ArtspeakRadio with poet/writer Annette Billings

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org

Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes poet/writer Annette Billings.

ANNETTE HOPE BILLINGS is an African-American Kansas poet, playwright, actress and nurse, who now offers by sharing her poetry and prose. She has written two collections of poetry, one-act plays and numerous short stories.
Annette’s readers have dubbed her “the Maya of the Midwest,” a moniker she allows with all due humility and gratitude. Known for her performance delivery style, she has been received enthusiastically in many diverse venues.
Her first book of poems, A Net Full of Hope, garnered the Topeka, Kansas, 2015 ARTSConnect Arty Award for Literature.
Her second book, Descants for a Daughter, is a collection of affirmations/meditations and very timely.
Annette’s third and newest work, Just Shy of Stars, is now available!
anetfullofhope.com

Billings is a member of the speak easy poets, a group for Northeast Kansas area poets, writers, slammers, listeners, loiterers who will be invading NOTO Burrito in NOTO Arts District Topeka on the 1st Wednesday of every month.

This group is open to anyone who would like to join or follow this flourishing poets group. Feel free to post your own work…. comments…. events. We pride ourselves in provide a welcoming environment whether you are novice poet or poet of many years. Welcome!

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