MidCoast LIVE, Friday, January 3, 2025, noon -1pm CST
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd presents poets in the New Year. We’ll hear work live from Phyllis Becker, James Benger, Carl Bettis, and Beth Gulley.
BETH GULLEY is a Kansas City based poet who volunteers with the Riverfront Reading Committee and serves on the Writers Place board. She recently published Picking Fights in Book Club (Bottlecap Editions) which won the chapbook of the year award from the Kansas Author’s Club, Frog Joy (Anamcara) which was a runner up for the Amity Prize, and The Secret Life of Bubble Wrap (Alien Buddha) which is a collection of essays. She teaches English at Johnson County Community College.
Website: https://timeeasesallthings.wordpress.com/
Facebook: Beth Gruver Gulley
Instagram: @bethegulley
Email: [email protected]
Upcoming events:
February 1, 2025
Remembering Two Kansas Poets—William Stafford and Ronda Miller at Watkins
Museum of History in Lawrence, KS
January 31, 2025
Deadline to submit to the Writers Place Yearbook. Submissions go to Beth at
[email protected]. More info can be found here:
https://thewritersplace.wildapricot.org/news/13439034
January 8, 2025
Writers Place fundraiser at Hamburger Mary’s from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Hamburger Mary's, 3700 Broadway, KCMO
PHYLLIS BECKER works in human services. She is coordinator of the Riverfront Readings series, which features local and regional writers. Her poems have been published in numerous literary magazines, and she has a chapbook, Walking Naked into Sunday (Wheel of Fire Press) and a book, How I Came to Love Jazz (Helicon Nine Editions 2008).
JAMES BENGER is the author of several books of poetry and prose. He is on the Board of Directors of The Writers Place and the Riverfront Readings Committee, and is the founder of the 365 Poems In 365 Days online workshop, and is Editor In Chief of the anthology series. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and children.
Contact:
[email protected]
Website: https://jamesbenger.bandcamp.com/
Upcoming Event:
Sun., Feb. 2 @7pm
Swordfish Tom’s
210 W 19 Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64108
CARL BETTIS (he/him) is a poet and software engineer who grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He helped found the literary magazines Thorny Locust and The Same, and his poetry has been published in those magazines, in I-70 Review, in the anthologies Chance of a Ghost and The Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers, and elsewhere. He edits an e-zine of short horror-themed poetry, prose, and art at https://tinyfrights.com.
