Poetry in the Prairie: Tim Keane & Ryan Kegley

Sun Oct 26 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm UTC-05:00

Prairiewood Retreat & Preserve | Manhattan

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Poetry in the Prairie: Tim Keane & Ryan Kegley
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October 26, 2025 · 4pm · 1111 Wildcat Creek Rd, Manhattan, KS
Join us as we welcome local poets Tim Keane and Ryan Kegley to Prairiewood's Walnut Pond & Educational Pavilion for an outdoor reading of their poetry, surrounded by the natural beauty of the native tallgrass prairie!
This event is free and open to the public.

ABOUT TIM KEANE:
Tim Keane is Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at K-State, where he taught and researched from 1984 through 2021. Tim has been writing poems for some fifty years in both traditional and "cowboy" form. Sonnets still scare him, and pentameter is something he has yet to understand, but he loves the perspective of poetry, how it plays with perspective of science, and how both seem necessary for a more complete view of place. He is the author of two collections, A Gathering of Kestrels and Green Broke.

ABOUT RYAN KEGLEY:
Ryan Kegley lives in the Flint Hills on the outskirts of Manhattan, Kansas. His work has appeared in The New Territory and Writing the Land: Wanderings I and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Attendance, his first chapbook, was published in April by Hilltop Editions.

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Also on October 27, from 5–7 p.m., join us as we close out this 2025's Sundays at Prairiewood with Fiddler's Dream around the campfire at Blue Sage Barn.

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Fourth Sundays at Prairiewood start at 4 p.m. Come out before the event to hike the trails, play cornhole on the lawn, browse art and artisan goods in Blue Sage Gallery, or grab a drink from Blue Sage Bar.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Prairiewood Retreat & Preserve, 1482 Wildcat Creek Rd, Manhattan, KS 66503-9639, United States

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