carlos Ramos was born in Peniche, Portugal. He graduated with a law degree and became a writer, editor, translator, and photographer. His work has been published in newspapers, collections, literary magazines, online blogs, and web pages. His poetry has been translated into several languages. He participated in literary festivals and poetry recitals. Until now he has published ten books, and translated eight more, including Kofler’s book Gambol the World. He founded the publishing house, Edições Fantasma.

Riverfront Readings with Mary Silwance and Bob Sykora
2023-06-09 20:00 - 21:30 | The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village, 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Friday, June 9th, 8:00 PM
The Writers Place
Nonprofit Village
31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City MO 64108
Please join us for our June 9th reading featuring Mary Silwance and Bob Sykora.
Originally from Egypt, Mary Silwance lives in Kansas City and is a mother of three daughters. She has been an English teacher, Farm to School Coordinator, environmental educator, and farmhand. She provides writing workshops and serves on the editorial team of Kansas City Voices. Mary explores ecology from an intersection of justice and spirituality in workshops and writing. While her poetry and essays appear in numerous publications, you can also find her work, chapbooks, radio, and Zoom presentations as well as workshop offerings at https://www.marysilwance.com. When she’s not writing, you can find Mary gardening, hiking, thrifting, or planning her off- grid village.

Bob Sykora is the author of the chapbook I Was Talking About Love–You Are Talking About Geography (Nostrovia! 2016). A graduate of the UMass Boston MFA program, he teaches at community college, edits with Garden Party Collective, co-hosts The Line Break podcast, and curates the KC Poetry Calendar.

Suggested donations: $5 non-members, $4 members, $3 students.
All suggested donations go to the artists.

Riverfront Readings with Tasha Haas, Gregg Ventello, Susan Carman
2023-05-12 20:00 - 21:00 | The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village, 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Friday, May 12th, 8:00 PM
The Writers Place
Nonprofit Village
31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City MO 64108

Please join us for our May 12th reading featuring Tasha Haas, Gregg Ventello, and Susan Carman.
Tasha Haas teaches creative writing, children’s literature, and composition at Kansas City Kansas Community College. She received an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Bowling Green State University in 1998, and a B.A. in English and French from Fort Hays State University in 1992 and studied French for one year at the University of Nice in France. In 2004, she was awarded the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award in Fiction. Her first book, a collection of short fiction titled Certain Dawn, Inevitable Dawn, was published in 2010 by Woodley Press. Her second collection of fiction, The Garden of Earthly Delights, was published in 2020. Her stories have recently appeared in Web Conjunctions, Coal City Review, Flint Hills Review, South Dakota Review, and Stickman Review. She is also an artist and musician. Her music, art, and recent writing can be found at tashahaas.com.

Gregg Primo Ventello’s essays have appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, Hotel Amerika, Chicago Quarterly Review, New Letters, the Carolina Quarterly, as well as in newspapers such as the Kansas City Star, the St Louis Post-Dispatch, the Baltimore Sun, and the Japan Times. His work has been twice recognized as “Notable” in Robert Atwan’s Best American Essays, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2015, he received a Fulbright Grant to the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan where he taught American Studies, African American Literature, and a course on masculinities that compared the myth of the samurai against the myth of the cowboy. He teaches at Kansas City Kansas Community College.

Susan Carman is a Pushcart Prize nominee and served as poetry editor for Kansas City Voices. Her poetry has appeared most recently in I-70 Review, Kansas City Voices, and the anthologies Curating Home, The Shining Years, and Dwell. Retired from non-profit management, she lives in Overland Park, Kansas, where she enjoys helping new immigrants to learn English.

Suggested donations: $5 non-members, $4 members, $3 students.
All suggested donations go to the artists.

