Salina Arts & Humanities
The 42nd Salina Spring Poetry Series, sponsored and organized by Salina Arts & Humanities, begins on Tuesday, April 7, with a reading by Adam Scheffler.
The reading will begin at 7:00 pm at Red Fern Booksellers (106 S Santa Fe Ave).
Admission will be $5 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.
“A resident of Wichita, KS, Adam comes to us through California, Iowa, and Massachusetts. His poems travel, too, from Florida to Kentucky to Indiana. He’s a poet who looks deeply at place, the here and the now. But even if they are about the here and now, they are poems that move, the leap, that take you to place both beyond and within yourself. If I designed a drink after Adam, I would call it Witty and Rye.,” says Brimhall.
Adam Scheffler grew up in California, received his MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his PhD in English from Harvard. Scheffler serves as Assistant Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Wichita State University. He is the author of two books of poetry—A Dog's Life—which won the 2016 Jacar Press Book Contest, and Heartworm—which won the 2021 Moon City Press Prize. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Poem-a-Day, Verse Daily, Rattle, Narrative, and many other literary journals. He is also the author of a book of literary criticism, So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright (forthcoming from LSU Press in May.)