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2017 Kansas City Poetry Throwdown
Videos of every reading here, in reverse order:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/KCPoetryThrowdown/videos/
I may have some thoughts to put out later, but likely anything I’d write would be a variation of WOW! so I’ll probably just get back to the regularly scheduled programming here soon.
To all those that made it out, thanks for making the event fantastic.
To those that couldn’t make it: try harder next year!
This weekend: 2017 Kansas City Poetry Throwdown
It’s on again this year.
Come out. 3 days. 40+ poets. Madness.
Triptych of Terror
Available at the 2017 Kansas City Poetry Throwdown
Kansas City – Tomorrow – Finding Zen in Cowtown Book Release
Celebrate the kickoff of National Poetry Month by joining us for a reading of poetry about Kansas City at the beautiful, downtown Ilus Davis Park!
Saturday, April 1, 2017
2 pm to 4 pm
Ilus Davis Park
North of City Hall between 9th and 11th Streets
Finding Zen in Cowtown: 30 poems about Kansas City
If yer in and about KC on 4/1:
Celebrate the kickoff of National Poetry Month by joining us for a reading of poetry about Kansas City at the beautiful, downtown Ilus Davis Park!
Spartan Press is so delighted to release “Finding Zen in Cow Town,” a book featuring the poems of thirty poets who live in and around Kansas City. This unique collection features poems by former Kansas Poet Laureate, Denise Low; co-founder of the Latino Writers Collective*, Jose Faus; inaugural Poet Laureate of 18th and Vine, Glenn North; and many more spoken word and poetry voices in our community.
It’s so moving to read poems which talk about local BBQ joints and sports teams, major intersections and highways, neighborhoods, public figures and the shared history of Kansas City citizens; this book is a true-blue dedication to our home, our City of Fountains, our Cowtown.
https://www.facebook.com/events/389916454706715/permalink/389916554706705/
Ironic Methods with Sincere Motivations
If you’re in Kansas City this Friday, come check this out: https://www.facebook.com/events/1840599032875282/
The curators are using photocopiers and office printers to reproduce art, words, and musings. At the reception, gallery go-ers will be able to do the same. The images will then be hung in the gallery, to create a new collage from the results. Some of my writings will be thar, including a piece about the miniaturized clones of Milli Vanilli that live in my underwear drawer.
