Literary Events
A Sampling of Literary Events Around the State
C.D. Wright
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Poet C.D. Wright, author of Rising, Falling, Hovering, and professor at Brown University, will visit the UMKC campus as Cockefair Chair Writer-in-Residence, March 9 through 13, 2009. Reading in UMKC's Pierson Auditorium.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Contact: UMKC Creative Writing Department
816-235-1305
C.D. Wright
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Symposium at the Kansas City Public Library. Details TBA.
Time: TBA.
Contact: UMKC Creative Writing Department
816-235-1305
Riverfront Reading
Friday, March 13, 2009 - 8:00 pm
Poets Kathy Allen and Deborah Kroman. Deborah Kroman's work has appeared in several journals and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kathy Allen's chapbook, End of Front Street, was published by Wheel of Fire Press and her poems have appeared in several magazines.
Main Street Rag
Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 7:00 pm
Hosted by Shawn Pavey
TWP Poetry Reading@the Johnson County Library
Johnson County Public Library, 9875 W. 87th, Overland Park, KSTuesday, March 17, 2009 - 7:00 pm
Five Poets and a Pen. Poets Maril Crabtree, Jan Duncan O'Neal, Karin Frank, Barbara Robinette Moss, and Susan Peters. These poets' works have appeared in diverse publications including Kansas City Voices, The Kansas City Star, Mid-America Poetry Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, and Peace Corps Voices from the Field. Barbara Robinette Moss is a recipient of the Faulkner Gold Medal for Personal Essay.
Special Premiere of Love and Shrimp – Tickets are going fast!
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, March 19, 20, 21, 2009 - 7:30 pm
Love and Shrimp, a musical review by Judith Viorst and Shelly Markham
Performed by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre.
Doors open at 7 PM. Play begins at 7:30 PM.
Reservations required. $20/$15 Writers Place members
Contact: director@writersplace.org or 816-753-1090
A Kansas City premiere, Love and Shrimp showcases Judith Viorst's witty and insightful lyrics and Shelly Markham's memorable music. Three women will take you on an emotional journey from young to not so young, from single to married, from parenthood to empty nests. Set in the living rooms, bedrooms, and car pools of our imagination, this script-in-hand performance examines both the hilarious and trying clashes between expectation and reality. Directed by the MET's Karen Paisley, the play will feature three actresses with impressive resumes. Bonita Hanson has performed in Nunsense and Gypsy and is known to audiences nationwide. Katie Kalahurka has appeared in Oklahoma and Death of a Salesman and is the winner of an Arizoni Award for Best Supporting Actress. Karen Paisley, replacing Teri Adams, has pleased audiences in productions of West Side Story, Facing Forty in Sensible Shoes and For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls.
Open Mic
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 8:00 pmHosted by Sharon Eiker
Tercera Pagina Reading Series with Gloria Vando
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 7:00 pm
Poets Gloria Vando with Latino Writers Collective members Carlos Duarte, Ignacio Carvajal, Miguel Morales, and Sofiana Olivera. Music by Melek Ta'us.
Gloria Vando's book of poems, Shadows and Supposes, won the 2003 Best Poetry Book of the Year Award from the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. A Puerto Rican born in New York City, Vando is publisher and editor of Helicon Nine Editions as well as founder of The Writers Place.Special Event @ the Landon Center on Aging, Room 200
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 – 1:00 – 3:00 pm
KU Med Center, 3599 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KansasThe Hero Project: Alzheimer’s & Caregiving with Deborah Shouse and Ron Zoglin
This hands-on experience invites creativity and communication between people with Alzheimer’s, their families, caregivers and others through an engaging scrapbook activity based on the life story. Call Matt Chandler at 913-588-3094 to register.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, a Filipino/Indian poet from western N.Y., will present at the Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City, MO, as part of the Park University Ethnic Poetry Reading Series. Reception at 6:30, reading at 7:00, book signing to follow. Park University English Department, sponsor.
Time:
7:00 p.m.
Contact:
Kansas City Public Library
816-701-3407
Sandra Cisneros
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sandra Cisneros celebrates the 25th-anniversary edition of The House on Mango Street with a reading/talk and reception in the Latino Writers Collective's Tercera Pagina Reading Series. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City, MO.
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Contact: Latino Writer's Collective
816-333-6349
B.H. Fairchild
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Midwest Poets Series. B.H. Fairchild's books include Art of the Lathe and Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest. Reading in Mabee Theater, Rockhurst University, 54th Street and Troost, Kansas City, MO. Admission to Midwest Poets Series is $5, $3 for students and senior adults.
Time: 6:30 p.m. reading; reception starts 6:00 p.m.
Contact: Cynthia Cartwright, Rockhurst University
816-501-4607
WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
Writers Place Members Poets Only Opportunity
March 12, 2009 deadline
In collaboration with The Writers Place, the Johnson County (KS) Library has agreed to publish a “poem a day” on its website during April, National Poetry Month. Poems should be your original work and may be previously published as long as you own rights. Please send your submission to Maril Crabtree by email: maril@prodigy.net no later than March 12, 2009.
Spring Fiction Writing Class
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
R.M. Kinder facilitates participants in "Developing Your Style."
Register at workshops@writersplace.org
Spring Poetry Writing Class
Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
William Trowbridge guides participants in "Twenty Little Poetry Projects."
Register at workshops@writersplace.org
Crystal Field Scholarship Reading
Friday, May 22, 2009 - 7:30 pm
The CFSR is an annual May reading that funds a scholarship for a UMKC creative writing student. Themes are selected yearly and readers sign up to read at least one poem on the theme. This year's theme is green.
AUTHOR TOUR FEATURES PERSONAL VISITS IN HOMES AND STUDIOS
On June 7-14, Writers Hall of Fame, headquartered in Springfield, Missouri is sponsoring a bus tour to visit fifteen of Missouri’s most successful and well known children’s authors, artists, playwrights, and poets, many of whom are members of SCBWI.
Tour guide, Dr. Linda Benson, is professor emeritus of children’s literature at Missouri State University. Graduate and undergraduate college credit is available through Drury University and can be transferred.
The tour begins in St. Louis and moves to Kansas City and southwest Missouri before returning to St. Louis eight days later. Along the way you’ll meet in the homes and studios of Pat and Fred McKissack, Constance Levy, Lynn Rubright, Vicki Grove, C. B. Mordan, Eileen Bluestone Sherman, Cheryl Harness, Dorinda Nicholson, J. B. Cheaney, David Harrison, Judy and Ross Young, Kate Klise, and Veda Boyd Jones.
Other highlights include a riverboat dinner cruise with entertainment, a tour of historic St. Charles with costumed docent, a performance at Shepherd of the Hills Amphitheatre, and visits to Precious Moments Park & Chapel and Laura Ingalls Wilder home and museum.
Your tour will include round trip deluxe motor coach transportation, 7 nights deluxe lodging with hot breakfast and manager’s reception each evening, 7 dinners and 1 lunch. All taxes, service charges, group meal, gratuities and coach driver’s gratuity are included in the price of your ticket. Prices range from $1,169 (four in a room) to $1,711 (for a single).
For more information contact David Harrison (dlharrison@mchsi.com <mailto:dlharrison@mchsi.com>). To make reservations, contact Brian Garrison (BGarrison@greatsoutherntravel.com
<mailto:BGarrison@greatsoutherntravel.com>). Reservations require $500 down and the rest by May 8.