Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presented by the Johnson County Library

The Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series brings locally and nationally known poets to the Johnson County Library, Kansas to present their work. Each reading event typically lasts an hour long with two poets each month; each event is broken into two podcasts.

Writer's Place: Bill Bauer

Tues, 20 October 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Bill Bauer and Brian Daldorph on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:30:13 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Brian Daldorph

Tues, 20 October 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Bill Bauer and Brian Daldorph on Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:23:19 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: John Mark Eberhart, Ken Eberhart and William Rainey Jr.

Tues, 15 September 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents John Mark Eberhart, Ken Eberhart and William Rainey Jr. on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:55:41 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Mid-America Press and Mid-America Poetry Review

Tues, 18 August 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Mid-America Press and Mid-America Poetry Review on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

01:33:48 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Linda Rodriguez and Phyllis Becker

Tues, 21 July 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Linda Rodriguez and Phyllis Becker on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:59:41 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Dan Jaffe

Tues, 16 June 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Dan Jaffe on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:59:41 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Donna Trussell Part 1 of 2

Tues, 19 May 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Jeanie Wilson and Donna Trussell on Tuesday, May 19, 2009; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:26:10 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Jeanie Wilson Part 2 of 2

Tues, 19 May 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Jeanie Wilson and Donna Trussell on Tuesday, May 19, 2009; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:36:14 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Denise Low Part 1 of 2

Tues, 21 April 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Denise Low and Walter Bargen on Tuesday, April 21, 2009; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:32:00 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Walter Bargen Part 2 of 2

Tues, 21 April 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Denise Low and Walter Bargen on Tuesday, April 21, 2009; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:34:00 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Five Poets and a Pen

Tues, 17 March 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Five Poets and a Pen on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:54:00 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Stanley E. Banks Part 1 of 2

Tues, 17 February 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Janet and Stanley Banks on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:37:43 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Janet M. Banks Part 2 of 2

Tues, 17 February 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Janet and Stanley Banks on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:23:04 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Robert Stewart Part 1 of 2

Tues, 20 January 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Patricia Cleary Miller and Robert Stewart on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:29:13 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Patricia Cleary Miller Part 2 of 2

Tues, 20 January 2009 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Patricia Cleary Miller and Robert Stewart on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 at the Central Resource Library.

00:27:55 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Trish Reeves Part 1 of 2

Tues, 21 October 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Trish Reeves and Greg Field on Tuesday, October 21, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:24:22 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Greg Field Part 2 of 2

Tues, 21 October 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Trish Reeves and Greg Field on Tuesday, October 21, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:22:13 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Silvia Kofler Part 1 of 2

Tues, 16 September 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Silvia Kofler and William Trowbridge on Tuesday, September 16, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:24:43 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: William Trowbridge Part 2 of 2

Tues, 16 September 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Silvia Kofler and William Trowbridge on Tuesday, September 16, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:31:09 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Jo McDougall Part 1 of 1

Tues, 19 August 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Jo McDougall on Tuesday, August 19, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties during the recording, the last few minutes of Ms. McDougall's reading was cut short.

00:44:06 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Patricia Lawson Part 1 of 2

Tues, 15 July 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Patricia Lawson and Diane Glancy on Tuesday, July 15, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:24:43 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Diane Glancy Part 2 of 2

Tues, 15 July 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents DPatricia Lawson and Diane Glancy on Tuesday, July 15, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:22:33 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Denise Dotson Low Part 1 of 2

Tues, 17 June 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Denise Dotson Low and Maryfrances Wagner on Tuesday, June 17, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:35:38 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Maryfrances Wagner Part 2 of 2

Tues, 17 June 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Denise Dotson Low and Maryfrances Wagner on Tuesday, June 17, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library.

00:31:15 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: John Mark Eberhart and Lindsey Martin-Bowen

