BRETT SALSBURY, CHARLOTTE SELEY & BRAD VOGLER

Saturday, November 3rd, 7pm, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: 

Center for Contemporary Practice (1819 Grand Blvd. KCMO) 

Brett Salsbury currently calls Lawrence, Kansas home, where he recently relocated after living in Las Vegas, Nevada. His creative work has most recently appeared in Causeway Lit, The Poet's Billow, and Posit. In 2017, he served as a short-term writer-in-residence at Sundress Academy for the Arts, and he is now a PhD student at KU where he's working on poems and lyric essays.

CHARLOTTE SELEY is a writer and poet from the Hudson Valley region of New York, currently residing in Kansas City. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and her BA with a concentration in Creative Writing from Eugene Lang College of the New School for Liberal Arts. Her first collection of poetry, The World is My Rival, is on Spuyten Duyvil Publishing.

Brad Vogler is the author of my radius, a small stone (Spuyten Duyvil), i know that this ritual (Lute & Cleat), and three chapbooks: errand: a version of (Meekling Press), Amid the Waves Which (Beard of Bees), and Fascicle 30 (Little Red Leaves Textile Series). His work has appeared in numerous journals including: 1110, Cutbank, Free Verse, Small Po[r]tions, Versal and Volt. He works with Delete Press, Posit, and is the editor/web designer of Opon. Find out more about him at https://bradvogler.com.

KRISTI MAXWELL, PETER MISHLER & RUTH WILLIAMS

Saturday, October 6th, 7pm, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: 
Center for Contemporary Practice (1819 Grand Blvd. KCMO) 

Kristi MAXWELL is the author of six books of poems, including Bright and Hurtless (Ahsahta Press, Oct. 2018). Her poems have most recently appeared in Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and Bennington Review. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville.

Peter MISHLER is the author of Fludde published by Sarabande Books, and chosen by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. The book was an official selection for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club and was called "must-read poetry" by The Millions. Poems from Fludde have appeared at Conjunctions, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, diode, The Literary Review, and The Winter Anthology. As an editor, he curates a contemporary poetry interview series for Literary Hub.

Ruth WILLIAMS is the author of Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English at William Jewell College and an Editor for Bear Review.

CAMERON MORSE, HILARY PLUM & ZACH SAVICH

Thursday, July 19th, 7pm, Open House (4419 State Line Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64111)

Cameron MORSE taught and studied in China. Diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2014, he holds an M.F.A. from the University of Missouri—Kansas City and lives with his wife Lili and son Theodore in Blue Springs, Missouri. His poems have been published in over 100 different magazines, including New Letters, Bridge Eight, South Dakota Review, I-70 Review and TYPO. His first collection, Fall Risk, is available from Glass Lyre Press. His second, Father Me Again, is forthcoming from Spartan Press.

Hilary PLUM is the author of the novel Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018); the work of nonfiction Watchfires (2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction; and the novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets (2013). She teaches creative writing at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program and serves as associate director of the CSU Poetry Center, where she organizes the Lighthouse Reading Series. With Zach Savich she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. Recent fiction, essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, Full Stop, Consequence, Poetry Northwest, the Mississippi Review, the Seneca Review, Big Big Wednesday, and elsewhere.

Zach SAVICH is the author of six books of poetry, including Daybed (Black Ocean, 2018) and The Orchard Green and Every Color (Omnidawn, 2016), and two books of prose, including Diving Makes the Water Deep (Rescue, 2016). He teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, and with Hilary Plum co-edits Rescue Press's Open Prose Series. His work has appeared in journals including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, A Public Space, Kenyon Review, VOLT, jubilat, and Sprung Formal.

ERIN ADAIR-HODGES, MATT MAUCH & JENNY MOLBERG

Saturday, April 21st, 7pm, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: 
Center for Contemporary Practice (1819 Grand Blvd. KCMO) 

Erin Adair-Hodges is the author of Let’s All Die Happy, winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published in 2017 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series. A Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Poetry, Sewanee-Claudia Emerson scholar, and winner of the 2014 Loraine Williams Prize from The Georgia Review, her work can be seen in journals such Kenyon Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner and more. An educator at all levels for nearly twenty years, she is currently a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Toledo and co-curates the Bad Mouth Reading Series in her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Matt Mauch is the author of three books of poetry, Bird~Brian, If You’re Lucky Is a Theory of Mine, and Prayer Book, and also the chapbook The Brilliance of the Sparrow. A Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant recipient and National Poetry Series finalist, Mauch heads the staff at Poetry City, USA, an annual collection of poetry and prose on poetry. He teaches in the AFA in Creative Writing program at Normandale Community College and in the MFA in Poetry program at Concordia University, St. Paul, and lives in Minneapolis.

Jenny Molberg is the author of Marvels of the Invisible (winner of the 2014 Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press, 2017) and Refusal (forthcoming, LSU Press). Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, and other publications. In 2017, she was the Mark Strand scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and will be a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center this May. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she directs Pleiades Press and edits Pleiades magazine.

JOHN GALLAHER, BRIDGET LOWE & MARCUS MYERS

Saturday, March 31st, 7pm, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: 
Center for Contemporary Practice (1819 Grand Blvd. KCMO) 

John GALLAHER is the author or co-author of five poetry collections, most recently, In a Landscape (BOA Editions, 2014). His poetry has been published in literary journals and magazines including Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Field, The Literati Quarterly, jubilat, The Journal, Ploughshares, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2008. He is an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, and co-editor of The Laurel Review.

Bridget LOWE is the author of At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013) and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, A Public Space, Best American Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Kansas City, where she was born. 

Marcus MYERS advises gifted & talented high school students, teaches composition to high school seniors and college freshmen, and works as one of the founding co-editors of Bear Review. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Cortland Review, Hunger Mountain, Mid-American Review, The National Poetry Review, Pleiades, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, Tar River Poetry, TYPO and elsewhere.

TRACI BRIMHALL, JAMES D'AGOSTINO & JOSE FAUS

Saturday, February 17th, 7pm, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: 
Center for Contemporary Practice (1819 Grand Blvd. KCMO) 

Traci BRIMHALL is the author of Saudade (Copper Canyon, 2017), Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Poetry, The Believer, The New Republic, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kansas State University.

James D'AGOSTINO is the author of Nude With Anything, and the chapbooks, Slur Oeuvre and Weathermanic. His poems have appeared in Conduit, Forklift Ohio, Third Coast, and TriQuaterly. He teaches at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO.

José FAUS is a Kansas City based writer and visual artist. His writing appears in a variety of anthologies and journals including Primera Página: Poetry From the Latino Heartland, Scapegoat Press, Cuentos del Centro: Stories from the Latino Heartland, Scapegoat Press, Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers, Poets & Writers, Luces y Sombras Journal, Raritan. His chapbook This Town Like That was published by Spartan Press and his second book of poetry The Life and Times of Jose Calderon was published by 39 Street Press in 2017.