Kansas
Author’s Trail is a day trip celebrating William Inge, Gordon Parks, Eugene
Ware, Langston Hughes, and William Burroughs.
Denise Low will be tour guide in Lawrence. The trip is a fundraiser for the Poetry Café, an activity of the
Excelsior Springs Cultural Guild’s Gatsby Days Celebration. Deadline is February 14, 2015. For more information Contact: Stephany Hughes – stephippo@aol.com – 816.630.7708
The
Poetry Café of Excelsior Springs invites anyone to participate in these two
events:
1. The Footprints of Poets and Authors Day Trip
is on Saturday, March 21, 2015. You will meet a luxury motor coach
in the parking lot of K-Mart in Liberty, MO, at 7:30 a.m., pick up additional
passengers at the western Lenexa Price Chopper (K-10 and Woodland Road),
and proceed to Lawrence, Kansas, where you will become familiar with the homes,
lives, and works of Langston Hughes and William S. Burroughs (with Denise Low as
tour guide, and Lawrence residents can start the tour here), then ride on to Ft. Scott, Kansas. After lunch at
the beautiful Lyons Twin Mansions, you will enjoy the Gordon Parks
Center for Culture and Diversity, plus you will enjoy a short program on the
life of Eugene Fitch Ware, first Poet Laureate of Kansas. Your bus will
arrive back in Kansas City in time for you to have a relaxing evening at
home or out on the town. This trip
is a fund raiser for the Poetry Café, an activity of the Excelsior Springs
Cultural Guild's Gatsby Days Celebration. Deadline is February 14, 2015.
2.
Enter the Gatsby Days Poetry Contest, with a
cash prize of $50 or a complimentary trip on the Poetry Cafe' Bus Tour.
Deadline is March 1, 2015. We encourage you to read your poem during
Gatsby Days on April 25, 1:00 p.m. at the Excelsior Springs Museum and
Archives.
For
more information and to register for these events, go to www.espoetrycafe.weebly.com. © 2015 photograph by Denise Low
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