Upcoming Riverfront events:
Annual Holiday Open Micin partnership with The Writers Place Sunday, December 6th, 2:00 at The Sweet Guy7439 Broadway, KCMO (in Brookside) Bring two short poems or one very short piece of prose to share, on the themes of the holidays, winter, the end of the year, the new year, or anything else seasonal. The pieces may both be original, or one by you and one favorite by somebody else—regifting poetry is allowed!
Andres Rodriguez and D. K. SmithFriday, December 11th, 8:00 p.m. at The Writers PlaceAndres Rodriguez was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of Night Song, a collection of poetry, and Book of the Heart: The Poetics, Letters, and Life of John Keats. He has degrees in English from the University of Iowa, Stanford, and the University of California-Santa Cruz. His poems won a Poets & Writers Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award in 2007 and have appeared in such journals as Harvard Review, Cortland Review, Valparaiso Review, Bilingual Review, and the anthologies Currents from the Dancing River, New Chicano/Chicana Writing, and Wild Song.
Rodríguez has taught literature and writing at various colleges and
universities, most recently at Northern Arizona University. He lives
and works in Kansas City.D. K. Smith
is
a graduate of Yale and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He holds a Ph.D.
in Medieval and Renaissance literature from the University of Iowa
and teaches at Kansas State University. Missing Persons is his second novel. His
first, Nothing
Disappears,
was published in 2004.
See Riverfront Readings Calendar for a complete schedule.
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