Riverfront Readings featuring Patricia Cleary Miller and Trish Reeves
2023-04-14 20:00 - 21:00 | The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village, 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Please join us for our April 14th reading featuring Patricia Cleary Miller and Trish Reeves. If you’re not able to attend in person, this event will be live-streamed on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom session at https://squoom.com/z/rf230414, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading. A founding board member and past president of The Writers Place, Patricia Cleary Miller finds discipline, energy, and inspiration from her fellow poets in The Diversifiers. Her poems have appeared in New Letters, Connecticut Review, Cottonwood, I -70 Review, English Stand, Big Muddy, and Helicon Nine. Her collections include Crimson Lights, the poems she wrote as poet laureate of the Harvard Alumni Association; and from BkMk Press, Starting a Swan Dive and Can You Smell the Rain? (which includes her poem ”Mother Won’t Wear Polypropylene,” which won a Pushcart Prize). As a professor of English at Rockhurst University she founded The Rockhurst Review, chaired the Department of English and the Humanities Division, and raised funds for endowed scholarships in the Humanities. Trish Reeves will be reading from her new book, The Receipt (Cynren Press, April 2023). Reeves has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, Keck, and the Kansas Arts Commission. Her first book, Returning the Question, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. Her poems have been anthologized and published in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, New Letters, Women’s Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, and Leon Literary Review. In 2022, she received the Liberty Bell Award from the Johnson County Kansas Bar Association for her years leading Changing Lives Through Literature for Johnson County Corrections. Suggested donations:

$5.00 non-members
$4.00 Writers Place members
$3.00 students

All suggested donations go to the artists. Join us at
The Writers Place Nonprofit Village 31 W 31st Street, KCMO
or by Zoom at https://squoom.com/z/rf230414

Riverfront Readings featuring Carl Bettis and James Benger
2023-03-10 20:00 - 21:00 | The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village, 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Please join us for our March 10th reading featuring Carl Bettis and James Benger.
If you’re not able to attend in person, this event will be live-streamed on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom session at https://squoom.com/z/rf230310, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
Carl Bettis is a software engineer and writer. His works have appeared in many places, including the periodicals Thorny Locust, Daily Science Fiction, and I-70 Review, as well as the 365 Poems anthologies and others. He is a member of the Riverfront Readings Committee. Carl spends way too much time online, managing his two dozen domains and multiple social media accounts. His newest project is tiny frights (https://tinyfrights.com), a horror-themed online zine of microfiction, art, and very short poetry. Submissions are open through March 31st for the Walpurgis 2023 issue.
James Benger is the author of two fiction ebooks, and three chapbooks, six splits, and two full-length collections of poetry. He is the resident slacker on the Board of Directors of the Writers Place, and is the most truant member of the Riverfront Readings Committee. He is also the admin of an online poetry workshop called 365 Poems in 365 Days. He lives and Kansas City with his wife and children.
Join us at
The Writers Place
Nonprofit Village
31 W 31st Street, KCMO
or by Zoom at
https://squoom.com/z/rf230310

Riverfront Readings featuring Cheryl Unruh, Jim Hoy, and William Sheldon
2023-02-10 20:00 - 21:00 | MO
Please join us for our February 10th Zoom reading featuring Cheryl Unruh, Jim Hoy, and William Sheldon.
To attend, please register for the reading at http://bitly.ws/z2mj, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
Cheryl Unruh grew up in the tiny town of Pawnee Rock in central Kansas. Much of her writing is about Kansas, about a sense of place. For 11 years, Cheryl wrote a weekly column called Flyover People for The Emporia Gazette. She received the Kansas Notable Book Award for her collections of Kansas essays, Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State (2010), and Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays (2014), both published by Quincy Press. Meadowlark Press published her collection of poetry, Walking on Water (2017), and Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town (2021), a memoir. Cheryl is the editor of 105 Meadowlark Reader, a Kansas journal of creative nonfiction. She lives in Emporia, Kansas, with her husband and three cats.
Jim Hoy was reared on a small ranch in the Flint Hills. He attended the University of Kansas and Kansas State University for his undergraduate work, Emporia State University for his Masters degree and the University of Missouri at Columbia for a Doctorate in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. He retired from the classroom in 2014 and he has published 19 books. He is working on number 20. He has served as president of the Kansas State Historical Society, the American Association of Australian Literature Studies, and as chair of the board of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Last April he received a Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
William Sheldon lives with his family in Hutchinson, Kansas where he teaches and writes. He took his BS and MA in English from Emporia State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Wichita State University. His poetry and prose have been published widely in such journals as Blue Mesa Review, Columbia, Epoch, New Letters, Quiddity, and Prairie Schooner. He is the author of three books of poetry, Retrieving Old Bones (Woodley, 2002), Rain Comes Riding (Mammoth, 2011), and Deadman (Spartan, 2021), as well as a chapbook, Into Distant Grass (Oil Hill, 2009). Retrieving Old Bones was a Kansas City Star Noteworthy Book for 2002 and is listed as one of the Great Plains Alliance’s Great Books of the Great Plains. He plays bass for the band The Excuses.

