District 2 Member Kevin Rabas releases a new collection of poetry. Join the celebration on Zoom, March 27.
Please join former state president and D2 member, Joann Garrity Williams, at the Ottawa Public Library on Thursday, May 9, 6:30pm, for the release of her book, Memoirs of the Dysfunctional? (Meadowlark, 2018). (This event was postponed earlier due to bad weather.) 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. State President (and district 2 member) Ronda Miller appeared with Olive Sullivan (district 3) and Izzy Wasserstein at a reading in Pittsburg on July 21. The event was attended by KOAM television (view at this link: http://www.koamtv.com/clip/14507048/book-launch-10pm-7-21) All three poets are published by Meadowlark Books (district 2 member) of Emporia.
From Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019, “Tyler Robert Sheldon’s first full-length poetry collection is a gem, a culmination of years of study and effort. As an MA student Tyler impressively published more than forty poems individually, demonstrating both his industry and his ambition, his talent and grit. With his MFA in Creative Writing currently in progress and this book complete, Tyler takes the next step as a poet and educator. With this collection, his audience and reach quickly extend. Tyler’s life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and he charts some of his journey in verse in this book. He does so with hope and pluck, with a kind of simple, clear vision. What he sees, we see.”
Sheldon received his BA in English and MA in Creative Writing from Emporia State University. He is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at McNeese State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has also published the chapbooks Consolation Prize (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Traumas (Yellow Flag Press, 2017), and First Breaths of Arrival (Oil Hill Press, 2016). He is a book reviewer at the Los Angeles Review and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Driving Together, is published by Meadowlark Books, Emporia, Kansas. For the month of April, in celebration of National Poetry Month, Meadowlark Books is giving away a poetry sampler containing the work of several D2 members.
Meadowlark Books, District 2, Emporia, hosted a Meet & Greet event at Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore in Emporia, featuring books by seven Kansas Authors Club members. Cheryl Unruh, D2, Emporia - Walking on Water; Ronda Miller, D2, Lawrence - WaterSigns & MoonStain; Michael D. Graves, D2, Emporia - Shadow of Death; Kevin Rabas, D2, Emporia - Songs for My Father; Olive Sullivan, D3, Pittsburg - Wandering Bone; Tracy Million Simmons, D2, Emporia - A Life in Progress; and James Kenyon, D7, Council Bluffs, Iowa - A Cow for College. The event as featured in the Emporia Gazette. Cheryl Unruh, District 2, Emporia, talks about Meadowlark Books at the Meet & Greet event at Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore, Emporia.
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