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July 12, 2016

Self Publishing

For Kansas City scribes with dreams of writing and publishing a book, to paraphrase Charles Dickens, these may well be “the best of times and the worst of times.”
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July 8, 2016

John Sandbach: The Making of a Polymath

If you’re the type who never wants your peas to touch the mashed potatoes on your plate, you might find the various art practices of John Sandbach somewhat disconcerting. The native Kansas Citian’s professional expertise ranges from the most earthbound — shiatsu massage — to the sublime: haiku poetry.
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May 19, 2016

Kansas City Welcomes U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera

U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will give a reading at the Central Library on May 27. Photo by Carlos Puma, for UC Riverside. How..
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May 10, 2016

Season of Shakespeare

Rare, valuable First Folio comes to Library and Kansas City. There is a majesty about the book, a sense of history that’s both profound and..
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March 21, 2016

Honors: Bridget Lowe

Maybe it is true what folklore says about red hair—it is the color most likely to adorn poets and madmen.  Bridget Lowe, with her shimmering auburn hair, holds in esteem the inner workings of both. Perhaps that is why Herbert Leibowitz, publisher and founding editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review, describes her work as “uncommonly mature.”
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March 1, 2016

Magic to Come at the Rabbit Hole

The Rabbit Hole is coming to Kansas City. And with it, an innovative new way of experiencing children’s literature that will educate, entertain and inspire, the likes of which has never been seen anywhere else in the country.
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October 8, 2015

Honors: Carlos Perez

Transgenderism is more mainstream than ever in 2015, if only because of unprecedented media coverage surrounding the transition of Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn Jenner. Local writer Carlos Perez stands to benefit from the trend with his new transgender stage drama, In Hyding, although he wasn’t influenced by the former Olympic champion and reality TV star coming out as female.
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September 14, 2015

Great City, Great Read

Libraries lead Kansas City down the rabbit hole. The rabbit hole remains irresistible. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – the tale of a precocious..
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July 27, 2015

Artist to Watch: Michelle Johnson

A Kansas City playwright who came late to the game is getting national exposure.
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