Riverfront Readings features Hadara Bar-Nadav and Jermaine Thompson
2022-09-09 20:00 - 21:00 | The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village, 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Friday, September 9th 8 PM Central (US and Canada)
The Nonprofit Village
31 W. 31st St, KCMO 64108
Please join us for our August 12th reading featuring Hadara Bar-Nadav and Jermaine Thompson, with music by Too Late for Satellites.
Proof of vaccination is required.
Masks are encouraged.
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, and other honors. Her award-winning books include The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press, 2015), awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press 2010), awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. (Pearson, 2011). Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
(Hadara Bar-Nadav photo by Sharon Gottula.)
Born in Louisville, Mississippi, Jermaine Thompson learned language from big-armed women who greased their skillets with gossip and from full-bellied men who cursed and prayed with the same fervor. He’s been writing poetry since he was 13—inspired by having to memorize Langston Hughes’ “Harlem” for a Black History Program at his Presbyterian church home. Jermaine loves language for what it creates, what it destroys, for what it binds in heaven, & what it looses on earth. Jermaine is an educator who has publications in The Pinch, Memorious, Whale Road Review, Southern Indiana Review, and New Letters.

Riverfront Readings featuring Lynne Jensen Lampe and Steve Brisendine
2022-08-12 20:00 - 21:00 | The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village, 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Friday, August 12th 8 PM Central (US and Canada)
The Nonprofit Village
31 W. 31st St, KCMO 64108
Please join us for our August 12th reading featuring Lynne Jensen Lampe and Steve Brisendine, with music by Gib Shell.
Proof of vaccination is required.
Masks are encouraged.
Lynne Jensen Lampe has poems in or forthcoming from Figure 1, Olney Magazine, Yemassee, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Also to come is her chapbook Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022) about mothers, daughters, and mental illness. Her poem “Stirring the Ashes” was a finalist for the 2020 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. She lives with her musician husband and two dogs in Columbia, Missouri, where she edits academic books and journals.
Steve Brisendine is a writer, poet, occasional artist and recovering journalist in Mission, KS. He is the author of two collections from Spartan Press: The Words We Do Not Have (2021, nominated for the 2022 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award) and Salt Holds No Secret But This (2022). He was a finalist for the 2021 Derick Burleson Poetry Prize, and his work has appeared in Flint Hills Review, Aji, Modern Haiku, and other journals and anthologies. He has a new chapbook, To Dance With Cassiopeia and Die, from Alien Buddha Press (2022).

Riverfront Readings featuring Angela Carole Brown and Silvia Kofler
2022-06-10 20:00 - 21:30 | The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village, 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
Please join us for our June 10th reading featuring Angela Carol Brown and Silvia Kofler.
Proof of vaccination is required. Masks are encouraged.
Angela Carole Brown is the recipient of the 2018 North Street Book Prize in Literary Fiction for her novel Trading Fours, and the SoulWord Magazine Poetry Prize for her poem “Cotton Candy.” She has published seven books in the areas of fiction, poetry, and memoir, and has produced eight music recordings in the areas of jazz and folk. Most recently, she produced, illustrated, and narrated her videobook for children, The Richest Girl in the World, which took home two awards from DigiFest Temecula 2021 and the Buddha International Film Festival Award for Best Multimedia Film. She is also an artist in the medium of alcohol inks, one of which landed the cover of the spring 2021 issue of Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature. She is featured in the documentary film The Goddess Project. www.angelacarolebrown.com
Silvia Kofler is a poet, translator, educator, and occasional actor whose work has been published in many anthologies like The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum, travelin’ music: A Poetic Tribute to Woody Guthrie, and The Book of Hopes and Dreams to benefit Spirit Aid, in the UK. Her latest poetry collection, Gambol the World: Eine Weltanschauung, was translated into Portuguese by Carlos Ramos, and was published as a bilingual edition by Ghost Editions, in Portugal. She is a member of The American Literary Translators Association, The American Pen Women, and publishes the literary magazine Thorny Locust.

