About this Event
Jenny Molberg’s third poetry collection, The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and other publications. She is a professor and chair of creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she edits Pleiades: Literature in Context.
Nicole Higgins is a poet and assistant professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Central Missouri. Her creative work has been supported by fellowships from Cave Canem and Callaloo, and appears in the Ocean State Review, the museum of americana, Dream Pop, Pleiades, at the American Jazz Museum, and elsewhere.
Caroline Crew is the author of the essay collection Other Girls to Burn (University of Georgia Press), winner of the AWP Prize for Nonfiction, as well as the poetry collections Pink Museum (Big Lucks) and the forthcoming Don’t Cut Your Own Bangs (YesYesBooks 2025). She holds a PhD from Georgia State University, as well as an MSt from the University of Oxford and an MFA from UMass-Amherst. Born and raised in Cornwall, UK, Caroline now lives in Kansas City where she is the Creative Nonfiction editor for Pleiades, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Missouri and co-owner of Turnsol Books.
Melissa Ferrer Civil (&), (she/they), formerly known as Missy T. Ferrari, is a poet, performer, organizer, and educator living on unceded Kaw, Kansa, Kickapoo, and Oceti Sakowin lands (KCMO). Rooted in the practical and the possible, their spoken word poems and songs are mostly responses to the world around them and their own internal journey. Melissa is the founder of the arts and organizing event series A Nation In Exile.
Melissa received a Bachelor’s Degree in both Creative Writing and Italian from The Florida State University. She has also received her Master’s of Education with a specialization in Urban Education from Park University. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Randolph College. She was also long listed for the Palette Poetry 2021 Emerging Poet Prize. They are a Charlotte Street Studio Resident, a Chrysalis Institute Alumnus, and a Heartlandarts KC Fellow. Melissa Ferrer Civil is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Kansas City, Missouri.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Turnsol Books, 1664 Broadway Boulevard, Kansas City, United States
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