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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Local Kansas City Poetry & Arts Scene

KC CITY SCAPE

  • Friday, October 2, 2009 - 7 pm - Poet Richard Newman will read from his new book Domestic Fugues (Steel Toe Books, 2009). The reading at  the Writers Place - 3607 Pennsylvania -Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Saturday, October 3, 2009 – 1pmAfrican American poet Kimberly Britton reads from newly published work.  Kansas City Public Library, Southeast Branch, 6242 Swope Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Wednesday October 7, 2009 – Noon - WORKSHOP @ THE LANDON CENTER ON AGING -3599 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, Kansas. Free to those 55 and older. "Improve Your Mental Health Through Writing" will be taught by Maril Crabtree.  Call 913-588-3094 to register.
  • Friday, October 9, 2009 – 8 pm - Pamela Garvey and Carl Bettis  Riverfront reading series at the Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Friday, October 9, 2009 –6:30 – 8:00 pm - Art Walk Poetry featuring Glenn North at the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, 625 Minnesota, Kansas City, Kansas.
  • Wednesday, October 12, 2009 5:30 pm - Billy Collins, Former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads at Kansas State University, K-State Alumni Center Ballroom, Manhattan, Kansas.  Contact Elizabeth Dodd, Department of English for details. Tele:785-532-6716.
  • Friday, October 16, 2009 – 7 pm - Caryn Mirriam Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate -  reads at Border's Books, 91st & Metcalf, Overland Park, Kansas – contact Border's  @ 913-642-3642.
  • Sunday, October 18, 2009 8 pm - MAIN STREET RAG
    Hosted by Shawn Pavey with poet Christina Pacosz reading. Writers Place - 3607 Pennsylvania -Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7 pm - Poets Brian Daldorph and Bill Bauer at  Writers Place Poetry Reading Series @ THE JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY - 9875 W. 87th, Overland Park, Kansas.
  • Thursday, October 22, 2009 Reception 6 pm & reading 7 pm - Robert Pinsky  guest of the Midwest Poets Series. Poet laureate of the United States from 1997-2000; Rockhurst University, 54th Street and Troost, Kansas City, Mo.  Admission to Midwest Poets Series is $3.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
  • Monday, October 26, 2009 - 8:00 pm Wriiters Place Open Mic
    Hosted by Sharon Eiker - Writers Place - 3607 Pennsylvania -Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 10:00 am- 1:00 pm
    The Art of Poetry - This workshop is intended for beginners and others interested in hearing, writing, talking about, and understanding the beauty of poetry. Writers Place - 3607 Pennsylvania -Kansas City, Missouri.

Special Exhibits -  Keltie Ferris: Man Eaters  At Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art- October 23, 2009–February 13, 2010

Keltie Ferris is a post digital painter, employing formalist strategies and materials—oil, acrylic, sprayed paint, and oil pastel—to create enigmatic and visually seductive abstractions.

The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art -   American Art on Paper: Impressions of the Southwest and Mexico  October 14, 2009— April 11, 2010

1 comment:

Michael A. Wells said...

This in my morning mail:


Dear Michael -


Thanks for the mention of my upcoming reading at The Writers Place on October 18, 2009 at 7 PM. I read in this area very rarely so I am excited about the opportunity. Also:

I will be reading from my newly re-issued chapook, Notes from the Red Zone, by Seven Kitchens Press, which was originally published in 1983 by Seal Press in their anti-nuclear series. It was selected by Ron Mohring as the inaugural collection in the ReBound Series he initiated in 2008.

I am so excited about this old wine in such a fine new bottle. And the wonderful possibilities of a whole new generation of readers.


http://sevenkitchens.blogspot.com/2009/02/christina-pacosz-notes-from-red-zone.html

P.S. I really have some long-term mess-up with my Google/blogger accounts and can't easily post through them, so I am sending this reply directly to you and you have my permission to post this if you wish to do so.