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Riverfront Readings

Presenting readings of poetry and literary fiction in the Kansas City area for over 30 years!

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  • 2026 Schedule
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  • Glenn North and José Faus

    October 26, 2024 / Comments Off on Glenn North and José Faus

    Riverfront Readings, The Johnson County Community College Student Literary Magazine, Mind’s Eye & the Black Student Union co-host a reading featuring Glenn North and José Faus.

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  • Phil Miller Scholarship

    Riverfront Founder Phil Miller and the Phil Miller Scholarship fund inducted into the KCKCC Hall of Fame

    October 9, 2024 / Comments Off on Riverfront Founder Phil Miller and the Phil Miller Scholarship fund inducted into the KCKCC Hall of Fame

    Riverfront Readings Committee members and Phil’s daughters attended the luncheon and accepted the award.

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  • Riverfront Readings Autumn Open Mic: A Phil Miller Scholarship Reading

    September 22, 2024 / Comments Off on Riverfront Readings Autumn Open Mic: A Phil Miller Scholarship Reading

    Themes: anything autumnal, or the poetry of Phil Miller. All funds from this event are donated to benefit students of Kansas City Kansas Community College.

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  • Riverfront Readings with Brian Daldorph and Boyd Bauman

    August 24, 2024 / Comments Off on Riverfront Readings with Brian Daldorph and Boyd Bauman

    Riverfront Readings features Brian Daldorph and Boyd Bauman.

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  • Phyllis Becker Book Release Celebration at the Kansas City Museum

    August 24, 2024 / Comments Off on Phyllis Becker Book Release Celebration at the Kansas City Museum

    Phyllis Becker book release celebration at the Kansas City Museum.

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  • Riverfront Readings featuring Maril Crabtree and Richard Newman

    May 19, 2024 / Comments Off on Riverfront Readings featuring Maril Crabtree and Richard Newman

    Please join us for our June 14th reading featuring Maria Crabtree and Richard Newman.

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  • Riverfront Readings features the Collaborators and the Diversifiers

    April 24, 2024 / Comments Off on Riverfront Readings features the Collaborators and the Diversifiers

    The reading will feature poetry by members of the Collaborators and the Diversifiers, with a special tribute to Collaborator and Diversifier Eve Ott, who recently passed away.

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  • Riverfront Readings features Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Victoria Garton, and Jermaine Thompson

    April 3, 2024 / Comments Off on Riverfront Readings features Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Victoria Garton, and Jermaine Thompson

    Please join us for our April 12th Zoom reading featuring Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Victoria Garton and Jermaine Thompson.

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  • Other events

    Remembering Eve Ott and memorial information

    March 6, 2024 / Comments Off on Remembering Eve Ott and memorial information

    There is no summing up someone like Eve Ott. You wouldn’t catch her summing herself up, either. She faced every experience as its own thing and kept her assumptions to a minimum. Eve seemed always ready to see freshly, to let the moment or the person in the moment be just what they were, then and there. She was certainly compassionate and patient with even difficult people, but underlying that basic humanity was a curiosity that informed all her relationships. Eve was always ready to discover you anew, and maybe a lot of people are, but it shone out of her. Eve’s writing expressed this again and again. Her poetry…

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  • Riverfront Readings with Diane Silver, Sarah Worrel, and Anthony Procopio Ross

    March 4, 2024 / Comments Off on Riverfront Readings with Diane Silver, Sarah Worrel, and Anthony Procopio Ross

    Please join us for our March 8th reading featuring Diane Silver, Sarah Worrel, and Anthony Procopio Ross.

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