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kansas city literary events
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& outlying regions in missouri and kansas |
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Wednesday,
July 1, 2009
lawrence, kan. |
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Celebration of KS Poet Laureate / Imagination and Place
Anthology Launch |
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Riverfront reading series at the Writers Place,
3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Mo.
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Writers Place |
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816-753-1090 |
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Friday,
July 10, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Caryn Miriam-Goldberg and Stacey Tolbert |
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Riverfront reading series at the Writers Place,
3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Mo.
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Writers Place |
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816-753-1090 |
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Tuesday,
July 21, 2009
overland park, kan. |
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Phyllis Becker and Linda Rodriguez |
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Poets Becker and Rodriguez appear at
this Writers Place at the Library series at the Johnson
County Central Resource Library, 9875 W. 87th St.,
Overland Park, Kan.
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7:00 p.m. |
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The Writers Place, sponsor |
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913-495-2400 |
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Monday,
July 27, 2009
overland park, kan. |
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Sarah Dunant |
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Author of The Birth of Venus and
Sacred Hearts appears at Rainy Day Books, 2706 W.
53rd St., Fairway, Kan.
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7:00 p.m. |
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Rainy Day Books |
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913-384-3126 |
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Thursday,
August 6- Saturday, August 8 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Unregulated Word 2009 |
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Three day poetry festival at various venues across Kansas
City. For complete information, visit the
festival's
web site. |
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7:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 5:00 p.m., Saturday |
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Michael Chritton, Off Beat Pulp |
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913-579-7444 |
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Friday,
August 14, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Robert C. Jones and Greg Field |
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Riverfront reading series at the Writers Place,
3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Mo.
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Writers Place |
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816-753-1090 |
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Friday,
August 28, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Bob Savino |
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Poet Bob Savino reads from his new book,
Black Butterflies: Poems for a Muse at the
Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City,
Mo.
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7:00 p.m. |
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The Writers Place |
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816-753-1090 |
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Thursday,
September 17, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Tracy Daughtery |
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Daughtery, author of Hiding Man: A
Biography of Donald Barthelme, is interviewed by UMKC
Professor Michelle Boisseau at the Kansas City Library,
14 W. 10th St., Kansas City, Mo.
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TBA |
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UMKC Writers at Work series, sponsor |
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816-235-1305 |
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Tuesday,
September 22, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Joseph O'Neill |
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Joseph O'Neill, author of the PEN/Faulkner
Award-winning novel Neverland, appears at
Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman
Forum, 4801 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
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6:30 p.m. |
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Kansas City Library |
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816-701-3407 |
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Wednesday,
September 23, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Latino Writers Collective Reading
Series |
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The Latino Writers Collective presents
The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry
ON TOUR
with editor Francisco Aragon, author of Puerta del
Sol and director of the Institute of Latino Studies
at Notre Dame University, with contributors Brenda
Cardenas, author of Boomerang, and John Olivares
Espinoza, author of Date Fruit Elegies. The
Wind Shifts is the winner of the International
Latino Book Award in Poetry. Reception and book signing
to follow. Plaza Library, 4801 Main St., Kansas City,
Mo. |
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7:00 p.m. |
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Linda Rodriguez, Latino Writers Collective |
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816-333-6349 |
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Friday,
September 25, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Jo McDougall, Andrea Budy, and
Michelle Boisseau |
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Three writers read from When She Named Fire, an
anthology of contemporary poetry by American women
edited by Andrea Budy, at the Writers Place, 3607
Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Mo. |
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7:00 p.m. |
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The Writers Place |
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816-753-1090 |
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Wednesday,
September 30, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Heid Erdrich |
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Ojibwe poet Heid Erdrich appears at the Kansas City Public
Library, 14 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, Mo. Sponsored
by the Park University Ethnic Voices Poetry Series. |
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6:00 reception, 6:30 reading |
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Virginia Brackett, Park University |
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(816) 584-6818
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Thursday,
October 1, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor |
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Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of
Bees, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor,
discuss their co-written book Traveling with
Pomegranates at the Unity Temple on the
Plaza, 707 W. 47th St., Kansas City, Mo.
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7:00 p.m. |
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Rainy Day Books, sponsor |
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913-384-3126 |
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Thursday,
October 22, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Robert Pinsky |
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Midwest Poets Series. Robert Pinsky
was poet laureate of the United States from
1997-2000; he is a recipient of the Lenore
Marshall Poetry Prize, American Academy of Arts
and Letters Award, William Carlos Williams
Award, a
Los Angeles Times book award, a Landon
Translation Award and many other honors.
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. .
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7:00 p.m. reading;
reception begins at 6:00 p.m. |
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Cynthia Cartwright, Rockhurst
University |
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816-501-4607 |
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Friday,
October 30, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Perry Glasser |
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Perry Glasser will read from his new book
Dangerous Places, which won the Sharat
Chandra Prize for Short Fiction from BkMk Press,
at The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas
City, Mo.
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8:00 p.m. |
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Riverfront Reading Series / The Writers Place |
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816-753-1090 |
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Friday,
November 6, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Hilary Masters |
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Hilary Masters will present a reading at the Writers
Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Mo. |
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7:00 p.m. |
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Sponsored by The Writers
Place with assistance from the University of
Missouri-Kansas City M.F.A. in Creative Writing
and Media Arts
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816-753-1090 |
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Saturday,
November 7, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Hilary Masters |
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Hilary Masters will present a memoir workshop at the
Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Mo.
There will be a charge for the workshop. |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Sponsored by The Writers
Place with assistance from the University of
Missouri-Kansas City M.F.A. in Creative Writing
and Media Arts
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816-753-1090 |
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Monday,
November 16, 2009
kansas city, mo. |
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Mary Jo Bang |
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A Midwest Poets Series event, with 2008 winner of the National
Book Critics Circle Award.
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.
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7:00 p.m. reading;
reception begins at 6:00 p.m. |
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Cynthia Cartwright, Rockhurst
University |
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816-501-4607 |
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Tuesday,
March 23, 2010
lawrence, kan. |
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Mary Oliver |
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Pulitzer Prize- and
National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver
will read at the University of Kansas.
Details TBA. Contact The Hall Center for
the Humanities.
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Hall Center for the Humanities |
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785-864-4798 |
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