Kansas Authors Club to host poet laureate

The Kansas Authors Club will host the poet laureate of Kansas, Huascar Medina. 

His presentation, titled “May Our Voices Ring True,” starts at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 25 in Justice Theater in the Shears Technology Building on the Hutchinson Community College campus.

Medina is a poet, writer and performer who lives in Topeka. He currently works as a freelance copywriter and as literary editor for seveneightfive magazine publishing stories that spotlight literary and artistic events in northeast Kansas.

His poems can be found in his collection "How to Hang the Moon" published by Spartan Press. He is the winner of ARTSConnect’s 2018 Arty Award for Literary Art.

Medina is the first Latino poet laureate of Kansas.

After Medina’s presentation on Jan. 25, a meet and greet will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. at Bluebird Books, 2 S. Main. The gathering room is reserved for poets to share their stories.

This event is sponsored by Humanities Kansas. Additional funding for this program was provided by the Barton P. and Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Trust.

Admission is free.

The Kansas Authors Club

District 6 of the Kansas Authors Club meets on the fourth Saturday of each month in the Hutchinson Community College Parker Student Union, 1400 N. Plum, classroom 10. Meetings generally run from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

The meetings are free and open to the public, and the building is ADA compliant.

Upcoming events

The next meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 22. The club will have an informal gathering where a writing prompt will be posted before the meeting and participants can share their writing if they choose. The meeting will be held in the club's regular spot in the Parker Student Union, downstairs in classroom 10.

On March 28, Tammy Gilley, district vice president, is the club's guest speaker. She has been teaching at Sterling College. Her topic is writing essays. This meeting will be held at the Hutchinson Public Library’s auditorium since the HCC campus will be closed for the spring break.

District 6 will be offering members only the opportunity to submit poetry or prose for a district literary yearbook. There will be no fee for submissions. Like the statewide KAC Yearbook, this is not a contest, nor will it incur fees, but it is an opportunity to have work published. Tammy Gilley will be the editor.

For more information, contact Jim Potter at jim@copintheclassroom.com or 620-899-3144.