Category: Michael Poage

Poage Teaching: The Video

2/14/2022

The recording of KAC D5 February 12 meeting with Michael Poage presenting is now available on YouTube. It was a workshop with two pauses for attendee participation. Both online and in-person sharing was enthusiastic and vigorous. However, those sharing segments have been eliminated so you may focus on what Michael taught. Those attending found his remarks enlightening and helpful. Here is the link.

Poage on YouTube

The Work of Writing

2/7/2022

A Writing Workshop with Michael Poage.
Mike earned an MFA in creative writing (Poetry) from the University of Montana and went on to publish 13 books of poems with his collected works coming out soon from Spartan Press. His book Human Ink won the Nelson Poetry Prize in 2017.
He was been a Poet in the Schools in Montana, raised 400 sheep, taught in a two-room schoolhouse, pastored three churches, and has taught for the past ten years English literature, language and writing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Thailand and Wichita. He was Poet in Residence at Dzemal Bijedic University in 2017-18. Mike is founder and president of the board of Blue Cedar Press.

He will teach participants his truths and tricks of the trade for writing and involve participants in exercises to strengthen specific areas of their own work.

Join us Saturday February 12 at 1:30 either in person or via Zoom.
In Person: at Asbury Church, 2801 W. 15th St., Wichita.

Zoom Link to Feb 12 1:30 presentation

Member contributions in anthology published by blue cedar press

9/20/2020

Congratulations to D5 member, Gretchen Eick, and the following Kansas Authors Club members who were published in this anthology: Ronda Miller (D2), Jim Potter (D6), Mark McCormick (D5), Judy Keller Hatteberg (D5), Robert Dean (D5), Michael Poage (D5), Julie Baker Brinn (D7), Mike Graves (D2), Ruth Maus (D1), Julie Stielstra (D6), Mark Scheel (D2), Miriam Iwashige (D6), Najiyah Maxfield (D6), Janet Stotts (D1), and Diane Wahto (D5).

PRESS RELEASE
September 20, 2020

The Death Project: An Anthology for These Times is now in print and available to order at your favorite bookstore and Amazon.

This book is a 205 page anthology of stories, poems, mini memoirs, and factual pieces about the various ways we lose loved ones to death and how we grieve and heal. It is a collaboration by 36 writers from across the US, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Turkey, etc. who contributed their writing to help others suffering from grief or anticipation of grief. It is intended to expand readers' thinking, feeling, and imagining about this universal, often-hidden experience brought relentlessly to the world's consciousness in 2020.

The writers are Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Bah'ais, atheists, and New Age, and of different races and ethnicities. Some write of family loss including suicide, others of war or devastating illness, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. Others share rituals that helped them recover.

Published by Blue Cedar Press (Wichita, KS) and edited by Dr. Gretchen Eick and Cora Poage, proceeds from the sales of The Death Project after the cost of publication and shipping will go to an assortment of international organizations fighting COVID-19. $12 paperback, $7 ebook (epub and Kindle).

For more information contact:
Gretchen Eick, 316-682-8818
eickgc@gmail.com

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Watermark Books in Wichita to Host D5 poets January 5 and January 12

1/3/2020

Watermark Books & Cafe will host local poets Michael Poage, Diane Wahto, and Matt Cooper for a joint reading and signing of their new books on Sunday, January 5 at 2:00 p.m. Poage and Wahto are D5 members.

Roy Beckemeyer, April Pameticky & Robert Dean are doing a joint reading at Watermark Books in Wichita on Sunday, January 12th, starting at 2 PM.

Poage Teaching: The Video

The Work of Writing

Member contributions in anthology published by blue cedar press

Watermark Books in Wichita to Host D5 poets January 5 and January 12

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