http://crochet247.com/?x=85191206689706 Kansas City Voices invites you to a reading at Gardens of Delight by three of our fabulous contributors. Dawn Downey, Theresa Hupp, and Jason Preu will take the stage on Sunday, July 27th, 2:30-6pm at Gardens of Delight, 4821 N. Helena Ave KCMO in Parkville. As Always, there is no cost to attend. Dawn Downey is an essayist, who draws… Read more »
Opa-locka Join us Wednesday, June 18th 1:30-3:30 for a free marketing seminar conducted by Kimberly Beer. She will show you how to grow your practice or small business using email and social media. If you are a recently published or aspiring author, this is a great chance for you to get a leg up on promoting yourself! Register today at: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e999d4dv247b4fb6&llr=zotg6ojab
Ellie Kort is a native of Kansas City. She received her BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Kansas in 2001. She currently works as a graphic designer for Creative Converting in Indianapolis. Ellie says her work has been most inspired by artists Frank Stella, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Antoni Gaudí, Hung Liu, Chuck Close, André Saraiva, Jonathan Saunders, Margaret Killgallan,… Read more »
Kansas City Voices invites you to a reading this May, featuring Phyllis Westover, Lisa Daly, and Jack Kline. Join us on Friday, May 16, 6-8 pm at Mysteryscapes, 7309 W. 80th St., Overland Park, Ks. 66204. Phyllis Galley Westover’s writing has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and six anthologies. She received Boulevard’s Fiction Award, and she was a finalist for the Iowa… Read more »
Annie Raab joined the magazine in 2013. She has been taking her writing seriously since 2010, when she was pursuing her education at the Kansas City Art Institute, and more seriously every year since. She graduated KCAI in 2012 with a BFA and double major in Sculpture and Creative Writing. Her writings have been published in The Bookends Review, Kawsmouth,… Read more »
Kansas City Voices , an arts and literary magazine, presents an afternoon with writers Eve Ott, Alaire Tennille, and John Peterson, Sunday, April 27, 2014, 2:00pm-4:00pm, The Writer’s Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City, MO. EVE OTT: Her fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in :The Same, Imagination and Place Press, I-70 Review, The Whirleybird Anthology, Kansas City Voices, Redbook,… Read more »
My husband died last year. One of these days that won’t be the first thing I choose to tell about myself, but right now it is the most essential thing. Barry and I met when I was 17. I am 60 now. Over the last 7 months, I have been learning how to live by myself. Last summer, when my… Read more »
On Saturday, March 8, 2014, we’ve reserved the mic for contributors from past and current issues of Kansas City Voices. Featuring: Jeff Tigchelaar (Vol 10), Alan Robert Proctor (Vol 7 & Vol 10), Phyllis Westover (Vol 4 & Vol 5), Eve Ott (Volume 11), Rolland Love (Volume 2), Madelyn Camrud (Volume 8), Liane M Dobbins, Melissa Sewell (Volume 9), Timothy… Read more »
Kansas City Voices is pleased to be a part of the Thomas Zvi Wilson reading series, hosted at the Johnson County Central Resource Library (87th street in Overland Park) From 7pm-8pm. Featuring readings by Annie Newcomer, Pat Daneman, and Teri Stettinisch. Sponsored by The Writers Place and Johnson County Public Library. Hope to see you there!
At eight, I wrote my first poem urging mother to stop smoking: I wish you would, I truly do Stop smoking that awful brew Of tobacco, filter, smoke and trash That simply does nothing but fall to ash… and so forth in awkward iambs. I was a stutterer – maybe that’s why the rhythm, needed for the rhyme to work,… Read more »