A Common Sense Reading Series
A Kansas City Reading Series
KEVIN KILROY, MERCEDES LUCERO & BEN NICKOL
Saturday, September 14th, 7pm, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice (1819 Grand Blvd. KCMO)
Kevin KILROY is a writer and educator who works to blend genres and reimagine learning. His novella The Escapees (Spuyten Duyvil) was described as "a philosophical mystery set in a city where keys are plenty but locks are few." His book of poetic fictions, Dead Ends or Laughing Gas (Spuyten Duyvil), is "two-parts pulp, one-part Genet, with a twist of Beckettian humor." He sells progressive science curriculum for Activate Learning, and he teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute. Currently, he is a Writer-in-Residence at the Charlotte Street Foundation.
Mercedes LUCERO is an Afro-Latinx writer and the author of Stereometry (Another New Calligraphy 2018). She is the winner of the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for Poetry and you can see more of her work at www.mercedeslucero.com.
Ben NICKOL was raised in Idaho and attended the University of Arkansas and the University of Notre Dame, where he played basketball for the Fighting Irish. His prose has been recognized by the Arkansas Arts Council, Best American Sports Writing, and the University of Arkansas, among other organizations, and he's the author of the books Sun River (2019), Adherence (2016) and Where the Wind Can Find It (2015). His stories and essays have appeared widely, in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Fourth Genre, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Tin House Online, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. In 2018, he joined the Creative Writing faculty at Wichita State University.
CONTACT: jordanstempleman@gmail.com
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
SPACES THAT GRACIOUSLY GIVE SPACE
Kansas City Art Institute (Epperson Auditorium)
KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice
Velo Garage & Tap House
Cara and Cabezas Contemporary
Charlotte Street Foundation
Spray Booth Gallery
The Writers Place
Walnut Place Laundromat
Rag & Bone Gallery
DARREN CANADY, HYEJUNG KOOK & DEREK GRAF