after Kansas

Home from the plains. I like the plains! Yay Kansas, yay. The people are mild and good looking and aren't too aggressive about their bbq being the best in the world (I didn't try it) and I was treated well for a Texan. I can't and would never complain about Kansas. Anne Boyer is the hostess with the mostest and Robert Baumann, the co-curator of An Actual Kansas Reading Series, is a cute baby chick (though he's a cutter, aren't you Robert). The other reader, Cyrus Console, is a great poet and was introduced by Ken Irby, another great poet. The people and the venue were lovely, the weather was crisp and clear. I shan't wait too long to go back to Kansas. And I got to go to the Hammer Press studios which was amazing. The printers/proprietors, Brady and Lyndsay, gave us a tour and took some time to talk and swap letterpress stories and histories. Kansas City, I'll not soon forget ye.

Here's Anne's brief write up of the reading. There are links to some pictures of the reading and our evening collaging as well.

I spent an hour or so at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art where I saw wonderful things and where wonderful things happened to me which I can't rightly explain.  An hour should have been a full day. Next time.

Some images

Anne Boyer's red shoes

Italian sculpture whose name I forget

press room at Hammer Press

Hammer Press posters just printed

me, high on ink and paper at Hammer Press (Brady and Lindsay in the background)

hallway in the Bloch Building at NAMA

Comments

[Jess]

I'm Texam. Watch what you say about Kansas. For reals.