Riverfront Readings featuring Annette Hope Billings, Colleen Maynard, and Celeste Oster
2022-05-13 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom, Kansas City, MO, United States
Friday, May 13th, 8PM Central (US and Canada)
Please join us for our May 13th Zoom reading featuring Annette Hope Billings, Colleen Maynard, and Celeste Oster.
To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf220513, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
Annette Hope Billings is an award-winning poet known for the impact of her audible presentations of work. In 2015 she brought her registered nursing career to an early end to fully pursue her passion for writing. That same year her first collection of poetry, A Net Full of Hope, received Topeka’s ARTSConnect’s ARTY Award in Literature. Her second and third books, Descants for a Daughter and Just Shy of Stars followed. Billings’ work, including prose and short stories, can also be found in a variety of anthologies as well as in print and online journals. She also co-leads a monthly open mic in Topeka’s NOTO art district called Speak Easy. Speak Easy was the recipient of 2021 ArtsConnect ARTY award. Contact info: https://anetfullofhope.com/; https://Facebook.com/anetfullofhope

Colleen Maynard is a poet, visual artist and arts administrator. Her writing has appeared in such publications as matchbook, Nano Fiction, Press Pause Press, Sand Journal, and Wayne Literary Review. Her collaborative chapbook with Samantha Persons, Just Before Waking, is forthcoming from Columbia Journal Press. As a visual artist, Colleen makes detailed drawings of marine invertebrate and prehistoric life forms using drafting tools and mixed media. Her exhibition Calyxes and Polyps: Celebrating Coral from the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary at the Houston Public Library Central Gallery (2022) is partially funded by a 2019 “Let Creativity Happen” award from Houston Arts Alliance and the City of Houston. She was selected for the research exhibition collaborative Visual Pathology with University of Texas Medical Branch and Galveston Art Center in 2018. Colleen holds writing and painting majors from the Kansas City Art Institute. She resides in Houston and sometimes remembers to write at https://www.colleenmaynard.com.

Celeste Oster is a compulsive taker of classes, lover of odd words, and maker of handbound books. Her poems have appeared in Thorny Locust, The Same, and a variety of long defunct literary journals.

Riverfront Readings featuring Robert L. Dean, Jr., Cathleen Bascom, and Tim Bascom
2022-04-08 20:00 - 21:00 | MO
Friday, April 8th, 8:00 PM Central (US and Canada)
Please join us for our April 8th Zoom reading featuring Robert L. Dean, Jr., Cathleen Bascom, and Tim Bascom.
To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf220408, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
Robert L. Dean, Jr., is the author of The Aerialist Will not be Performing: ekphrastic poems and flash fictions to the art of Steven Schroeder (Turning Plow Press, 2020), At the Lake with Heisenberg (Spartan Press, 2018), and a forthcoming chapbook, Pulp, with Finishing Line Press. A multiple Best of the Net nominee and a Pushcart nominee, his work has appeared in many publications. He has been a professional musician and has worked at The Dallas Morning News. He lives Augusta, Kansas.

Cathleen Bascom was recently elected the first woman Bishop of Kansas in the Episcopal Church and Of Green Stuff Woven is her debut novel. Her life has been a braid of literary and academic pursuits, prairie restoration efforts, and spiritual leadership. She completed an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. She holds various other degrees in English Literature and Theology. Cathleen was named Urban Steward of the Year for the installation of an urban prairie greenspace in response to the devastating floods in Iowa in 2008. These experiences are imaginatively tapped in Of Green Stuff Woven.

