http://thehistoryhacker.com/2013/01/22/political-debate-fruit-fight/?replytocom=301 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 »
http://kaminakapow.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=http://kaminakapow.com/home/ 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 »
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 »
This Friday, January 24th 2014, our editorial staff will each take 10 minutes to read their own work to you. If you’ve ever wondered who’s in charge of reading and accepting your submissions, here’s a chance to get to know them! Event takes place from 7-9pm at the Uptown Arts Bar (38th and Broadway, across from the theater) in Kansas… Read more »
Whispering Prairie Press is excited to partner with Prospero’s Parkside Books for a unique reading Tuesday, July 16th from 7-8 pm. We are excited that Jesse Barnes from the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center will be joining local poet, Janet Sunderland, for this special performance. Janet will be reading from her new book, At the Boundary, and Jesse is going… Read more »
Over the past ten years it’s been your talent that has made Kansas City Voices breathe. You’ve leant us your words and your art, now we’re hoping you’ll help us once again by spreading the word about Kansas City Voices by posting on your facebook page, tweeting, or passing this post along to others. The 10th Anniversary Edition is shaping… Read more »
A Pride of Women My daughter bends down, stoops to scoop me up and hug me when she comes to visit, as if I were the child. How can this be? In my mind I am not small; in my mind I am a lioness padding the earth, shoulders rippling with untamed power, my cubs gamboling behind me. What does… Read more »