Tues, 20 May 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents John Mark Eberhart and Lindsey Martin-Bowen on Tuesday, May 20, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library. John Mark Eberhart John Mark Eberhart, a native of St. Joseph, Missouri, is the author of Night Watch 2005 and Broken Time 2008, both published by The Mid-America Press. His poems have appeared in New Letters, Pleiades, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Coal City Review, the I-70 Review, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Same, Thorny Locust and other publications. Just One Ghost, a poem from Night Watch, was anthologized in Helicon Nine's Chance of a Ghost. Eberhart earned a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri in 1983 and a master of arts in English from the University of Missouri Kansas City in 1998. He joined the staff of The Kansas City Star in 1987 and has served as the paper's book review editor since 2000. His journalism has appeared in newspapers around the world. With his brother, percussionist Ken Eberhart, John Mark is a member of the eCoustic Duo, a poetry and music collaboration. Lindsey Martin-Bowen. Lindsey Martin-Bowen teaches prose and fiction writing, literature, and cultural studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she serves as Writing Assessment Coordinator. She holds a masters of arts degree in English creative writing emphasis and a Juris Doctor. Woodlesy Press Washburn University released Standing on the Edge of the World, a full-length poetry collection in March 2008. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in New Letters, Rockhurst Review, Bare Root Review, 1-70 Review, River King Poetry Supplement, Thorny Locust, The Same, The Kansas City Star, Lip Service, Review, Black Bear Review, SHOW and TELL, Kansas City OUTLOUD, The UMKC Law Review and other literary magazines and anthologies. In 1992, Paladin Contemporaries released her novella, Cicada Grove, which in manuscript form won the 1987 grand prize in the Barbara Storck Creative Writing Contest. Second Touch, her chapter of poetry was published in 1990. She holds a master of arts degree in English creative writing emphasis and Juris Doctor from the UMKC law school, where she worked on the law review. She has also served as editor for two national magazines, Modern Jeweler and The National Paralegal Reporter and assisted Carl Rhoden with the Borders Second Sunday Poetry Series.

01:03:20 minutes, 2.2 MB

Writer's Place: Carl Rhoden Part 1 of 2

Tues, 15 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Elizabeth Schultz and Carl Rhoden on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library. Carl Rhoden was born and raised in Kansas City. He holds an MA and MFA and served as the Associate Editor of the Colorado Review for two years. He has taught literature and composition at Western State College and Colorado State University and has studied with the poets David Ray and Charles Simic, to name a few. For four years, he coordinated the Borders Second Sunday Poetry Series in Overland Park. He has published poems in literary journals since the mid-1970s, and in 1988, he won the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association Award for Poetry. Recently, his poetry has appeared in Rockhurst Review, Kansas City Star, Coal City Review, Review, Thorny Locust, The Same, and I-70 Review.

37:28 minutes, 0 MB

Writer's Place: Elizabeth Schultz Part 2 of 2

Tues, 15 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Elizabeth Schultz and Carl Rhoden on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library. Since retirement from teaching English at the University of Kansas and writing academic articles, Beth has been writing poetry and nature essays. Among her publications are Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art (1995), Shoreline: Seasons at the Lake (2001), Conversations: Art Into Poetry at the Spencer Museum of Art (2006), and Her Voice (2008). She writes a regular column, “Senses of Place,” for the Kansas Land Trust newsletter, and many of these essays will soon appear in The Nature of the Kansas Land. Her poems have been published in Leviathan, Midwest Quarterly, Re:Verse!, Iota, Coal City Review, South Dakota Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Mid-American Poetry Review, Seeding the Snow, Plain Song Review, I-70 Review, ISLE, South Dakota Review, Southern Indiana Review, Rockhurst Review, Sea Stories, Blue Collar Review, Concho Review, Kansas City Voices, and Flint Hills Review.

37:28 minutes, 0 MB

Writer's Place: Ann Pai

Tues, 18 Mar 2008 07:00:00 -0600: Writer's Place Poetry Reading Series presents Ann Pai on Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2008; 7 p.m. at the Central Resource Library. Ann Pai’s 2006 memoir, My Other Body, a memoir of love, fat, life, and death, won the 2007 Thorpe Menn Award for literature and a first place in the 2006 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. Harvard Medical School, recommending the book, called it “an autobiography that informs the mind and touches the heart.” Ann is currently working on her first novel and on her plans to expand her small press to publish other creative nonfiction works.

37:28 minutes, 0 MB

Writer's Place: Carl Rhoden and Lindsey Martin-Bowen Part 1

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 -0600: Carl Rhoden has taught literature and composition at Western State College and Colorado State University and has studied with the poets David Ray, Charles Simic, Miller Williams and Claribel Alegria, to name a few. He served as the Associate Editor of the Colorado Review for two years. For four years, he coordinated the Borders Second Sunday Poetry Series in Overland Park. In 1988, he won the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association Award for Poetry. Recently, his poetry has appeared in Rockhurst Review, Thorny Locust, The Same and I-70 Review. He holds BA, MA and MFA degrees.

32:15 minutes, 1.1 MB

Writer's Place: Carl Rhoden and Lindsey Martin-Bowen Part 2

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:00:00 -0600: Lindsey Martin-Bowen teaches writing, literature, creative writing and reporting at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she serves as Writing Assessment Coordinator. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in New Letters, Rockhurst Review, I-70 Review, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City OUTLOUD, The UMKC Law Review, and other literary magazines. Second Touch, her book of poetry, was published in 1990. She holds an MA in English/writing and a Juris Doctor from the UMKC law school, where she worked on the law review.

