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Main Street Rag Poetry Showcase at Prospero’s

Sunday, November 25, 2012. 6:00pm
Prospero’s Books, 1800 W. 39th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111

This month’s Pit will feature special guests Rhiannon Dickerson and Jonathan Barrett.

$3 cover. Open-mic after.

Rhiannon Dickerson is a local mom, poet and professor who teaches at Park University and UMKC. She graduated with her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2008. She has published poetry in a variety of journals including Quarterly West, Horse Less Press, Pleaides, Mid-American Review, and The Laurel Review.

Jonathan Barrett lives in KC with his wife Megan and three sons. He spends most of his days in a cubicle. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including Flyway, The Literary Review, The Minnesota Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Pavement Saw, Phoebe, and Subtropics among others. He is co-edits the small literary journal cant.

Come on out and bring yo poe-try!
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Mainstreet Rag Poetry Showcase

Sunday, May 27, 2012. 6:00pm
MAINSTREET RAG POETRY SHOWCASE @ PROSPERO’S PIT WITH SPECIAL GUEST KEVIN RABAS!
PROSPERO’S BOOKS, 1800 W. 39TH ST., KC/MO, 64111, 816-531-WORD

Associate Professor Dr. Kevin Rabas (MFA, Goddard College; PhD, KU) co-directs the creative writing program at Emporia State and edits Flint Hills Review. Rabas writes poetry, plays, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. He has three books: Bird’s Horn, Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award winner, and Spider Face: stories. He writes regularly for Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM). Rabas’s plays have been produced across Kansas and in San Diego. His work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes, and Rabas is the winner of the Langston Hughes Award for Poetry, the Victor Contowski Poetry Award, the Jerome Johanning Playwriting Award, and the Salina New Voice Award.

Show starts at 6PM!
$3 cover.
Open mic after main event.
Bring some!

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