Eric McHenry, poet laureate from 2015 -2017, lives in Lawrence and teaches English at Washburn University. His books of poetry include Odd Evening, a finalist for the Poets’ Prize, and Potscrubber Lullabies, which received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, and Poetry Northwest, from whom he received the Theodore Roethke Prize.
Words in the Wind, sponsored by Kansas Authors Club District 1 and Round Table Bookstore, will be at Round Table Bookstore beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27.