ARTSPEAK RADIO live with Jameson Bayles, Jason Ryberg, Jenny Molberg, Phong Nguyen, & Andrew Reeves

Jason Ryberg is the author of nine books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in residence at The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and an aspiring b-movie actor. His latest collections of poems are Motel, Diner, Liquor (co-authored with John Dorsey, Jason Hardung
and Seth Elkins, Spartan Press, 2014) and Beauty Parlors, Train Yards and Everything In Between (co-authored with George Wallace, David Smith and Charly Fasano, Spartan Press, 2014). He lives in Kansas City, Missouri with a rooster named Little Red and a billy goat named Giuseppe.

Jameson Bayles is the senior editor of Asinimali Publications based in Kansas City, MO and the curator of The Cellar Poetry Series at the Weston Wine Company in Weston, MO. Jameson has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines most recently in Hedgerow and on Rumrazor.com. Currently, his work can be found in three books. “The Cataman Years”, published by Mistop Publications, “The Artistic Muses” published by True Color Press and the collaborative reader “A Case For Ascension” by Asinimali Publications. Jameson resides in Kansas City, Missouri and can be reached at [email protected]

The Writers Place Reading Series features Brian Clifton, Jenny Molbers, Phong Nguyen, and Andrew Reeves, Friday, April 15, 7pm – 8:30pm at the Writers Place 3607 Pennsylvania KCMO. 816.753.1090 www.writersplace.org

Jenny Molberg’s debut collection, Marvels of the Invisible, won the 2014 Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2016. Her poems have appeared in Missouri Review, American Review, Copper Nickel, The New Guard, Mississippi Review, The Adroit Journal, Smartish Pace, Zone 3, and other journals. She is the recipient of the 2013 Third Coast poetry prize, and was featured in Best New Poets 2014. Molberg holds an MFA from American University and a PhD from the University of North Texas. She currently teaches at the University of Central Missouri and is poetry editor for Pleiades. Find her online at jennymolberg.com.

Phong Nguyen is the author of two story collections, Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History and Memory Sickness and Other Stories, and editor of Pleiades and Pleiades Press, for which he edited the volume Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master. He teaches writing at the University of Central Missouri.

Andrew Reeves is currently in his third year of graduate work pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.


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