Poetry

COMING UP (The Wichita Eagle)

6 Jul 2008

Poetry Aloud , read your own poetry or that of a poet you admire, 7 p.m. Tue., Zoomdweebie's Tea Bar, 3010 E. Central. Free. Information, 316-440-4202. Sedgwick County Fair , 5-10 p.m. Wed., 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Thu., 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri., 7 a.m.-midnight Sat., Cheney Fairgrounds, 383rd Street West, between MacArthur Road and South Street. Bull Blowout, carnival, demolition derby, parade, ...

Gordon Parks counted poetry among talents (Lawrence Journal-World)

6 Jul 2008

Editor’s note: In her Ad Astra Poetry Project, Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low highlights historic and contemporary poets who resided in Kansas for a substantial part of their lives. Eventually, she will collect the biweekly broadsides into a book, to be published by the Center for Kansas Studies at Washburn University, in cooperation with Thomas Fox Averill.

Poetry like a prayer (The Norman Transcript)

6 Jul 2008

Jim Chastain — father, husband, friend, writer, poet, movie critic, attorney, cancer patient — has found a whole new universe of friends and fans as he’s dealt with his illness and reached out to those close and not so close with his creative talents, whether or not he meant to.