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I grew up in Indiana (yep, a Hoosier) but I've been in Kansas for a very long time. I arrived in Wichita ("ICT" = airport code and local term of endearment) in 1993 for a 1-year volunteer stint with the happy knowledge that I could soon leave. (Read that date again. Do math. Now laugh.) So I guess I can say I'm a Kansan. At least, I'm from the Midwest either way, I suppose. There's a subtle beauty here that I easily learned to love. And a few people, too.
I grew up in Indiana (yep, a Hoosier) but I've been in Kansas for a very long time. I arrived in Wichita ("ICT" = airport code and local term of endearment) in 1993 for a 1-year volunteer stint with the happy knowledge that I could soon leave. (Read that date again. Do math. Now laugh.) So I guess I can say I'm a Kansan. At least, I'm from the Midwest either way, I suppose. There's a subtle beauty here that I easily learned to love. And a few people, too.
Wichita has a yacht club. Kinda. OK, fine, it's in Cheney. I don't belong to it.
ALIEN LANDING PAD (excerpt)
Twelve tall they stand, round and
robust, in the big river’s curve, just
West of the Keeper. Supercharged
light poles landmark the central
vortex, a power place of many names,
glowing amethyst tonight—all but one.
...(continued on RCP site, link below)...
—Julie Ann Baker Brin, from River City Poetry Fall 2020, Vol. 9, four (4) poems published:
'Alien Landing Pad'
'Dallas to Wichita in the Passenger Seat'
'I, Cactus'
'Outside at Mort's'
(plus one October Broadside piece)
Thanks to: April Pameticky, Managing Editor, RCP. View entire issue (and above poems) here: https://aprilpameticky.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/rcp-v-9-fall-2020.pdf
River City Poetry Fall 2020
The Kansas Authors Club welcomes creative, technical, academic, and journalistic writers
LOUSY BAND AT PORT OF WICHITA (sneak peek)
I will help it. Keep my head
from bobbing, feet from tapping,
arms from raising up. Just because
the music has a beat doesn’t mean
it’s good; because you yell doesn’t
mean you have a point. Here we are
stuck. I guess we have to just soak
it all up. Suck. Absorb. Inhale. Intake.
Dwell in the murky insanity, the
tiresome infectious muck. Until
we can finally, mercifully, take
the stage for ourselves, turn
this beat around; fingers crossed
they don’t feel the same about us.
—Julie Ann Baker Brin, 2nd place in the 2020 Kansas Authors Club District 7 poetry contest
TAKE FIVE
1st stanza/sneak peek/excerpt from poem)
The room came more alive. Perhaps it was the permeating aroma of incense following
you. Or the rumors of your insanity preceding you. But I was at once intrigued, heavily,
with a light suffocation of fear. When can I clap? All I can do is nod my head tap my toe
bounce from foot to foot. The rhythm is a slinky, a rubber band, a swing; full, still, hard,
smooth, tight, plastic. A fiery fusion of flourish. Put it in the pocket. Improvise.
... (continued on RCP site; link below) ...
—Julie Ann Baker Brin, from
River City Poetry Fall 2019, Vol. 6
3 poems published:
"Acherontia Atropos"
"Take Five"
"When You're Out of Town"
Thanks to: April Pameticky, Managing Editor, RCP, and reviewers Raylyn Clacher and Roy J. Beckemeyer. View entire issue (and above poems) here:
https://aprilpameticky.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/rcp-v-6-fall-2019.pdf
River City Poetry Fall 2019
Kansas's Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781672516723
ISBN-10: 1672516722
ARCHITECHTONICS (1st verse/sneak peek)
Some mason on the make
stacked my bricks the wrong way.
One windy day a huff
will deconstruct my façade,
... (continued in publication; purchasing info below) ...
STORM WARNING (1st verse/sneak peek)
Lightning stashes, a river-bolt,
flux, wicked stream,
rebel shudder of thunder,
aroma-tart-zap!
... (continued in publication; purchasing info below) ...
—Julie Ann Baker Brin, from
Kansas's Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology
Compiled & Edited by Z Publishing House
(2 of Julie Ann Baker Brin's poems published)
To purchase through Watermark Books:
SURE
(1st verse/sneak peek)
I am sure in lowercase,
in Sanskrit, in cursive,
in hieroglyphics, in Cyrillic,
in every way that it can be
written ...
... (continued in publication; purchasing info below) ...
—Julie Ann Baker Brin, from
Kansas's Best Emerging Poets 2018: An Anthology
Compiled & Edited by Z Publishing House
(3 of Julie's poems included)
To purchase through Watermark Books (Wichita):
https://www.watermarkbooks.com/book/9781986930161
To purchase in support of Crow & Co. (Hutchinson):
https://bookshop.org/books/kansas-s-best-emerging-poets-an-anthology/9781986930161
Kansas's Best Emerging Poets 2018: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781986930161
ISBN-10: 1986930165
Early in my Wichita days, the editor of Wichita NOW Times contacted me after finding one of my poetry brochures (see "not-books" page of this site) and asked me to contribute to one of their monthly publications.
ABOVE
this little girl
on this side of the line
is dying
while that little girl
on that side of the line
is buying
and this little girl
who sees it all
is crying
because she doesn’t see
any lines when she
is flying
—Julie Ann Baker (Brin)
From Wichita NOW Times
(10 poems published)
October, 1994
I guess this page is really more Kansas-centric than specifically Wichita-centric. I'm sure anyone with good ol' midwestern values would forgive me. Hopefully at least the members of Kansas Author Club, which I finally joined (IDK what took me so long). Need to contact me? Try juliebrin at gmail dot com, and/or search for Julie Ann Baker Brin on any number of social media sites to DM me that way.
I guess this page is really more Kansas-centric than specifically Wichita-centric. I'm sure anyone with good ol' midwestern values would forgive me. Hopefully at least the members of Kansas Author Club, which I finally joined (IDK what took me so long). Need to contact me? Try juliebrin at gmail dot com, and/or search for Julie Ann Baker Brin on any number of social media sites to DM me that way.
See the page menu at the top for more. And thanks for visiting my portfolio site! —Julie Ann Baker Brin
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