KCMLIN Professional Development Workshops

Description:

Does the thought of discussing poetry with a patron make you wish you'd chosen a different profession? Ever wonder what a Poet Laureate is, and why we need one, anyway? And what about this poetry slam stuff? Join three local poets and learn why they write it, why people read and listen to it, and how you can promote it at your library.

Develop your libraries poetry collection:

- core lists of recommended poetry titles
- poetry publishers large and small
- keeping up with new poetry titles

Instructors:

Maril Crabtree - Maril Crabtree grew up in Memphis and New Orleans but has lived in the Midwest most of her adult life. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals such as Kalliope, New Works Review, DMQ Review. Mid-America Poetry Review, Flint Hills Review, and Potpourri. She is editor of four anthologies of poetry and prose and currently teaches flow writing at The Landon Center. Her chapbook, Dancing with Elvis, was published in 2005. Visit her website is www.marilcrabtree.com <http://www.marilcrabtree.com>

Denise Low - Denise Low, Ph.D., is the Kansas 2007-2009 Poet Laureate, and her blog <http://deniselow.blogspot.com/> is part of her electronic broadside state project. She has been visiting professor at the University of Richmond (2005) and the University of Kansas (2008). Her home institution is Haskell Indian Nations University, where she is chair of the English Department. Her book about writing poetry in the Midwest grasslands, Words of a Prairie Alchemist (Ice Cube Press 2006) is a Kansas Notable Book. Among her ten books of poetry are Thailand Journal: Poems, a Kansas City Star notable book (Woodley 2003) and New & Selected Poems 1980-1999 (Penthe 2000, 2007). She and her husband Thomas Weso wrote a photo-biography, Langston Hughes in Lawrence. Other writings appear in North American Rev., Northwest Rev., Midwest Q., Kansas City Star, Bloomsbury Rev., Connecticut Rev., Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Q. and others. Members of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs elected her to the national board in 2008. She is a 5^th generation Kansan of mixed German, British, Lenape (Delaware), and Cherokee heritage.

Glenn North - A lifelong lover of poetry, Glenn's career as a spoken word artist began in 1997 when he founded Verbal Attack - a monthly open mic poetry event that took place in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District. Shortly thereafter, Glenn became the Director of the Urban Transcendence Poetry Project where his duties included facilitating poetry writing and performance workshops for teenagers including adjudicated youth in local detention centers. Glenn has shared the stage with such luminaries as Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez and Roger Bonair-agard. He is currently the Poet-in-Residence of the American Jazz Museum where he organizes and hosts the popular open mic poetry competition, Jazz Poetry Jams. Glenn wrote the narrative poem and did the voice over work for the award-winning film short May This Be Love. He is also working toward the completion of his first volume of poetry entitled, Fortunate Ad-Verse-ity.

Jan Duncan-O'Neal

After a twenty-year career in librarianship, Jan Duncan-O'Neal retired to Overland Park where she writes poetry. Her work has appeared in The Kansas City Star, The I-70 Review, The Mid-America Poetry Review, and Coal City Review. She has also written eleven language arts resource books published by Libraries Unlimited and Teacher Ideas Press.

Location: Linda Hall Library

Cost:

KCMLIN Member: $35
Non-Member: $70

THREE EASY WAYS TO REGISTER:

E-mail: marypuhr@kcmlin.org
Fax: (816) 461-0966
Phone: (816) 521-7257

Registration Form

Refund & Credit Policy:

Full refunds or credits are available for cancellations made a minimum of seven days prior to the workshop minus a $5.00 administrative fee. You can transfer to another workshop a minimum of seven days before the workshop with no administrative fee. Cancellations made less than seven days prior to a workshop receive no refunds or credits.

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