Salina Arts and Humanities
The 41st Salina Spring Poetry Series, sponsored and organized by Salina Arts & Humanities, continues on Tuesday, April 22, with a reading by Luisa Muradyan.
The reading will begin at 7 p.m. at Red Fern Booksellers (106 S Santa Fe Ave). Admission will be $5 at the door and free for students with ID.
Traci Brimhall, Kansas Poet Laureate, curated this year’s series. Brimhall selected poets with a broad range of perspectives, who will share their work in Salina this April.
“Originally from Odesa, Ukraine, Luisa has lived in Kansas for most of her life. I knew Luisa’s poems before I was lucky enough to know her as a person, and on both the page and in person discovered she’s remarkably funny. Her poems defy so much of what I thought poems could do. Celebrities show up, pop culture is everywhere, and she can make you laugh and cry in the span of a page,” says Brimhall.
Luisa Muradyan is the author of I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated (Bridwell Press, 2025) When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), and American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She is the winner of the 2017 Raz/ Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize and a member of the Cheburashka Collective. Additional work can be found at Best American Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and Only Poems, among others.
For needed accommodations, please call Amanda Morris at Salina Arts & Humanities at 785-309-5770 between 8:00 am - 6:00 pm. Every effort will be made to accommodate known disabilities. For material or speech access, please call at least five working days prior to the event.
Salina Arts & Humanities, a department of the City of Salina, has served a unique role as an arts advocate and resource partner since 1966. The Smoky Hill River
Festival, Horizons Grants Program, Smoky Hill Museum, Arts Infusion Program in schools, Creative Connections, and Community Art & Design are among the programs of Salina Arts & Humanities, located at 211 W. Iron Avenue in Salina