Sep 21, 2020

Poet Laureate of Kansas to present reading, discussion at SAC

Posted Sep 21, 2020 4:26 PM
<b>Huascar Medina, Poet Laureate of Kansas.</b> Photo courtesy SAC
Huascar Medina, Poet Laureate of Kansas. Photo courtesy SAC

The Poet Laureate of Kansas will be in Salina next week for an event at the Salina Art Center.

“May Our Voices Ring True,” an event with Huascar Medina, Poet Laureate of Kansas, is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 29, at the art center, 242 South Santa Fe Avenue. The program is open to the public at no charge. The program is made possible by Humanities Kansas.

“I want to share what it means to me to be a Kansan. I hope, in return, Kansans do the same with me,” he said.

Medina is a poet, writer, and performer who lives in Topeka. He currently works as a freelance copywriter and as the 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. His forthcoming book, Un Mango Grows in Kansas, will be released in 2020.