29:54 minutes, 1.0 MB

Writer's Place: Diane Glancy Part 2

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:26:00 -0600: Diane Glancy published three books in 2005: The Dance Partner, Stories of the Ghost Dance, (Michigan State University Press), In-Between Places, (University of Arizona Press), and Rooms and New Selected Poems, (Salt Publishers, Cambridge, England). A new collection of poetry, Asylum in the Grasslands, is forthcoming from Arizona in the spring of 2007. Glancy is a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she taught Native American literature and creative writing.

22:13 minutes, 8 MB

Writer's Place: Native American Heritage Month presents Daniel Remmenga and Alexandria Bo Alvarez Part 1

Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:18:00 -0600: In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, poet Trish Reeves will host November's event featuring the Native American readers. Daniel Remmenga and Alexandria Bo Alvarez from the Haskell Indian Nations University present their poetry. Some language may be found strong.

37:55 minutes, 1.3 MB

Writer's Place: Native American Heritage Month presents Jennie James, William James, and Poet Laureate Denise Low

Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:22:00 -0600: In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, poet Trish Reeves will host November's event featuring the Native American readers. Jennie James and William James, from the Haskell Indian Nations University, present their poetry. Recently announced Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low shares one of her poems in closing.

23:09 minutes, 8 MB

Writer's Place: Jeanie Wilson and Thomas Zvi Wilson Part 1

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:27:00 -0600: Jeanie Wilson and Thomas Zvi Wilson will read from The Door into the Dream. Both poets have previous books to their credit. Thomas' Deliberate and Accidental Acts came out in 1997; Jeanie's Uncurling appeared in 2000. The Door into the Dream was listed in The Star's 2006: The Year's 100 Noteworthy Books. Other poet friends reading from The Door into the Dream: Denise Low-Weso: Poet Laureate for Kansas for 2007-2009; her latest book is Words of a Prairie Alchemist; Jo McDougall: an Arkansas native, has published most recently Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc. Jo was inducted into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame (2006); Elizabeth Schultz: after 34 years of teaching at KU, she heads for a Fulbright lectureship in China; Robert Stewart: an author of Outside Language: Essays and editor of New Letters magazine.

27:11 minutes, 9 MB

Writer's Place: Jeanie Wilson and Thomas Zvi Wilson Part 2

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:28:00 -0600: Jeanie Wilson and Thomas Zvi Wilson will read from The Door into the Dream. Both poets have previous books to their credit. Thomas' Deliberate and Accidental Acts came out in 1997; Jeanie's Uncurling appeared in 2000. The Door into the Dream was listed in The Star's 2006: The Year's 100 Noteworthy Books. Other poet friends reading from The Door into the Dream: Denise Low-Weso: Poet Laureate for Kansas for 2007-2009; her latest book is Words of a Prairie Alchemist; Jo McDougall: an Arkansas native, has published most recently Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc. Jo was inducted into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame (2006); Elizabeth Schultz: after 34 years of teaching at KU, she heads for a Fulbright lectureship in China; Robert Stewart: an author of Outside Language: Essays and editor of New Letters magazine.

19:17 minutes, 7 MB

Writer's Place: Tribute to Black History Month Part 1

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:00:00 -0600: This tribute to Black history month is a reading framed by music of African/Black origins: Blues, Jazz, Samba, and Bossa Nova. These musical forms have influence on all aspects of American life and the world; its culture, music, sensibilities and world view. The poetry is a reflection of these four frames and such universal themes of love and loss, as well as reflecting the Black experience. In addition, several of the song selections are a collaboration of poetry and jazz between poets Phyllis Becker and Mark Schroer, and Jazz artist Angela Hagenbach and guitarist Jake Blanton.

34:48 minutes, 1.2 MB

Writer's Place: Tribute to Black History Month Part 2

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:04:00 -0600: This tribute to Black history month is a reading framed by music of African/Black origins: Blues, Jazz, Samba, and Bossa Nova. These musical forms have influence on all aspects of American life and the world; its culture, music, sensibilities and world view. The poetry is a reflection of these four frames and such universal themes of love and loss, as well as reflecting the Black experience. In addition, several of the song selections are a collaboration of poetry and jazz between poets Phyllis Becker and Mark Schroer, and Jazz artist Angela Hagenbach and guitarist Jake Blanton.

