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Creative Writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City is a welcoming, close-knit community of writers of all ages and backgrounds who are committed to their own writing and to creating one of the liveliest literary scenes in the country. Our program works on the principle that a solid grounding in the traditions of literature, careful mentoring by published writers, and the powerful give and take of the workshop experience create the poets and fiction writers who have the best resources for making great literary art.
The University of Missouri-Kansas City, the arts campus of the University of Missouri system, is a gorgeous urban campus that lies on 50 acres in a neighborhood of leafy streets, galleries, gardens, and restaurants. UMKC is home to an unmatched combination of literary resources, including internships at New Letters, New Letters on the Air, and BkMk Press; Mark Twain Writers Workshop and New Letters Weekend Writers Conference; several reading series; accomplished visiting writers and writers-in-residence--recent and upcoming including C.D. Wright, Edward P. Jones, Lan Samantha Chang, Arthur Phillips, Eleanor Wilner, Stuart Dybek, B.H. Fairchild, Mary Gordon, Carlos Fuentes, A.S. Byatt, Barry Lopez, and many more.
BETH ANN FENNELLY
Thursday, February 4, 2010
7:00 p.m. reading, 6:00 reception
Rockhurst University, Mabee Theater
54th & Troost Avenue
Poet Beth Ann Fennelly has been hailed by poet and critic Michael Collier as "one of the most talented and exciting poets of her generation." In addition to her three poetry collections (Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables) and prose book (Great with Child), her poetry has appeared in over 40 anthologies. She has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Mississippi Arts Commission award for nonfiction. Midwest Poets Series admission is $3; no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
EDMUND WHITE
Monday, February 22, 2010
6:30 p.m. reading, 6:00 reception
Kansas City Public Library
14 W. 10th Street
Novelist and critic Edmund White discusses his new memoir City Boy and explains how he overcame various setbacks to write 23 books, including A Boy's Own Story, his autobiographical novel about growing up gay in the 1950s.
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