By SALINA POST
Poets Linda Lewis, Jason Ryberg, Linzi Garcia, Tim Tarkelly, and Jase Buck will read from their latest collections during an event Aug. 7 in downtown Salina.
The readings are scheduled for 5 p.m. Aug. 7 at Ad Astra Books & Coffee House, 141 N. Santa Fe Avenue. The event is open to the public at no charge.
Following is information about the poets from the event organizers.
Linda M. Lewis
Following an Oklahoma girlhood and a high school teaching career in Nebraska, Linda M. Lewis makes her home in Lindsborg, where she settled in 1987 to become a professor of composition and British literature at Bethany College. Now retired, she indulges in family time, sleeping late, leisurely lunches, fika with friends, reading poetry, and poetry readings. As professor and literary scholar, she published four books and a number of critical essays on authors Dante and Dickens, Blake and Shelley, George Eliot and George Sand, John Milton, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning among others. Lewis is the author of a poetry collection, Ensemble (Spartan Press, 2019), and has published here and there in various poetry magazines.
Jason Ryberg
Jason Ryberg is the author of eighteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors.
He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is The Great American Pyramid Scheme (co-authored with W.E. Leathem, Tim Tarkelly and Mack Thorn, OAC Books, 2022). He lives part-time in Kansas City, Mo., with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.
Linzi Garcia
Linzi Garcia can be found frolicking through sunflower fields, cemeteries, and bars across the states. She has been featured in Treading Unique Paths: Young Writers Anthology (VerbalEyze Press, 2016), 50 Haikus: Issue #12 (Prolific Press, 2017), and on the Philosophical Idiot poetry website (November 2017). If you’re lucky, you can even find a haiku of hers in the gumball machine at the Raven Book Store in Lawrence or perhaps hidden in a nook in a tree near you. Garcia currently resides in Lindsborg, dreaming of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and New Orleans. She is always looking for invitations to new places where she can absorb new poetry, perspective, incomparable experiences, and quality whiskey.
Timothy Tarkelly
Timothy Tarkelly is a teacher, debate coach, and poet from southeast Kansas. He’s authored several collections of poetry including Gently In Manner, Strongly In Deed: Poems On Eisenhower (2019), On Slip Rigs and Spiritual Growth (2021), and Objects We Know We Don’t Deserve: Poems on Dutch Art. Most recently, he collaborated with visual artist Elena Samarsky on a collaborative work titled, All Other Forms of Expression. When he’s not writing, he teaches students who are far more talented than he will ever be.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Information about poet Jase Buck was not available.