29:07 minutes, 1.0 MB

Writer's Place: Donald Caswell Part 1

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:34:00 -0600: Donald Caswell has published four chapbooks of poetry in addition to placing individual poems in such literary journals as Alaska Quarterly Review, MidAmerican Review, and Poetry. A former director of Anhinga Press, he initiated the Anhinga Prize for Poetry in 1983. He has degrees in English from Florida State University and the University of Florida, and has taught writing courses at Fort Valley State College, Florida A&M University, and Thomas College, among others. Currently, he lives in Kansas City, where he is communications director for the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers.

30:36 minutes, 1.1 MB

Writer's Place: Judith Bader Jones Part 2

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:34:00 -0600: Judith Bader Jones is a poet and short fiction writer. Her poetry, essays and short stories have appeared in both literary and commercial publications. She is a frequent contributor to Poet’s Corner in the Kansas City Star, a founding board member of Whispering Prairie Press, and a poetry editor for Kansas City Voices. She is the author of Delta Pearls, a collection of short fiction published by Sweetgum Press of Warrensburg, Missouri, 2006.

25:26 minutes, 9 MB

Writer's Place: Frankie Wu Part 1

Mon, 7 May 2007 08:34:00 -0600: Ms. Franking has been writing and publishing for many years. Her collection, From Ink and Sandalwood, won the 1991 Thorp Menn Award. She has published in a variety of literary journals. Her poem entitled "Heredity" was the frontis piece for a textbook, Genetics, by Robert C. King. Some of Ms. Franking’s poems have been translated into Italian and Chinese. Her father was in the first group of Chinese students at the University of Michigan where he met his wife. Ms. Franking’s father died in the flu epidemic in 1919, and her mother died of tuberculosis. She and her siblings were raised by their American grandparents. During World War II, Cecile served as Coordinator of the U.S. Army Map service. It was during this time she met and married Dr. William Q. Wu. Mrs. and Mr. Wu have lived in Kansas City since 1950, and many know Mrs. Wu as simply Frankie.

25:50 minutes, 9 MB

Writer's Place: Robert C. Jones Part 2

Mon, 7 May 2007 08:34:00 -0600: From 1961 until he retired in 1991, Robert C. Jones taught in the Department of English and Philosophy, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri. Since 1982, he has been editor of The Mid-America Press, Inc. He is editor of The Mid-America Poetry Review, now beginning its eighth year of publication. His poems and reviews have appeared most recently in The Kansas City Star,I-70 Review, Desire Street, and Margie, as well as in many other journals and periodicals.

30:02 minutes, 1.0 MB

Writer's Place: Walter Bargen Part 1

Wed, 30 May 2007 13:07:00 -0600: Walter Bargen has published 10 books and two chapbooks of poetry. The three most recent books are, The Body of Water, from Timberline Press (2003), The Feast, from BkMk Press-UMKC (2004), which was awarded the 2005 William Rockhill Nelson Award, and Remedies for Vertigo from WordTech Communications (2006). His poems have appeared in many literary journals. He was the winner of the Chester H. Jones Foundation prize in 1997, a National Endowment for the Art Fellowship in 1991, and the William Rockhill Nelson Award in 2005. Technical note: The Johnson County Library experienced microphone difficulties during recording. Our apologies.

35:33 minutes, 1.2 MB

Writer's Place: Patricia Cleary Miller Part 2

Wed, 30 May 2007 13:07:00 -0600: Patricia Cleary Miller, professor of English and chair of the Humanities Division at Rockhurst University, has published three books and dozens of poems in various small presses in the Midwest. She has read her poetry in Paris, Kildare, New York, Anchorage, Harvard, M.I.T., and many Midwestern venues, including the Writers Place, the Johnson County Library, the University of Kansas, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her poetry collection, Starting a Swan Dive (BkMk Press) won the Daniel S. Brenner Award for Scholarly Achievement. In 1986 she founded the Rockhurst Review: a Fine Arts Journal which she continues to serve as editor-in-chief. From Harvard University she received the Hiram Hunn Award and the Harvard Alumni Association Award for distinguished service, and a Bunting Fellowship in poetry for a post-doctoral sabbatical year. Technical note: The Johnson County Library experienced microphone difficulties during recording. Our apologies.

26:57 minutes, 9 MB

Writer's Place: John Mark Eberhart Part 1

Tue, 10 July 2007 09:47:00 -0600: John Mark Eberhart earned a Bachelor's degree in Journalism form the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Master's degree in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In January 1987 he joined the staff of The Kansas City Star, and became the newspaper's book review editor in March 2000. He is the author of two poetry collections, Night Watch and the forthcoming Broken Time. One poem from the former, "Just One Ghost," was included in Helicon Nine's Chance of a Ghost anthology and also received Honorable Mention as one of the year's best poems in the Science Fiction Writers of America's anthology, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006. He has won numerous awards for his prose, poetry and contributions to literature, the most recent being UMKC's Alumni Award, Arts & Sciences division, 2007.

