D5 President, Diane Wahto, and past KAC President, Roy Beckemeyer, will present Finding Space in Cyberspace for Your Work at the KAC District 5 monthly meeting on May 12.
While most writers dream of writing the great American, best selling novel or book of poems, or memoir, we also want people to read our work. It doesn’t matter which form it’s in, our writing gives us satisfaction when people can read and respond to it.
With the advent of the Internet, writers have many new avenues to get their work out. My late friend Tom Page published many hard copy books, but he also put up many poems on a web site he developed. When he first told me that, I wondered why anyone would want to waste their work that way. However, Roy and I have found online outlets that give us a way to share our work. Some of them also have the side benefit of that work appearing in book or paper periodical form as collections of the online posts. We will discuss these outlets during the KAC meeting.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
When: Saturday, May 12, 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.
After teaching high school journalism for nine years, Diane Wahto entered Wichita State’s MFA program. She graduated in 1985, the year her poem, “Somebody Is Always Watching,” won the American Academy of Poets award and a first place award from the AID Review. She taught English Composition, creative writing, literature, and Women’s Studies at Butler Community College until her retirement in 2009. She is now the president of the District 5 Kansas Authors Club and a member of the KAC state board. She is a co-editor of the 2016 and 2017 365 Days, anthologies of poems of the poets on the Facebook 365 Poems in 365 Days. Her poems have appeared in City Life, Collage, Caprice, Midwest Quarterly, and Active Age. Her self-published book, Leap of Faith, sold out soon after her reading at Watermark Books and Café in 2015.
She lives in Wichita with her husband Patrick Roche and their dog Annie, the smartest, cutest dog in the world.
She lives in Wichita with her husband Patrick Roche and their dog Annie, the smartest, cutest dog in the world.
Roy Beckemeyer is past president of the Kansas Authors Club and a poet and scientific journal editor. His work has appeared in a variety of online and print literary journals, in anthologies, and in his two poetry books, Music I Once Could Dance To (2014, Coal City Press, a 2015 Kansas Notable Book) and Amanuensis Angel (Spartan Press, 2018). He has co-edited two poetry collections: 365 Days:A Poetry Anthology (365 Days Poetry, 2016, with James Benger, Diane Wahto, and Dan Pohl) and Kansas Time+Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (2017, Little Balkans Press, with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg); he has a third collection in the works (365 Days:A Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2).