Riverfront Readings & The Writers Place
present
A Tribute to Phil Miller
& the Annual Scholarship Reading
Sunday, October 4th
3:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Register for the Zoom reading at https://squoom.com/z/rfz211024
Phil Miller was a friend to many poets and a fine poet himself. A major supporter of the greater Kansas City writing community, he started the Riverfront Reading series, was a co-founder of The Writers Place, and served as a co-editor of Poutpourri literary magazine. Over the years, he gave area and regional writers a venue for their work. In 2002 he and his wife, Nancy Eldredge, moved to Mount Union, Pennsylvania, where he continued to write, promote others’ work, and publish The Same magazine. Phil was also a fine teacher and a kind, intelligent, highly articulate, and supportive person. He passed away on Valentine’s Day of 2011. In honor of the tenth anniversary of his death, the annual Phil Miller Scholarship reading will also be a tribute to Phil.
To read one poem by Phil or about him please RSVP by October 20th at philmillertribute@riverfrontreadings.com. Slots are limited, so it will be a first-come basis.
Send a favorite memory or thought about Phil in a sentence or two to carl.bettis@gmail.com.
How to Donate
The scholarship is for students at KCKCC, where Phil taught for many years.
- For online donations: Visit https://www.kckcc.edu/foundation/giving/online-giving.html, select one-time or recurring, select or fill in the amount. For Designation: Write in "Philip Miller Scholarship." Click "Give securely" and complete your payment.
- Mail a donation to KCKCC, 7250 State Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66112, Attn: Mary Spangler. Make checks payable to KCKCC Foundation, "Philip Miller Scholarship" in the comment section.
- Bid on Phil Miller Tribute Baskets filled with Phil's books and original artwork. Baskets will be posted on the Writers Place website at https://thewritersplace.wildapricot.org by 10/12. Bidding opens 10/22, closes at noon 10/24. Send bids to baskets@riverfrontreadings.com.
Huascar Medina, Poet Laureate of Kansas (2019-2021), is the Lit Editor for seveneightfive magazine and a playwright. He's a member of Topeka's Speak Easy Poetry Group and the Red Tail Collective in Lawrence. Recent works published can be found in the Latino Book Review (2019), Flint Hills Review (Summer 2019), Finding Zen in Cowtown (Spartan Press 2018), and Kansas Time & Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (Little Balkan Press 2017). His first collection of poems is How to Hang the Moon (Spartan Press 2017). His second book of poetry, Un Mango Grows in Kansas, is forthcoming in 2019.
Boyd Bauman grew up on a small ranch south of Bern, Kansas. His dad was a storyteller and his mom the family scribe. His debut poetry book, Cleave, came out in April 2018 from Spartan Press. After stints in New York, Colorado, Alaska, Japan, and Vietnam, Boyd now lives near Kansas City with his lovely wife Lisa and little poets, Haven and Milly. Visit him at 
Maril Crabtree grew up in Memphis and New Orleans but calls the Midwest home. Her most recent book is Fireflies in the Gathering Dark, recipient of the Kansas Notable Books award and a Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award finalist. Maril served as poetry editor for Kansas City Voices and is currently a contributing editor to Heartland: Poems of Love, Resistance and Solidarity. Her work has appeared in Literary Mama, I-70 Review, Spank the Carp, Main Street Rag, and others.
Eve Ott loves Kansas City's vibrant and varied writing community. Her poetry and fiction appear regularly in literary journals and anthologies. Her full length collection Album from the Silent Generation was released a few years ago by Aldrich Press and her chapbook On the Jefferson Line was published last year by Prolific Press.