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• The Writers Place Reading Series featuring H. C. Palmer, James Cherry, Robert Stewart

  • When
    20 Jun 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place at Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st ST, Kansas City MO 64108

  
  

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• The Writers Place Reading Series

  • When
    18 Jul 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual via Zoom

  

  
  

  Christopher Buckley grew up in Santa Barbara, CA surfing, playing and teaching tennis.  He attended St. Mary’s College in California and took graduate degrees in Creative Writing from San Diego State University and the Univ. of CA Irvine. He taught writing for over 40 years at several universities, including the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He lives there now with his wife, the artist Nadya Brown. Buckley has published 30 books of poetry—SPREZZATURA is just out from Lynx House Press, 2025. Among a dozen critical collections and anthologies he has edited NAMING THE LOST: THE FRESNO POETS—Interviews & Essays, 2021, is the most recent.

  Denise Low, former Poet Laureate of Kansas, is author of House of Grace, House of Blood, University of Arizona Press (2024). Her essays and poems appear widely, and awards include a Red Mountain Press Editor’s Choice Poetry Award, 4 Kansas Notable Book Awards, Best of the Internet Nomination, 5 Pushcart Prize Nominations, and other honors. Board memberships include Indigenous Native Poets (In-Na-Po), Write On Door County, and former AWP board member and president. She programs the Indigenous Voices series for The 222, an arts organization in Sonoma County, CA. and teaches online for Baker University.

  Jim Peterson has published eight poetry collections, most recently Towheaded Stone Thrower in 2025.  He has won The Benjamin Saltman Award for poetry from Red Hen Press, a poetry fellowship from the Virginia Arts Commission, and an Academy of American Poets award. Several hundred of his poems have appeared in more than 80 journals and anthologies.  He retired as Coordinator of Creative Writing at Randolph College in 2013 and also taught for many years in the University of Nebraska-Omaha Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. He continues to live and write in the beautiful and mysterious foothills of Virginia.

  
  

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• Jazz and Poetry Night with River Cow Orchestra

  • When
    14 Aug 2025
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    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Westport Coffeehouse

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• The Writers Place Reading Series featuring Heidi Hermanson, Lynn Doerr

  • When
    15 Aug 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place at Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st ST, Kansas City MO 64108

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• Childrens Book Workshop with David Harrison

  • When
    23 Aug 2025
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place at Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st ST, Kansas City MO 64108

  
  

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• Member Party and Silent Auction

  • When
    30 Aug 2025
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    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place at Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st ST, Kansas City MO 64108

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• The Writers Place Reading Series featuring Traci Brimhall, Melissa Fite Johnson, Courtney LeBlanc

  • When
    19 Sep 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place at Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st ST, Kansas City MO 64108

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• The Writers Place Reading Series featuring Mary Troy, Sandra Marchetti, Kimball Smith

  • When
    17 Oct 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place at Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st ST, Kansas City MO 64108

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• Jazz and Poetry Night with River Cow Orchestra

  • When
    13 Nov 2025
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    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Westport Coffeehouse

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• The Writers Place Reading Series

  • When
    21 Nov 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place at Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st ST, Kansas City MO 64108

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