Top City Readings Spring 2011

I thought I would be on sabbatical this semester, but, instead, these wonderful readers are coming to Top City. How could I resist?

Susan M. Schultz
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Blue Planet Cafe
110 SE 8th Ave
Topeka KS 66603
7:00 pm

Susan M. Schultz is the author of several volumes of poetry, most recently Dementia Blog (2008), And Then Something Happened (Salt, 2004) and a book of essays, A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2005). She edits Tinfish Press (http://tinfishpress.com/) out of her home in Kane’ohe, Hawai’i.

Part of the Top City Poetry Reading Series

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Albert Goldbarth
Monday, March 28, 2011
Washburn University
Mabee Library
1700 SW College Ave
Topeka KS 66621

4:00 pm

"Albert Goldbarth is a poet of remarkable gifts -- a dazzling virtuoso who can break your... heart." -- Joyce Carol Oates

Part of The English Department Reading Series at Washburn University

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Gary Jackson
Monday, April 4, 2011
Washburn University
Mabee Library
1700 SW College Ave
Topeka KS 66621
4:00 pm

Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his manuscript, Missing you, Metropolis, Gary Jackson was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas. He received his MFA in Poetry from the University of New Mexico in 2008 and his poems have appeared in Inscape, Magma, The Literary Bohemian and local chapbooks. Jackson’s Missing you, Metropolis is published by Greywolf Press and lauded by critics such as Yusef Komunyakaa, who writes that the book “embodies and underscores a voice uniquely shaped and tuned for the 21st century. Playful, jaunty and highly serious, the collection is gauged by a sophisticated heart. Pathos breathes within and slightly underneath the visual comedy, and this quality is the true genius of Missing you, Metropolis.”

Part of The English Department Reading Series at Washburn University

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Joseph Harrington
Friday, April 8, 2011
Blue Planet Cafe
110 SE 8th Ave
Topeka KS 66603
7:00 pm

Joseph Harrington, a.k.a. "Joe," is author of Things Come On: (an amneoir) (2011 from Wesleyan University Press’ poetry series), earth day suite (Beard of Bees Press, Dec. 2010), and Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan 2002). He teaches at The University of Kansas.

Part of the Top City Poetry Reading Series

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Poetry+Funk
featuring Kevin Rabas
Friday, April 15, 2011
Blue Planet Cafe
110 SE 8th Ave
Topeka KS 66603
7:00 pm

About Kevin:
http://www.emporia.edu/profiles/faculty/kevin-rabas/index.html
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The Blue Planet Cafe website: http://blueplanettopeka.com/
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