Join us for a reading by Annie Newcomer and Barbara Siegel Carlson followed by an open mic for poets. Featured poets will have copies of their poems available for a donation to The Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow.
Barbara Siegel Carlson's third collection of poems What Drifted Here was published by Cherry Grove Collections in 2023. Her previous books are Once in Every Language and Fire Road. Carlson was a recent winner in the Woody Barlow Poetry Contest and featured in eMerge in 2024.
Annie Klier Newcomer is a poetry editor for Flapper Press, an eclectic on-line publication. Originally from upstate New York she now resides in Prairie Village, Kansas with David, her husband of 44 years and their Aussiedoodle, Summit. She and her husband are dedicated to volunteerism and currently are working in conjunction with the Overland Park Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens to create an Emily Dickinson Garden for their community.
Special guest reading by Wendy Reese Hartmann.