Topeka Words in the Wind Open Mic -June 24

Words in the Wind open mic
featuring
Jennifer Rodgers Gordon

​Wednesday, June 24
at Round Table Bookstore
826 N. Kansas Ave., Topeka

Jennifer Gordon was raised in Salina by her mother, a single parent, who emphasized the importance of an education, while nurturing and supporting Jennifer’s talent as a singer. Jennifer graduated from Kansas Wesleyan with a degree in Education and received her Master’s and PhD. From Kansas State University. Her career as an educator included 23 years with Topeka Public Schools.
  Her innate talent as a singer led to Jennifer’s love of words and verse. Jennifer began writing poetry more than fifty years ago for reflection and contemplation on life as a baby boomer living through the 1960s. She often uses the repetition of words and phrases in her poetry. “Poetically Pregnant” was her self-published book poems, chronicling her joys and struggles as a wife and mother. She often wrote poems on life for her children, “In The Garden.”
   Since retiring in 2021, Jennifer has doubled-down on writing poetry. Her “Poem for a Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks,” was selected by the Topeka Arts Connect panel and featured in their, “Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind: A Tribute Topeka Poets Past and Present,” exhibition.
 
Jennifer will begin at 6:15 p.m.
 

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​June is poetry month.
Sign-up for open mic
begins 6 p.m.

Words in the Wind is sponsored by
Kansas Authors Club Topeka Chapter
& Round Table Bookstore