ARTSPEAK RADIO with Poetry Throwdown, Powers, & Wormwood Collective

Wednesday April 19, 2017

Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Jessica Ayala, Jameson Bayles, Shawn Pavey, Jeanette Powers, Monique Salazar, and Wormwood Collective.

2nd Annual Kansas City Poetry Throw-Down!
April 21, 22 & 23, 2017, Midtown Kansas City
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Prospero’s Bookstore, KCArts, The Writer’s Place, Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, Room 39, the Uptown Arts Bar, Community Children’s Theater of KC, Schlafly Brewery and the Osage Arts Community present the 2nd Annual Kansas City Poetry Throw-down. This three-day poetry festival features more than thirty poets from across the country performing for free in the beautiful 100-year old event space on the second floor of Prospero’s Books (1800 West 39th Street). On Saturday, the 22nd, we will have a Publisher’s Talk and Poetry Reading at The Writers Place from 9 AM to 3 PM.
2nd Annual Kansas City Poetry Throw-Down!
April 21, 22 & 23, 2017, Midtown Kansas City
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Prospero’s Bookstore, KCArts, The Writer’s Place, Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, Room 39, the Uptown Arts Bar, Community Children’s Theater of KC, Schlafly Brewery and the Osage Arts Community present the 2nd Annual Kansas City Poetry Throw-down. This three-day poetry festival features more than thirty poets from across the country performing for free in the beautiful 100-year old event space on the second floor of Prospero’s Books (1800 West 39th Street). On Saturday, the 22nd, we will have a Publisher’s Talk and Poetry Reading at The Writers Place from 9 AM to 3 PM.

Contact info: http://www.spartanpresskc.com/throwdown
email: [email protected]

Monique Gabrielle Salazar is a poet, artist, activist and business owner living in Kansas City, Missouri. A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, City of Fountains Mission House, Salazar is committed to expiating guilt and promoting self-love. Salazar was recently featured in the HBO documentary “Abortion: Stories Women Tell” and has published two poetry books, the most recent “Striking the Black Snake: Poems from Standing Rock” from her experiences as a water protector in North Dakota. Owner of the vintage clothing store The Skullery Maid. Salazar has traveled the world to curate the collection.

Jessica Ayala Is A Native Of Colombia, South America, A Kansas City Poet, Writer, Director And Activist. She Immigrated To The United States At The Age Of Four With Her Father And Mother. Her Current Project, Just A Kid From Ipiales, Highlights Her Extraordinary Journey As An Immigrant Youth In America. The Poetic Memoir Will Be Released Fall Of 2017. Ayala Published Her First Poem At The Age Of Eight For The Young Authors Conference. She Was Awarded The 2000 Missouri’s Speaker Of The Year By The Metropolitan Community College League Of Competitive Acting And Poetry. She Has Served Kansas City In Many Capacities From Her Work As A Community Organizer To Leading Several Civil Rights Campaign To Teaching In The Classroom. Her Latest Work Involves The Martin Project.”

Shawn Pavey has delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, bagged groceries, cut meat, laid sewer pipe, bussed tables, washed dishes, roofed houses, crunched numbers, rented cars, worked in hotels, worn an apron at Kinko’s, and been paid to write everything from résumés to music reviews. Currently, he earns a living as a Technical Recruiter in Mission, KS where he lives with his fiancée and two worthless but adorable cats. He is the author of Talking to Shadows (Main Street Rag Press, 2008) and Nobody Steals the Towels From a Motel 6 (Spartan Press, 2015), Co-founder and former Associate Editor of The Main Street Rag Literary Journal, and a former board member and officer of The Writers Place, a Kansas City-based literary non-profit. His poems, essays, and journalism appear in a variety of national and regional publications. He’s hosted poetry readings in bars, coffee shops, haunted houses, bookstores, libraries, front porches, and abandoned warehouses. A graduate of the University of North Carolina’s Undergraduate Honors Creative Writing Program, he likes his Tom Waits loud, his bourbon single barrel, and his basketball Carolina Blue.

Jameson Bayles is a roving correspondent for Poetrybay and is the co-curator for the 2017 KC Poetry Throwdown with Jason Ryberg. His work has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines; including Poems-For-All, Hedgerow, The Ambriel Revolution, Thirteen Myna Birds, Rusty Truck, Your One Phone Call and on Rumrazor.com. Jameson’s work can be found in the collaborative reader “A Case For Ascension” (Asinimali Publications, 2015), the 2016 Hessler Street Poetry Fair Anthology (Crisis Chronicles Press) and “Delirious- A Poetic Celebration of Prince” (Night Ballet Press, 2016), “Recession In Neverland” (Paladin Knight Publishing, 2017) and his solo work “legends of doe hoe” (Spartan Press, 2017). Jameson resides in Kansas City, Missouri.

Jeanette Powers is the Program Coordinator of the generative performance art venue: Arts Bar in KCMO, Creative Editor for 39 West Press where my focus is generating multi-media poetry books, like this one by internationally known print maker, Hugh Merrill, Creative Editor for Spartan Press where I worked with Jason Ryberg to produce the POP Poetry: #12poetsin12months Series in 2015 and 2016. Jason continues the project, publishing 13 poets in 2017, with me in an auxiliary role.
www.jeanettepowers.com

The Wormwood Collective returns to its new home at Prohibition Hall. Come join some of Kansas City’s most dedicated poets and performers on the stage. We welcome a variety of performances and also welcome music, prose, comedy, spoken word burlesque performances, freestyle and slam, side-show performances and basically anything we can legally get away with as long as words are incorporated.

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