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ARTSPEAK RADIO is a live radio program on KKFI that airs every Wednesday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Host Maria Vasquez Boyd serves up information about the visual and literary arts community including live interviews with artists, writers, and performers.
Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Poppy DiCandeloro, Elise Gagliardi, and Silvia Kofler.
SILVIA KOFLER is a widely-published poet, translator, and educator who has read her
work in many places like the Yale Club and Poets House in New York City, and at
Schokoladen in Berlin, Germany. Her book Gambol the World: Eine Weltanschauung, by Spartan Press has been translated into Portuguese by Carlos Ramos, and was published as a bilingual edition by Ghost Editions in Portugal,
2021.
Currently she is working on a new collection titled “Castles in the Air” that
includes collected and new poems. She has been the publisher/editor of Thorny Locust magazine for 30 years. It evolved from a slim volume zine to a yearly/perfectly-bound publication. It is a labor of interest, not a business. We encourage the submission of 2 to 3 poems, or a brief stories of no longer than 1500 words. Please include a brief (50 words or less) bio. Please, submit in a single attached word document in Times New Roman to [email protected] .
We only publish fiction, not essays or reviews. We also accept visual art like drawings and photographs.
Kofler is also the host of Vino & Verse that used t take place at the Warwick theatre. It has reopened now. She hopes to host there again. She has published some translated poems from German into English of the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl. She is a member of the American Literary Translators Association and hosted its conference in 2011 in Kansas City. She is also a member of the Collaborators, the Writers Place, The Diversifiers, and the National League of American Pen Women.
In the past, she lectured in the English departments at KU and Rockhurst. She is retired, but still teaches the occasional online course for Park University. She has collaborated with Art Beck (an ALTA member).
One of her published scholarly works. This is about David Ray’s book of poems
about his son.
https://www.oalib.com/articles/5273913
https://www.academia.edu/55196158/Sam_s_Book_as_Symbolic_Metaphor_for_L
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ELISE GAGLIARDI is currently based out of Kansas City, MO pursuing her MFA through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been nationally exhibited, featured in various publications, and is a part of several private collections.
POPPY DI CANDELORO is the Director of the Center for Arts and Letters and the Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University. With extensive experience as an arts advisor, curator, and educator, she is dedicated to enhancing community engagement through art and culture.
Information about Rockhurst University’s Greenlease Gallery/Panacea Project Space:
The Greenlease Gallery and Panacea Project Space is free and open to the public Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. while Rockhurst University is in session. The Gallery exhibits both the Van Ackeren Collection of Religious Art, a permanent collection featuring objects spanning the 15th through 18th centuries, together with a rotating exhibition schedule featuring works by contemporary artists. Originally known as the Van Ackeren Gallery (which opened in 1975 in the Greenlease Library to display the Van Ackeren Collection of Religious Art), the Greenlease Gallery was established in 2000 with funding generously provided by Virginia Greenlease.
Information regarding the event:
Elise Gagliardi’s exhibition Opulent Decay opens Thursday February 6th at the Greenlease Gallery located at Rockhurst University. The opening is from 6-8pm that day. In Opulent Decay, Elise aims to remind us of the fragility of life and to move forward with caution, care, and intention. The exhibition is on display from February 6 through May 11, 2025.
The building and auditorium are accessible. Please ask if you need assistance.
Parking is available in the Arrupe parking lot.
Website/social media info:
Website – https://www.rockhurst.edu/center-arts-letters/greenlease-gallery
Instagram – greenleasegallery (all lowercase) and centerforartsandletters (all lowercase)