Tim Bascom is author of a novel, two collection of essays, and two prize-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth: Chameleon Days (Houghton Mifflin) and Running to the Fire (U of Iowa Press). His fiction has appeared in Fiction Southeast, Profane, Mainstreet Rag, and Lalitamba, winning the 2021 fiction prize at Briar Cliff Review. His essays have won prizes at The Missouri Review and Florida Review, being selected for Best American Travel Writing and Best Creative Nonfiction, as well as the anthologies Law and Disorder and Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie.

Riverfront Readings with Stanley Barkan, Carl Bettis, & William Wolak
2022-03-11 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom, Kansas City, MO, United States
Please join us for our March 11th Zoom reading featuring Bill Wolak, Carl Bettis and Stanley Barkan.
To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf220311, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
Bill Wolak is a poet, collagist, and photographer who lives in New Jersey and has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His most recent translation with Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Love Me More Than the Others: Selected Poetry of Iraj Mirza, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2014. Mr. Wolak has been awarded several National Endowment for the Humanities scholarships and two Fulbright-Hays scholarships to study and travel in India.
Carl Bettis is a software engineer and writer. His works have appeared in many places, including the periodicals Thorny Locust, Daily Science Fiction, and I-70 Review, as well as the 365 Poems anthologies 1, 2, and 3. He is a member of the Riverfront Readings Committee. Carl spends way too much time online, managing his two dozen domains and multiple Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts, not to mention his half dozen pen names. His current project is tiny frights (https://tinyfrights.com), an online zine of horror-themed microfiction, art, and very short poetry. Submissions are open through March 31st for the premiere issue.
Stanley H. Barkan is editor/publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications, which in 2020 celebrated its 50th Anniversary with 500 books in print, and as many broadsides and postcards and audio-visual productions in 60 languages (ranging from Arabic to Yiddish). CCC, in addition to having a long and productive cooperative relationship with Peter Thabit Jones of The Seventh Quarry Press in Swansea, Wales, has also hosted numerous literary events throughout the United States and in many parts of the world (Argentina, Bulgaria, Poland, Puerto Rico, Sicily, Wales), at such locations in New York as the International Center, Poets House, the Yale Club, and the Dag Hammerskjöld Auditorium of the United Nations. His own work has been published in 29 poetry editions, many bilingual, including Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi/Persian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian, Spanish. His most recent books are As Still as a Broom, translated into Spanish by Isaac Goldemberg (2018) and Pumpernickel, translated into Farsi/Persian by Sepideh Zamani (2019) (both published by Oyster Bay, NY: New Feral Press), and More Mishpocheh, with illustrative photos and art by the author’s wife, Bebe Barkan (Swansea, Wales: The Seventh Quarry Press, 2018). Also, in 2017, he was awarded the Homer European Medal of Poetry & Art. Barkan lives with his wife in Merrick, Long Island, where his son and daughter and five grandchildren also reside.

Riverfront Readings with Jason Baldinger, Jason Ryberg, & Jeremy Gulley
2022-02-11 20:00 - 21:00 | MO
Riverfront Readings features Jason Baldinger, Jason Ryberg, and Jeremy Gulley
Friday, February 11th, 8PM Central (US and Canada)
Please join us for our February 11th Zoom reading featuring Jason Baldinger, Jason Ryberg, and Jeremy Gulley.
To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf220211, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.
Jason Baldinger was recently told he looks like a cross between a lumberjack and a genie. He’s also been told he’s not from Pittsburgh, but actually is the physical manifestation of Pittsburgh. Although unsure of either, he does love wandering the country writing poems. His newest books include A Threadbare Universe (Kung Fu Treachery Press), The Afterlife is a Hangover (Stubborn Mule Press), and A History of Backroads Misplaced: Selected Poems 2010-2020 (Kung Fu Treachery). He has a forthcoming book with James Benger called This Still Life. You can hear him read his work on Bandcamp and on LPs by The Gotobeds and Theremonster.
Jeremy Gulley has been called many things: writer, sheep poacher, teacher, liar, aquanaut, and Kevin to name a few. There is some truth to all of these.
Jason Ryberg is the author of fourteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is Are You Sure Kerouac Done It This Way!? (co-authored with John Dorsey and Victor Clevenger, OAC Books, 2021). He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe, and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.
