• Riverfront Readings with Catherine Strayhall and Brandon Whitehead

    July 27, 2026 / Comments Off on Riverfront Readings with Catherine Strayhall and Brandon Whitehead

    Please join us August 14th for our reading at The Writers Place featuring Catherine Strayhall and Brandon Whitehead. Friday, August 14, 7:00 PM The Writers Place The Nonprofit Village 31 W. 31st Street Kansas City MO 64108   Catherine Strayhall is a 2025 Kansas Notable Book author whose work has appeared in KANSAS! magazine, Gleam, the Kansas City Star, and on Kansas Public Radio’s show Prairie Journal. She has been featured several times in the online publication Poets Reading the News, where she went on to serve as an associate editor. Catherine works in libraries, and you can often find her reading poetry in the Crossroads or on Strawberry Hill. Her…

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  • Riverfront Readings with Colleen Maynard and Kevin Ridgeway.

    February 8, 2026 / Comments Off on Riverfront Readings with Colleen Maynard and Kevin Ridgeway.

    Friday, February 13th, 7:00 PM Online event To attend, please register for the reading here, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading. Riverfront Readings on Zoom featuring Colleen Maynard and Kevin Ridgeway. Colleen Maynard is a visual artist, writer, and arts administrator. As a lifelong cyclist and pedestrian, her writing and artwork are mired in the slowness of observations from a bicycle, and the analogue mark making composed on a drafting table. Maynard writes poems and short fiction about the overlap of daily modern rituals and geological deep time, regularly resulting in themes of ecological and societal absurdities or careful spells. Her writing has appeared in places…

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