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Creative and commercial writer Lisa Stewart has traveled thousands of miles as a long-distance horseback rider, through the Rockies and the Midwest. In…
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Randy Attwood has been a journalist and a public relations professional. He grew up at the state psychiatric hospital in Larned, Kansas, where his father…
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Spoken word artist and poet Jeanette Powers started writing at the age of 9. "I realized that in my imagination, I was completely free. There were no…
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The widely published and award-winning Eric McHenry, an associate professor of English at Washburn University in Topeka, was named Kansas poet laureate…
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Tina Hacker writes poems based on real events from the Holocaust. Her full-length book of poems, Listening for Night Whistles, was released by Aldrich…
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John Willison started writing poetry a couple of years ago, after his cancer metastasized. His wife, Pauline, encouraged him to join a writing group at…
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Topeka poet Annette Hope Billings has described herself as a shy child who found her voice through theater productions at Topeka High School – but she…
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Alan Robert Proctor has published fiction, essays and poetry, in journals such as New Letters and I-70 Review. He's also a poetry editor for Kansas City…
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Kelly Cannon fell in love with writing in third grade, after she won a poetry competition. This poem, "Chiaroscuro," was inspired by a painting of a man…
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Sometimes it just takes one teacher to change everything. For Seann Weir, who studies English and creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas…
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Norma Cantu is a professor of Latina/Latino Studies and English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. One of her projects is a collection she's…
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Kansas has a new poet laureate. The responsibility has fallen to the widely published and award-winning Eric McHenry, an associate professor of English at…