On June 12, District 2 Members sold books and read at the Open Air Art Market hosted by Art Emergency in Lawrence. Members will be there every second Saturday from 9 am until 2 pm. Please contact Curtis if you would like to be on the open mic list and/or if you would like to sell books. D2 Members Maureen Carroll, Kerry Moyer, Kevin Rabas, Curtis Becker, and Perry Shepard
District 2 Member Kevin Rabas releases a new collection of poetry. Join the celebration on Zoom, March 27.
Topeka Based Kellogg Press will host a LIVE, virtual reading on December 4 at 4:00 pm CST featuring District 2 Members Kerry Moyer, Curtis Becker, Kevin Rabas, and Ronda Miller. The reading will be broadcast on facebook.com/kelloggpress. An archive of the event will be available shortly after the LIVE stream ends.
Kevin Rabas has a new book, (read about it as follows) which means he’s having a Zoom release party! You’re invited to listen in Saturday, 11/21, at 4 p.m. Join us at Facebook.com/kelloggpress
Readers include Kerry Moyer (D2), Curtis Becker (D2), Toni Cummings (D7), Dennis Etzel Jr., Ronda Miller (D2) and Kevin Rabas (D2). Plays and poems and poems and plays.... http://www.emporiagazette.com/free/article_8801a5e4-25f2-11eb-8e5a-8b25c3f9f6b2.html?fbclid=IwAR3toy_yLqgR0-uLzxMgHSfU7KnHcG66hLbeMA8gOeRxc_bE5a74-G-wtkY July
5 Curtis Becker hosts First Friday and Lindsey Bartlett is Book-i-atrist, Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore, Emporia. 6:00-7:00 pm (Gena Mantz, Featured Author) 13 Curtis Becker and Kerry Moyer sell books, Emporia Farmers Market. 8:30-10:00 am 20 Curtis Becker Hosts Heartland Book Club at Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore, Emporia. Discussing American Heart by Laura Moriarty. 4:00-5:00 pm August 17 Kevin Rabas releases Watch Your Head, Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore, Emporia. 4:00 - 5:00 pm 30 Kevin Rabas at The Raven, Lawrence, 7:00 p.m. September 6 Kevin Rabas, featured author, Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore, Emporia. 5:00-7:00 pm (Huascar Media hosts First Friday) 13 Curtis Becker, Kerry Moyer, and Kevin Rabas read and host an open mic at Emporia State University, WAW Library, Special Collections. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm 14 Kevin Rabas at Kansas Authors Club, District 2 Meeting, Lawrence Public Library. 1:00 - 3:00 pm (with Dennis Etzel, Jr.) Past Kansas Poet Laureate (2017-2019) Kevin Rabas is releasing a collection of poems, Watch Your Head, on August 17, 2019. The book will be available at Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore in Emporia and The Raven in Lawrence. Rabas will be at Ellen Plumb's on 8/17 at 4:00 p.m. and The Raven on 8/30 at 7:00 p.m. The book will also be available from the publisher, Kellogg Press, at kelloggpress.com.
On April 1, members of the Emporia Writers Group took the stage at White Library on the campus of Emporia State University. Many in the group are also members of Kansas Authors Club. District 2 member Tracy Million Simmons reads with her friend Gena Mantz. Kerry Moyer Curtis Becker Kevin Rabas Cheryl Unruh Deb Irsik
Emporia, KS - Emporia State University has announced literature events happening around Emporia this fall. District 2 members Kevin Rabas (11/9) and Curtis Becker (9/13) are scheduled to read on campus. The Emporia Writers Group, which includes D2 members Hazel Hart, Deb Irsik, Tracy Million Simmons, and Curtis Becker, will share pieces related to seasons on Monday, September 17, 7:00 p.m.
Emporia, KS - Meadowlark Books (D2) is pleased to announce the release of three new titles by Kansas Authors Club members. All three will begin shipping in September and are currently available for purchase from the Meadowlark Bookstore. https://squareup.com/market/meadowlark-books/
The titles will soon be available via bookstores, including Amazon. The publisher encourages readers to order the books through their favorite local independent bookstore or direct from the authors. Joann Williams (D2) has served as Kansas Authors Club D2 president and state president. She has been an entrepreneur, a real estate broker, a paralegal, a healthcare lobbyist in Washington D.C., as well as wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her first book, Memoirs of the Dysfunctional?, depicts the unconventional, but necessary lifestyle, and results, of a family forced to live a somewhat nomadic existence because the father, who was blinded as a child, had no means of support other than working as a street musician. Kevin Rabas (D2) is currently serving at the Kansas Poet Laureate. Like Buddha-Calm Bird is his newest collection of poems and stories. Roy J. Beckemeyer (D5) has served as Kansas Authors Club D5 president and state president. Stage Whispers is Roy's 3rd collection of poetry. |
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