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/
Washburn University map: http://www.washburn.edu/map/

Top City Poetry Reading Series Fall 2010

Come check out these readings:

At Blackbird, Saturday, 2pm:
August 14, 2010: Poetry+Funk
September 18, 2010: Steven Hind and Tom Averill

At Lazio's, Saturday, 7pm:
October 16, 2010: Leah Sewell, Matt Porubsky, and Stella Robbins

Hope to see you!

Click on these links:
To get to Blackbird (previously Lola's).
To get to Lazio's.

All is a go!

Hope to see you at Blackbirds this Saturday!

Top City Festival Lineup

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

@ Blackbird Cafe (formally known as Lola's), Topeka, Kansas

beginning at 2pm
ending at 7pm
one huge party!

tentative schedule:

2:00 Matt Porubsky
2:15 Leah Sewell
2:30 Brian Daldorph
2:45 George Paris

3:00 Serina Allison Hearn
3:15 Amy Ash
3:30 Amanda Frost

4:00 Kevin Rabas, Poetry+Funk
4:20 Joe Harrington
4:35 Judith Roitman

5:00 Denise Low, previous Kansas Poet Laureate
5:15 Margy Stewart
5:30 Stella Robbins

6:00 Eric McHenry
6:15 Izzy Wasserstein
6:30 Tom Averill

Top City Poetry Festival

Save the date: April 3, 2010.

Reboot

Due to the drop in attendance and surge of things in my life, Top City Poetry is postponed until a future date (sometime in 2010). I personally want to thank everyone for its success--both readers and listeners. It has been an incredible series. Please check every-so-often, as I will post when we will reboot the series. Thank you! ~Dennis

Thank you

This was a great season, although I sorely missed the second reading due to being ill. Thank you for coming out and supporting Top City Poetry! Watch for news about the Fall 2009 readings in late August.