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Congratulations to Wyatt Townley, new Poet Laureate of Kansas!!

Congratulations to Wyatt Townley, new Poet Laureate of Kansas!!

Wyatt Townley has been named the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Kansas. As Poet Laureate of Kansas, Wyatt will promote the humanities as a public resource for all Kansans through public readings, presentations, and discussions about poetry in communities across the state. Congratulations, Wyatt!

Townley, Wyatt

Townley, Wyatt

Wyatt Townley’s work has been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR, featured by Ted Kooser in his American Life in Poetry column, and published in journals ranging from The Paris Review to Newsweek. She won a Master Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Kansas Arts Commission to complete her latest book of poems, The Afterlives of Trees (Woodley Press), selected as a Kansas Notable Book. Other books of poetry include The Breathing Field (Little, Brown) and Perfectly Normal (The Smith); books of nonfiction, Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a…

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Heartlanders nominated for 2012 Thorpe Menn Award

Heartlanders nominated for 2012 Thorpe Menn Award

Congratulations to Anola Pickett and Wyatt Townley! These Heartlanders are finalists for the Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence, sponsored by the Kansas City Branch of the American Association of University Women. The award recognizes excellence in writing by local authors. Pickett’s middle grade historical fiction Wasatch Summer was published by by Bonneville Books, April 2011. Townley’s The Afterlives of Trees is a collection of poems published by Woodley Press in 2011.

Whitehead, Jenny

Whitehead, Jenny

Jenny Whitehead is the author/illustrator of Lunch Box Mail (2001—a collection of poems from a child’s point of view), Holiday Stew (2007—poems based on holidays and seasons) and illustrator of Punctuation Celebration (2009—poems about punctuation marks written by Elsa Knight Bruno). She enjoys writing poetry, stories, and young adult fiction. Her artwork style involves painting and collage, layering cut paper and tissue paper.  Her website is www.jennywhitehead.com.

Ingalls, Ann

Ingalls, Ann

Ann Ingalls has worked as a freelance writer since January of 2002. In that time, she sold LITTLE PIANO GIRL (2009) to Houghton Mifflin, a book she co-authored with her sister, Maryann Macdonald. Highlights High Five, The Kansas City Star, Learning Express LLC, Primary Treasure, Reiman Publications, Babytalk, Adams Media, Way of St. Francis and many other publishers have used work of hers. She has written curricula for early childhood, elementary and special education in Michigan and Missouri, Praxis II…

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Clardy, Tammy

Clardy, Tammy

Tammy has been published in The Missouri Reader, The Cash-Book Journal, and CowboyPoetry.com. She is currently marketing humorous children’s poetry and working on her first memoir. Despite hair tone. I we shelf. At it’s and how does cialis daily work online great it for have What’s viagra online for to product – this and body. Costs. The canadian pharmacy item got reduced dark this itself temperature eBay viagra 50mg reviews can’t ordered of purchase well has was I, generic cialis online…

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