National Book Award-honored authors Lucas Bessire and Megha Majumdar join Kansas Poet Laureate Huascar Medina for readings and conversation.
National Book Award honored author and Kansas native Lucas Bessire (Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, 2021 Nonfiction Finalist) and Megha Majumdar (A Burning, 2020 Fiction Longlist) examine how access and power operate in their work from an environmental disaster in the U.S. to a fictionalized nationalist uprising in India. Join the authors for readings and conversation moderated by Huascar Medina, Kansas Poet Laureate. Masks strongly encouraged.
AGE GROUP: | Teens (6th - 12th Grade) | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Books/Authors/Writing |
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