38:48 minutes, 1.2 MB

Writer's Place: Jo McDougall Part 2

Tue, 10 July 2007 09:48:00 -0600: Jo McDougall, a native of Arkansas, now lives in Kansas City. She is the author of five books of poetry, the latest being Dirt and Satisfied With Havoc, Autumn House Press. She has won awards from the DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest foundation, the Academy of American Poets, Arkansas' Porter Prize and has held several fellowships to the MacDowell Colony. Widely anthologized, her work Emerson County Shaping Dream, has been adapted for film, theatre, and the Peabody Wind Ensemble, Baltimore. She is a former co-director of creative writing at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas.

22:53 minutes, 8 MB

Writer's Place: Bill Bauer Part 1

Tue, 17 Aug 2007 09:47:00 -0600: Bill Bauer’s latest book of poetry is Pear Season and The Boy Who Ate Dandelions (2006). His poem, In The Morning In Missouri, was awarded First Place in the 2005 Kansas City Star Magazine Missouri Poetry Contest. He lives and writes in Kansas City.

28:19 minutes, 1.0 MB

Writer's Place: Linda Rodriguez Part 2

Tue, 17 Aug 2007 09:48:00 -0600: Linda Rodriguez is a member of the Latino Writers Collective, founder/coordinator of the annual Kansas City Women Writers Reading Series. Her chapbook, Skin Hunger was named by Writer’s Digest as one of the four top poetry chapbooks of the year. She has also published numerous articles for general and scholarly publications, including three articles on Rudolfo Anaya’s work in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Hispanic Literature.

33:02 minutes, 1.1 MB

Writer's Place: Silvia Kofler Part 1

Tue, 14 Sep 2007 10:08:00 -0600: Silvia Kofler was born in Graz, Austria, has lived in London and Paris and moved to Kansas City in 1979. She is editor/publisher of Thorny Locust, an independent literary journal. Her work has been published in numerous publications, including the The Book of Hopes and Dreams, an anthology to benefit Spirit Aid, published by Bluechrome Press in the UK. Her book, From the Suburbs with the Wedding Dress in its Coffin/Vom Vorort mit dem Hochzeitskleid im Sarg, was published in 2003 by The Edwin Mellen Press. Radioactive Musing, a collection of poetry is forthcoming from Unholy Day Press. Her brief play Goldfish was performed as part of Snapshots on Sept. 3, 2006, during the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s Playwrights Intensive with Arthur Kopit. The one-act play Doctor’s Market, a play in two acts, won the Plays-In-Progress contest at Rockhurst University. She is a member of the American Literary Translators Association, and lectures at Rockhurst University.

19:30 minutes, 7 MB

Writer's Place: William Trowbridge Part 2

Tue, 14 Sep 2007 10:10:00 -0600: William Trowbridge’s poetry publications include four full collections and three chapbooks. His poems have appeared in literary journals, textbooks and more than 30 anthologies. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo and The Anderson Center. He is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review from 1986 to 2004. Now living in the Kansas City area, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.

32:35 minutes, 1.1 MB

Writer's Place: Kathleen Flenniken and Robert C. Jones

Tue, 14 Sep 2007 10:10:00 -0600: Robert C. Jones is editor of The Mid-America Press, Inc. and editor of The Mid-America Poetry Review, now in its eighth year of publication. He is the author of The Flower Growers (1999), a collection of poems about writers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. His most recent publication is Two- and Three-Part Inventions: New and Selected Poems (2007). The collection is in four parts: Two-Part Inventions, Fantasias, Bagatelles, and Three-Part Inventions. Currently, he writes poems and reviews for journals such as Cricket, The Kansas City Star, Pleiades, Margie, The Midwest Quarterly, Hungry Mountain, Kansas City Voices; and he gives readings and poetry workshops for schools, writers conferences, and young authors conferences.

32:35 minutes, 2.7 MB

Writer's Place: Kathleen Flenniken and Robert C. Jones

Tue, 14 Sep 2007 10:10:00 -0600: Kathleen Flenniken’s first poetry collection, Famous (University of Nebraska Press, 2006) won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association in 2007. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Web site "Poetry Daily," and she is the recipient of literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Artist Trust. Ms. Flenniken lives in Seattle.

32:35 minutes, 2.6 MB

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