Sunday, December 9th, 3:00 p.m.
Prospero’s Books
1800 W. 39th Street, KCMO
Come join us!
Read a seasonal poem or two, original or not, or one (very) short story, or come to listen!
Acoustic musicians welcome!
Co-hosted by Riverfront Readings and The Writers Place Salon.
To sign up to play or read, please e-mail randy@riverfrontreadings.com.
Sunday, December 2nd
2:00 PM
The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO
Music by Linda Minson and Friends
Pat Daneman is from Long Island, New York and lives in Lenexa. She has published fiction and poetry in many print and online magazines, including The American Journal of Poetry, Escape into Life and the Bellevue Poetry Review. Her poems have been anthologized in Best of the Net and New Poetry from the Midwest. She is the author of a chapbook, Where the World Begins (Finishing Line Press) and co-author of a choral libretto, We, the Unknown. Her second collection, After All, was published in September by FutureCycle Press.
Eve Ott loves the Kansas City writing community and has been writing up a storm since she retired there in 2007. Her poetry and fiction appear regularly in literary journals and anthologies. Her full length collection, Album from the Silent Generation, was released a couple of years ago by Aldrich Press and her chapbook On the Jefferson Line was published this year by Prolific Press.
Sunday, November 18th
3:00 PM
The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO
Jamie Heller says, "Poetry is my caffeine. I am a mother, wife, and teacher who gets up before the house starts to stir to write. My second collection, Buried in the Suburbs, was released by Woodley Press in May of 2018. My chapbook, Domesticated, Poetry from Around the House, was published in 2015 with Finishing Line Press. A Pushcart Prize nominee in 2014 (Little Balkans Review) and Best of the Net nominee for 2016 (805 Lit + Art), I also had pieces selected for honorable mention awards in the Whispering Prairie Press Writing Contest 2012, and the Kansas Voices Contest 2017 and 2011. I have additional poems published or accepted at Prairie Schooner, Tule Review, Noctua Review, Whistling Shade, The Main Street Rag, Flint Hills Review, I-70 review, Blueline, 805 Lit + Art Journal, and others."
Andrés Rodríguez is the author of Night Song (Tia Chucha Press), Book of the Heart (Lindisfarne Press), and Portal of Dreams (Woodley Press). His poems and essays have appeared in Bilingual Review, Harvard Review, I-70 Review, Palabra, Sagetrieb, and other journals. In 2007 he won Poets & Writers’ Maureen Egan Writers Award for poetry. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California-Santa Cruz.
Friday, November 9th
8:00 PM
The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO
Music by Gib Shell
Maril Crabtree grew up in Memphis and New Orleans but calls the Midwest home. A former French teacher, lawyer, peace activist, environmentalist, energy healer, and yoga instructor, she is grateful for poetry – hers and others’– as the loom that weaves her life-threads together. Her book Fireflies in the Gathering Dark (Aldrich Press, 2017) was selected for a 2018 Kansas Notable Books Award and was first runner-up for the 2018 Thorpe Menn Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The DMQ Review, Coal City Review, I-70 Review, Literary Mama, Main Street Rag, Persimmon Tree, and Poet’s Market. She previously served as poetry editor for Kansas City Voices and is a contributing editor for Heartland! Poetry of Love, Solidarity, & Resistance. She agrees with B. H. Fairchild that “poetry is a way of being in the world. It is the closest thing to actual being in the world.”
Greg Field is a writer, artist, and musician living in Independence, Missouri with his wife, poet Maryfrances Wagner. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including New Letters and Chiron Review. His new book, from Woodley Press, is Uncertainties. He is a co-editor of the I-70 Review.
Saturday, September 29th
2:00 PM
South Branch Library - South Branch
3104 Strong Ave., Kansas City KS 66106
913-295-8250
You won’t be alone! Kansas Poet Laureate Kevin Rabas will join us!
Kansas Poet Laureate (2017-2019) Kevin Rabas chairs the Dept of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism at Emporia State and leads the poetry and playwriting tracks. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas, M.FA. in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and M.A. in English from Kansas State.
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Kansas Humanities Council
Kansas City Kansas Public Library
Kansas City Kansas Public Schools
The Writers Place
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