The Kansas Authors Club District 5 Monthly Meeting for April, 2019 will take place on April 13th from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Larksfield Place.
In recognition of April as Poetry Month, Robert L. Dean, Jr. and Roy Beckemeyer, both D5 members, will present a program on Ekphrastics: Creative Writing in Response to Art. Both writers have had ekphrastic poetry and prose pieces published. They will discuss ekphrastic writing and how they each approach it. They will read and show examples of their work and that of other writers and will conduct an ekphrastic writing exercise. Click on the links in the bios below to see examples of Bob’s and Roy’s ekphrastic writing.
In recognition of April as Poetry Month, Robert L. Dean, Jr. and Roy Beckemeyer, both D5 members, will present a program on Ekphrastics: Creative Writing in Response to Art. Both writers have had ekphrastic poetry and prose pieces published. They will discuss ekphrastic writing and how they each approach it. They will read and show examples of their work and that of other writers and will conduct an ekphrastic writing exercise. Click on the links in the bios below to see examples of Bob’s and Roy’s ekphrastic writing.
Robert L. Dean, Jr.’s debut poetry collection is At the Lake with Heisenberg (Spartan Press, 2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, Chiron Review, The Ekphrastic Review (See: “You Are Here,” Bob’s ekphrastic poem written in response to KAC D5 member Martha Wherry’s painting of the same title, and “The Skin of This World,” two of the examples of Bob’s ekphrastic work of the many that have been published in The Ekphrastic Review), Shot Glass, Illya’s Honey, Red River Review, KYSO Flash (Link here to see Bob’s ekphrastic poem, “Windmill,” and here for his poem, “The Last of the Firemen.”), River City Poetry (See April Pameticky’s interview with Bob about ekphrastic poetry and read his poem, “Chair Car,” written in response to an Edward Hopper painting of the same name), Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance & Solidarity, and the Wichita Broadside Project. He was a quarter-finalist in the 2018 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. He read at the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival and the Chikaskia Literary Festival in 2018 and will return for Scissortail 2019. He is event coordinator for Epistrophy: An Afternoon of Poetry and Improvised Music held annually in Wichita, Kansas. He has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He lives in Augusta, Kansas.
Roy Beckemeyer’s latest poetry collection is Stage Whispers (Meadowlark Books, 2018). His book, Amanuensis Angel (Spartan Press, 2018) is comprised entirely of ekphrastic poems inspired by depictions of angels in works of modern art (Read April Pameticky’s River City Poetry Review of Amanuensis Angel at this link). His first book, Music I Once Could Dance To (Coal City Press, 2014) was a 2015 Kansas Notable Book. He recently co-edited (with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg) Kansas Time+Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (Little Balkans Press, 2017). Beckemeyer lives in Wichita, Kansas and is a retired engineer and scientific journal editor. His poems have appeared in half a dozen anthologies as well as in such venues as Flint Hills Review, The Light Ekphrastic (Link here to read his ekphrastic poem, “Oh Come Share,” written in response to a musical composition, “Seventh Haven”), The Ekphrastic Review (Link here to read his ekphrastic poem, “Horizons,” and his ekphrastic creative non-fiction piece, “ Spanish Moss and Moonlight”), Psaltery & Lyre (Link here to read his ekphrastic poem, “Angel Ordering Exiles from Paradise”), The Midwest Quarterly, The Wichita Broadside Project (Link here to read “Solar Flair.”) and I-70 Review. He has served as President of District 5 and as President of Kansas Authors Club (2016-2017). His work has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards and was selected for Best Small Fictions 2019.
- When: Saturday, April 13th, 2019 at 1:30-3:30 p.m.
- Where: Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street). Park in the Visitors lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the main dining room to the Lakeview Dining Room.