It is almost midnight on April 23, one month after Kansas City’s shelter-in-place order went into effect. At least I think it’s been one month. Time …
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Spartan Press
Spartan Press: Purveyor of Poetry http://kcstudio.org/spartan-press-purveyor-of-poetry/
The Kansas City Renaissance Narrative
The Kansas City Renaissance Narrative
— Read on theblacksunflower.com/2020/02/07/the-kansas-city-renaissance-narrative/
Kansas City, Come Get A Valentine’s Poem from me tomorrow at
Year of the Owl from Lucas Wetzel
A selection of 365 short bits, extracted and compiled from various studio writings, notebooks, voice memos, letters, stories, and essays.
Quite enjoyable and amenable to your on-the-go lifestyle.
Kansas City’s WildCraft Co. creates eco-friendly products
The missus made the daily:
Fountainverse: Friday, 10/11 Schedule
4-7PM : BOOK FAIR @ CAPSULE
SPONSORED BY PROSPERO’S BOOKS | KC
ART IN THE CAPSULE EVENT SPACE CURATED BY THE SMALTER GALLERY | KC
7-8:30PM : FEATURE 1 @ CAPSULE
RIVERFRONT READINGS | KC
SUSPECT PRESS | DENVER, CO
Host : James Benger
Riverfront Readings Features: Huascar Medina (Poet Laureate of KS), Lindsey Weishar, and Jermaine Thompson
Suspect Press Features: Eliza Beth Whittington and Brice Maiurro.
9-11PM : OPEN MIC @ CAPSULE
JUMP START ART WITH SHARON EIKER | KANSAS CITY
Host: Sharon Eiker
Features: Phillip Emanuel Frost Bounds and Waco Porter
Fountainverse 2019: KC’s Small Press Poetry Fest
Fountainverse: KC’s Small Press Poetry Fest
If’n yer on the olde Facebooks: www.facebook.com/events/423045991806025/
Coming soon to a Kansas City near you
St. Louis, Detroit…Kansas City
Geographer Neil Smith warned long ago in his book The New Urban Frontier that gentrification is not a process where all of a place becomes overdeveloped and most housing becomes overpriced for working people. Instead, Smith noted after studying American patterns, the high valorization of some neighborhoods required the depression of others. While Detroit continues to lose population, its central corridor from downtown to Wayne State University has seen tremendous re-valorization and reversal of decline. Post-bankruptcy Detroit has become two places: a small and very hip renewing area, and a larger, poorer area where demolition remains the city’s primary instrument of social compact.